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Katerina Athanasopoulou (Athens, 1974) is an animation artist who lives and works in London. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and completed an Animation MA at the Royal College of Art in London.

Her work has been screened in international film festivals and art galleries, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale 3, Istanbul Modern, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Art on the Underground, Channel 4 and more. She has been commissioned by the Onassis Cultural Centre, the London College of Fashion and other institutions, and she collaborates with artists creating animation for installations, theater and film. In 2013, she won the international digital award “Lumen Prize” for her film Apodemy that examines emigration and the economic crisis.

She has taught at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths College and is an animation lecturer at the London College of Communication.
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Lena Athanasopoulou (Thessaloniki, 1979) is a visual artist. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art (BTEC Foundation in Fine Art, 1997 – 1998), and in the Department of Visual Arts (BA Fine Art & Art History, 1998 – 2001) as well as in the Department of Media and Communications (MA Image and Communications, 2002 – 2003) at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Solo exhibitions: Representaciones, Batagianni Gallery, Athens (2012), Batagianni Gallery, Athens (2006).

Selection of group exhibitions: Tempus Ritualis, Contemporary Art Centre, Thessaloniki, Kornerpark Galerie, Berlin (2014), Ethnological and Folklife Museum of Macedonia-Thrace, Thessaloniki (2013), Dimitris Fatouros, Benaki Museum, Athens (2009), Other Places, 1st Biennial of Thessaloniki (2007), Visual Arts in Greece, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2006), Light And Colour in the Russian Avant Garde, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2005), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna (2004), Pandemonium Biennial of Moving Image, The Lux Centre, London (2001).

Her work can be found in the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Ethnological and Folklife Museum of Macedonia-Thrace as well as in private collections in Greece and abroad.

She currently lives and works in Thessaloniki.
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Zoe Giabouldaki (Alexandroupoli, Greece, 1982) studied plasti arts and art sciences at the University of Ioannina (2002 – 2007). In 2011, she presented Object Not Found, her first solo show, at the Dynamo Project-space in Thessaloniki, and in April 2014, she presented Erroneous Beliefs at Elika Gallery in Athens. She has participated in exhibitions such as New Future, Museo di Pallazzo Poggi, Bologna, W.E.Y.A, Lakeside Arts Center, Nottingham, The Non-Existent Hand, ReMap3, Athens, Qui Vive?, 2nd Moscow Biennale for Young Art and Public Screen, 1st Biennial of Thessaloniki. She currently lives and works in a random place.
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Stéphanie Bertrand is a Canadian independent curator based in Thessaloniki, Greece. She has curated a number of exhibitions and projects, including Marginal corrections at Studio XX, Montreal, that travelled to l’AECID-Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española en Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena (2013), Horizon Sprawl at Ormston House, Limerick (2012), Symbiosis?, as part of the XVe Biennale de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki (2011), Acercate más at Casa Tres Patios, Medellin (2011), Democracy in the making at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2009), Fire Red Gas Blue Ghost Green Signs at The Sassoon Gallery, London (2008) and Radio gA-gA at Art Athina 08, the Athens Art Fair, Athens (2008). She was the co-founder and co-director of the discursive platform Société Anonyme (www.societeanonyme.gr) from 2008 to 2012 and is an active member of the Montreal-based collective L’Araignée. She regularly contributes texts to accompany international exhibitions, including Extase à emporter at Engramme, Quebec (2013), One Another at YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto (2011), Flexible Aura at Brain Factory, Seoul (2009), Calypso at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2008) and I desired what you were, I need what you are at Maze Gallery, Turin (2008). She holds an MFA Curating from Goldsmiths College, London and is currently completing a PhD in Museology at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. She is the recipient of the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory and Creative Research.