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CURRENT Athens
19.11.2025
Artist talk | Nikolas Ventourakis with Menelaos Karamaghiolis
Είσοδος: Δωρεάν
Συζήτηση: 24.10.2019, 20:00
Closing event of Unlikely Outcomes.The Exhibition*
For the closing event of Nikolas Ventourakis’ solo exhibition Unlikely Outcomes.The Exhibition* , the artist will be in conversation with filmaker Menelaos Karamaghiolis. They will discuss art, photography, Athens, London and Unlikely Outcomes followed by a Q+A with the audience.
About Nikolas Ventourakis
Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and is a fellow in New Museum’s IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18, the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale , Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou, and The Same River Twice, at the Benaki Museum. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency in Kavala, and is co-curator of the project “A Hollow Place” in Athens.
About Menelaos Karamaghiolis
Menelaos Karamaghiolis is a filmaker who works in Athens producing feature films, documentaries, video art & radio essays that transcend frontiers and stereotypes, as well as for real-life neglected heroes and serve as an essential tool for dialogue and social change. His films have been screened globally and won many awards like the feature documentary ROM, 1989, that was considered "a turning point for Greek documentary films" and "a masterpiece that must become a classic of the history of cinema" and fiction films as BLACK OUT (p.s. RED OUT), 1998 considered as “the first post-modern Greek film” and J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant, 2011, participated in 40 international festivals (including TIFF Toronto International Film Festival) and won 11 awards. His video art works have been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and at the Venice Biennale.