On Saturday, May 3, 2025, the Art Gallery “Agathi – Kartalos” will be transformed into a space of creative meeting, hosting the group exhibition of young artists entitled “Out of Frame”.

The exhibition “Out of Frame” takes place in the framework of the 18th Audiovisual Arts Festival, organized by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University and constitutes a complete artistic statement, offering the public the opportunity to discover works of painting, drawing, photography and collage. These creations are not limited to the reproduction of different styles; on the contrary, they compose a lively dialogue between classical and contemporary trends, exploring the relationship between experimental search, innovation and individual expression.

“Out of Frame” is not a conventional exhibition; it is the living proof of the creative and educational activity of the Department, where the workshops are transformed into fields of fruitful artistic dialogue. Painting converses with photographic narrative, drawings evolve alongside collages, and all together weave together a unique narrative web, born out of the careful study of form and visual language.

At the core of the exhibition is the belief that art can transcend boundaries without departing from its foundations. Through the use of analogue and digital media, the artists do not seek a nostalgic return to the past, but propose a contemporary reassessment of their expressive possibilities, integrating the universal into the personal. The exhibition is not limited to the mere presentation of works; it serves as an open invitation to the public to reconsider their perceptions around “traditional” and “innovative”, demonstrating that art always remains alive and transformative, even when it draws on its roots.

The creators of the exhibition, through their deep engagement with classical techniques and materials, attempt to redefine the role of the visual arts in the 21st century. Their works are not limited to superficial depiction; they spark debates about identity, collective memory and social developments, revealing the way in which art can function simultaneously as a mirror and as a critical voice of its time.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University is a dynamic space of artistic education and research, combining art with technology, aesthetics with scientific research. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, it encourages the synthesis of theory and practice, promoting creative thinking and experimental expression. Its aim is to nurture new generations of artists, researchers and creators with a free spirit and a multidisciplinary artistic education.

Participating Artists: 

Nikolaia Genigeorgiou, Nikoletta Georgantza, Aria Karropoulou, Natalia Kerkyra, Dimitris Leivadiotis, Iliana Michali, Marinela Bariaba, Elissavet Bouranta, Errica Nteli, Danae Paipeti, Nektarios Pachiadakis, Michalis Fessakis, Stella Chalatzouka

• Nicolaia Genigeorgiou: Nicolaia Genigeorgiou draws inspiration from the landscape – not necessarily as an objective record, but as a field of experience, sensation and personal reading. Her paintings explore the space between observation, memory and emotion. Through layers of paint and shifting textures, she attempts to create surfaces that function as psychic landscapes open to interpretation. Her interest turns to the flow of time, moments of silence and qualities that are not immediately captured but leave a trace – such as moisture, silence or a faded memory. Process is an essential part of her work: she moves between control and chance, letting the material guide the evolution of the image. Her visual language is positioned between figuration and abstraction, creating an in-between space where recognition and imagination coexist and collide.

Nikolaia Genigeorgiou

• Nikoleta Georgantza: Nikoleta Georgantza creates works that capture the uniqueness of the expression of “being” as it emanates from her inner world and manifests itself on the outside. In her works, the artist explores the language of painting, seeking how it functions as a channel between the invisible and the visible, the inner and the outer, the spiritual and the material, while at the same time discovering its connection with music. Her works are spaces in which energy flows and transforms into colour, textures and form. Matter is broken down and reunited into forms and shapes that are neither fully recognizable nor completely abstract. The organic, fluid forms that develop in these worlds, where conflicts and harmonies coexist, invite the viewer into a personal dialogue with the visible and the invisible, to read or listen to the stories that energy carries, and to discover multiple visuals that are simultaneously present.

