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Don't miss the Open Studios tomorrow! 💥 Opening Friday 6/3 at 18:00 / party starts at 21:30 Saturday 7/3 16:00 - 22:00 Sunday 8/3 16:00 - 22:00 Location: Pireos 256 18233, ASFA campus See you at the studios! 👁 Participants: Tobias Cohrs, Ilias Doulis, Konstantina Fakou, Georgina Katsiouli, Konstantinos Koinos, Anastasis Karras, Konstantinos Lianos, Nikolas Magriotis, Anastasis Panagis Meletis, Anastasia Mikrou, Stefania Moskovi, Giorgos Nathenas, Giorgos Othonas, David Politis, Pauline Rouzet, Thodoris Saitis, Maria Spanaki, Marina Tsironi, Nikoletta Angelidou Poster: @otto__visuals

A first look inside the studios of the MFA 👁 As we approach the Open Studios this March, we share glimpses of the spaces at the Athens School of Fine Arts that have hosted our creative energy, the exchange of ideas, and moments of our communal life over the past months. What follows is more than a look at the spaces themselves. It’s a glimpse of the atmosphere we created within them. Over time, these studios became more than workspaces. They became part of our shared experience, shaped by our conversations, experiments, and thoughts. See you at the Open Studios, 6-8 March! 💥 Participants: Tobias Cohrs, Ilias Doulis, Konstantina Fakou, Georgina Katsiouli, Konstantinos Koinos, Anastasis Karras, Konstantinos Lianos, Nikolas Magriotis, Anastasis Panagis Meletis, Anastasia Mikrou, Stefania Moskovi, Giorgos Nathenas, Giorgos Othonas, David Politis, Pauline Rouzet, Thodoris Saitis, Maria Spanaki, Marina Tsironi, Nikoletta Angelidou Clicks & graphics: @katsioug

MFA Open Studios 2026 | ASFA | March 6-8 💥 Opening: Friday 6/3 at 18:00 Opening Party: Friday 6/3 at 21:30 Saturday 7/3  16:00-22:00 Sunday 8/3  16:00-22:00 Pireos 256, Ag. I. Rentis, 18233 The Open Studios of the MFA in Visual Arts invite the public to the facilities of the School Of Fine Arts. MFA once again opens its doors at ASFA’s Pireos campus, a space where research and experimentation thrive, and ideas develop through creative dialogue. The Open Studios provide an opportunity for direct encounter with the artists of MFA. For three days, visitors have the opportunity to get to know unique creative worlds in the space and moment of their formation. Poster: @otto__visuals Edits: @katsioug Participants: Tobias Cohrs, Ilias Doulis, Konstantina Fakou, Georgina Katsiouli, Konstantinos Koinos, Anastasis Karras, Konstantinos Lianos, Nikolas Magriotis, Anastasis Panagis Meletis, Anastasia Mikrou, Stefania Moskovi, Giorgos Nathenas, Giorgos Othonas, David Politis, Pauline Rouzet, Thodoris Saitis, Maria Spanaki, Marina Tsironi MET Open Studios 2026 | ΑΣΚΤ | 6-8 Μαρτίου Εγκαίνια: Παρασκευή 6/3 18:00 Πάρτι εγκαινίων: Παρασκευή 6/3 21:30 Σάββατο 7/3 16:00-22:00 Κυριακή 8/3 16:00-22:00 Πειραιώς 256, Αγ. Ι. Ρέντης, Τ.Κ. 18233 Τα Open Studios του Μεταπτυχιακού Εικαστικών Τεχνών προσκαλούν το κοινό, στους χώρους της Ανώτατης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών. To ΜΕΤ ανοίγει για μια ακόμα φορά τις πόρτες του, στις εγκαταστάσεις της ΑΣΚΤ στην οδό Πειραιώς 256, σε έναν χώρο όπου η έρευνα και ο πειραματισμός ευημερούν και οι ιδέες αναπτύσσονται μέσα από τον δημιουργικό διάλογο. Τα Open Studios δίνουν τη δυνατότητα της άμεσης επαφής με τους καλλιτέχνες του ΜΕΤ. Το κοινό για τρεις μέρες έχει την ευκαιρία να γνωρίσει ξεχωριστούς δημιουργικούς κόσμους στο χώρο και τη στιγμή της διαμόρφωσης τους. Συμμετέχοντες: Tobias Cohrs, Ηλίας Δούλης, Κωνσταντίνα Φάκου, Τζωρτζίνα Κατσιούλη, Κωνσταντίνος Κοϊνός, Αναστάσης Καρράς, Κωνσταντίνος Λιανός, Νικόλας Μαγκριώτης, Αναστάσης Παναγής Μελέτης, Αναστασία Μικρού, Στεφανία Μοσκόβη, Γιώργος Νάθενας, Γιώργος Όθωνας, Δαυίδ Πολίτης, Pauline Rouzet, Θοδωρής Σαΐτης, Μαρία Σπανάκη, Μαρίνα Τσιρόνη

Ilias Doulis joins @mfa_asfa lias Doulis is a visual artist based in Athens, working across video, mixed media, painting and film. His films have been screened in festivals such as Moscow International Film Festival and Drama International Short Film Festival. He is currently pursuing an MFA at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His work explores the forms and mechanisms of power, relationships of oppression, consumerism, and the sterile, one-dimensional narrative through which contemporary mass culture interprets and defines the world, society, our personal relationships, and our very selves. Using shock and humour as tools, he attempts to deconstruct the simplistic, mechanistic, utilitarian logic of the contemporary way of life. A logic that leaves no room for daydreaming, purposeless play, dynamic relationships with the world and the creation of new worlds.

