in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency

in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency offers four selected, Austrian-based, visual artists for the first time the opportunity to live and work in Athens during Spring/Summer 2017 as part of a funded residency program. The projects realized take conditions specific to the city as a starting point for artistic research, using various techniques and media to ask the question: what does it mean – or what could it mean – to live and work in ατhεns.

on show in ατhεns I: Emanuel Ehgartner & Borjana Ventzislavova
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 at 8 p.m.
Visiting Hours: Wednesday 24.5.17 – Saturday 27.5.17, from 4 – 8 p.m.
Snehta Residency (I. Drosopoulou 47, 11257 Kypseli)

on show in ατhεns II: Margarethe Drexel & Markus Krottendorfer
Visiting Hours: Thursday 13 July – Saturday 15 July 2017 from 4 – 8 p.m.
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, July 12th 2017 at 8 p.m.
Snehta Residency (I. Drosopoulou 47, 11257 Kypseli)

In his artistic practice, Emanuel Ehgartner (Vienna) draws upon the world of forms present in the urban space, inspired by his wanderings and findings through the city and its outskirts. Using strategies such as reproduction, reclamation and rearrangement, Ehgartner sets found and redefined objects into new and unexpected contexts.

Borjana Ventzislavova (Vienna/Sofia) works in the areas of photography, video, installations and new media. Her interest in the visual and its presentation have led her to explore themes such as mobility, marginalization and social cooperation—whereby she brings the all too often fine lines between presence and absence, power and powerlessness, authority and empowerment to the forefront of discussion.

Margarethe Drexel (Vienna/Los Angeles) creates cross-media installations, which are dry-humored, imbued with art-historical, socio-cultural references, continuously questioning the ambiguity of language. Her work investigates the topic of heritage by raising questions on different notions of home, tradition and religion and very many and multi-folded expectations related to them.

Markus Krottendorfer (Vienna) is a photographer who has worked intensively on the history of the earth and humanity with a special focus on its interpretation within science fiction formats. Combining immense archive work with selected historical usages of photography, Krottendorfer presents installations and performances that invite us to reconsider seemingly secured meanings of light and the image as well as of so called ‘authorized’ historical knowledge.

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SPECIAL EVENTS
Artist talk and open discussion
Wednesday May 24th at 7 p.m.: Borjana Ventzislavova

Artist talk and open discussion / Finissage
Saturday May 27th at 7 p.m.: Emanuel Ehgartner
The artist talks and open discussions will be held in English.

Artist talk and open discussion
Thursday, 13 July at 7 p.m.: Margarethe Drexel
Held in English, cool drinks included.

UPCOMING
Artist talk and open discussion with Markus Krottendorfer
Artist Talk mit Markus Krottendorfer
Saturday, Dec. 16th 2017, 7pm and 9 pm
“Circuits & Currents”, project space of the Art Academy Athens
Notara & Tositsa, 106 83 Athens

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Credits in ατhεns:
Curatorial advisory: Eleni Michaelidi and Antonia Rahofer
Curatorial assistance and production: Stepha Farkashazy
Cooperation Partner Vienna: Kunstverein EXTRA (Barbara Pflanzner and Elisabeth Haid)
Cooperation Partner Athens: Snehta Residency (Augustus Veinoglou, Becky Campbell, Amalia Charikiopoulou)
Communication advisory: Nantia Diamantopoulou, Nikos Mavrias
Translation: Tatiana Couzis, Tanner Kauffman Gore, Melina Laina, Ioanna Skiada
Graphic design: Stepha Farkashazy
Recording assistance: Anna Syrrou

in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency is a project by Antonia Rahofer (Athens/Vienna) in cooperation with Kunstverein EXTRA (Vienna) and Snehta Residency (Athens).

This project is supported by the Federal Chancellery of Austria. With the kind support of the Austrian Embassy Athens.