Born 1992
Cholargos, Athens GR
Vera Chotzoglou is a Visual artist & Cinematographer.
She is an Athens School of Fine arts’ BA & MFA graduate, Department of Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Art Education (2013-2018). 2016-2017 She had studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with an Erasmus+ scholarship, Fine Arts & Art Education with professors Jorinde Voigt & Stephan Dillemuth.
She has participated in various workshops, such as;
"Writing and directing for documentary..." by Robert Rombout, 5th Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece (2019), "No questions, please!" Interviews as an artistic practice in film and video art" by Antonia Rahofer, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018), “Stay in Touch”, Athens School of fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018),
Sound Workshop by Paul Paulon, Studio Jorinde Voigt, Berlin Germany (2017).
Her work may be found in private collections. She lives and works in Athens
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
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
SHOWS & FESTIVALS (SELECTED)
2021(upcoming): "Figura", Gallery Artzone42, Athens-Greece
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
2019: Permited, Eos Gallery, Athens-Greece
2019: Toddlers by B L N K, 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: 5th Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece
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
2016: Markopoulos Cultural Festival, Athens, Greece
2015: “La vie des amis” collaboration with Jonas Batlhauser, Circuits & Currents, Athens, Greece
2013: “Love, Letters to ΧΑΟΣ”, Mathematic TAF Gallery, Athens, Greece
"S W E A T" SCREENINGS
2021(upcoming): 4th Piraeus Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2021(upcoming): Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2021(upcoming) Ribalta Expiremental Film Festival, Vignola Italy
2021: 22th Thessaloniki International LGBTQI+ Film Festival
2020 (premiere): 26th Athens International Film Festival (Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας), Greek Film Archive, Athens Greece
"RAUSCH" SCREENINGS (Selected)
2020: Centropia, Centrum / / Vorspiel transmediale & CTM, Berlin-Germany
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 (Selected)
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 (Selected)
2017: 1st Piraeus Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2016: Kethea Reload, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens Greece
OTHER
2021
Artist Talk
22th Thessaloniki International LGBTQI+ Film Festival
2020 Q&A Onassis Air artistic research residency program “The school of infinite rehearsals”, invited by Jonian Bisai and Sotiris Tsigkanos.
2018
Artist Talk
George Kazazis’ Class
Invited by Pr. George Kazazis’ in Athens School of Fine arts