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Born 1992
Cholargos, Athens GR
Vera Chotzoglou is a Visual artist & Cinematographer.
They are an Athens School of Fine arts’ BA & MFA graduate, Department of Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Art Education (2013-2018).
2016-2017 They had studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with an Erasmus+ scholarship, Fine Arts & Art Education with professors Jorinde Voigt & Stephan Dillemuth.
Their work may be found in private collections.
Currently lives in Athens
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2021: Audience award for the shortfilm "S W E A T", 22th Thessaloniki International GLAD Film Festival
2019: SNF Artist Fellowship Award, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
2018: Scholarship to cover Degree Expenses, Athens School of Fine arts.
2018: Audience Award for the short film “Munich almost killed me ½ “, 2nd Piraeus Film Festival.
2016: Erasmus+ Programme, Scholarship for undergraduate exchange studies in ADBK Munich, State Scholarships Foundation
SOLO SHOWS
2021: BONA-FIDE 1, State of Concept Athens, curated by iLiana Fokianaki & Christina Petkopoulou
SHOWS (SELECTED)
2022: 35th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille,France
2022: Survival Kit 13: The Little Bird Must Be Caught, Curated by iLiana Fokianaki, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2022: 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2022: The Queer Archive, Romantso, Athens,Greece
2022: Clapperboard Golden Festival, Sau Paulo, Brazil
2021: SNEHTA Salon, Snehta residency, Athens-Greece
2021: Phainomenon Anafi, Organized by Association Phenomenon & Kerenidis Pepe Collection, (Invited by State of Concept Athens) Anafi island-Greece
2021 FilmÓptico - Art Visual and Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2020: Interface Video art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2020: Graduates 17'-18'-19', Athens school of Fine Arts, Athens-Greece
2020: Resides and works in Athens, Eressou 40, Athens-Greece
2020: Centropia, Centrum / / Vorspiel transmediale & CTM, Berlin-Germany
2019: Permited, Eos Gallery, Athens-Greece
2019: Remain(s), Perseus, Serifos Island, Greece
2019: To construct the Gender, A. Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019: Platforms Project, Athens School Of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2019: ''A fork in the road'', Foto Wien, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, Austria
2019: A Conversation between material & immaterial, Communauté Hellénique
de Paris et des Environs, Paris, France
2018: Degree show, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2018: FOCUS LOCUS, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki , Greece
2017: Jahreaustellung, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munchen, Munich, Germany
2016: “DAS SYSTEM IST KRIMINELL, DER STAAT ZUM FEIND DES MENSCHEN GEWORDEN!”
(Performance collaboration with Infra Beuys) Belleve di Monaco , Munich, Germany
2013: “Love, Letters to ΧΑΟΣ”, TAF Gallery, Athens, Greece
FESTIVALS (SELECTED)
"S W E A T" SCREENINGS
2021: HPFF, Rome-Italy
2021: 4th Balkan Can Kino-Panorama, ASTOR Cinema, Athens Greece
2021: Pride Week, Technopolis, Athens-Greece
2021: Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Transcendance Thessaloniki, Greece
2021: Ribalta Expiremental Film Festival, Vignola Italy
2021: Les Mains Gauches-Queer Feminist Film Festival, Marseil, France
2021: Festival del cinema Cefalù, Sicily, Italy
2021: 22th Thessaloniki International LGBTQI+ (GLAD) Film Festival
2020 (premiere): 26th Athens International Film Festival (Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας), Greek Film Archive, Athens Greece
"RAUSCH" SCREENINGS
2019: Platforms Project, Athens School Of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2019: Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2018: Inshort Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
2018 (premiere): 6th Athens Biennale ,Anti, Athens, Greece
"MUNICH ALMOST KILLED ME" SCREENINGS
2019: Low Budget Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2019: GRRL HAUS CINEMA: "The two Directions of a Split", Raw - Temporaum, Berlin, Germany
2018: Inshort Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
2018: 2nd Piraeus film Festival, Athens, Greece
"WHEN THE WOLF IS NOT AROUND" SCREENINGS
2017: 1st Piraeus Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2016: Kethea Reload, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens Greece
TALKS / Q&A
2021: Q&A 4th BCKFS 2021, ASTOR Cinema, Athens-Greece
2021 Artist Talk 22th Thessaloniki International LGBTQI+ Film Festival,
Thessaloniki-Greece
2020: Q&A Onassis Air artistic research residency program “The school of infinite rehearsals”, invited by Jonian Bisai and Sotiris Tsigkanos.
Athens-Greece
2018 Artist Talk George Kazazis’ ClassInvited by Pr. George Kazazis’ in Athens School of Fine arts, Athens-Greece
OTHER
2022: Split Identities, 11 artist playing music for 11 hours, National Museum of Contemporary art (EMST), Athens, Greece
2021: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Hybrid spaces > 23-28 February 2021,(Video Lab)
Paris, France
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