The Jury for 2022 is:
Emilia Genuardi is a specialist in contemporary photography, a curator, an art director and a consultant for auction houses.
After studying Art History and Architecture at the University of Manchester, she moved to Paris and worked as a photographer's agent for renowned agencies such as Métis and Rapho. For 10 years, she travelled the world and produced various series of images, books and exhibitions. In 2012, she undertook the artistic direction of the Galerie Madé, in Paris, bringing together established artists and avant-garde creations.
In 2017, driven by the desire to create a fair with a unique format, she founded the a ppr oc he boutique art fair, dedicated to artists who experiment the photographic medium. In 2018, Emilia created the a ccr oc he company, which since then has produced a ppr oc he as well as other cultural content.
Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Life Foundation.
Portrait ©Benoit Pailley
Evita Tsokanta works as a writer, educator and an independent exhibition-maker based in Athens. She received a BA with a double major in Art History and English from Rutgers University, U.S.A. and an MA on Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London. In 2019 she completed a writing residency in Leipzig supported by the Goethe Institute. She has edited (Rembetiko, 2022) and contributed to several exhibition catalogues (including Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, 2018) and journals (including South, as a State of Mind, Enterprise Projects Journal, Artworks Fellows Medium, Valencia Polytechnic School Publication). She has been part of research programs (Post-Documenta by Athens School of Fine Arts and Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, and RESHAPE-Onassis AIR Fair Governance Models) and received a Greek Ministry of Culture research grant under the title, Islandness. She has lectured on curatorial practices and contemporary Greek art at the Columbia University Athens Summer Curatorial Program, Arcadia University, Athens, and Athens College Adult Learning. Previously she has curated solo and group exhibitions such as Keep on Keeping on: a visual meta-collection at the American College of Greece Gallery, Reverb: New Art from Greece at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, U.S.A. and the 4th Athens Biennial, AGORA, among others. Since 2020 she has been working for Kickstarter Arts.
Andreas Melas is an art advisor and director of Melas / Martinos Gallery in Athens. He is a founding member of Radio Athènes institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture. Recent exhibitions include ‘Karl Wirsum: Drawing it On, 1965 to the present’ (2018), ‘Trade Syllables’ (2019), ‘Fate of a Cell’ (2020) and ‘Lives of an Object’ (2021). In the summer of 2021 he curated ‘Antistructure’ an exhibition which took place at DESTE Foundation, (Nea Ionia, Athens). He represents the ‘Bia Davou / Pantelis Xagoraris Estate’ along with Helena Papadopoulos (Radio Athènes).
Olympia Tzortzi is an art historian and freelance curator who lives and works between Athens, Berlin and Vienna. She earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Art History and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna and studied Media Art Histories at the Danube University Krems and Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 2013 to 2016 she worked at Galerie Kerstin Engholm in Vienna, 2016/2017 she worked as an associate registrar for the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation between New York and Vienna, 2018/2019 she worked as Gallery Manager at Galerie Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna and in 2020/2021 she had the same position at the DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM gallery in Berlin. In the last few years she has been involved in the organization of several projects and has curated numerous exhibitions, among them an exhibition at Belverede 21. She recently founded the Callirrhoë exhibition space in Athens.
Sarah Allen is Head of Programme at South London Gallery. She was previously a curator at Tate Modern, London where she curated or co-curated Zanele Muholi (2020); Sophie Taeuber-Arp (2021); Nan Goldin (2019); The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018), as well as displays from the permanent collection including Mark Ruwedel (2018); Irving Penn (2019) and David Goldblatt (2019). Outside her role at South London Gallery, she sits on the Board of Directors of Belfast Photography Festival.
Viktoria Fassianou is the Director of the Alekos Fassianos Estate - Museum and also Iris Gallery, an art gallery based in Athens. She co-lead for three years the International Young Patrons program of the Museum of Cycladic Art, she co-founded the Tryfon Art Residency in Molyvos, Mytilene and worked at the international NGO Endeavor Greece with the aim of developing small and medium enterprises in Greece.
Sveva D’Antonio graduated in History of Art at Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples in 2013 with a thesis on how certain type of movies can be transformed in artworks and enter in the museum space. Sveva is former partner of Laveronica gallery with whom she worked with for the last six years. Sveva and her husband Francesco Taurisano have developed since 10 years a contemporary art collection focused on emergent artists. Namely CollezioneTaurisano tries to foster an active support of young artists putting in place various initiatives throughout the year. This year Sveva graduated from SDA Bocconi with an executive master in Luxury Management with a final project on Managing Circularity in Fashion&Luxury. She continued during this last year her curatorial projects. Two highlights of 2021-2022 have been:
"Lucrezia, omaggio per un'antieroina", Palazzo Sacrati, Reggio Emilia where she coordinates international artists; handle production of new work; organize workshop with artist Marinella Senatore involving the local community of artists; fundraise for the show receiving support from European firm
"Collective Nostalgia", Vin Vin Gallery, Wien, developing an artistic research with four international women artists (Victoria Nunley, Zandile Tshabalala, Nicole Terenzini and Cow Mash); overseeing the production of new work and shipment logistic; gathering international collectors for the acquisition of the art works.
Nikolas Ventourakis is an artist living and working between Athens and London and is the first artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency. He is a non-voting member of the Jury. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in an attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and is a fellow in New Museum’s IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18, the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale , Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou, and The Same River Twice, at the Benaki Museum. He is the co-curator of the project “A Hollow Place” in Athens. Most recently he was an ARTWORKS Fellow and an Onassis AiR.
