Each member of the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation team embraces its principles and values, is guided by the same love for art, culture, volunteerism and education and contributes substantially to the realization of its goals.
Gina Mamidaki, Founder
Born in Athens, she graduated from Arsakeion High School. She studied Political and Economic Science at the University of Athens and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester in England. She has attended specialised hotel management programs at Cornell University and has completed Harvard Business School’s Executive OPM Program. In the past, she has been an active member of the Board of SETE (Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises) and has held the position of Vice President of INSETE (Institute of Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises). Moreover, she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Russian Chamber of Commerce, of the E.E.D.E, of SEV International, of the American-Hellenic Chamber, of the Professional Woman’s Forum, and of the Business council of Greece-Latin America. She is the Honorary Consul of Chile in Crete. Through the George and Aristea Mamidakis Foundation she has supported and promoted contemporary art and research through important Art Symposia, numerous group and solo exhibitions, the annual Art Prize and the Research Residency Program.
Marilena Mamidaki
The eldest daughter of George and Aristea Mamidakis, Marilena was born in Athens. She is the main shareholder and Managing Director of the “M. G. Mamidakis Group” which consists of the Cultural Center “ΑTHINAIS” in Gazi, with a theatre and music stage, conference rooms with a capacity of 2,500 people, gallery rooms and a café-bar, the service company “Mamidakis Catering” and the “Athinais Tower Lofts”, a complex of 70 luxury lofts overlooking the Acropolis and Lycabettus. She has been honoured by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Alumni Association of the Educational Society for her cultural and social contribution.
Yota Dimitriou, Director
She studied History of Art at Deree-The American College of Greece and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens. She completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh (Modern and Contemporary Art & Curating). She has completed internships at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the KidnerDocs Documentary Film Festival (Benaki Museum, Athens). She previously worked as Assistant to Galini Notti, Art Registrar of the Art Collection of the American College of Greece, and for two years worked as gallery/curatorial assistant at Alma Contemporary Art Gallery Athens, where she coordinated and co-curated various exhibition and participations in international art fairs.
Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Artistic Director
Curator, essayist, and educator based in Athens. He is a summa cum laude art historian (TU Berlin) and an Associate Professor in Theory of Contemporary Art and Curating Practices at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries of the University of Thessaly. He is also Adjunct Faculty at the European Culture Program of the Hellenic Open University and a Fulbright Research Scholar (2009) at Columbia University, New York. He has curated exhibitions, such as Going Viral (2022) and Homemade Exotica (2019) in Berlin, Roaming Images at the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (2011), Open Plan at the 13th Art Athina (2007) as well as Paint-id (2009) and Women Only (2008). He contributes essays to several exhibition catalogues and art magazines, such as the New York-based E-flux Journal. He is a member of the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art), AICA (International Art Critics Association) and the EEIT (Hellenic Society of Art Historians).
Giorgos Gyparakis, Creative Consultant
Visual artist and professor at the School of Architecture of NTUA at the Department of Fine Arts. He studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graphic design at Vakalo, School of Applied Arts, Athens. He was awarded a State Scholarship to complete his postgraduate studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at art institutes and museums around the world, such as the XLVI Venice Biennale, the “Sculpture Triennale”, Osaka, Japan in ’95, EMST Greece, the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, the Benaki Museum Athens, the Vangjush Mio Cultural Center in Koritsa, Albania, as well as the DESTE Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. His works can be found in public and private collections in Greece and abroad.
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