COMOTIRIO is the co-working scheme of visual artists Eriphyli Veneri and Naira Stergiou. An Athens-based collaboration since 2018, it explores the thematics of staged experiencing, myth-making, Beauty and beautification processes. Its practice includes common artworks and lectures, with a main focus on the organization of independent contemporary art exhibitions in places and spaces of historicity, semiology, perplexity or just weirdness.
Curating and Projects On Site and in Public Space
2024
✂The Pleasing Effect: A Marathon of Live & Visual Acts✂ annual group exhibition,
Fairytale Castle, Filiatra Messinia GR, produced by Greece in USA & Out of the Box Intermedia
co-curated with Sozita Goudouna
✂Absolutely Fabulous✂ sculptural & ausiovisual installation, Eight / Το Οχτώ, Athens
✂The Indian Tomb✂ site-specific audiovisual installation, AK38, Athens
2023
✂Pektries / Stoa 42 Edition✂ site-specific event, installation, video performance, Stoa 42, Athens
✂Sēmaiostolistiké✂ site-specific event, video & live performance, Σημαιοστολιστική Flags Shop & Production, Athens
curated by Kostis Stafylakis
2022
✂BFFEAE (best friends forever and ever)✂ group show, Municipal Gallery of Kallithea Sofia Laskaridou, Athens
2021
✂PETDEMONIUM✂ art event, The Creatures Pet Shop & Grooming, Athens
✂Iera Polis I/eromeni✂ group show, Salt Museum, Messolonghi GR
✂Flowers-Plants-Decorations✂ pop-up art event, Syntagma Flower Shops, Athens
2020
✂Pai O Palios O Chronos 2020 Remix (Various Artists)✂ online art event, a collaborative project with Teletai Mpoukouras
✂The Love Boat✂ group show, Municipality of Athens, Garbage Trucks’ Depot, Athens
2019
✂BLABLABLACK✂ group show, Rebound Club, Athens
✂Let’s Supper, Mr. Iolas / Resurrection RE✂ group show, supported by NEON Organization
and Marni Film Productions, Villa Iolas, Athens
2018
✂Processinganextraction✂ site-specific show, Lavrion Technological Cultural Park, Attica
Collaborative Works and Participations
2024
✂Ridicule & Transformation✂ workshop by Euripides Laskarides & OSMOSIS,
French Institute of Greece / Goethe-Institut Athen, Duncan Dance Research Center, Athens
2023
✂Pektries / Stoa 42 Edition✂ site-specific event, installation, video performance, Stoa 42, Athens
2022
✂Pektries / Sikinos Edition✂ video performance, COMMUNALITY: 4th Little Islands Festival, Sikinos GR
✂E.N. + BFFEAE Kit / COMOTIRIO Version✂ site-specific installation, exhibition "BFFEAE (best friends forever and ever)", Municipal Gallery of Kallithea Sofia Laskaridou, Athens
✂Virtual Workspaces / Screen DIY: Space & Object Performance✂ workshop by Euripides Laskaridis & OSMOSIS,
Onassis Stegi & Studio Teatrgaleria
2021
✂Triskele✂ on site sculpture, Mykonos Biennale, VIOMA vineyard, Mykonos
2019
✂Ela N' Agapithoume, Darling & Little Death✂ site-specific installation, exhibition "Let's Supper, Mr. Iolas / Resurrection RE", Villa Iolas, Athens
✂Beauty Temple✂ environment, homonymous show, Stoa 42, Athens
Artist Talks and Lectures
2022
✂Karkavitsas and Brecht Strolling in Athens✂ international conference "Andreas Karkavitsas and His Time: Literature, Language, Politics", Municipal Library of Lechaina, Lechaina GR
✂Pektries: A Series of Site-Specific Performances✂ performance conference "Theoretical Approaches & Practical Applications", University of Patras, Patras GR
✂Meta-Experiential Negotiations with History: Contemporary Art and the Revolution of '21✂ scientific conference "The Revolution of 1821 in Crete", Historical, Folklore and Archaeological Society of Crete, Chania GR
2021
✂Aquatic and the Terroir: The Acarnanic Fisherman✂ 4th international cycladological conference, Society for Cycladic Studies, Tinos GR
✂Narratives of Salt and Tephra: From the Lagoon of Messolonghi to the Volcanic Complex of Santorini✂ in the context of "Under the Landscape" project by Boulouki research collaborative, Thera & Therasia GR
2019
✂Criss-Cross 2✂ open workshop and art interventions, ASFA / A-DASH, Athens
✂Cavafy-Iolas: Pleasures of Memory, Senses and Philosophy✂ Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Thessaloniki GR
✂From Laboratory to Project: A Particular Exhibition for the Celebration of the Ninety Years of the Bauhaus in Weimar✂ international conference "Bauhaus and Greece", New Benaki Museum, Athens
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BIOS
Eriphyli Veneri studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She undertook postgraduate studies at the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program of the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany with the support of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. She also completed second postgraduate studies at the MA Art in Context program at the University of Arts Berlin with the support of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation. She is a PhD holder of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. Her research thesis is entitled "Greek Restaurants in Berlin: Multisensoriality and Mythmaking in Ethnic Cuisine". Her doctoral studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. In 2019-2020 she received an ARTWORKS artist fellowship award of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program. From 2020-2023 she was adjunct professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts.
Naira Stergiou studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She undertook her first postgraduate studies at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium (MFA) and completed second postgraduate studies at Campus Sint Lucas Antwerp (Master of Research in Art & Design). She also attended courses of Theology at the Orthodox Onderwijs, Theologisch, Instituut Saint-Serge in Gent, and then proceeded with third postgraduate studies in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Crete. She is a PhD holder of the Department of Visual Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research thesis is entitled "Multiple Visual Interpretations of Religiosity and the Sacred: Cases of Krypto-Religious Art in the Greek Visual Art Sphere". Her doctoral studies were supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. She has been an academic scholar at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts (2020-2021), and from 2021-2024 she was adjunct professor at University of Peloponnese, Department of Performing and Digital Arts.
