ANAMORFICA is dedicated to building atmospheres and experimenting with “what-if” scenarios. It is the studio practice of Marilena Georgantzi, bringing together her work as a visual artist and art director, rooted in narrative space-making and material storytelling.
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BIO
Marilena Georgantzi (b.1987, Athens) is an art director working across theatre and cinema and visual artist. Her practice explores the activation of personal and collective memory — rethinking history as artistic storytelling, a layered system where traces of water, earth strata and human actions intertwine. Her work often takes the form of soft environments created through textile manipulation and printmaking, evoking dense palimpsests, cartographies, and fragmented writings. Marilena has been selected for residencies, artistic and curatorial proposals by renowned institutions and festivals and as a tutor in collective experiences where the importance of women’s often invisible labor and traditional crafts is highlighted ex. All our Horses Duo Show, Cypher Athens 2024, Halle 14, Leipzig, 2023, Centre for Circular Design, UAL, 2022. She has published essays on world-making and the immersive, Dionysian aspect of sound in video games ex. Ambiances Conference, 2020. Marilena’s set design portfolio includes productions like PLAZA (Leipzig Tanztheater, Schauspiel Leipzig, 2024), Teardrop (Stereo Nero Dance Co., supported by the Ministry of Culture, 2023), and 442 or a Game Without a Score (Stereo Nero Dance Co., Onassis Stegi Young Choreographers Festival, 2021; part of Greece’s participation in the Prague Quadrennial, 2023).
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
My practice merges architectural scales with microcosmic detail, industrial findings with natural remnants, unfolding through printmaking, textile manipulation, and fragmented writing. At its core, it explores how material traces hold the memory of what has been silenced or lost.
Echoing Ursula Le Guin’s contention that history should be regarded as artistic storytelling rather than science, I approach terrain as both subject and medium—a layered surface where gestures, organic and inorganic materials, and histories converge. Through imprinting, stitching, and layering, I seek to recover fragments of memory, instinct, and myth, allowing absence, transformation, and reconnection to shape both process and form.
Flow acts as both structural and conceptual force, shaping gestures, compositions, and transitions between the tangible and the imagined. By blending fragility and permanence, rough and smooth textures, archetypal and invented symbols, my practice recomposes the present into a more forgiving and inclusive narrative, voicing silenced perspectives.
CURRENTLY
“LASKARINES”, Costume design, Lofft Theatre, Leipzig, choreography by Vassiliki Bara
“ΑΚΟΥ, ΜΙΚΡΕ”, sets & costumes, Piraeus Municipal Theatre, Memental Theatre Company, directed by Ermis Peristeris
“OFFELIA”, sets & costumes, Shmeio Theatre, directed by Achileas Tsoutsis
FILM PREPRODUCTION
Art Director, Feature Film, dir Christos Pytharas
Art Director, Short Film, dir Achileas Tsoutsis
Art Director & Costumes , Short Film, dir Ioanna Tsilili
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Group exhibition RE-COIL at Open Art Link, organised by Georg Georgakopoulos, keramikos 23 art space & Cheap Art, Piraeus, 22-26.10.2025 with the triptyque “My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line.”, 70x100cm, 2024, curated by Marlena Heidinger
Group exhibition, The deepest Trauma III, 3-17 Oct 2025, ArteVisione Gallery, curated by Nikolena Kalaitzaki-Zouni, with the work “My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line, (III)”, 70x100cm, 2024
Group Exhibition BALKAN STORIES, with the work “South Wind”, 2023, curated by Chrysanthi, 13.06.2024, Plex Athens
Group Exhibition, HEART OF CHANGE, with the work My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line. (II), curated by Sophie Mudri, 70x100cm, May 2025, Plex Athens
Group exhibition Drawspace at OASIS Space, Cyprus, 12.04.2025 with the works “South Wind”, 2023 & “Everyday I Scratch a Little Bit of You”, 2024, curated by Christina Papakyriakou
Group exhibition SOLACE, PLYFA Space, 16.03.2025 with the work “Excavate, Removed (I)”, 2024, curated by Elina Liosi & Chrysanthi
Group exhibition SOLACE, Romantso Exhibition Space, 21-27.03.2025 with the work “Excavate, Removed (I)”, 2024, curated by Chrysanthi
DUO SHOW, ALL OUR HORSES, with Nagore Chivite curated by Isavella Kladaki, CYPHER ATHENS, Nagore’s participation is supported by Culture Moves Europe, 11/12/24-05/01/25
EVERY DAY I LOOK AT YOU WITH DIFFERENT EYES, EVERYDAY I SEE IN YOU SOMETHING DIFFERENT in the group exhibition HYPERBOREALIS, in the lighthouse of Berlevag, Norway, curated by Hyperborealis, result of a residency supported by GOETHE Institut, 05/24-09/24
C R A C K S, textile and print site specific installation, in HALLE 14 open hall, as a result of the exchange Program Thessaloniki – Leipzig in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, supported by Stadt Leipzig, LEIZPIG August 2023
