Natasha Papadopoulou
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Braised in NYC. Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Education
–Sandberg Instituut, Master of Voice, Amsterdam, 2018
–School of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, New York, 2001
–Basi Pilates, Teacher Training Certification, Amsterdam, 2019
–Mary Liatsou Conservatory, Modern Dance Diploma, Thessaloniki, 1995
Grands
–Mondriaan Fonds, Biennale Voucher, January 2024
–Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant for Gaia, I Think I LOVE YOU, September 2023
–Culture Fonds NL, Project Grant for Organs Love Orgone, November 2023
–Culture Moves Europe by Goethe Instituut, Project Grant for ZK/U residency, June 2023
–Mondriaan Fonds, Project Grant for An Educational Album, February 2022
–Mondriaan Fonds, Research Grant for An Educational Album, January 2021
–Mondriaan Fonds, Subsidy for Stichting Mediamatic for If Life Gives You Lemons, Hope They Are Juicy, September 2020
–Amsterdam Fonds Voor De Kunst, Project Grand for Stretching Is A Matter of Spelling, April 2019
Commissions
–Earth Orgone & Fire, installation for the exhibition This Current Between Us, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Georgia Liapi, Historical steam factory of DEH, Athens, GR 2022-2023
–Green Stream, performance, Ornamenta2024, Phorzheim, DE 2022-2024
–Under Acupressure#2 , Theocharachis Museum, Athens, GR 2022
–NeanderTango, Polder Triennial, Amsterdam, NL 2021-2023
–If Life Gives You Lemons, Hope They Are Juicy, Stichting Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL 2020-2022
–The Quarantine Series, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL 2020
–Tension In the Tenses, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL 2019
–Part Way Back, Other Futures Festival Amsterdam, NL 2019
Performances, Solo Exhibitions and Residencies
~2024
–UNDERGROUNDING, solo show, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, February - April 2023
–Rewilding and Enchanting, three artist solo presentations, Pakt Amsterdam, May - June 2024
~2023
–ZK/U, Zentrum Fur Kunst Und Urbanistik, (residency), Berlin, DE - Autumn 2023
–Step into the Limelight, (performance) for Rot Garden, Rile books, Brussels November - 2023
–Social Medea, (performance) at Kim?, Contemporary Art Centre Riga, December - 2023
–Have the Lime of your Life, (performance) at Villa du Parc centre d’art, Anemasse, December - 2023
~2022
–NeanderTango #3, (performance), Floriade, Almere, September 2022
–An Educational Album, (performance), Het HEM, Zaandam, May 2022
–Green Stream, (performance), Ornamenta2024, Phorzheim, DE, July 2022
–Spring Ring Sprung Spank/ A Wide Open Studio, residency and solo exhibition, Komplot, Brussels, BE -Jan-Feb 2022
–Under Acupressure#2. (solo exhibition), curated by Panos Giannikopoulos, Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, GR - March-May 2022
–If Life Gives You Lemons, Hope They Are Juicy, (solo exhibition) Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL April 2022
~2021
–NeanderTango #2, (video performance) PolderTV, Museum Schokland, commissioned by Jules Van Langenberg, Dutch Design Week 2021, NL
~2020
–Neander-Tango, (video performance) Polder TV, commissioned by Jules Van Langenberg, Dutch Design Week 2020, NL
–The Anastasia Quarantine Series (online performances) Public Sandberg, March-May 2020
–Part Way Back, (performance with Yiannis Loukos), Other Futures Festival, De Ruimte, Amsterdam,
~2019
–Stretching Is A Matter of Spelling (double solo with Milena Bonilla), PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
–Intentions and Attentions of Tension In The Tenses, (performance), 24 Oost Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL
–The Anastasia Method, (performance) 7th Biennial of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
–Press Release, (performance) Stretching Is A Matter of Spelling, PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
~2018
–The Anastasia Method, (performance) Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL
–SociaL Medea, (performance) Hydrogen Nights, Kim?, curated by Maria Arusoo, Riga LV
–Miss Saturation, (performance) The Beat of Poetry, Perdu, Amsterdam NL
–The Anastasia Method, (performance) Flam Festival, Amsterdam NL
–The Anastasia Method, (performance) Haus N Athen, Athens, GR
~2017
–SociaL Medea, (performance) National Museum of Contemporary Art, EMST, Athens, GR
–SociaL Medea (performance) in Some Seine, by Iris Touliatou, Hyle, {M]atter Athens, GR
~2016
–I Don’t have a Text but I have a Pretext, (performance), Open Avond, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
–Progress, (solo exhibition), Buenos Tiempos international, Brussels, BE
~2015
–Miss Saturation, (performance), Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, GR
–Miss Saturation, (performance), Improvisation Festival, Athens, GR
