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iLiana Fokianaki is a Greek curator, writer, theorist, educator[1] and former journalist based in Athens and Rotterdam. In May 2022, she was announced as the curator of the 13th edition of the annual festival Survival Kit,[2] organised by the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, in Riga

She is the founder and director of contemporary art institution State of Concept in Athens,[3][4][5] where she curated solo exhibitions of artists such as Laure Prouvost,[6] the research agency Forensic Architecture,[7] Croatian artist Sanja Iveković,[8][9] Dutch collective Metahaven,[10] the film collective Rojava Film Commune.[11] The exhibition of the Rojava Film Commune Fokianaki curated, titled "Forms of Freedom", was featured in Art Forum magazine in 2020,[12] and has so far travelled to the following institutions: Galerija Nova, in Zagreb,[13] the exhibition space of e-flux publications in New York [14] and Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art of Slovenia, in Ljubljana.[15]

A retrospective of Fokianaki's institution titled State (in) Concepts was exhibited at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris in 2017.[16] 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".[17][18] She has curated the solo exhibition of artist Kapwani Kiwanga at the Formerly Known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam,[19][20] which coincided with Kiwanga's award for the Marcel Duchamp Prize of the Centre Pompidou.[21][22][23]

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.[24][25] Her recent project "The Bureau of Care" received the Solidarity Grant of the European Cultural Foundation.[26]

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.[27] 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".[28]

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)[29] and Extra States: Nations in Liquidation (2018).[30]

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 writes for various international art journals and publications, discussing issues ranging from art, politics, to ethics[34] such as a joint opinion piece on art, economy and documenta's arrival in Athens, written with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis[35] and an opinion piece around the discussion of looted artefacts and specifically the Parthenon Marbles for frieze (magazine).[36]


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.




References


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



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