LUMA Arles X ARTWORKS Residency

Vasilis Papageorgiou (born in 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. He completed his studies at the School of Fine Arts οf Athens (2014) and his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at St. Luca School of Arts in Brussels (2016). In 2018 he took part in the 1st support project ARTWORKS of Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In 2016 he was artist-in-residence at the Rupert Residency in Vilnius, Lithuania, and in 2015 at the Camden Arts Center in London.
He has shown his work in seven solo exhibitions in Athens, Milan, Brussels and Antwerp and has participated in various group exhibitions in Greece and abroad: ”The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens”, curated by Margot Norton and Natalie Bell at the New Museum and DESTE Foundation at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2019), ”Flashing and Flashing” curated by Il Colorificio at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2019), ”Constellations in the Dirt”, curated by Irene Kalliga and Fanis Kafantaris, organized by NEON and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades at the Kouphonisi Archaeological Collection (2018), ”Abracadabra”, curated by Lucrezia Calabro Visconti, at Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018).
He is the co-founder of ”Enterprise Projects”, an independent art space that opened in September 2015 in Athens.

Eva Papamargariti is an artist, based between Athens and London. She uses a variety of mediums such as moving image, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationship between digital space and material reality, as well as the dynamic intra-connection and intra-action of events between these two systems, among others. Her work unfolds and dwells in the suspended moment and space where grotesque, fiction and realism collide, and an amalgam of diverse realities emerge. Papamargariti’s research and practice delves into themes related to the notions of identification and metamorphosis, the idea of simultaneity, the merging and dissolving of our surroundings with the virtual, the mundane, the eerie and the extraordinary. More specifically using video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animations, 3d scans, character creation softwares, sculptures and textiles she explores notions of becoming, the dialectics of fluidity, techno-romance, transformation, and characteristics of symbiosis between human and non-human agents and the intricate traces and kinships that this entanglement produces. Furthermore, her practice revolves around processes that are established through our online presence, such as the construction and shifting of our identities, avatars, vernacular language/imagery and worldbuilding. She has exhibited worldwide in institutions, museums and festivals such as the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), the EMST–National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens), the Benaki Museum (Athens), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), GAMeC (Bergamo), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Athens Biennale( Athens), Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki), MUTEK, Transmediale Festival (Berlin), Liste Art Fair (Basel), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna). Her work is featured in public and private collections such as Dakis Joannou Collection (DESTE Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, MOMus collection and more.

Eleni Bagaki is an artist based in Athens. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London.

She has held solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens (2023); Open Sails, Chania (2022); Chauffeur Gallery, Sydney (2021); Eleni Koroneou Gallery (2021); Palette Terre, Paris (2018); Radio Athènes, Athens (2017 and 2015); Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (2016); and NEW STUDIO, London (2015). Her work has been included in the group exhibitions Sheltered Gardens, Diomedes Botanic Garden, PCAI, Athens (2022); Directed by Desire, Rongwrong, Amsterdam (2022); 9th Syros International Film Festival, Syros (2022); Prizing Eccentric Talents, P.E.T. Projects, Athens (2021); Seeping upwards, Rupturing the Surface, Art Gallery of Mississauga (2018); Millennial Feminisms, L’Inconnue, Montreal (2018); The Equilibrists, DESTE Foundation and NEW MUSEUM, Athens (2017), among others. Bagaki was a fellow of the Artworks Fellowship, Niarchos Foundation (2020), and an artist in residence at Società delle Api, Grasse (2023); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2020); Fogo Island Arts Residency, Canada (2019); IASPIS, Stockholm (2018); Pivô, São Paulo (2018); and Kantor Foundation (2017). Furthermore, Bagaki has published books such as Poems for Him (2023); Butter and Cracker, co-published by Miss Dialectic & Dolce (2022); She left. She left again. She left once more (2021); No Script (2017); and Look for Love and Find a Log instead, published by the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation, 2017.