–M MY ME #3, (performance), 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, GR
–Put Your Fingers On My Face (I Won’t bite), (social media performance), The Breeder Gallery, Athens, GR
Selected Group Exhibitions
~2024
–Art Athina, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos
–Bewildered and Enchanted, Pakt Foundation, Amsterdam, May-June
~2023
–We Tell Stories To Ourselves, Callirrhoë Gallery, Athens
~2022
–This Current Between Us, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Georgia Liapi, Historical steam factory of DEH, Athens, December 2022
~2021
–Polder TV, (video performance) Museum Schokland, commissioned by Jules Van Langenberg, Middelbuurt,, NL
–Mind-Body-Problem, curated by by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
–Motley Crew, curated by Margarita Myrogianni, Cultural Centre, Tinos Island, GR
–The Right to Breathe, curated by Sozita Goudouna, Greece In USA Foundation, New York, USA~2020
–The Power of Doing Nothing, curated by Petra Hack and Margarita Osipian, JaJaNeeNee Radio, Amsterdam, NL
–Signs of Proximity, Art Athina Virtual, curated by Marina Fokidi, Athens, GR
~2019
–Elsewheres Within Here, Framer Framed, curated by Ong Jo-lene, Amsterdam, NL–Am I the name of that Image? Curated by Syrago Tsiara, Contemporary Museum of Art, Skopje, MK –Stasis, curated by Syrago Tsiara and Areti Leopoulou, State Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMus, Thessaloniki, GR
~2018
–Ambiguous Bodies, curated by Eleni Papakonstantinou State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
–An Exercise On Values, curated by Alexios Papazacharias, Haus N Athen, Athens, GR
–Dancing Goddesses, curated by Marina Vranopoulou, Dio Horia, Mykonos, GR
–Missing Links, curated by Daily Lazy, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens, GR
~2017
–Carrying The Owls To Athens, curated by the Wiener Art Foundation, Athens, GR
–Open Stage, curated by Lisette Smits, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL
–Performed Recorded not Prepared, curated by Petros Orfanos Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, NL
–A Simple Work Out, PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
~2016
– Both Sides of the Curtain, La Loge, Brussels, BE–Winter Is Coming, curated By Maria Arusoo. Curated by_ Georg Kargl Fine,Arts, Vienna, AU
–Performance on Screen, Paleis van Mieris, Amsterdam, NL
–Handsome, Young, and Unemployed, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro, Komplot, Brussels, BE
–The Body and Other Short Stories, Museum of Contemporary Art, Crete, GR
–Lemonpie-A Long Lost Lust Story, Lage Egal, Berlin DE–Strangloscope, The Museum of Image and Sound, Florianopolis BR
–Ela! Wiener Art Foundation & Parallel Vienna, Athens, GR
Lectures/Workshops
–Anastasia’s Breathing and Breading, Workshop, Stavros Niarxos Foundation, 2022
–Anastasia’s Limelight, Workshop, Sandberg institute, 2022
–Anastasia’s Master Class, Master of Fine Arts, HKU, NL, 2019
–Disruptive Narratives, Radical Cutup, Sandberg Institute, NL, 2019
–Something is About to Happen, De School, Amsterdam, NL, 2018
–Performance Philosophy Symposium, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), GR, 2017
–Performance Barbecue, Athens School Of Fine Art, GR, 2016
–How To Create a Public Performance, New York University, USA, 2015
–On Spring Cleaning, by WWT (Natasha Papadopoulou and Georgia Kotretsos) Kunstraum, Munich, DE 2015
Art Publications
–Rot Issue One Immunity, edited by Sara Manente, BE, 2023
–Nomas Magazine, Time, curated by Panos Gianikopoulos and edited by Dakis Ioannou, GR, 2020
–Master of Voice, curated by Lisette Smits Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2020
–Facettes, curated by Sonia Dermience, Zurich, 2020
–Happy Hypocrite, curated by Erica Scourti, Bookworks, London 2019
–Stasis-Taking A Stance, exhibition catalogue, 7th biennale Of Thessaloniki, MOMus, Thessaloniki, GR
–Sic Intertrashional, curated by Milena Bonilla and Bea McMahon, Amsterdam, 2019
–Inter-alter-ity, curated by Syrago Tsiara, exhibition catalogue, 5th Bienalle of Thesaloniki, 2015
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My art practice intertwines disciplines of performance, visual art and alternative medical sciences.
It manifests in designing interactive somatic landscapes and juxtaposes them with linguistic schemes as ways to facilitate social criticism, to exculpate self-care and make holistic knowledge a tool of resilience and resistance.
I am interested in installations and participatory situations that care to become beneficial for the psychophysical wellbeing of their viewers. Inform bodies with their innate energetical charge.
Propose a form of art projects and objects that invite viewers to feel and experience with more means than the audiovisual.Access another type of perception, the art of viewing artworks through the body itself.