Photo: Lina Theodorou, Berlin 2020 © publicfictionlabs
Participating artists
The project collaborates with contemporary artists who work and live in Berlin. Short-term, one-year collaboration to provide support during the pandemic and to compensate for failed projects.
call for artist’s conceptsJohn Butler
is a renowned 3D artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. In his work, he, among other things, explores the topic “the meaning of humans in the era of artificial intelligence.”
Soazic Guezennec
French artist based in Berlin.
Her work has been displayed in museums and galleries in many countries including the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, the MMAC festival in Tokyo, as well as in Paris, Berlin, Mexico, New Dehli, Barcelona.
After studying art and economics in Paris, she began her artistic practice with traveling and immersion in nature. She created subtle and vivid portraits of the places she visited, and the viewer reflects on his own relationship with his surroundings.
Her work mixes painting, video and installation to challenge the relationship between people and their environment.
She infiltrates the codes of the corporate world to create surrealistic parodies that encourage us to question our own responsibility.
Craig Havens
The American born Craig Havens is a visual artist who works in the media of photography, video, printmaking, painting, performance, sculpture and site-specific installation.
He is originally inspired by the combination of the art making experience with the everyday. The work contains ordinary and unusual sources such as imagination, hearsay, folk tradition, rumors, scientific research and personal considerations.
Works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Art Basel, Switzerland, the Open Arts Foundation and the US Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen and the Nanjing International Arts Biennial, Nanjing, China.
He lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles, California.
Fotini Kariotaki
Lives in Thessaloniki. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.
In her work, she is using a broad range of media such as large or small-scale installations, painting, collage, video etc. and she is mainly dealing with the social perception and the ambiguity of concepts, as well as the different levels of reality in the contemporary world,
Apart of her solo shows in Thessaloniki and Athens, she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad including Kunstmuseum Bochum, Thessaloniki Biennale 6, State Museum of Contemporary Art during the Biennale 7 of Beijing, OPEN 15 in Venice, Gyumri Biennial 10 in Armenia etc. In 2002, she has got the Fulbright Artist Grant and she has been a resident in the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
Esteban Rivera Ariza
born in Bogotá, Colombia, studies experimental film design at the Institute for Time-based Media by Prof. Nina Fischer, at UdK, Berlin.
Rivera uses the writing of history as a strategy to fictionalize events. With great attention to detail, he creates fictive reality to touch.
Esteban Rivera works across various media.
He is prize-winner of Berlin Art Prize 2019.
Ioannis Savvidis
born in Germany.
He studied fine arts at the University of Arts, Berlin by Prof. Anna Oppermann, Prof. Katharina Karenberg and Prof. Lothar Baumgarten.
Ioannis Savvidis is a member of the artist groups Lo and Behold Athens, Rufus Corporation / Eve Sussman, New York and together with Lina Theodorou forms the artist collective Mokotomoro.
His work spectrum is very broad and depends primarily on the content that humorously questions the absurd in our perception. It ranges from drawings and series of images to experimental digital images and video works.
Ioannis Savvidis shows his works a.o. at the 1st Athens Biennale, the 1st Berlin Biennale, the 8th Mediterranean Biennale in Turin, the Biennial of Moving Images, at experimental film festivals in Albuquerque and Belgrade where he received awards. In addition to private galleries, art institutions and museums are also among his exhibition venues.
The artist is by the Athens Gallery ENIA represented.
Andreas Schmidt
Berlin based artist and gallery owner.
After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1992, he began his artistic practice with analogue photography. For the past 10 years he has been involved with appropriation art, performance, print-on-demand artist books and video.
Schmidt was a founding member of the ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative (2009 to 2014)
He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in USA and many European countries such as France, Great Britain, Germany, Poland. Schmidt’s works are kept in a number of private and public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), the FRAC Center (Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Center Des Livres Artistes (France), the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (USA).
After 22 years in the UK, Andreas Schmidt returned to Germany and in 2016 opened Galerie Andreas Schmidt, which specializes in photography and contemporary art.
Lina Theodorou
Born in Athens, studied at the School of Graphic Arts and Creative Studies in Athens, the School of Fine Arts in Athens (Sculpture) and the School of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Multimedia in The Hague.
She has been working as a visual artist and curator in Berlin since 2010. She is the co-founder of the international video art platform intothepill.
Exhibitions in the Bozar, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, the National Museum for Contemporary Art, Athens, the Deste Foundation, Athens, the Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel and at the Venice Biennale.
In her art she addresses socio-political issues such as identity politics and women’s rights. Among other things, she works with videos and installations on topics such as the representation of violence in the media, the need for security in public spaces, or fear of alienation and exclusion. In her “speculative fiction” projects she creates speculative situations in which she examines a possible reality as a model.