Athens

Initiatives

Venues

• 3 137 artist-run space, Exarcheia, *2012
• Adad Books, bookshop cafe
• Booze Cooperativa, cultural venue, downtown, *1989
• Breeder, gallery, *2002
• Cypher, artist-run space, *2024
• FAC Research, *2018
• Fournos, theatre, Exarcheia, *1992
• Lab12, Athens School of Fine Arts, Metamorfosis
• MISC, art space, *2021
• OMMU, bookstore, downtown, *2010
• Praxitelous, bar, downtown
• press.a
• Romantso, cultural center and incubator
• Six D.O.G.S, cultural centre, downtown, *2009
• State of Concept, non-profit contemporary art institution, *2013
• TV Control Center (Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων – KET), television workshop / art space, *2012

• Past venues: Green Park (cultural squat, Pedion tou Areos, 2015-2016), Circuits and Currents (project space of Athens School of Fine Arts, Exarcheia, 2014-2016), CAMP (contemporary art center, downtown, 2012-2014), M55 (gallery, 2005-2014).

Other initiatives

• 1000+1 Tilt, music label, *1993
• Audiophile Club of Athens, *1998
• Cannibal Radio, web radio
• Fade Radio, *2020
• Foreign Vessels, curatorial platform, *2021
• Stegi Radio (formerly Movement Radio)
• Topovoros, publisher, *c.2014
• undercurrent, curatorial platform for dance, choreography and performance, *2022
• VEKTOR, *2020

Events

• Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF, formerly Athens Video Art Festival), *2005
• Athens Photo Festival, *1987
• Avtonomi Akadimia: Knowing Ourselves, *2015
• Eclectic Tech Carnival, 2003, 2019

• Event listings: Current contemporary art events (*2017).

Past events

• Her Data, exhibition, 2021
• Imagine you wake up and there is no Internet, exhibition, 2020
• Adhocracy, exhibition, 2015
• New Babylon Revisited, workshop series, 2014
• Hertz, music festival, 2010-2014
• Dorkbot Athens, 2006-
• Avant-Garde Film Festival, 2004-2008
• Medi@terra art and technology festival, 1998-2006

Art workers

• Amalia Zepou
• Anastasia Chrysanthakopoulou (1972)
• Anna Hatziyiannaki (1954)
• Chrysanthi Koumianaki (1985)
• Constantine Nisidis (1982)
• Daphne Dragona (1975)
• Eleni Ikoniadou
• Elpida Karaba
• Georgia Kotretsos (1978)
• Ilan Manouach (1980)
• iLiana Fokianaki (1980)
• James Bridle
• Joulia Strauss (1974)
• Katerina Gkoutziouli
• Kosmas Nikolaou (1984)
• Kristoffer Tjalve, [1]
• Manos Saklas
• Mara Karayanni (1979)
• Marika Konstantinidou
• Martin Carlé
• Mit Mitropoulos (1939)
• Paki Vlassopoulou (1985)
• Panagiotis Tomaras (1985)
• Peter Gonda (1983)
• Rea Walldén
• Sylvia Sachini (1988)
• Thanasis Kaproulias (Novi_sad, 1980)
• Voltnoi Brege (1972), [2]
• Yiannis Kranidiotis (1974)
• Yorgo Yeorgiou (1987)

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