Public Event: “Fragments, A Salon of Curiosities”
Part of the closing programme of the SAIR, Sustainability is in the Air project
Curated by Augustus Veinoglou

Opening: Saturday 29 November 2025, 19:00
Location: Snehta Residency, I. Drosopoulou 47, 112 57 Athens
Public Visiting Hours:
Sunday 30 November: 12:00 – 17:00
Monday 1 – Thursday 4 December: 17:00 – 20:00

The public event “Fragments, A Salon of Curiosities” opens on Saturday 29 November at 19:00 at Snehta Residency, transforming the space into a living map of the two-year SAIR journey. The Salon gathers material and immaterial traces, sketches, notes, small-scale works, and sculptural gestures created during residencies in Ljubljana, Madrid, Prague, and Athens.
The European project Sustainability is in the Air (SAIR) reaches its conclusion this November in Athens, hosted by Snehta Residency. Over the past two years, SAIR has developed a circular network of residencies, artistic research, and cross-cultural exchange. This final three-day programme marks the closing chapter of a collaborative cycle connecting MGLC Ljubljana, MeetFactory Prague, Matadero Madrid, and Snehta Residency Athens.
The project reimagines sustainability not as a fixed destination but as an evolving practice of care, continuity, and imagination, a process that sustains artistic thought and collaboration across geographies and time. The Salon unfolds as a layered, salon-style presentation where fragments of thought, material, and memory intermingle, revealing how artistic processes evolve through exchange and interconnection. Visitors are invited to navigate this constellation of practices, each fragment acting as both a record and a continuation of the relationships built through SAIR.

Participating Artists (SAIR Programme)

The Salon presents works and materials by artists who have taken part in the SAIR programme over the past two years:
Maria Nikiforaki (Greece) explores performance, film, and choreography as rituals of transformation and feminist myth-making.
Christina Zampoulaki (Greece, USA) investigates living matter and interdependence through installation and video.
Lea Culetto (Slovenia) works with textiles and pop aesthetics to address feminist and social questions.
Small but Dangers (Mateja Rojc & Simon Hudolin) (Slovenia) examine collaboration and fragility through sculptural assemblages.
Lenka Kubelová (Czech Republic) creates natural pigments and inks to explore ecological processes and material renewal.
Olga Staňková (Czech Republic) studies the intersections between painting, object, and environment.
Sara García (Spain) uses food and collective rituals to reflect on hospitality and ecological interconnection.
Adrianna Szojda (Poland, Spain) bridges art, education, and agroecology to imagine post-anthropocentric futures.
Together, these artists form the living core of SAIR, each practice an expression of sustainability as relation, reciprocity, and care.

Micro-Symposium: Reflections on Artistic Sustainability
(Closed session)

The Micro-Symposium convenes the artists and partner representatives who have shaped SAIR’s transnational journey. This closed working session will feature the presentation of the SAIR Manual, a collective publication reflecting on methodologies, shared processes, and the ethics of sustainability in artistic practice.
The gathering will offer an opportunity for both self-reflection and collective dialogue, enabling artists to share insights from their residencies while engaging with a selected number of external visitors. Together, participants will exchange knowledge, explore sustainable modes of working, and deepen understanding of how artistic and institutional practices can foster continuity, reciprocity, and care.
Representatives from all partner institutions will engage actively in the discussions, bringing perspectives from their local and international contexts. Alongside Snehta Residency’s curatorial team, they will facilitate sessions on how sustainability can be embodied as artistic, institutional, and social practice.

SAIR Partner Institutions
MGLC, Ljubljana www.mglc-lj.si
SAIR Lead Partner and Coordinating Institution

Part of the International Centre of Graphic Arts and organiser of the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, MGLC Švicarija operates as a residency and creative centre within Tivoli Park. It serves as a meeting point for artists and a platform for international exchange in printmaking and contemporary art.

Dušan Dovč, Coordinator of the Residency Programme
Dijana Lukić, Expert Associate

MeetFactory, Prague www.meetfactory.cz

An international centre for contemporary art supporting projects in visual arts, theatre, music, and interdisciplinary platforms. The Artist-in-Residence Programme fosters dialogue between Czech and international art scenes, encouraging the creation of new work and exchange.

Kateřina Pencová, Artist-in-Residence Curator
Zuzana Belasová, Financial Coordinator

Matadero Madrid (CRA) www.mataderomadrid.org
The Centre for Artists in Residence (CRA) is part of Matadero Madrid, a major public institution for contemporary creation run by the Municipality of Madrid. CRA provides a collaborative environment for artists, musicians, educators, and cultural agents to develop research and creation in a shared, process-based setting.

Luisa Espino, Head of Matadero Madrid Centre for Artists in Residence (CRA)

About SAIR

SAIR, Sustainability is in the Air is a transnational cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. It connects MGLC Ljubljana, Matadero Madrid, MeetFactory Prague, and Snehta Residency Athens in a shared exploration of sustainability through mobility, reciprocity, and artistic experimentation.

More information: www.s-air.eu

Co-ordinator: Matina Charalambi
Poster design: Katerina Brouma