Eva Anerrapsi (b. 1992) is a visual artist and graphic designer from Athens, Greece. She studied graphic design at Vakalo Art & Design College and visual arts at the Athens School οf Fine Arts. Using both analogue and digital media, she seeks to describe the qualities, textures and visual relationships resulting from individual gestures. A key concern of her practice is to offer an exploration of contemporary erotic speech. Through photographic recordings, poetic writings, mixed-media drawings and narrative films, she attempts to capture lyrical landscapes which create abstract, associative narratives and explore the limits between the written word and the conditions under which it came to be. The image and the narrative are at times in harmony, at others in dissonance with each other, therefore staging a conversation reminiscent of the contrast between the non-regulated dreaminess of erotic expectation and the tangible randomness of everyday reality. In her practice, the parallel exploration of the digital and the analogue, the visible and the non-visible, the casual and the intentional, provide the means to reflect on current aesthetics and on the shifting means of communication. In June 2022, she held her first solo exhibition at Closing Soon, an artist-run space in Athens. She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece, and her work has been featured in publications, photographic albums and film festivals in Europe and New York. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.

EDUCATION

Integrated Master in Visual Arts - Athens School of Fine Arts (2015 - 2021), with a completed internship as a gallery assistant at the Bernier/ Eliades Gallery in Athens, Greece.

Bachelor in Graphic Design (BA Honours) - Vakalo Art & Design College Athens, Greece (2010 - 2013).

Attendance to various seminars and workshops such as: in the Union of Graphic Designers of Greece, the Athens School of Fine Arts (“No questions, please! Interviews as an artistic practice in film and video art: A workshop with and by Antonia Rahofer”), “Articulating the Personal, Forming the Collective” by Ioanna Gerakidi through the ARTWORKS program, “On The Liminality Of Surfaces” by Lewis Freedman, etc.

NOMINATIONS

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS 2022. (https://www.art-works.gr/en/fellows/eva-anerrapsi/)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

"ESC 2034: Machine Echoes" group exhibition by 0.1 Gallery, See Lab, Den Haag, Netherlands, October 19 - October 26, 2024.

"SYSTEMA 2024" participation with Closing Soon (GR) 30, 31 August & 1 September, Palais Carli, Marseille, France, 2024.

"Echo Chamber" sound intervention curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou in the context of the exhibition "Woman Case" by Helen Tzirtzilakis, Circuits and Currents Athens, Greece, June 22 - June 30, 2023.

"A Place Between A Teardrop and the Dancing Waves" photography exhibition, Margarita’s Restaurant and Monolithos’ exhibition space, Anafi island, Greece, curated by Haejee Park, organised by Anafi Thyme, June 1st - September 15, 2023.

Public reading event, Adad Books, Athens, on the occasion of Natalie's Mariko book launch of "Hate Poems", accompanied by readers: Eva Anerrapsi and Vassilia Kaga, organised by Sophie Franziska Schultz and No More Poetry, 24th of March 2023.

"We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live" group show, Callirrhoë gallery, Athens, Greece, co-curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Olympia Tzortzi, February 17 - March 11, 2023.

"Flora On The Edge Of Windows", group show, U.o.A. grove, Athens, Greece, co-organised with graduates and students of the Athens School Of Fine Arts, July 1st 2022.

"I Was Lost In Untamed Forms Of Hidden Experiences, In Vast Places That Are Eliminated", solo show, Closing Soon, Athens, Greece, curated by Orestes Mavroudis, June 24 - June 30, 2022.

"Wandering On Thin Surfaces" degree show, Kessanlis Hall, Athens School Of Fine Arts, Greece, October 6 - 9, 2021.

"In The End He Will Make It...From Hero To Anti-hero" group show, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Amfissa, Greece, curated by Nikos Navridis and Maria Tsagkari, June 2017.

FILM FESTIVALS

Berlin Short Film Festival Official Selection 2023.
Film Diary NYC Official Selection 2022.
World Of Film International Festival Glasgow 2022.
Festival International Signes de Nuit Official Selection 2022.
New York Indie Doc Festival Official Selection 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

Winter: An Underground Time published by No Bounds Radio, London, U.K., 2023.
Scanned Diaries and Dalida Songs published by Eva Anerrapsi in Athens, (GR), London (U.K.), Glasgow (U.K.), 2022.
SOFT Issue 6 published by SOFT, Ariana Velazquez and Brittany Jasin, California, USA, 2022.

OTHER WORKS & FEATURES

Athens Art Book Fair 2023, Athens Conservatory, 6-7-8 October 2023, Greece.
Winter broadcast by No Bounds Radio U.K., 2023.
What Your September 2021 Look Like | Photography section of i-D Magazine in the article of Vice U.K. by Ryan White, 2021.
Long Stories Short screening event at Mikrokosmos Cinema, organised by graduates and students of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, 2022.
Cream London/ Athens virtual showcase: Artist Spotlight: Eva Anerrapsi, 2021.
Video-work/ collaboration with the Athens based musician Metaman, Light Meter, 2021.

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