BIO

Nana Sachini
Born in 1975, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Founding member of live-art group KangarooCourt

Contact details
nanasach@gmail.com  

Education
2008 
MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of Arts, London, U.K.. 
2007 
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine art “Distinction”, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, U.K.. 
2004 
B.A. Hons in Painting, Degree (Ptychio) “Excellent”, School of Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Exhibitions - solo


2016 “Astheneia Lab”, installation and series of performances, Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR
2015 "Aporias" - Theatre of Art Karolos Koun, Ypogeio, Athens, GR (curated by Evangelia Ledaki)
2014 "All my pretty ones", a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens, GR.
2013  "now logic must take care of itself", Remap4, Athens, GR.
2012 “22A Closer”, performance in The transparency of sex , Amphissa, GR (curated by The Symptom Projects)
2011 "The body as a city", a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens, GR.
2010  "Rooms 2010", Kappatos Gallery, St. George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens, GR (curated by Alexios Papazacharias) *
2008  “Nearly me, nearly now, nearly show”, Chelsea College, London, U.K.

Group 
* catalogue
2020
“Construction site of exceptional feelings”, The Breeder Feeder, The Breeder Gallery, Athens,GR (curated by Sofia Stevi - Fokidos)

2019
a.O. - b.c.*, An audiovisual diary (*a.O. - b.c. = after Olympics - before crisis), State of Concept, ASFA, Athens,GR (curated by State of Concept)
"Art Barter", Alkinois, Athens,GR (curated by Alix Janta and Lauren Estelle Jones)
"emfylopoiein - to construct the gender", aantonopoulouart gallery, Athens, GR (curated by George Kalyvis)
“Dimodi”, curated by Symptom Projects,Aggeliki Hatzimichali Museum, Plaka, Athens, GR *

2018
"Caritas Romana", new comission of NEON, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Cact- Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, GR (curated by Orestis Andreadakis)*
"Athens in a tank". Space 52, Athens, GR (curated by Giorgos Tserionis)
"How to Fall with Grace", K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, GR(curated by Nicolas  Vamvouklis) *
"The materiality of the painterly event", City Arts Center, Parko Eleftherias, Athens, GR (curated by Denys Zacharopoulos)*
" Exercises on Value",  Haus n Athen, Athens, GR (curated by Alexios Papazacharias)
“Dimodi”, curated by Symptom Projects  House Panourgia, Amphissa, GR *
"Art-Athina 2018", National Conservatoire, (a.antonopoulou.art gallery), Athens, GR
"The diary of a seamstress", a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens, GR (curated by Efie Falida)*

2017
"Shared Sacred Spaces", Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR (curated by Thouli Misirloglou, MMCA's director)*
"I used to be funny but now I m dead", CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery, Athens, GR
"Scorpio (s) Rising", Daily Lazy Projects, Athens, GR (curated by Margarita Bofiliou)
"Antiquidia", a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens, GR
"The age of innocence", theatrical performance from Nona Melancholia, Onassis Cultural Centre (costume designer) Athens, GR
"I started thinking with my heart and I feel smarter than ever", OpenShow Studio, Athens, GR
"Present", IFAC, Athens, GR (curated by DaDaDa Academy & Panos Papadopoulos)
"A certain blue of the sea",Corfu in Colour, Ionian Parliament, Corfu, GR
(curated by Sozita Goudouna), production :Out of the Box Intermedia
"Studio Sharing ACT IV ", Snehta Residency, Athens, GR
"Doulamas the magnificent", a project by PLI Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (curated by Efie Falida), Athens, GR
"Open Form- open studio", a project by Denise Araouzou, Athens, GR
"Boobs-The Semiology of Breast" ,TAF-The Art Foundation, Athens, GR (curated by Areti Botsari)

2016

"Body and other small tails. Performance at the State Museum of Contemporary Art collection", Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon, GR
(curated by : Domna Gounari- Eirini Papakonstantinou)
"The life of things- 4 reflections on precarious objects", CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, GR
"Hypnos Project", Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, GR
(curated by Theophilos Tramboulis and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis)
"Birth of Coexistence", Hellenic American Union, Athens GR
(curated by Hara Piperidou) 
"You are so horny and romantic, I wanna fall in Love", Snehta space, Athens, GR
"A Thing Like You and Me", a glimpse of- a hybrid narrative (online)
"Asthenia", Romantso Bios, Athens, GR (curated by Amalia Vekri)
"Worst Case Scenario-a survival handbook" by KangarooCourt@ 1st Athens Performance Biennial, Green Park, Athens, GR. (collaborative)
"KangarooCare- a survival handbook" by KangarooCourt@ Platform Project, Art-Athina, Faliron Pavilion, Athens, GR. (coordinator Artemis Potamianou) (collaborative)

