STATEMENT
I think of my art practice as a series of Studies on Relatedness.
The reassessment of heterogenous fragments and the will to bring seemingly disparate elements together, are at the core of this practice. Oscillating between literature searches and fieldwork, most of my works find their final form in time based media outputs, in sound, film, essayistic video works and photography. I often start with compiling collections – of images, footage, texts, words or sounds – with the intention to seek out and unsilence the ideas and histories that resound within them. By re-contextualising the fragmented, the suppressed and displaced I am searching for forms of diegeses through which „other worlds possible“ emerge – and can be enacted.
STORY
Born in Athens, I spent my formative years in a bilingual environment. I believe this is what sparked my interest in questions surrounding difference and relatedness.
In 2003 I completed a B.A. in Film & Photography at Napier University, Edinburgh, where I received solid training as a photographer, film director and film editor.
In 2005 I obtained an M.F.A. from the University of Dundee, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design, working with text, sound and photography.
I obtained a PhD (practice led) from the same university in 2013. My doctoral research was on the representation of the historic Arbeitsmigration in the City Archive of Munich. Why had fourteen million people left almost no photographic trace in the public archives of a city that operated as the Ellis Island of West Germany? In a quest to reveal the silenced and suppressed, I produced the feature length audio-walk History Remix as a critical interpretation of a history half forgotten and deliberately misrepresented. This research has been widely received as striking and innovative artist research in the fields of photography, sound and archive art (http://www.historyremix.de).
In 2009 I started collaborating with Story Dealer Berlin-Heidelberg on large scale, comissioned, performance enactments. In the past twelve years we have realised more than twenty projects in Europe and further afield. Since 2012 I am one of three owners of Story Dealer (www.storydealer.de).
In 2014 I started a collaboration with producer Panos Adamopoulos. The essay films The Eye of the Beholder (2014) and Drive Through (2014-18), as well as the experimental documentary Studio Harmattan (2017) are among the projects we have realised together.
I have exhibited in numerous art institutions, galleries and museums across Europe, in Russia, Canada and the USA.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Qualifications
2013-2009: Ph.D. [practice-led], DJCAAD, University of Dundee
2005-2004: M.A. Fine Art, DJCAAD, University of Dundee
2003-2000: B.A. Film & Photography, Screen Academy, Napier University Edinburgh
Upcoming
2023: Persephone Walks, environment of site-specific audiowalks for 2023 ELEVIS Cultural Capital
2023: EMOP, European Month of Photography, Berlin
2023: UNDER ERASURE, Publication, Museum of Loss and Renewal, Glasgow & Collemacchia
2023: Spot & Stain, Magazine Publication, Issue #01, Museum of Loss and Renewal, Glasgow & Collemacchia
Solo Exhibitions
2021: UNDER ERASURE, Kunstwild, Berlin
2012: History Remix Revisited, City Museum Munich
2011: History Remix, Kulturreferat & City Museum Munich
2009: Talking Through the Images of Others, Dundee Contemporary Arts, VRC, Dundee
Group Exhibitions
2022: Metamorphosis, Kunstwild, Berlin
2022: Verwobener Raum, e.p. contemporary, Berlin
2021: 12×12, e.p. contemporary, Berlin
2021: Grenzen des Fotografischen, e.p. contemporary, Berlin
2020: Epilog, Kunstwild, Berlin
2020: European Month of Photography (EMOP), Berlin
2019: Über das wahre Leben: Abenteur Glamour, Rückzug, Kunstwild, Berlin
2019: Show Your Darling IV: Wildnis, Kunstwild, Berlin
2018: Show Your Darling III: Das Bett, Kunstwild, Berlin
2017: Show Your Darling II, Kunstwild, Berlin
2016: Traces, Thumbs & Noise, Kunstwild, Berlin
2016: Perfomance Biennial, Athens
2016: Performing Arts Festival, Berlin
2015: Show Your Darling, Kunstwild, Berlin
2015: Vagabond Flux / Micromegas, Artconnexion, Lille
2009: 5 Rooms, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
2009: In Transition Russia, The National Centres of Contemporary Art Moscow
2008: Living Language, East Gallery, London
2008: In Transition Russia, NCCA National Centre of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg
2008: Sound : Space, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2007: Soundlab IV, MAC Museo Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe
2007: Vertical Hold, The Punch Gallery, Seattle
2007: FILE Hipersonica, SESI, Sao Paolo
2007: Art Athina, Athens
2007: Virtual Residency, Europäisches Zentrum Für Kunst, World Heritage Site Volklingen
2007: 5 Rooms, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
2007: Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2006: Rotterdam [Inter]national, Kunstambassade Rotterdam
2006: The Virtual Residency, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie, Karlsruhe
Filmography
2018-14: Drive Through – author, director, editor, co-producer
