The Team
Sana López Abellán
Curator
Sana is a Dutch/Spanish curator, artist and anthropologist based in Catalonia, Spain. Her work is centred around transcending disciplines, oscillating between theory and practice and between the tactile and the symbolic. She has been involved in a variety of exhibition projects in The Netherlands, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Cyprus and Spain as well as coordinating public art commissions for contemporary artists in the United States. Trained in curating at EINA, Barcelona and the Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, she brings her background in anthropology and material culture from Leiden University, The Netherlands, specialising in the relationship between the body and haptic textiles in the Ecuadorian Andes.
Alongside her independent practice, she currently runs Alzueta Gallery´s contemporary art hub Palau de Casavells in the Catalan countryside.
Vassilis Vassiliades
Artistic Director
Vassilis studied Painting at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia
Italy where he graduated in 1996.
Vassilis Vassiliades
Artistic Director
Vassilis studied Painting at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia
Italy where he graduated in 1996.
Michail Elia
Chief Coordinator
Michail Elia is a professional artist. He has shown a variety of works in eight solo and more than forty group shows in Cyprus and abroad. He had also organized many art and art related events the recent years. He lives and works in Larnaca Cyprus.
https://www.facebook.com/artistmichailelia/
Maria Papadopoulou
Head of Marketing & Communications
Event Coordinator
Maria is a marketer and event planner.
She studied in London and holds a Bachelor Degree in Marketing from Middlesex University and two Masters degrees in International Management from Kings University and Investment Management from Cass Business School. After a five-year work experience in Athens in the banking sector she recited in her hometown Larnaca in 2011. She is now the founder and director of WonderDots Ltd offering new age marketing, event planning and project services. Throughout her career she has planned numerous unique and successful events. As an art lover she is excited to be part of the Biennale Team.
Stavri Papadopoulou
Visual Identity
Event Coordinator
Stavri is a freelance set and costume designer for film and theatre productions. She has an MA in Theatre Design from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 2016, Stavri founded Once In a Blue Moon; a creative platform that supports and encourages a new era of creative events and performances in Cyprus. Since then, she has successfully produced, co-directed and designed several site specific, devised performances and experiential events. Stavri was a semi-finalist (top 20) for the Linbury Prize from the National Theater London in 2019. She was also shortlisted as an emerging designer for the World Stage Design 2022 in Calgary, Canada.
www.stavripapa.com / www.onceinabluemoon.eu
Doros Demetriou
Media Coordinator
Doros Demetriou, born in Nicosia in 1970, is a cinema historian, events organizer, and film screenings curator. He's a member of ECFA and elected to the Director’s Board of CIFEJ. Doros manages film screenings and education programs at Cultural Workshop Agion Omologiton, Nicosia, and co-directs the IVAC film festival. He serves as vice-president at the “Fotodos” Photography Club and collaborates with the Ministry of Education and Culture on film education programs. Additionally, he advises at BCEFF in Canada and AEI Film Festival in Cyprus. Doros lectures on Cinema History, studied Cinematherapy, and co-founded the CineTexts webpage. He holds degrees in Electronic Engineering and Visual Theories/Cinema.