2015
"Areopagus Königin", Curators Statement at Parallel Vienna, Vienna, AU
(curated by Jelena Seng /  idea by Natasha Papadopoulou in dialogue with Sofia Stevi)
"Modular Modules Mode: a tribute to Ioanna Spiteri", Eleftheria Tseliou gallery, Athens, GR (curated by Alexios Papazacharias)
"Institutions, Politics, Performance"International Conference and Parallel Programme of Activities, Green Park, Athens, GR
"The body and other short stories" - the Performance in the Collection of State Museum of Contemporary Art, Center of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
(curated by: Domna Gounari, Anna Mykoniati, Eirini Papakonstantinou)

"Free at last in the swimsuit" by MarNa, Margarita Bofiliou and Nana Sachini in dialogue
performance, The Ghostwriter series, Simaki's Studio, Athens, GR 

2014
"Reverb: New Art from Greece", School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), U.S.A. (curated by Eirene Efstathiou and Evita Tsokanta)*
4th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
"Mediterranean temperament? Regional stereotypes and other myths"
, SMCA - State Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Areti Leopoulou and Thodoris Markoglou)*
"Photoreportage" (curated by Alexios Papazacharias),Romantso Bios, Athens, GR
"Trickster"(curated by Alexandros Psychoulis and Kostis Velonis), a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens, GR
"The minimal structure-an exhibition for the hut" (curated by Apostolis Artinos) Romantso Bios, Athens, GR*
"Dayz of Glory", OpenShow Studio, Athens, GR
"an element of whim", Fokidos 21, Athens, GR.
"personalive"by KangarooCourt @ "Failure" group show, The Symptom Projects, Amfissa, GR (collaborative)

2013
"Thrills and Chills", CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, GR (curated by Daily Lazy and Ch. Androulidaki)
"Homo Universalis Revisited", Remap 4, Athens, GR (curated by M. Dialektaki and M. Papaioannou)*
"The transparency of sex", Old Hospital, Amphissa, GR (curated by The Symptom Projects)*
"22A closer", solo performance in the exhibition "The transparency of sex", Old Hospital, Amphissa, GR-curated by The Symptom Project
"Saying anyway you may know" (solo video-performance), made specifically  for the "re-enchantment of the art and the 2nd sex",a documentary-lecture by S. Touboura presented in Applied Arts Academy of Vienna in May 2013, Vienna, AU
"Against Lethe", Mail Art Project Exhibition, part of the 5th ICTVC, Nicosia, Cyprus (a project by Les Yper Yper)
"Against Lethe", Mail Art Project Exhibition, Margaris Foundation, (a project by Les Yper Yper),  Amfilochia, Greece 
"HAPPY NEW BONDS#1", a collaborative performative installation, STUDIOvisits (booth P03) “Platform Project @ Art Athina”, Athens GR*
"The right to spring", by KangarooCourt@ Platform Project(Booth 37), Art-Athina, Faliron Pavilion, Athens, GR.  (coordinator Artemis Potamianou) (collaborative)

2012
"Stories no words can tell", Six Dogs, Athens, GR (curated by M.Dialektaki and M. Papaioannou).
“Retrospective” KangarooCourt, (presentation of works) Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, GR (curated by Marina Fokidis, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Aggeliki Rousou) (collaborative)
 "Variations on Joy or Modulation on Koolhaas' proposal for a new european flag", performance from artist's group KangarooCourt, "why art now" exhibition, OpenShow Studio, Athens, GR.(collaborative)
"Brigitte's Vardo or almost 15 minutes", installation- performance-photography exhibition, Re-activation of theatre "Embros" from Kinisi Mavili, Athens, GR (collaborative based on an idea by Nana Sachini).

2011
"Hotel Ariston"
Symbiosis? XV Biennale de la Mediterranee, Thessaloniki, GR.
 (curated by Thouli Misirloglou)*
"98 Weeks research/project space" in Bey Hamam, Thessaloniki, GR.
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
biennale:3 "
Παλιές διασταυρώσεις-Make it new" (co-curated by Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Marina Fokidis and Mirene Arsanios)*
"Acrobat Reading" @ Remap 3, Athens, GR. (curated by Alexios Papazacharias) 
"On books and translation", 98weeks Research/Project Space, Beirut, Lebanon.
-with the book "prophets in love", A collaborative artist's book(one-of-a-kind object) with Iordanis Papadopoulos, greek poet-
 "Epekeina", Athens Municipality Building, Athens, GR (curated by Theophilos Tramboulis) *

"Little Bunny", a performance from artist's group KangarooCourt, Re-activation of theatre "Embros" from Kinisi Mavili, Athens, GR. (collaborative) 
"In Vino Veritas", a performance/installation. Production from EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR. ( concept from Zisis Kotionis and Phoebe Giannisi-collaborative)
 "Poster Group", a presentation from artist's group KangarooCourt in Action Field Kodra 2011, Thessaloniki, GR (curated by Theophilos Tramboulis) (collaborative) .
"Press Conference", a performance from artist's group KangarooCourt in the symposium "Communi(cati)on of Crisis" organized by the Institute for Live Arts Research, Nafpaktos, GR. (collaborative)

