Visual artists Panagiotis Kefalas, Persefoni Nikolakopoulou, and Evi Roumani will open their studio from November 21 to 23, 2025. This space, which not only houses their personal art studios but also serves as the starting point for their collective project ammophila, will be open to the public for these three days. Viewers are invited to interact with works that are still unfinished, research or visual processes that are constantly evolving, and to engage with older and newer bodies of work.

The ephemeral nature of this presentation serves as an alternative form of response, but also as an observation on the speed of artistic production and exposure in the broader cultural system. At the same time, it is a commentary on the economic and psychosocial implications of precarious working conditions, which cultural workers stubbornly choose to endure on a daily basis.

Panagiotis Kefalas, 1999 II, 2024. Oil painting on canvas, 130×160 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

At the center of Open Studio is the concept of “calling,” as approached by writer and researcher Suhail Malik when discussing artistic work within and outside the historical and contemporary economic and political context of which it is undoubtedly a part.

Persefoni Nikolakopoulou, Untitled, 2024. Acrylic on gelatin, 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

The three artists, who also perform other roles on a daily basis, exhibit works that are inextricably linked to their multiple identities: the maternal or female experience, their parallel daily conventional work, the management of limited resources at local and international level, the dialectical relationship between success and futility, desire and its constant pursuit.

Evi Roumani, Forever, 2025. Photograph, 150×200 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

The representation of both the real and the imaginary, the individual and the collective, the autoethnographic or autobiographical exploration of the self and the other, resistance, resilience, and the struggle with time—among many other social conventions that define everyday life—are just some of the qualities that artists dare to exhibit at Open Studio, both theoretically and tangibly or practically.

Persefoni Nikolakopoulou, Untitled, 2024. Acrylic on gelatin, 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Through the different vehicles and approaches of the artists, the presentation converges on a common axis: the fragment as a whole, the seemingly inferior as essential, the vulnerable as the most courageous.

Open Studio is an initiative by the artists in collaboration with CHEAT CODE.

Curatorial text: Ioanna Gerakidi