Nikolas Ventourakis
Ventourakis’ practice situates itself at the threshold between art and document, constituting an attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. In 2013, he completed the MA in Fine Art (Photography, with distinction) at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL). In 2015 he was a visiting artist at California Institute of the Arts with a Fulbright Artist Fellowship, while in 2016 he was a fellow in IdeasCity Athens, an initiative organized by the New Museum of New York. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency in Kavala and a co-curator of the project “A Hollow Place” in Athens.
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