Nikoleta Georgantza

• Aria Karropoulou: Aria Karropoulou is a creator of audiovisual works that focus on the observation and recording of the human experience in the natural environment. Through photography and documentary, she explores and highlights the complex interplay between forms, rhythms and visual elements that shape the world around us. These elements are logically processed and, through a process of scaling, permanently captured either in digital form, on canvas or on paper. At the heart of her work is the belief that in order to authentically capture reality, it must first be distorted. This idea leads her to experiment with digital manipulation and juxtaposition of images, creating a field where nature and human perception coexist and interact creatively. Her works function as imprints of the process of observation, projecting the notion that everything around us is interconnected-both in its physicality and in the intangible laws that govern it. Through her work, Aria proposes a unity between humans and their environment, opening a dialogue about the deeper relationship between matter and the immaterial forces that define our lives.

Aria Karropoulou

• Natalia Kerkyra: Natalia Kerkyra’s painting balances between abstraction and narrative, creating worlds that combine the familiar with the slightly unfamiliar. Through bold colors and clean shapes, she explores the tensions and tranquility of everyday life, human contact and nature. The abstract compositions and minimalism in form bring out the essence of the visual subject matter, while the vibrant color serves as the main carrier of meaning. The forms, though seemingly simple or childlike, conceal complex emotions and subtle social observations. Through a balance between humor and melancholy, the artist creates a visual universe that generates intimacy and questions, summarizing her approach with an insistence on compositional purity and a constant search for color.

Natalia Kerkyra

• Dimitris Livadiotis: Dimitris Livadiotis paints from nature, with oil as his main medium of expression. The central element of his work is the exploration of light and shadow, which attract him and define his subjects. Whether isolating details or rendering his subject as a whole, he seeks the relationships of things to each other and to their surroundings. The process of his painting is an active and dynamic conversation with the world around him: the eye explores objects and forms, while the body responds, conveying on canvas the experience of observation. Sometimes the light appears intense and clear, revealing shapes clearly, sometimes it diffuses, creating images that are softer and more fluid, even distorted. Painting for Livadiotis is a continuous journey of exploration, acceptance, revision and the search for new approaches. Each work becomes an attempt to interpret reality, based on the belief that light-whether steady and silent or fleeting and moving-will show him how to render it.

Dimitris Livadiotis

• Iliana Michali: Iliana Michali uses photography as a means of exploring issues of identity, intimacy and the connection between man and space and nature. Having started her career in fashion photography, she has evolved into a personal and narrative approach that captures authentic, spontaneous moments with sensitivity and honesty. Her work balances between documentary and portraiture, adopting a distinctly female perspective that enhances a sense of intimacy and immediacy. She focuses in particular on the relationship between man and the natural and architectural landscape, inspired by the particular light and the characteristic aesthetics of the Mediterranean, but also by the experiences of alienation she experienced after emigrating to the Netherlands. Iliana carefully chooses the medium that best suits the atmosphere and essence of each of her works, utilizing both analogue and digital photography. In this way, each of her works becomes a unique narrative that captures deeper emotional and cultural aspects of her chosen subjects.

Ilianna Michali

• Marinella Bariaba: Marinella Bariaba approaches painting through a strictly figurative practice, where the gaze is activated through silent observation. The composition is characterised by a commitment to form, the weight of colour and spatial economy. Figures and objects are inscribed in space with plasticity and solid materiality, conveying a sense of weight, touch and being in the present tense. In the tradition of the new figurative painters, the artist does not seek to depict but to reconstruct the experience of the gaze through the material of the painting. The surface is worked with sensitivity to tonalities, depths and textures, while the stillness of the scenes is transformed into dense interiority, emphasizing not the event but the gaze that traverses it.

Marinela Bariaba

• Elissavet Bouranta: Elissavet Bouranta presents a thematic section inspired by elements of nature, emerging in the urban landscape. Her works are rendered in isotonic drawing and realized with the use of marker, creating images that balance between realistic observation and inner imagination. Inspiration comes from small gardens and green spots that pop up among the concrete of cities: olive trees, flowers and plants that break the monotony of grey, giving colour, life and poetry to our everyday life. Through this work, the artist highlights the importance of nature as a source of inspiration, beauty and hope in the contemporary environment.

