15 May 2013

State of Concept, non-profit gallery is launching at Art Athina 2013

State of Concept launches at Art Athina 2013, Booth P16

State of Concept is a non-profit gallery based in Athens founded in 2013. It promotes Greek and international artists in Greece. It will launch at Art Athina on the 16th of May 2013 and will operate in its new space from September 2013.

State of Concept is an independent platform, where Greek artists without a Greek gallery representation will showcase their work through solo and group exhibitions.

Besides promoting Greek artists, State of Concept aims to be a bridge between Athens and the international art scene. It will be hosting two exhibitions of international artists per year, with its main aim being to introduce international artists that are not widely known and easily accecible to Greek audiences through solo presentations.

Apart from its exhibitions, State of Concept is operating as a space for free artist consultation, where young graduates of greek art schools can receive feedback, guidance and help in order to further their work, enhance their portfolio and cv's and decide their next artistic steps, whilst it also organizes projects, screenings, talks and other events.

Director: Iliana Fokianaki

ART ATHINA - BOOTH P16

State of Concept will present at Art Athina 2013, Greek artists Margarita Bofiliou and Aliki Panagiotopoulou.

Margarita Bofiliou (b.1979, Athens) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She has received an MA in Fine Arts, from the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited in Greece in galleries, museums and institutions such as Remap2 where she showed with IBID Gallery (GB). She has also exhibited in Belgium, Great Britain, Germany and France. She has been awarded with the 1st Prize of the Spyropoulos Foundation and has been a nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize.

Aliki Panagiotopoulou (b. 1980, Athens) studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Art and received an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Art, London in 2005. She has been a resident of ISCP in NY during 2012. She is currently based in Athens, Greece. She has exhibited in Greece and abroad. Recent exhibitions and projects include 'At Table and in Bed', Andreas Melas and Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens (2013), Evil (The Kreuzberg Biennial) Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cur. Jannis Varelas, 2012), Petrosphere / Glasgow International – ReMap3, Cabinets of Miracles (cur. P. Kosmadaki and C. Marinos, 2010), Personal-Political / 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial (2009).