Pauline Rouzet joins @mfa_asfa Pauline Rouzet is a french artist born in Marseille. She studied photography and video at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she developed a documentary -based practice, exploring how we narrate places and the collective stories they hold. After moving to Athens in 2024, her work has focused on national (and counter) narratives, informed by her experience as an editor and research assistant for Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens. She is currently working on her next movie, which would start from the fictional collapse of two buildings in the center of Athens. Her work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou and the Doc! in Paris. She has also been a jury member for the Cannes Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel.

George Othonas joins @mfa_asfa George Othonas is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. He studied at the School of fine arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from 2018 to 2023 in the Direction of New Media in the Visual Arts and is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has participated in multiple group shows in Greece and abroad. His artistic practice utilizes mixed media as a multi-faceted artistic medium, aiming to explore the interaction that the image brings between the artist creator and the viewer. His work focuses on the association of the image with public space, but also with the dimensions of time and memory, through the experience of living in an abandoned urban environment. His themes emerge from lived experiences and emphasize the approach of broader social groups, analyzing their forms of interaction and the ways in which they perceive state rules and mechanisms in their entirety, conservative or otherwise.

David Politis joins @mfa_asfa David Politis is a graduate student at the University for the Creative Arts in Epsom, UK, within the Fashion Management & Marketing department. He works across photography, painting, and visual arts. Over the past years, his practice has evolved through continuous experimentation with image, material, and space. Painting introduced him to a more human and intuitive approach, allowing him to embrace imperfection as a central element of expression. Through a photographic perspective, he explores urban landscapes and portraits of existing and imagined environments and figures emerging from the subconscious. Installations play a vital role in his practice, where space becomes an active medium for emotion and experience. His work is driven by existential, philosophical, political, and subcultural themes, engaging with notions of power and control, repression, rebellion, and resistance to the dominant gaze.

Anastasia Mikrou joins @mfa_asfa Anastasia Mikrou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She studied Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Florina (University of Western Macedonia) and Contemporary Art and New Media at Université Paris 8 in Paris. Over the past years, she has gradually turned toward practices such as psychogeography, walking arts, playful forms of art, and artistic approaches shaped around group experiences and interactive environments, where participation and collaboration play a central role in the creative process. These groups can be very specific and homogeneous, or more diverse, such as the participants in the Tiger Hunt Game project—a travel-based artwork she has been developing over the last three years. She is interested in creating artwork-situations based on public participation and interaction, as well as in participatory art as a social practice and walking art. She is interested in creating artwork-situations based on public participation and interaction, as well as in participatory art as a social practice and walking art. The composition of the group, the relationships formed between fellow traveler-players, and the ways in which they are transformed into communities that move across the places defined by the game as a nomadic body are an active part of her research. The shared experience is ultimately transformed into a shared memory among the groups and their members. A series of murals created as part of the Tiger Hunt Game, 2024 Photos from the presentation of Tiger Hunt Game, which took place in July and August 2024. The photos capture moments from the route, as well as the players interaction with the artworks and the spaces.

Maria Spanaki joins @mfa_asfa Maria Spanaki is a visual artist based in Athens. Her work focuses on memory, identity, and emotional inscription, with an emphasis on the domestic space, female experiences, and craft-based practices. Through painting, embroidery, and mixed media, creates layered works that function as “visual memories.” She combines folk aesthetics with pop and camp elements, shaping a visual language that draws from the personal while addressing the collective. Her work has been presented in exhibitions with social and conceptual orientations, and she’s particularly interested in interculturality, accessibility in art, and feminist narratives.

Konstantinos Lianos joins @mfa_asfa Konstantinos Lianos (b.1990). Based in Athens. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts(bachelor/Integrated Master) in 2016, while in 2012 he studied at the Universitat de Barcelona as part of the Erasmus student exchange program. From 2017 to 2023, he was the artistic director of the independent art space KEIV, which hosted and organized cultural events focusing on visual arts, highlighting the work of Greek and international artists. As part of his activities, the space received a grant from the Ministry of Culture. The space currently operates as a collective creative studio. His practice, over the last years, has increasingly been based on an interdisciplinary processing of reality, drawing from the encounter of the physical with the digital media and an experimentation with a range of techniques and materials. The main points of reference that feed his creative process and his aesthetic research usually come from the observation of the everyday, science fiction and technological acceleration scenarios, the post-digital condition of overcoming the difference between analog-digital, physical-virtual and the fragmentation of narrative tools.

Georgina Katsiouli joins @mfa_asfa Georgina Katsiouli is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She studied at the School of Visual & Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from 2019 to 2024. She has participated in multiple group shows in Greece and abroad, while occasionally participating as a visual curator for various magazine articles. Through her practice, at times, she seeks to address social or experiential issues such as violence, love, hate, and death. The primary medium of her work is pencil drawing as image, often accompanied by text. These two elements are combined to create an overall expressive experience and a form of contemporary storytelling. The time needed to illustrate the image in such detail produces a deceptive effect, almost resembling a digital photograph. A significant amount of the texts is drawn from excerpts of Greek and foreign queer literature, among other sources. The selection of these texts aims to introduce contrasting meanings, that is, existential relationships between abuser and victim. The emotional and fragmentary nature of the text seeks to establish a dialectical relationship with the drawing, in contrast to its brutality and “clinicalness”.

Konstantina Fakou joins @mfa_asfa Konstantina Fakou is a visual artist based in Athens, currently pursuing postgraduate studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice explores themes of memory, trauma, material transformation and alternative cartographies. Through a diverse range of media- including sculpture, installation and material-based research- she approaches the landscape as a living body and matter as an active witness that records, retains and transforms traces of experience. Her work draws on forensic architecture, spatial survivance and counter-cartography, exploring the interplay between body and landscape, absence and memory.