Elissavet Bouranta

• Errika Nteli: Errika Nteli mainly explores analog collage as a key field of her artistic expression. Her artistic practice focuses on reconstructing images from old magazines, creating visual fragments that tell stories around the female experience, memory and imagination. Through this process, her work functions both as an act of deconstructing dominant narratives and as a personal ritual of contact with the unconscious. Her artistic process is a space of exploration where literature, feminism and cinema coexist, shaping worlds in which the past is transformed and acquires new meaning. Through her images, she proposes a different look at the notion of identity, memory and the gaze. She draws inspiration from the anarchy of Surrealism, the subversive energy of the Dadaists and the poetic rigour of Minimalism.

Errika Nteli

• Danae Paipeti: Danae Paipeti’s works explore the silent language of nature, with shells acting as symbols of memory, protection and inner landscape. Through intensive observation and the use of drawing as a tool for contemplation, she renders their geometry with precision while maintaining a strongly personal style. Her relationship with the sea and shells is deeply emotional, rooted in childhood experiences, and gives the works an underlying interiority that transcends mere representation. The shell emerges as a symbol of resilience and memory – a vector of decay that continues to protect and embrace. Using materials such as pencil and watercolors, Paipeti synthesizes juxtapositions and rhythms, revealing the silent time inherent in the object itself.

Danae Paipeti

• Nektarios Pachiadakis: Nektarios Pachiadakis’ painting is a thorough exploration of the artist’s experiential relationship with the natural landscape, focusing particularly on the harsh and wild beauty of southern Crete. In a slow, almost ritualistic process, his work accurately captures the stark austerity and complexity of the terrain, where stones, dry weeds and the play of light and shadow act as narrative elements. Pachiadakis treats the landscape not merely as an image to be represented, but as an experienced space, a field of personal reflection and spiritual abode. His works become gateways to a space of silence and contemplation, where every form of matter carries the memory of time. Through his painting practice, the artist connects the visible with the existential and the primordial, inviting the viewer to experience a deeper and more meaningful connection with the earth.

Nektarios Pachiadakis

• Michalis Fessakis: Michael Fessakis’ works focus on the relationship between the human figure and the surrounding space, combining elements of abstract expressionism and contemporary figuration. Human figures are rendered in a simplified manner, maintaining realistic proportions but avoiding detailed facial features, emphasizing their pose and position in the composition. His colour palette is simple and restrained, dominated by earthy and cool tones, forming mild contrasts and homogeneous surfaces. Fesakis organizes space through simple geometric shapes and subtle rendering of depth, utilizing negative space. His technique is characterised by obvious brushstrokes and intense textures of colour, combining figuration with abstract elements. The figures in his works are organically integrated into the landscapes, emphasizing man’s connection to nature and his inner world.

Michalis Fessakis

• Stella Chalatzouka: Stella Chalatzouka creates portraits that go beyond realistic depiction, seeking the essence behind the face. The focus of her art is not detail or photographic accuracy, but the power of the face to convey thoughts, memories and emotions. Through subtle brushstrokes, she seeks to reveal something deeper and internal, reminding us that each face is the bearer of a personal narrative. Her works challenge the viewer to stop, observe carefully and perhaps recognize something familiar, something that touches on their own human experience. Her choice to work with portraiture reflects her belief that the human face is not just an image, but a mirror of the story each person carries within them.

Stella Cahalatzouka

The exhibition “Out of Frame” is proposed as a celebration of artistic exploration, approaching art not only as an expression but also as an essential process of research. With each work acting as a window into different dimensions of artistic perception, the exhibition encourages the viewer to see beyond the obvious and create their own narrative. At a time when art is often called upon to compromise stereotypes, Out of Frame affirms the importance of authenticity and creative daring. It is a space where academic education and artistic practice come together, opening up avenues for the emergence of new perspectives in contemporary creation.

Art Venue «Agkathi– Kartάλος»
Mithimnis 12, America Square, Athens
Tel: 21 0864 0250

Web: https://www.agathi.gr/

Opening: Saturday 3 May 2025, at 19:00

Duration: 3-13 May 2025

Opening Hours-daily: 10.30 – 13.30 , 18.30-20.30

Saturday: 10.30 π.μ. – 13.30 μ.μ.