About us
GesamtAtelier is a company founded in London by Kyriaki Nasioula & Argyris Angeli, who collaborate on interdisciplinary and intermedia performance projects.
Inspired by a play on the word “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art) and atelier, they create pieces which break the boundaries of several domains, media and genres, such as contemporary dance, fine art, architecture, design, sound composition, video, performance art and interactive digital media.
Stimulating their creativity they early felt the need to compose beyond a predetermined creative field. Thus, each work proposes a unique poetic universe where they wish to narrate the function of the cosmos through an ensemble of bodies, materials and creative mediums by studying all the possible ways of their relation and interaction.
In 2024 they presented “4 + ENA’, a function of dance and science at Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, which was initiated during Experiment A interdisciplinary residency at Flux Laboratory Athens. Focusing on testimonies, stories and bonds between people, they staged the intermedia dance performance “LOOM”, an interpretation of the art of weaving, produced by the Athens Concert Hall in 2022. In 2021, they created the Augemented Reality Application DANCEWALK, a pilot innovative digital work for Athens’ archaeological sites and the architecture and dance research project ARCHIDANCE. The company’s work is taking place under the auspices and the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
For each creation, the collaborators involved intertwine their professional experience, their academic and artistic research, creating a composition of their practices. GesamtAtelier adapts to the nature of each project having designed performances, exhibitions, installations, and workshops in the United Kingdom (Whitechapel Gallery, Truman Brewery, Watermans Arts Centre, Michaelis Theatre Roehampton University, UK Young Artists National Festival, Architectural Association), Austria (Architecture Centre Vienna MQ), Poland (4th Biennial of Interior Design Krakow) and Cyprus (1st Larnaca Biennial).
Argyris Angeli
FINE Art - PERFORMANCE - Architecture - Education
Argyris is an artist, architect, academic and co-director of GesamtAtelier, born in Nicosia. Having received a student grant by the State Scholarship Foundations of Greece and Cyprus, he graduated with honours from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), acquiring a Bachelor and MSc in Architecture Engineering. He further earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an educational grant from the A. G. Leventis Foundation. He completed his studies at the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio, Master of Fine Arts in Spatial Performance and Design with a bursary award and graduating with distinction.
His interdisciplinary body of work incorporates sculpture, fibres art, installations, as well as video, participatory and performance art. He investigates the plasticity of human identities, perceptions, and interactions as they morph within thresholds of transitional states. He has participated in exhibitions, performances, socially engaged art projects, residencies, and competitions in USA and Europe, with award winning pieces. As a member of the art collaborative “Collective Cleaners” he was involved in projects at the Jane Adams Hull-House Museum, Columbia College and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
As a designer his practice spans from exhibition design for the Field Museum Chicago, to freelance work as a performative costume and structures designer, interior architect, and graphic designer.
As an academic, Argyris is currently a Studio Master at the MA/MFA in Spatial Performance and Design programme of the AA Interprofessional Studio delivering tutorials, workshops and seminars. He has been a part of the team of the School of Art, Design and Performance at the Buckinghamshire New University. He had the role of the Course Leader of the BA(Hons) Interior and Spatial Design programme and a tutor of Fine Arts at the Diploma in Foundation Studies programme. He has previously taught for the First Year of the AA School of Architecture, the Interior Architecture & Design and Fine Art courses at the University of Suffolk. In the past Argyris has worked with children and teenagers teaching fine art, architecture, and design to the Continuing Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and leading the Design & Make workshops at the Hive, London.
Kyriaki Nasioula
Choreography - Dance - production - Architecture - education
Choreographer and architect engineer, Kyriaki sculpts dance as a constantly transforming space. In GesamtAtelier, she composes vibrating ephemeral universes made of movement, transformative spatial installations, digital interactive media, materials and objects. Wishing to share a space of co-existence, her work incorporates the audience’s engagement as one of the materials which is often composed together with the performative elements, proposing each time a new intermedia universe that seeks to be discovered.
Her creative process is a lab where the body is in the centre and her collaborators perform as researchers who discover the variety of its textures, dimensions and meanings. Choreographing as an architect, her work is an invitation to live together a bodily experience, to inhabit a space where all the mediums perform as bodies in movement, to immerse to a visual environment in levitation.
She has been trained in dance at Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and in architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (MSc) and TU Berlin, supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKKY). Combining both disciplines, she completed the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Spatial Performance and Design (distinction), with a double Architectural Association Bursary as an exceptional candidate. She currently work for the programme as a Studio Master, while teaching her practice.
As a dancer she has collaborated with Sasha Waltz and Guests, among others.
She has taught architecture, choreography and interdisciplinary composition at various universities in the UK. She also works as a set designer, costume designer and production manager. She has received the i-portunus fund of the Creative Europe program and the One Dance UK Observership Award 2017. In 2022 she attended the workshop Capital Connections, held by Eleusis 2023 | European Capital of Culture.