ALL THAT SHE WANTED TO SAY, audio piece, broadcasted as part of the Feminist Frequencies Program, Mushroom Radio, KABK The Hague Radio, March 2022, presented at Toolkits of Care Roundtable, Vienna, COST program, October 2023
HAUNT ME, artistic & interative installation, in PALIMPSEST an invisible museum spread in the centre of Ioannina, based on local oral stories as a part of an interactive outdoor museum, Curators Xenophon Bitsikas, Polyxeni Mantzou
Project supported by the European Regional Development Fund, 2020
Memory Overlay wearable interactive prototype with new media artist Afroditi Psarra, at Hybrids: On the borderline between Art and Technology, exhibition at Onassis Cultural Centre by OCC & Ars Electronica, 2017, Curator Manuela Naveau
Space.Event.Move., 3d visual and concept text, in MC REDUX, concepts for Maison Crystal, Curators K&K Architects, 50th edition of DIMITRIA Festival, 2015
London Festival of Architecture 2014, Deputy Director, Moira Lascelles, TEAZen, shortlisted interactive prototype with Alessia Girardi, 2014
IMPAKT Festival 2014 in Utrecht, 1 of 5 shortlisted, Curatorial Proposal Competition on soft machines titled “SOFT IN PROGRESS” with Nota Tsekoura, 2014
PUBLIC SPACE IN PROGRESS, P-Public,
Winning Entry, Installation “…In and out of the fortress” for the Parallel Events Venue, Chania Crete, 2013
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RESEARCH
Experimental and decolonial practices in poetry, literature, and printed matter part of “TOOLKITS OF CARE”, a Cost funded Project enabling creative technology to form a “critical network of care”, training school, presenting the project ALL THAT SHE WANTED TO SAY
CORAL-ITN summer school, speaker “Managing a hub, challenges and prospects”, Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network (2021-2024) EU Horizon 2020 funded project
Ambassador of shemakes_eu Horizon 2020 project, selected to represent the values and activities of shemakes which aims to empower future female innovators of the sustainable
fashion industry through inspiration, skills, networks.
Participating in research and evaluating tasks. Selected to travel for tutoring the activities “Gender Futures” and “Gender Visions” to Center for Circular Design, UAL, London with Sanne Visser.
https://www.shemakes.eu/network/people/marilena-georgantzi
Consultant in POP MACHINA Horizon 2020 project, which focuses on environmental sustainability, circular economy and the maker movement, as a maker champion and city’s representative, receiving training from IAAC Barcelona, the Pop Machina Business Accelarator and as a consultant, tutor and mentor of the Piraeus Municipality Makers Lab.
https://pop-machina.eu/pilots/piraeus
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PUBLICATIONS
“Playable Sound. Hauntology in Bioshock, a Video Game for a lost future.”
co-authored with Polyxeni Mantzou, 4th International Ambiances Network Congress, entitled “Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds”, 2020
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SELECTED SET DESIGN/ART DIRECTION EXPERIENCE
member of the Production Designers Collective https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/members
“BLUR”, art direction, third feature film of Christos Pytharas, Art Renegade Productions
“CINEFILLE”, production & costume design, directed by Tonia Sakelaropoulou, Jan 2025, film diploma for FILMSCHOOL seminar
“OUR LITTLE ACT OF REBELLION”, production design, directed by Ranw Ano Rashid, AR Studios London, July 2024
“PLAZA”, Leipziger Tanztheater, choreography by Clara Sjolin, Schauspielhaus Leipzig, June 2024
“‘PSILIKA”, site specific performance by STEREO NERO DANCE CO, supported by the Ministry of Culture, June 2024
“The Teardrop”, artistic curation, set and mask design and construction, site specific performance in Ottoman Baths Chios as part of the All of Greece, One culture festival supported by the ministry of culture, August 2023
CAFF Game Changer, event design, entrance and booth design with Olga Brouma, Filmiki Event productions, June 2023
Window Design for Yannis Sergakis Flaghsip store and Paris pop up store in Le Bon Marché, Nov 2022-January 2023 with Athina Pavlou Benazi
Cringαρέ To, Production Design for the online game of WHAT’S UP, Cosmote mobile network operator, KISS THE FROG production company, SOCIAL LAB agency
Mölnlycke M.O.I.S.T. conference, Athens, October 2022, set design and booth design with SOCIAL LAB agency
“Bouboulina Untold”, director Ourania Papanikolaou, On Off Festival 2022, Epi Kolono Theatre
video clip “The rapture” by Fotis Siotas, director Dimitris Zivopoulos, United We Fly production company, 2021
“442, or a game without score” by StereoNeroDanceCo, Festival of New Choreographers 8, Onassis Stegi, central stage, 2021
“KWAIDAN” by StereoNeroDanceCo, Arc for Dance Festival, production funded by the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture and Sports, 2020
