PETER CALLAS, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS & ANNE SCOTT WILSON

Peter Callas, Night's High Noon: An Anti-Terrain, 1988 (video still)

Anne Scott Wilson, Conversation, 2008 (video still)

PETER CALLAS, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and ANNE SCOTT WILSON are included in Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art at the Griffith University Art Gallery. 

Curated by Matthew Perkins, the exhibition features over 60 works from the 1970s through to the present day. This major survey takes the viewer on a historical journey, while at the same time celebrating the ongoing dynamism and depth of video art practice in Australia.

Eugenia Raskopoulos, rootreroot & routreroute, 2016. installation view Tarrawarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation. Photo: Andrew Curtis

The exhibition will run from 30 March - 8 July 2017.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work, 'Untitled 99-00' 1999-2000, features in Let's Talk About Text, a new exhibition curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Miriam Kelly opening as part of Art Month Sydney.

Let's Talk About Text presents works from the Artbank collection that harness text based communication as a pictorial device. From sloganeering statements to vernacular fragments and found fonts, this exhibition focuses on how artists respond to and encourage the visual pleasure of inventive typographic forms for personal and political ends.

The exhibition opens on 16 March 2017, 6-8pm, at Artbank Gallery, 222 Young Street, Waterloo, Sydney.

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Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled 99-00, 1999-2000 (detail), 122 x 122 cm

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A review by Tessa Laird of the TarraWarra Biennial 2016 exhibition Endless Circulation, at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, appears as a key feature on Art Agenda. 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video works within the show are described within the review: 

Eugenia Raskoupolous’ Rootreroot (2016) figures a north/south divide. Above, an olive branch sweeps a perfect clockwise circle into soil; below, the same arm sweeps a native Australian wattle branch counter-clockwise. The aerial perspectives (shot with drones) turn the hermetically sealed loops into an infinity symbol. 

The exhibition continues through to 6 November 2016. 

Read the entire review here. 

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Left: Eugenia Raskopoulos, Rootreroot, 2016, HD digital video, single channel, colour, stereo, 8:45 min. Right: Eugenia Raskopoulos, Routereroute, 2016, murano glass neon, dimensions variable.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is currently on view in the TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation, curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes.

"Eugenia Raskoupolous has created two new works for this exhibition, a video entitled Rootreroot and a neon work entitled Routereroute. In the video we see a woman dragging an olive tree in a clockwise direction in the upper section, and in the lower section the same woman dragging a wattle tree in an anticlockwise direction. The struggle and the labour involved in the gestures are evident in the image, as we follow her slow but determined trajectory around each endless loop. Shot from above using drones, the two circles intertwine at one point, with the shadow of each figure dissolving into the other. At this fleeting intersection, we glimpse a moment of completeness.

In Routereroute, two red neon signs spell out the title of the work, one in Greek (in reference to the artist’s Greek heritage and first language) and one in English. The letters of the Greek words form a larger circle than the English, as if to emphasise the gaps of translation. The emphasis is, rather, on the route, direction or road travelled. Translation never really meets its destination; it is in continuous and endless circulation." - Victoria Lynn

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DANI MARTI / EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

Dani Marti, POINTLESS (arrangement in Gold), 2016, corner cube reflectors and natural crystal beads on aluminium frame, 90 x 90 x 25 cm.

DANI MARTI & EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are included in the exhibition Incandescence at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery. The exhibition explores the materiality of light and how artists use it to reflect on contemporary global culture. The exhibition will run from 1 June to 9 July 2016.

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TurningTime 2015, 2 channel video, 150mins.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS is going to participate in the CEMENTA 2015 Biennial in Kandos NSW. The Biennial will be held from April 9 to 12 celebrating contemporary art in Australia. The work will address the identity, history, and current social, environmental and economic context of the town and the region of Central West NSW.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video work re-mar(ki)ng (2010) is part of a group exhibition titled PP/VT (Performance Presence / Video Time) at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. Video Time explores various genres in performance art through single and dual-screen video works and installations. It will include documentation of live events and performance made exclusively for screen.

The exhibition runs from 1 April - 16 May 2015.

Eugenia Raskopoulos, re-mar(ki)ng, 2010, 2 channel video & sound 5:15 minutes

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS, ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Untitled (figure and pillar), 2015, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100cm x 66.6cm

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS and ANNE ZAHALKA will be part of the exhibition Lines of Force... Space + Displacement in the Sydney College of the Arts Gallery at the University of Sydney. The exhibition presents works by a selection of SCA Alumni whose practice is informed by the key considerations of space and displacement.

The exhibition will run 15 April - 2 May.

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Vestiges #11, 2010-2014, digital pigment print on archival paper, 142 x 105cm.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' exhibition Vestiges has been reviewed in Robert Nelson's article, Artists pay tribute to the nameless in The Age. Nelson's latest comprehensive review addresses a certain recurrent theme in the Melbourne art world of late.

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Eugenia Raskopoulos, Vestiges #1, 2010-2014, digital pigment print on archival paper, 142x105cm. 

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Vestiges

13 May – 14 June 2014

ARC ONE Gallery is excited to present Eugenia Raskopoulos’ photographic series, Vestiges, from which she won the 2012 Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award with the work Vestiges #3.  

In Vestiges, Raskopoulos has photographed carefully kept pieces of material and wrapping – plastic, paper and fabric – used to wrap gifts given to her over her years of birthday celebrations from 2010 to 2014. The series of twelve archival digital prints illustrates a ritualistic and physical connection between giver and receiver, as well as a sense of emptiness; of roles played out, of things been and gone. Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, refers to the photographs as records of ‘soft violence’ - ‘an act of destruction that is inflected by tenderness’ while Raskopoulos unwraps her gifts.  Within these images, we are left with a strange yet familiar vessel, imprinted with Raskopoulos’ touch and testament to a moment past. In its capture, each piece of decorative refuse becomes an object that hangs in a state of temporal logic.

