Fragments. A Salon of Curiosities in Athens
Part of the closing programme of the SAiR project
Snehta Residency, I. Drosopoulou 47, 112 57 Athens
Curated by: Augustus Veinoglou
Opening: Saturday, 29th of November 2025, 19:00
Public Visiting Hours: Sunday 30 November: 12:00-17:00; Monday 1-Thursday 4 December: 17:00-20:00 (free admission)
The public event Fragments, A Salon of Curiosities will transform the space of Snehta Residency Studio into a living map of the two-year SAiR journey. The Salon gathers material and immaterial traces, sketches, notes, small-scale works, and sculptural gestures created during residencies in Ljubljana, Madrid, Prague, and Athens.
The European project Sustainability is in the Air (SAiR) reaches its conclusion in November 2025 in Athens, hosted by Snehta Residency. Over the past two years, SAiR has developed a circular network of residencies, artistic research, and cross-cultural exchange. This final three-day programme marks the closing chapter of a collaborative cycle connecting MGLC Ljubljana, MeetFactory Prague, Matadero Madrid, and Snehta Residency Athens.
The project reimagines sustainability not as a fixed destination but as an evolving practice of care, continuity, and imagination, a process that sustains artistic thought and collaboration across geographies and time.
The Salon unfolds as a layered, salon-style presentation where fragments of thought, material, and memory intermingle, revealing how artistic processes evolve through exchange and interconnection. Visitors are invited to navigate this constellation of practices, each fragment acting as both a record and a continuation of the relationships built through SAiR.
Participating Artists (SAiR Programme)
The Salon presents works and materials by artists who have taken part in the SAiR programme over the past two years. Together, these artists form the living core of SAiR, each practice an expression of sustainability as relation, reciprocity, and care:
Maria Nikiforaki (Greece) explores performance, film, and choreography as rituals of transformation and feminist myth-making.
Christina Zampoulaki (Greece, USA) investigates living matter and interdependence through installation and video.
Lea Culetto (Slovenia) works with textiles and pop aesthetics to address feminist and social questions.
Small but dangers (Mateja Rojc & Simon Hudolin) (Slovenia) examine collaboration and fragility through sculptural assemblages.
Lenka Kubelová (Czech Republic) creates natural pigments and inks to explore ecological processes and material renewal.
Olga Staňková (Czech Republic) studies the intersections between painting, object, and environment.
Sara García Fernández (Spain) uses food and collective rituals to reflect on hospitality and ecological interconnection.
Adrianna Szojda (Poland, Spain) bridges art, education, and agroecology to imagine post-anthropocentric futures.
Micro-Symposium: Reflections on Artistic Sustainability
(Closed session)
The Micro-Symposium convenes the artists and partner representatives (MGLC Ljubljana, MeetFactory Prague, Matadero Madrid, and Snehta Residency Athens) who have shaped SAiR’s transnational journey. This closed working session will feature the presentation of the SAiR Manual, a collective publication reflecting on methodologies, shared processes, and the ethics of sustainability in artistic practice.
The gathering will offer an opportunity for both self-reflection and collective dialogue, enabling artists to share insights from their residencies while engaging with a selected number of external visitors. Together, participants will exchange knowledge, explore sustainable modes of working, and deepen understanding of how artistic and institutional practices can foster continuity, reciprocity, and care.
Representatives from all partner institutions will engage actively in the discussions, bringing perspectives from their local and international contexts. Alongside Snehta Residency’s curatorial team, they will facilitate sessions on how sustainability can be embodied as artistic, institutional, and social practice.
Press Contact
Snehta Residency I. Drosopoulou 47, 112 57 Athens info@snehtaresidency.org, www.snehtaresidency.org
Tel: +30 6942716064
Co-ordinator: Matina Charalambi
Poster design: Katerina Brouma
