An exhibition with clothing as the point of reference

The exhibition A thousand stories stitched on a piece of cloth. 1821-2021 includes small stories within a larger one, having as a point of reference the garment, its transformations, its symbolic dimension as well as its political and other uses from the Revolution era to today.

Multi-pleated dress, part of an older type of costume found in Hydra, Spetses and Ermionida. Lykeion ton Ellinidon collection, Accession Number 778/2,γ Photograph: Studio Kominis
Exhibition themes
The Zalongo Dance. Words have their own history.
Marilena Aligizaki

Marilena Aligizaki

The Zalongo Dance. Words have their own history.

Under the name of Sacred Band. The “perfect analogue” in three acts.
Mary Thivaiou

Mary Thivaiou

Under the name of Sacred Band. The “perfect analogue” in three acts.

Simulacra. The Ladies of the Court.
Maria Kotsou

Maria Kotsou

Simulacra. The Ladies of the Court.

Digital “appearances” of Theodoros Kolokotronis. #helmet.
Iro Vouvoueli

Iro Vouvoueli

Digital “appearances” of Theodoros Kolokotronis. #helmet.

Acumen
Aggeliki Bozou

Aggeliki Bozou

Acumen

18.21m². The war in the salons.
Phygital exhibition (12/03/2021 - 31/12/2021)

18.21m². The war in the salons.

Fustanela or Tailcoat? Quick Responses (QRs).
Phygital exhibition (19/03/2021 - 31/12/2021)

Fustanela or Tailcoat? Quick Responses (QRs).

One piece of cloth - an “invented” emblem.
Maria Varela

Maria Varela

One piece of cloth - an “invented” emblem.

Bloomers. Short stories of women’s fashion.
Alexandra Anagnostopoulou

Alexandra Anagnostopoulou

Bloomers. Short stories of women’s fashion.

passage
Elektra Stampoulou

Elektra Stampoulou

passage

Neither, none, not, or the whimsical weaving of a myth.
Aggeliki Bozou

Aggeliki Bozou

Neither, none, not, or the whimsical weaving of a myth.

Markobotsaris. 2+1 ways to tie a scarf.
Collective work

Markobotsaris. 2+1 ways to tie a scarf.

Participating Visual Artists
Marilena Aligizaki
Marilena Aligizaki
Artist - Art researcher 

Marilena Aligizaki (Athens, 1984) is an artist and a PhD student at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, (under IKY scholarship). Working in the field of public art with installations, performance and video. Aligizaki explores the limits of human existence and sets focus of a new fluid scape, which is stimulating the formation of new attitudes and behaviors which are aspiring to emerge and to express the underlying tensions within contemporary society. With the exception of the public actions, her installations incorporate drawings, screen prints, videos and writings. She lives and works in Athens.

Alexandra Anagnostopoulou
Alexandra Anagnostopoulou
Visual artist

Alexandra Anagnostopoulou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. Having an academic background in both Mathematics and Visual Arts, she creates multimedia installations and designs magazines, while at the same time she enjoys working as a set designer in short films and as a window dresser in retail stores. She has participated in international exhibitions, talks, conferences, artist residencies and workshops.

Maria Varela
Maria Varela
Multidisciplinary artist

Maria Varela is focusing on ways in which the archival event is transcribed from the digital environment into the physical world. She creates digital and physical objects, systems, environments and live events exploring concepts of identity, memory, tradition and their constructions.|
She has presented her work in numerous museums and exhibitions in Greece and abroad, in Athens, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Wroclaw, Vancouver, Berlin, Seattle, Bergen, Istanbul.
She is nominated for the 2021 Contemporary Art Award of the Taoyuan Museum in Taiwan.

Iro Vouvoueli
Iro Vouvoueli
Visual artist

Iro Vouvoueli was born in 1989 in Athens, where she lives and works to this day. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 2016 and has since participated in group exhibitions with painting, sculpture and multimedia works. Her latest quests into visual arts are the ways in which the digital environment, the space representations and enhanced reality affect the individual and generate new spatial experiences as well as new forms of awareness.

Mary Thivaiou
Mary Thivaiou
Visual artist

Mary Thivaiou is a visual artist currently based in Athens. First, she graduated from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens where she studied Art Conservation and then from the Department of Visual Arts of Athens School of Fine Arts. Then she acquired her M.F.A. from A.S.F.A. She also attended the Department of Arts Plastiques of Université Paris 8 with an Erasmus scholarship. She has participated in group exhibitions and workshops in Greece and abroad. She has worked as a traditional costume conservator at Estonian Open Air Museum and at Ministry of Culture. She creates video and animation for museums and theatrical plays.

Maria Kotsou
Maria Kotsou
Visual artist

Maria Kotsou was born in 1989. She originates from and grew up in Apiranthos on Naxos island. She graduated with distinction from the 1st Painting studio of the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2016. In 2012-13 she received an Erasmus scholarship at Jan Matejiko Academy of Fine Arts of Krakow in the Textile Art department. Her work has received awards and was shown in numerous exhibitions in Greece. She lives and works on Cyclades Islands.

Aggeliki Bozou
Aggeliki Bozou
Visual artist

Aggeliki Bozou was born in Athens in 1982. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (2011) and holder of the degree of Master of Fine Arts (2016). She has studied graphic design and theatre. In 2011 she won the first prize of the Spyropoulos Foundation and in 2019 she was awarded by the SNF Artist Fellowship Program ARTWORKS.
With reference to improvisation she creates vivid visual actions and videos in the presence of spectators and time capturing images requiring speed. Experimenting with the idea of randomness, she is trying to directly formalize the mental images and manufactures paper mechanisms that produce rudimentary movement.
Her works have been shown in Greece and abroad: Family Business Gallery (New York), Netting the Work Berlin (Germany), Cairo Video Festival (Egypt), Dirty Linen-Family Business Handmade Benaki Museum, Vorres Museum, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens Biennale etc.

Elektra Stampoulou
Elektra Stampoulou
Visual artist - Researcher

Elektra Stampoulou is a visual artist, researcher and PhD candidate of Athens School of Fine Arts. Her visual art work consists mainly of installations including, among others, sculptural objects, drawings, digital images, videos and performances. Her practice develops around questions related to narrative formation and narration within time-dependent procedures, in an effort to reconfigure narrative authorship and participation in the performative process. 

Concept – Supervision and texts

Tania Veliskou
Tania Veliskou
Museologist

Tania Veliskou studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, receiving scholarships from the Tsagada Legacy Fund for her performance in the programmes of Folklore and Social Anthropology. With a scholarship from the “Maria Heimariou” Foundation, she undertook postgraduate specialisation studies in Museology at the Department of Museum Studies of the University of Leicester, U.K.

She has participated in research programmes at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the documentation and management of costume collections, as well as in folklore research in situ in Northern Greece. She works as a curator at the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume of Lykeion ton Ellinidon, primarily on museological research, museography design and the curation of thematic exhibitions. She is a member of the Hellenic Costume Society.