ILiana Fokianaki explained

iLiana Fokianaki
Birth Place:Thessaloniki, Greece
Nationality:Greek
Alma Mater:City University London

iLiana Fokianaki is the director of Kunsthalle Bern. She is a Greek curator, writer, theorist, educator[1] and former journalist based in Bern, and occasionally Athens and Rotterdam.

Biography

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.

Fokianaki's exhibitions explore the relation between art, formations of power and how they metamorphose under the influence of geopolitics, national identity and cultural and anthropological histories.[2] [3]

She is the founding director of contemporary art institution State of Concept in Athens.[4] [5] [6]

Fokianaki was part of the artistic team (curator and programmer) at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp from 2017–2019, where she curated two large-scale group exhibitions: Extra Citizen (2017)[7] and Extra States: Nations in Liquidation (2018).[8]

In May 2022, Fokianaki was announced as the artistic director of the festival Survival Kit,[9] organised by the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, in Riga.

In November 2023, Fokianaki was announced as the new director of Kunsthalle Bern[10]

Exhibitions

Since 2013 she has showcased at State of Concept, solo exhibitions of artists such as Laure Prouvost,[11] the research agency Forensic Architecture,[12] Croatian artist Sanja Iveković,[13] [14] Dutch collective Metahaven,[15] the film collective Rojava Film Commune.[16] The exhibition of the Rojava Film Commune Fokianaki curated, titled "Forms of Freedom", was featured in Art Forum magazine in 2020,[17] and has travelled to Galerija Nova, in Zagreb,[18] the exhibition space of e-flux publications in New York [19] and Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art of Slovenia, in Ljubljana.[20]

She has curated State (in) Concepts at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris in 2017.[21] and the group exhibition at La Colonie (Art Space) "The Trials of Justice".[22] [23] She has curated the solo exhibition of artist Kapwani Kiwanga at the Formerly Known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam,[24] [25] which coincided with Kiwanga's award for the Marcel Duchamp Prize of the Centre Pompidou.[26] [27] [28]

In 2023, she was the co-curator of Machinations,[29] a large-scale research and exhibition project at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Her project "The Bureau of Care" received the Solidarity Grant of the European Cultural Foundation.[30]

Teaching

Fokianaki is a lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) of the ArtEZ University of Arts in the Netherlands,[31] and was a guest lecturer at HISK in Ghent, Belgium [32] and a resident curator at the NTU Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore.[33] She has guest lectured at HISK in Ghent, Belgium [34] at Columbia University, and The Willem de Kooning Academy, the art school of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences among others.

She has lectured in various institutions on issues that explore how institutional and curatorial practices respond to the current economic and socio-political shifts in the West https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/art-how-much-is-it-still-an-idea-for-the-future/

