Eleni Kamma
My viewpoint continually moves between the positions of artist and researcher, my practice being situated between a monologue and a dialogue. I am working along a Moebius strip schema, that keeps shifting or circulating from me as individual artist (through drawings and objects), to dialectic collaborations (the journal Paroikeo, walking and talking activities, performative events) and writing about it. I search for media and forms that help me overcome a hesitation of speaking in the first person within a national-cultural framework. Since 2009, I have been living/working in two cities,
Maastricht and Brussels, and holding two nationalities, Greek and Cypriot. Due to my father’s refugee status in Greece and to the occupation of the northern part of Cyprus where my family originates, I constantly experience the feeling of ‘not properly belonging’ from an early age. This has led me to consider myself as a pároikos, “(from pará, ‘close beside’ and oíkos, ‘house’)— someone living close to others as a temporary dweller,” leaving me with questions of raising one’s voice – in relation to one’s own identity – and how and who to address.
Selection 30 X 30 X 30
This summer I created three limited edition prints to help raise funds for my upcoming publication Pink Days and Blue Νights (The Dancers). It is an artist book that takes as a point of departure a dialogic collaborative work between myself, visual artist Eleni Kamma, and my uncle Christos Vogiatzis, who passed away in the autumn of 2023. The publication explores themes of loss,
memory and time, opening up questions around experiencing vulnerability and the transformative processes that take place when we make the private public. The publication is supported by Jaap Harten Fonds, het Cultuurfonds and Provincie Limburg. It will be available in October 2025.
For 30 X 30 X 30 I proposed to show the three limited edition prints.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Solo Exhibitions, for other shows see Eleni’s website
2024 Pink Days and Blue Νights, n0dine, Brussels
Casting Call: Selected Drawings, Videos, Props, BÆRUM KUNSTHALL, Fornebu, Norway
2023 Casting Call: The Αngry, The Fool, The Healer/Caretaker, The Ghost, The Innocent, The One Whose Words Penetrate Brains, The Puppeteer, The…, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent
2022 I want to break free, Odapark center for contemporary art, Venray
QUI WHO ÊTES ARE VOUS les Louviérvoix?, Centre de La Gravure et de L‘Image Imprimée, Louvière
2021 Casting Call: The Collector of Proverbs, The Animal, The Fool, The Selfie-Junkie, The Innocent, The Child, The Drunk, The…,
West Den Haag,The Hague Casting Call: So, you think about abstraction the last minutes before you die?, SPACE, Liège
2020 Casting Call: How does a European politician save a refugee from drowning?,
ACPA exhibition space, Leiden University, Leiden
2018 The Selfie-Junkie, The Fool, The Animal, The Glossary, The Angry, The Collector of Proverbs, and so on, curated by Emmanuel Lambion, ArBA-EsA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
Oh, for some more Amusement!, Netwerk, Aalst
2015 In Fact What Do You See Behind This Curtain?, curated by Maria Stathi, Art
Seen Projects, Nicosia Oh, for some more Amusement!, Netwerk, Aalst
2014 Yar bana bir eğlence (Oh, for some Amusement!), Nadja Vilenne, Liège
2013 P like Politics like Parrots, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos and Alexios Papazacharias, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2012 Winner of The Euregional Preis für Junge Kunst / Prijs voor Jonge Kunst / Prix de l’Art Jeune, curated by Dorothea Jendricke, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Found In Translation Chapter P like Politics like Parrots, curated by Emmanuel Lambion, L’Observatoire-Maison Grégoire, Brussels
P like Politics like Parrots, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos and Alexios Papazacharias, Alex Mylona Museum, Athens
From Bank to Bank on a Gradual Slope, curated by Angelika Stepken, Villa Romana, Florence
2011 Enlever et Entretenir II, curated by Devrim Bayar, Wiels Project Room, Brussels
2010 Enlever et Entretenir I, HEDAH, Maastricht
2009 Forgotten Ties, Nadja Vilenne, Liège
2007 Once past the years of green emotion, Loraini Alimantiri/gazonrouge, Athens
2005 Eleni Kamma. Vamiali’s, Athens
