in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency offers four selected, Austrian-based, visual artists for the first time the opportunity to live and work in Athens during Spring/Summer 2017 as part of a funded residency program. The projects realized take conditions specific to the city as a starting point for artistic research, using various techniques and media to ask the question: what does it mean – or what could it mean – to live and work in ατhεns? 
 
The exhibition presents works-in-progress and new works by Emanuel Ehgartner and Borjana Ventzislavova, who were artists-in-residence from April through May - under the curatorial advice of Eleni Michaelidi and Antonia Rahofer.
 
In his artistic practice, Emanuel Ehgartner (Vienna) draws upon the world of forms present in the urban space, inspired by his wanderings and findings through the city and its outskirts. Using strategies such as reproduction, reclamation and rearrangement, Ehgartner sets found and redefined objects into new and unexpected contexts.
 
Borjana Ventzislavova (Vienna/Sofia) works in the areas of photography, video, installations and new media. Her interest in the visual and its presentation have led her to explore themes such as mobility, marginalization and social cooperation—whereby she brings the all too often fine lines between presence and absence, power and powerlessness, authority and empowerment to the forefront of discussion.

Artist talk and open discussion
Wednesday May 24th at 7 p.m.: Borjana Ventzislavova
 
Artist talk and open discussion / Finissage
Saturday May 27th at 7 p.m.: Emanuel Ehgartner
 
The artist talks and open discussions will be held in English.