She writes for various international art journals and publications [35] such as a joint opinion piece on art, economy and documenta's arrival in Athens, written with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis[36] and an opinion piece around the discussion of looted artefacts and specifically the Parthenon Marbles for frieze (magazine).[37]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wdw.nl/en/participants/iliana_fokianaki Website, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, collaborators
  2. Website, Parasite Center for Contemporary Art hong Kong, international conference participation http://www.para-site.art/conferences/2019-para-site-international-conference/
  3. iLiana Fokianaki, "Redistribution via Appropriation: White(washing) Marbles," e-flux journal, #91, May 2018 https://www.e-flux.com/journal/91/197800/redistribution-via-appropriation-white-washing-marbles/
  4. BBC World Service, "Interview with curator iLiana Fokianaki, director State of Concept Athens", September 2, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031dbx4
  5. The New York Times, “In Athens, Austerity makes Contemporary Art Palatable”, June 21, 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/travel/in-athens-austerity-makes-contemporary-art-palatable.html
  6. Frieze magazine, Critic's Guide: Athens, “A round-up of the best current shows in the Greek capital” https://frieze.com/article/critics-guide-athens
  7. Tamara Beheydt, "Burgerschap en verbeelding: Extra Citizen in Antwerpen," Metropolis M, September 25, 2017 https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/32951_extra_citizen_antwerpen
  8. Stephanie Bailey, "Extra States: Nations in Liquidation at Kunsthal Extra City," Ocula, December 8, 2018 https://ocula.com/magazine/reports/extra-states-nations-in-liquidation-at-kunsth/
  9. Web site: Survival Kit 13: Curator and artist list announced – Announcements – e-flux .
  10. Web site: https://artreview.com/iliana-fokianaki-to-helm-kunsthalle-bern/ .
  11. Website Outset Foundation, Visual tour of Laure Prouvost's exhibition "C'est L'est Not Ouest" https://outset.org.uk/supported-projects/laure-prouvost-cest-lest-not-ouest-state-of-concept-athens-2016/
  12. https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/events/violence-fast-and-slow-at-state-of-concept-athens Website Forensic Architecture, exhibition “Violence, Fast and Slow"
  13. Website Art Forum, exhibition review “Weird Sisters, Ivana Bago on Sanja Iveković’s Whether we were brave” https://www.artforum.com/print/201905/ivana-bago-on-sanja-ivekovic-s-whether-we-were-brave-79508
  14. https://kunstkritikk.com/women-are-obliterated-yet-endure/ Website Kunstkritikk, “Women are Obliterated, Yet Endure”
  15. Web site: Metahaven . .
  16. Announcement of Rojava Film Commune's exhibition "Forms of Freedom," e-flux, 2018 https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/220807/fall-winter-exhibitions/
  17. Website Art Forum, September 2020, Alan Gilbert, "Autonomous Determination The Rojava Film Commune" https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/alan-gilbert-on-the-rojava-film-commune-83689
  18. https://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-forms-of-freedom.html Website, Galerija Nova, Exhibitions Forms of Freedom
  19. Web site: e-flux presents: Rojava Film Commune, Forms of Freedom. www.e-flux.com.
  20. Web site: EXHIBITION | Rojava Film Commune: Forms of Freedom – MG+MSUM. www.mg-lj.si.
  21. Announcement "State (in) Concepts," Website Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2017 https://kadist.org/program/state-of-concept/
  22. https://www.lacolonie.paris/agenda/2019/mai/the-trials-of-justice/ Website,La Colonie, exhibition Fokianaki Trials of Justice
  23. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/268512/the-trials-of-justice/ E-flux announcement, exhibition Trials of justice
  24. https://www.fkawdw.nl/en/our_program/exhibitions/kapwani_kiwanga_new_work Website, fkaWdW, On view, new works Kapwani Kiwanga
  25. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kapwani-kiwanga-interview-1901953 Artnet Interview Kapwani Kiwanga, Unearthing Buried Histories
  26. https://www.artforum.com/news/kapwani-kiwanga-wins-2020-prix-marcel-duchamp-84250 Artforum, Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Prix Marcel Duchamp
  27. https://amis.centrepompidou.fr/en/activite/exposition-prix-marcel-duchamp/ Website Amis Centre Pompidou
  28. https://artreview.com/news-20-dec-2019-prix-marcel-duchamp-nominees/ Website, Art Review announcement Marcel Duchamp Nominees
  29. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/machinations
  30. Web site: Culture of Solidarity: first round grantees – LIBRARY. European Cultural Foundation.
  31. https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/9423/iliana-fokianaki Profile iLiana Fokianaki, Website Dutch Art Institute
  32. http://hisk.edu/mw/index.php/ILiana_Fokianaki HISK website
  33. https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/iliana-fokianaki/ Residency · iLiana Fokianaki
  34. http://hisk.edu/mw/index.php/ILiana_Fokianaki HISK website
  35. http://www.academia.edu/35885848/Ethics_After_Defeat_in_Kaiera_2_Curating_Research_and_the_Political iLiana Fokianaki, "Ethics After Defeat," Kaiera, No.2, 2017
  36. iLiana Fokianaki, Yanis Varoufakis, "We Come Bearing Gifts," Art Agenda, June 7, 2017 http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/d14/
  37. https://frieze.com/article/how-i-lost-my-marbles-or-calling-colonial-patricide Frieze magazine, Opinion, “How I lost My Marbles”

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