360 Events Company, set designer for events, AIA workshop 2020 (winning entry in private competition), AIA Hackathon 2019 (winning entry in private competition), OPAP events, 3E Hellas events, 2019
“Vocal Passions” by StereoNeroDanceCo,
Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2019
“Dalga” full length version by StereoNeroDanceCo, space modification of a reception center, production funded by the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture and Sports,n 2018
“Dalga” by StereoNeroDanceCo, Arc for Dance Festival, production funded by the Hellenic Ministry Of Culture and Sports, 2017
“Beyond Collapse” by StereoNeroDanceCo, HAUTSCENE festival, 2017
Art Direction, commercials for brands
Anytime autumn 2024, Digital Campaign, Social Lab Agency, Kiss the Frog Productions
Alumil, Kiss the Frog Productions, May 2023
Cyta Vodafone Cyprus, Kiss the Frog productions, June 2022
Eurobank, digital campaign, photography by Kostis Sohoritis, May 2024
Assistant Set Designer, multiple commercials for brands ex. Everyday, Violife, Plaisio Stores, LIDL Hellas, Septona, Praktiker etc, 2021-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6dudcaskoU&ab_channel=ViolifeFoods
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Assistant Art Director, “Voices in Deep” feature film, director Jason Raftopoulos, Arcadia production company alongside Australia’s Exile Entertainment, 2021
Assistant Art Director, “Super” short film, director Nikos Kouloglou, Modiano TopCut 2021
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TUTOR/LECTURER
Speaker in the panel “Sea of Plastics: A dialogue on Digital Art, Ecology, and Heritage” 28.01.2025 by ADAF in the context of CO-VISION: Art for Nature Creative Europe Program
Tutor in ADAF Festival along with Iason Giraud, “The Carrier Bag Alchemy, Crafting Meaning from Material” a workshop
exploring the concepts of gathering, holding, and transforming
Invited Lecturer, Introduction to Cultural Management, Panteion University, “The case of indepedent theater”
GENDER FUTURES, CCD, UAL, in the framework of shemakes HORIZON 2020, 3h workshop on speculative design with Graduate Diploma Textile Design UAL students, 2022
GENDER VISIONS, CCD, UAL, in the framework of shemakes HORIZON 2020, 3h workshop with leading female researchers and practitioner in the textile field, with Sanne Visser, 2022
BRIGHT ORIGAMI, 3h workshop on origami art and flexible circuits, ADAF online, with Daphne Arnellou, 2021
GREEN BATTERY, 3h workshop on sustainability, biomaterials and circularity, ADAF online, with Daphne Arnellou, 2021
TECHNO ARMOR, 6h workshop on speculative design, world building and wearable technologies, with Daphne Arnellou, 2020
INTERACTIVE TEXTILES, 8h workshop for 6th grade students on conductuve textile materials and soft interfaces, organised by LOCUS Athens, supported by Ministry of Culture and Sports
WEAR A SENTIMENT, 3h workshop on soft embodied interfaces and memories, ADAF, with Evi Souli, 2017
WEARABLE NARRATIVES, 12h workshop on story telling, performance and wearable technlogies, in the framework of the exhibition HYBRIDS: On the borderline between Art and Technology, by the Onassis Stegi in collaboration with Ars Electronica, with Afroditi Psarra and Evi Souli, 2016
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SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
A&M Architects, Architect & Interior Architect, 2016-2019, Main Projects, SPACES by IWG Co-Working Spaces Ermou, Solonos, Green Plaza, Bucharest, Gold Award on Interior Design Awards 2020
OPAP HQs Detail Design & Building Permit (constructed), PepsiCO Athens Offices Concept Design (winning entry), Renovation of Facades & Landscape of Property of a Real Estate investement company in Athens (restricted material, winning entry)
A31 Architecture & Construction, Architect, 2015-2016, Main Projects,
Dove Mykonos Resort Developement
AA-Associates Architects & Engineers, Architect, 2013, “OXIA” island development
MATTEO CAINER ARCHITECTS, Architectural Assistant, 2013, Apartment and Retail Interior Design
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EDUCATION
HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY, 2020
School of Applied Arts, Master in Graphic Design & Multimedia Art
dissertation on “Atmospheres and Video Games”, 10/10
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA, 2012
Master in Advanced Architecture, Digital Tectonics,
funded by the states scholarship foundation of Greece,
thesis on 3D printing with concrete in 1:1 scale
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, 2010
Diploma in Architecture, Greece, GPA: 8.87/10,
14th among 176 graduates of the year 2010, diploma project “Shelter for abused Women in Drapetsona”
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE
DE PARIS LA VILLETTE, 2009
Erasmus program, funded by the states scholarship foundation of Greece.
Participation in two workshops organised by ENSA Paris La Villette and Belleville,
ephemeral land art & on site construction with recycled materials.
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Creating Atmospheres 