Raskopoulos has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including, Read your Lips, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2013); footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2012); Words Are Not Hard – Intrude 366, Project Zendai MoMA, China (2008), and Writing Towards Disappearance, at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne (2009).  

Raskopoulos has also participated in various group exhibitions such as Image Anxiety/Ansiedad Visual, PhotoEspana, Spain (2012); Light Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012); Group Exhibition, William Wright Artist Projects Space, Sydney (2011); How We Know that the Dead Return, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2010); Mirror Mirror Then and Now, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2010) and Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2008). In 2007, Raskopoulos’ work was shown in Nightcomers at the 10th International Istanbul Biennale.

In 2012 Raskopoulos was awarded the Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award for her work, Vestiges #3. In 2010 and 2009 Raskopoulos was a finalist for the Albury City National Photography Prize and the Redlands Westpac Prize respectively. In 2006 she received a MoMA scholarship for The Feminist Future conference from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Raskopoulos has also been the recipient of a number of grants from the Australia Council.

Raskopoulos’ work is in Australian and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Artbank Collection; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece; Polaroid Corporation Australia; Bodo University, Norway; Malmo University, Sweden; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; Groningen Hochschule University, Netherlands.  Raskopoulos’ works are also held in private collections in Australia, Greece, China, Switzerland and the USA. 

For all enquiries contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, alongside Peter E. Charuk and Garry Trinh are exhibiting in Summer Season 2014, opening Friday 29 November at The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. The night's proceedings will be opened by curator, Tony Nolan, followed by guest speaker Suhanya Raffel, Director of Collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The exhibition will be open from 30th November 2013 - 16th February 2014.

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Eugenia Raskopoulos, installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA, 2010.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been shortlisted in the National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum. The Biennial acquisitive award highlights the enduring importance of self-portraiture as an artistic subject and contributes to create a National Collection of Artists' self-portraits. The award's theme for this year is remix. post. connect., and will be judged by Blair French (Assistant Director, Curatorial & Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art). The exhibition opens on Friday 18 October 2013. 

Exhibition Dates: 19 October – 16 February 2014

Public Program: Saturday 19 October 2014, artists in conversation with Samantha Littley. 

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IMANTS TILLERS / JANET LAURENCE / EUGENIA RASKOPUOLOS /JULIE RRAP / GUAN WEI / JOHN YOUNG / ANNE ZAHALKA

Imants Tillers, The White Tree, 203 x 177.8 cm, Acrylic, gouache on 40 canvas boards

Janet Laurence, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Julie Rrap, Imants Tillers, Guan Wei, John Young and Anne Zahalka are featured in an impressive exhibition called Collective Identity(IeS): This is That Time at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (NSW) 

The exhibition, curated by Lisa Corsi, examines how we define our interests as a society through the practice of art-collecting and particularly looking at the role played by private collectors in shaping notions of an Australian collective cultural identity.

The exhibition will be open until 17 November 2013

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Eugeina Raskopoulos, Diglossia, pure pigment print on archival paper, 140 x 93.5cm.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS is in the running for The University of Queensland’s Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2013, remix.post.connect. The show runs from 19 October through to 16 February 2014, and explores the artists’ impulse to often manipulate aspects of self, through a range of media and various approaches that do not always conform to traditional notions of self-portraiture.

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As part of Federation Square's creative program, presented by dLUX Media Arts, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' film Waiting for Lass will at various times be showing on the big screen on Fed Square througout all of April 2013. 

The artists in the program have been hand picked with an aim to showcase Australian video art publicly and in a large format.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN / EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN, LACHLAN PETRAS and EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are all included in the July - September 2012 issue of Art Collector.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has also been curated into Image Anxiety,  curated by Huang Du and forms part of the Official Section of PHotoEspaña that, under the artistic direction of Gerardo Mosquera, will explore the curatorial theme From Here. Context and Internationalization. 

This exhibition will be produced by the Fundación Telefónica and hosted at the Comunidad de Madrid / Sala Alcalá 31 from June 3 to July 22, 2012, in the context of PHotoEspaña, Madrid´s International Photography and Visual Arts Festival.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has won the prestigious 2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast Art Gallery with her work Vestiges #3.  

Guest judge Kon Gouriotis commented;

"I kept on returning to Eugenia Raskopoulos 'Vestiges' photograph because of the poetic transformation that was occurring, especially the experimentation with texture and the sculptural potential of the materials."

March 31 - May 13, 2012 

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.  

Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. 

23 March - 16 September, NGV

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting a new video installation titled footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.  Footnotes addresses ideas of sexuality, gender and communication through the performing body. The exhibition opens 6pm Wednesday, February 22 and continues until 13 May, 2012.  

"The artist has in the past used steam, salt, oil and chalk as a means to smear, score and drip words into temporary formations that emphasise the fluidity of language. In her new video installation footnotes, she turns to materials that relate more directly to ideas of sexuality and gender – from lipstick to liquids of more ambiguous origins.

Using her own limbs as instruments or surfaces for inscription, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, written in English and Greek. Through these gestures, she draws attention to translation as an awkward exchange that is shaped by the potential for loss or contamination of meaning.

The performing body is an insistent presence in footnotes, emphasising written and spoken communication as inherently bodily functions. However, in evoking the slippage between different languages and juxtaposing this with references to sexuality and the erotic, Raskopoulos also alludes to aspects of experience that are beyond words." AGNSW

Join Professor Anne Marsh and Eugenia in a discussion of the exhibition and the artist’s practice at 6.30pm Wednesday 22 February, 2012.   

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