2010
"Rooms 2010", Kappatos Gallery, St. George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens, GR (curated by Alexios Papazacharias) *
"Holidays(?)" Gray Gallery, GR (curated by Irini Karayannopoulou)
"nomadic architecture", solo performance, Sarakiniko, Milos island, Greece.
"Board Games-RISK, SOLITAIRE, GO", solo performance, salt evaporation pond, Milos island, GR.
"Which way? To the cake!", (video-performance), Athens, GR.
 "MelodramaThes", a public performance from artist's group KangarooCourt, Thessaloniki, GR. (collaborative0

2009
"Inside Out", GV Art Gallery, London, U.K. (curated by Charlie Franklin) 
"Condensation 2009", Bodhi Gallery, London, U.K.
 "Propeller Island", Thurloe Place, South Kensington, London, U.K.   
"Long exposure",  (video-performance), Edinburgh, U.K.
Velvet Festival-"Heaven"2nd Biennale of Athens, GR
"Beres from Monmarte" organised by Konstantinos Dagritzikos.

2008
"Transleat me", part of project Translation, 48-50 Aiolou , Athens, GR.
MA Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of Arts, London, U.K.

“Rock, Scissors, Paper”, RKB Gallery, London, U.K.
“Condensation”, Decima Gallery, London, U.K.
“Nearly me, nearly now, nearly show”, Chelsea College, London,U.K.
“XHbit 08”, Student Arts Union, London, U.K.*
Arts Club, Dover Street, London, U.K.

"Pleasure Pillow", solo performanceChelsea College of Art and Desing, London, U.K.
"At least that's a step to the right direction", video performance,Nunhead, London, U.K.

 2007
“Trauma Queen”, Mediterranean” Hotel, Athens, GR. (co-curated by Zoi Pappa and Harris Kontosphiris)*
“Free Associations”, Chelsea College, London, U.K.*
“Interim Show – Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art”, Chelsea College, London, U.K. 


2006
“Positive Charges”, Center of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR.*
“Alumni Show 05-06”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR.*
“Action Field Kodra 06”, Thessaloniki, Greece.*
“Industry and Innovation”, HYATT, Thessaloniki, GR.
“Pixeldance Festival”, Thessaloniki, GR.
“Belle Arte Lamia”, Contemporary Art Competition, Lamia, GR. 


2005
“Action Field Kodra 2005”, Thessaloniki, GR. *
“Belle Arte Lamia”, Contemporary Art Competition, Lamia, GR. 
2004
“Young Artists explore cinema”, Berlin, Germany.*
“Action Field Kodra 2004”, Thessaloniki, GR.*
“Young Artists explore cinema”, Cinemuseum, Thessaloniki, GR.* 
Cultural Special Olympics“Athens2004”,WarMuseum, Thessaloniki,GR. 

2003
“Trash Art” ( Recycle Art ), BIOS open studios, Athens, GR.
Workshop

2013
Young Artists’ Workshop of the 4th Thessaloniki biennale of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the ACTION FIELD KODRA, (Municipality of Kalamaria)
Curators: Areti Leopoulou, Theodore Markoglou, SMCA Art Historians
Head teachers: Adrian Paci, Nikos Navridis
2004
"Transient Art in public spaces", Thessaloniki, Greece (curated by Evanthia Tsantila)

Curatorials
2012
BOUND: 1. A boundary, a limit. / 2.tied / 3. to leap forward or upward; spring, co-curated by Sofia  Touboura, Maria Lianou, Nana Sachini.
OpenShowStudio,Athens, GR. 
Although independently curated, is presented within the framework of  "Through the Roadblocks", a 3 year NeMe  project, which will culminate in a 3 day international conference and a month long exhibition in November 2012.

Lectures
Bound: a performance-lecture with Maria Lianou presenting the exhibition Bound.
Through the roadblocks: realities in raw motion conference, Limassol, Cyprus.
co-organised by NeMe, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Art History and Theory Research Lab) of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. 

Selected articles, publications

2010
"My beautiful room", Maria Maragou, Enet.gr, December 2010
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=232788
2009
"Trauma Queen", 2009, Futura Editions
"Kaput", Art Magazine, Issue o4, February 2009, Gelly Grintaki, "Transleat me"
http://www.kaput.gr/04/grindaki.html 


2008
“Ta Nea tis Texnis”( “Arts News”), Issue No 163, January 2008, Stavros Tsigoglou “Nana Sachini:Sebastian” 


2006
“Positive Charges”, Center of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
 


Awards
2005-1st Prize of Competition “BOUTARI NOUVEAU”