Katerina Nakou, The Resilient Thread (2024)
Katerina Nakou’s ‘The Resilient Thread’ reintroduces the overlooked art form of passementerie through large-scale, loom-woven compositions of yarns and handmade cords.
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize promotes and financially supports contemporary artists, with the ultimate goal of highlighting excellence in the arts.
Our deep love for art, combined with the desire to support and promote the advancement of artistic creativity, led to the establishment of the annual G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize in 2019, a culmination of the Foundation’s thirty-year long effort to strengthen and promote leadership and innovation in the visual arts.
The Art Prize supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork which will remain on permanent display in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, and will join an important cultural heritage as well.
The 2025 Art Prize invites Greek and international artists to apply. The selected proposal will stand out for its originality, creativity, and site-specificity. The 2025 Art Prize calls for site-specific, large-scale land art installations created to remain on permanent display outdoors, and become part of a specific, configured environment; works which narrate an internal path/route, and which can be reference points within their exhibition space. The 2025 prize is open to visual artists working in one or more of the following fields: land art, environmental art, ecological art, sculpture, sound and sculptural installation, mixed media, and artists working with natural materials, creating works that integrate art and nature with the aim of generating innovative experiences in open spaces.
New deadline for applications: 27 December 2024.
Before starting your application, we kindly ask you to carefully read the attached document titled MORE INFORMATION | OPEN CALL.
ART PRIZE SELECTION COMMITTEE
Sotirios Bahtsetzis – Artistic Director, G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation, Art Historian, Associate Professor at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly
George Gyparakis – Visual Artist, Professor at the Department of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
Polina Kosmadaki – Art Historian, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Benaki Museum
Nikos Navridis – Visual Artist, Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts
Alexandros Psychoulis – Visual Artist, Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Katerina Nakou’s ‘The Resilient Thread’ reintroduces the overlooked art form of passementerie through large-scale, loom-woven compositions of yarns and handmade cords.
Irini Miga’s ‘Landscape in Motion’ is a site-responsive artwork intertwining painterly and sculptural elements to create a continuously evolving landscape.
Stratis Tavlaridis’ ‘Long Waves’ is a large-scale installation of hand-made paper created using the papercut technique. Reminiscent of the water’s gentle flow and at the same time resembling fishing nets, the installation aims to awaken us to the destruction happening around us and the imperative importance of caring for the seas.
Ami Yamasaki’s installation, Whispers travel and whisper to you again, made entirely of paper, is a sculptural symphony of whispers that weaves together experiences and sounds from Japan and Crete.
In Day, Alexandros Laios captures the different hours of the day using theatre filters, in a colourful rendering of the melancholic contemplation of the fleeting moment.
Maro Fasoulis’ Nomadic Murals redefines traditional practices and narratives. Juxtaposing thread, wood, and parts of textiles from the last century, the artist proposes a contemporary composition of woven ensembles, spread across a fifty-meter-long corridor.
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2022 was jointly awarded to artists Ileana Arnaoutou (1994) and Ismene King (1993) for their in situ sculptural installation Tender shell geophilia. The artwork was added to the Foundation’s art collection in 2022
«Come with the Wind» was the recipient of the 1st G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize in 2019
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