2017: Studio Harmattan – author, director, camera, editor, co-producer
2014: The Eye of the Beholder – author, director, editor, producer
2009: Backgrounds Up Front – editor, producer
Film Festival Participations
2018: Barcelona International Film Festival, Spain – Studio Harmattan
2018: 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival [Agora], Greece – Studio Harmattan
2018: Visions du Réel [Industry Media], Nyon Switzerland – Studio Harmattan
2018: Docs Without Borders Film Festival – Studio Harmattan
2018: Hellas Filmbox, Berlin, Germany – Studio Harmattan
2017: International Film Festival Beveren, Belgium – Drive Through
2017: Stockholm Independent Film Festival, Sweden – Drive Through
2017: Hellas Filmbox, Berlin, Germany – Drive Through
2016: Berlin Experimental Film Festival, Germany – Drive Through
2016: Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia – Drive Through
2016: L.A. Cine Fest, Los Angeles, USA – Drive Through
2016: Depth Of Field Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada – Drive Through
2015: Berlin Independent Film Festival, Germany – The Eye of the Beholder
2015: Berlin Short Film Festival, Germany – The Eye of the Beholder
Other Screenings
2021: On Demand Streaming on GuideDoc: http://www.guidedoc.tv – Studio Harmattan
2019: Bundesplatz Kino, Berlin, Germany – Three Shorts by Stefanos Pavlakis
2016: Friedenale 2016, Berlin, Germany – Drive Through
2015: Friedenale 2015, Berlin, Germany – The Eye of the Beholder
Commissioned Enactments – Story Dealer
2021: Der Duft des Sommers, Karlsruhe-Heidelberg
2019: Vogelflug & Nestwärme, Heidelberg
2017: Quinta Essentia, Mainz-Mommenheim
2016: To Touch the Sky, Längenfeld
2016: Keine Macht dem Zweifel!, Heidelberg
2015: A la Recherche de l‘ Avant-Garde, Grassau
2015: Chasing Shadows, Lake Constance
2014: Tableau Vivant, Vienna
2014: BLIP, Cologne, Sao Paulo, Shanghai
2014: The Frame: Der Weg Entsteht beim Gehen, Steiermark
2014: Loch im Wasser, Münster
2013: Chicken 8.0, Wolfsburg
2012: How to Take a City Overnight, Berlin
2012: Wie kommt Neues in die Welt?, Heidelberg
2012: Journey into the Light, Berlin
2012: Expedition in die Macht des Augenblicks, Mannheim
2011: Klare Linse Frischer Blick, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne
2008: Baumschach: 1. Zug, Piedmont
2008: Kleiner Ausflug aufs Land, Brandenburg
2008: To Bring a Tale to its End, Bremen
2008: Eine kulinarische Reise, Lake Constance
Prizes & Awards
2023: 2023 ELEVIS Cultural Capital Elefsina, Greece
2016: LAB Award for script development FEST 2016, Espinho, Portugal
2011: Edith Haberland Wagner Stiftung, München
2010: Kulturreferat München, Production Bursary for History Remix
2009: Edinburgh Visual Arts Awards 2008/09, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
2008: William Sangster Award, Dundee, Scotland
2008: Hope Scott Trust Award, Hope Scott Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007: Arts Trust Scotland Award, Arts Trust of Scotland, UK
2006: Edinburgh Visual Arts Awards 2008/09, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Residencies
2021: Swallows, International Online Residency
2007: Hospitalfield Residency, Arbroath, Scotland
2007: Villa-Waldberta Residency, Munich, Germany
2006: Stichting Duende Aktiviteiten, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005: Scottish Sculptural Workshop, Lumsden, Scotland
2004: Corte dei Miracoli, Siena, Italy
Conferences, Symposia & Workshops
2021: artON, (Seminar Series), online
2020: via-artis, (Seminar Series), online
2019: Constructing & Directing Stories for Film, Workshop, Goethe Centre (CGM), Antananarivo
2019: Document and Construction in Theatrical Performance, Workshop, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo
2016: (Non)performance as Method, Conference, Athens
2016: Die Kraft des Zweifelns, Symposion, Heidelberg
2016: Pitching Forum & Official Film Pitch in FEST 2016, Espinho
2014: Systemix Reloaded, Symposion, Heidelberg
2012: Wie kommt Neues in die Welt?, Symposion, Heidelberg
2010: Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm, Conference, Dundee
Publications
2021: Spot & Stain, Magazine Publication, Issue #00, Museum of Loss and Renewal, Glasgow & Collemacchia
2020: Difference & Repetition, EMOP Berlin
2019: Wildnis, Kunstwild, Berlin
2017: Eingriffe in das Organisiert-Sein, In: Jacques Chlopczyk ed. Beyond Storytelling
2015: Vagabond Flux, Micromegas, Artconnexion, Lille
2015: Notes on Establishing an Aesthetics of Relation, In: José Quaresma and Fernando Rosa Dias,
eds. Research in the Arts, The Oscillation of the Methods
2013: Performing a Practice-led Research on the Gastarbeiter Legacy: Toward the Production of an
Aesthetics of Relation, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
2011: History Remix, (published with the support of Edith-Haberl & Wagner Stiftung and the City
Museum Munich)
2008: Virtual Residency 2006-2007, Krüger&Druck, Dillingen
2008: In Transition Russia, NeMe, Cyprus
2007: Open Here: Construcktions Connextions, Landeshauptstadt München, Kulturreferat, Munich
2006: discparc 003: Converse Without Leaving Home, Exhibitions Department of Duncan Jordanstone
College of Art and Design, Dundee