iLiana Fokianaki

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iLiana Fokianaki is a Greek curator, writer, theorist, educator[1] and former journalist based in Athens and Rotterdam. She is the founder and director of contemporary art institution State of Concept in Athens,[2][3][4] where she curated solo exhibitions of artists such as Laure Prouvost,[5] the research agency Forensic Architecture,[6] Croatian artist Sanja Iveković[7][8] and the film collective Rojava Film Commune.[9] The exhibition of the Rojava Film Commune Fokianaki curated, titled "Forms of Freedom", was recently featured in Art Forum magazine,[10] and has so far travelled to the following institutions: Galerija Nova, in Zagreb,[11] the exhibition space of e-flux publications in New York [12] and Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art of Slovenia, in Ljubljana.[13]

A retrospective of Fokianaki's institution titled State (in) Concepts was exhibited at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris in 2017.[14] Fokianaki was invited by artist Kader Attia to curate a group exhibition inspired by the program of State of Concept, at La Colonie (Art Space) in May 2018, titled "The Trials of Justice".[15][16] She has curated the solo exhibition of artist Kapwani Kiwanga at the Formerly Known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam,[17][18] which coincided with Kiwanga's award for the Marcel Duchamp Prize of the Centre Pompidou.[19][20][21]

Fokianaki's work explores the relation between art, formations of power and how they metamorphose under the influence of geopolitics, national identity and cultural and anthropological histories.[22][23] Her recent project "The Bureau of Care" received the Solidarity Grant of the European Cultural Foundation.[24]

Together with curator Antonia Alampi, she is the co-founder of Future Climates, a platform that aims to propose viable futures for small-scale organizations of contemporary art and culture.[25] Future Climates was part of the "Substance 100", a new, annual list, that outlines a diverse array of artists, activists, collectives, movements and organizations making a substantial change in the world, launched by on-line museum and platform "Collecteurs".[26]

Fokianaki was curator and programmer at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp from 2017-2019, where she curated two large-scale group exhibitions: the exhibitions Extra Citizen (2017)[27] and Extra States: Nations in Liquidation (2018).[28]

Fokianaki is a lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) of the ArtEZ University of Arts in the Netherlands,[29] and was a guest lecturer at HISK in Ghent, Belgium [30] and a resident curator at the NTU Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore.[31]

She writes for various international art journals and publications, discussing issues ranging from art, politics, to ethics[32] such as a joint opinion piece on art, economy and documenta's arrival in Athens, written with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis[33] and an opinion piece around the discussion of looted artefacts and specifically the Parthenon Marbles for frieze (magazine).[34]

Education[]

Fokianaki holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford and a M.A. in Arts Criticism and Management from City University London.

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References[]

  1. ^ Website, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, collaborators
  2. ^ BBC World Service, "Interview with curator iLiana Fokianaki, director State of Concept Athens", September 2, 2015 [1]
  3. ^ The New York Times, “In Athens, Austerity makes Contemporary Art Palatable”, June 21, 2015 [2]
  4. ^ Frieze magazine, Critic’s Guide: Athens, “A round-up of the best current shows in the Greek capital” [3]
  5. ^ Website Outset Foundation, Visual tour of Laure Prouvost's exhibition "C'est L'est Not Ouest" [4]
  6. ^ Website Forensic Architecture, exhibition “Violence, Fast and Slow"
  7. ^ Website Art Forum, exhibition review “Weird Sisters, Ivana Bago on Sanja Iveković’s Whether we were brave” [5]
  8. ^ Website Kunstkritikk, “Women are Obliterated, Yet Endure”
  9. ^ Announcement of Rojava Film Commune's exhibition "Forms of Freedom," e-flux, 2018 [6]
  10. ^ Website Art Forum, September 2020, Alan Gilbert, "Autonomous Determination The Rojava Film Commune" [7]
  11. ^ Website, Galerija Nova, Exhibitions Forms of Freedom
  12. ^ "e-flux presents: Rojava Film Commune, Forms of Freedom". www.e-flux.com.
  13. ^ "EXHIBITION | Rojava Film Commune: Forms of Freedom - MG+MSUM". www.mg-lj.si.
  14. ^ Announcement "State (in) Concepts," Website Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2017 [8]
  15. ^ Website,La Colonie, exhibition Fokianaki Trials of Justice
  16. ^ E-flux announcement, exhibition Trials of justice
  17. ^ Website, fkaWdW, On view, new works Kapwani Kiwanga
  18. ^ Artnet Interview Kapwani Kiwanga, Unearthing Buried Histories
  19. ^ Artforum, Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Prix Marcel Duchamp
  20. ^ Website Amis Centre Pompidou
  21. ^ Website, Art Review announcement Marcel Duchamp Nominees
  22. ^ Website, Parasite Center for Contemporary Art hong Kong, international conference participation [9]
  23. ^ iLiana Fokianaki, "Redistribution via Appropriation: White(washing) Marbles," e-flux journal, #91, May 2018 [10]
  24. ^ "Culture of Solidarity: first round grantees - LIBRARY". European Cultural Foundation.
  25. ^ Federica Bueti, "iLiana Fokianaki and Antonia Alampi in conversation," Ocula, May 19, 2017 [11]
  26. ^ Website,Substance 100, the list
  27. ^ Tamara Beheydt, "Burgerschap en verbeelding: Extra Citizen in Antwerpen," Metropolis M, September 25, 2017 [12]
  28. ^ Stephanie Bailey, "Extra States: Nations in Liquidation at Kunsthal Extra City," Ocula, December 8, 2018 [13]
  29. ^ Profile iLiana Fokianaki, Website Dutch Art Institute
  30. ^ HISK website
  31. ^ Residency · iLiana Fokianaki
  32. ^ iLiana Fokianaki, "Ethics After Defeat," Kaiera, No.2, 2017
  33. ^ iLiana Fokianaki, Yanis Varoufakis, "We Come Bearing Gifts," Art Agenda, June 7, 2017 [14]
  34. ^ Frieze magazine, Opinion, “How I lost My Marbles”
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