{"id":11865,"date":"2021-10-06T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:51:27","slug":"nikolas-ventourakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/nikolas-ventourakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikolas Ventourakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8144\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11865-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NikolasVentourakis.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NikolasVentourakis.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NikolasVentourakis.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_11867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11867\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11867 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=820%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 820w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1229%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1639%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1639w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C870&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1334&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?resize=336%2C420&amp;ssl=1 336w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Portrait-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div>Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. A quest that unfolds in the decisive years of the digital revolution, when a crucial overlap between producers and viewers seems to have reset all previous critical discourses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Central to Ventourakis&#8217;s visual work is a denial for a one-way resolution and an invitation to embrace an ambiguous imagery, where the photographic is not yet real, and the familiar is a projection of a mix of memory &#8211; stemming from both private and media experiences &#8211; with abstract thinking. Ventourakis\u2019 fascination lies in our need for stories to be conclusive, which cannot but clash with the impossibility for apparent pictures to provide any evidence nor &#8220;objective truth&#8221;. This is why his work allows for bias and misinterpretation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and is a fellow in New Museum\u2019s IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, D\u00fcsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18, the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale , Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou, and The Same River Twice, at the Benaki Museum. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency in Kavala, and is co-curator of the project \u201cA Hollow Place\u201d in Athens. He is a 2020 Stavros Niarchos Artworks Fellow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book mentioned in the interview at the end is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foundation_(Asimov_novel)\">Foundation<\/a> by Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Current Exhibitions mentioned: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miscathens.com\/exhibitions\">Tell Me I Belong<\/a> group show and <a href=\"https:\/\/thf.gr\/en\/events\/betwixt-and-between-antonis-theodoridis-amp-nikolas-ventourakis\/\">Betwixt and Between<\/a>. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miscathens.com\/exhibitions\">https:\/\/www.miscathens.com\/exhibitions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">To earn more about the Band that we discussed at the end of the interview, click here and see the video below; <a href=\"https:\/\/ramdat.bandcamp.com\/\">RAMDAT<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/528337471?h=9002c59d43\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/528337471\">Unlikely Outcomes: An Improvision<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user35378757\">NIKOLAS VENTOURAKIS<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11868\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11868 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=640%2C489&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=1024%2C782&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=768%2C586&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=696%2C531&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=1068%2C815&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?resize=550%2C420&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_02.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikolas Ventourakis, XX. \u201cIt was a Good Sunday as far as I remember it\u201d, 2021, mounted on Dibond, in artist\u2019s frame, 80 cm x 100 cm. Installation shot from Tell Me I Belong Exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11869\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ventourakis_Image_01.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikolas Ventourakis, IX. interior false memory composition &#8211; left 2019, inkjet print on baryta archival paper, mounted on Dibond, artist\u2019s frame, 125x85cm (120x80cm print) Installation shot from Unlikely Outcomes.Exhibtion*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NikolasVentourakis.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. 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