PANAYOTIS KRAVVARIS
Film Director
NEON is a nonprofit organisation that works to bring contemporary culture closer to everyone. It is committed to broadening the appreciation, understanding, and creation of contemporary art in Greece and to the firm belief that this is a key tool for growth and development. NEON, founded in 2013 by collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos, breaks with the convention that limits the contemporary art foundation of a collector to a single place. It acts on a multitude of initiatives, spaces, and civic and social contexts. It seeks to expose the ability contemporary art has to stimulate, inspire, and affect the individual and society at large. NEON constructively collaborates with cultural institutions and supports the programs of public and private institutions to enhance increased access and inventive interaction with contemporary art.
SIGHT an unprecedented site-specific exhibition by British artist Antony Gormley. It marks the first time that a contemporary art exhibition is held on Delos, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, since the sacred island was first inhabited more than five thousand years ago.
Gormley repopulates the island of Delos with iron ’bodyforms’, restoring a human presence and creating a journey of potential encounters. He has installed 29 sculptures made during the last twenty years, including 5 new works specially commissioned by NEON, both at the periphery and integrated amongst Delos’s archaeological sites. Curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery and Elina Kountouri, Director, NEON.
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Camera: Panayotis Kravvaris, George Charisis
Drone Operator: George Charisis
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas, Yorgos Potagas
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
The Artist on the Composer is the pioneering programme run by the Greek National Opera and NEON that connects contemporary artists with classical music and opera since 2019. For its third iteration the programme commissions Ioanna Pantazopoulou to create an immersive installation where visual art and music invite the audience to discover a magical, fairytale world. A Summer Evening is a suspended installation consisting of 135 sculptures that disappear and reappear in a meticulously choreographed sequence, accompanied by the thirty-six-minute music score Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) by contemporary American composer #GeorgeCrumb performed live by Nikos Kyriosoglou and Stefanos Thomopoulos (amplified piano) as well as Kazuyo Tsunehiro, Kostas Argyropoulos (percussion).
:: A SUMMER EVENING ::
22, 23, 24 September 2023
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Sound Recording: Theofilos Botonakis
Sound Mixing: Spyros Tsitsis
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
For a second consecutive year, NEON activated the emblematic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory as part of its collaboration with the Hellenic Parliament to present Dream On, a contemporary art exhibition that celebrates art in the public space. Curated by Dimitris Paleocrassas, Art historian and consultant of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Dream On brought together 18 large-scale installations from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection by Greek and international artists, as well as a newly commissioned work, and 20 drawings. The exhibition followed the announcement of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift, presenting some of the most important works of the Collection which were donated to 4 museums in 3 countries over 2 continents (EMST, Tate, and jointly to the Guggenheim and MCA Chicago). This is the first time that a crucial mass of the large-scale works of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection were exhibited in Greece, gathered in the open, freely accessible space of the former Public Tobacco Factory.
:: DREAM ON ::
Hellenic Parliament + NEON
former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens
08 June - 27 November 2022
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Sound Mixing - Recording: Spyros Tsitsis
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
On 11 June 2021, the emblematic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory opened its doors for the first time, introducing a new contemporary cultural centre in Athens, open to all. Its inaugural exhibition Portals | Πύλη presented 59 artists from 27 countries and was organized by NEON as result of its collaboration with the Hellenic Parliament. Portals is curated by Elina Kountouri, Director of NEON, and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
:: PORTALS | ΠΥΛΗ ::
Hellenic Parliament + NEON
former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens
11 June - 31 December 2021
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas, Panayotis Papaporfyriou, Yorgos Potagas,
Theofilos Botonakis
Music: Stavros Gasparatos
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
NEON completed the restoration and refurbishment of the former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library and Printing House. Financed by NEON and gifted back to Parliament for public use, this ambitious restoration project aims to make part of the historic building stand out as a permanent contemporary cultural and social space – open to all.
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas
Music: Stavros Gasparatos
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
NEON and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival present a newly commissioned site-specific installation by Greek artist Dionisis Kavallieratos at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens. The exhibition Disoriented dance / Misled planet is part of NEON City Project 2020 and is the first ever contemporary art exhibition to be staged in this ancient venue situated below the Acropolis.
Curated by Polina Kosmadaki, Art Historian & Curator, Benaki Museum, Athens.
:: NEON City Project 2020 ::
Dionisis Kavallieratos Disoriented dance / Misled planet
NEON in collaboration with the Athens &
Epidaurus Festival Odeon of Herodes Atticus
5 June - 3 July 2020
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Cinematography: Fanis Karas
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas
Music: Stavros Gasparatos
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
The Palace at 4 a.m. is a contemporary group exhibition inspired by the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos and the work of one of the great masters of our times, The Palace at 4 a.m. (1932) by Alberto Giacometti.
Just as Delos once brought people from across the ancient world, The Palace at 4 a.m. features a global roster of thirteen artists who give a contemporary form to ancient materials and symbols.
Exhibiting artists: Lynda Benglis, Haris Epaminonda, Simone Fattal, Petrit Halilaj, Ian Law, Maria Loizidou, Daria Martin, Duro Olowu, Zohra Opoku, Rena Papaspyrou, Stefania Strouza, Barthélémy Toguo and Paloma Varga Weisz.
The Palace at 4 a.m. | Group exhibition
Archaeological Museum of Mykonos 17 May – 31 October 2019
Curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery and
Elina Kountouri, Director, NEON
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Cinematography: Dimitris Stambolis
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
Artist Lynda Benglis and Dr. David Anfam discuss about the artist's work and the exhibition In the Realm of the Senses organised and presented by NEON at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens.
Devoted to Lynda Benglis’s highly original and prolific output in diverse media, the exhibition In the Realm of the Senses is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in a country that has played a major role in her life and vision: Greece.
Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses
NEON at the Museum of Cycladic Art
22 November 2019 – 15 March 2020
Curated by Dr. David Anfam
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Cinematography: Dimitris Stambolis
Sound Recording: Yannis Antipas
Music: "Transmission Gate" by Jody Jenkins
Producer: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
HENRY MOORE AND GREECE
September 12–October 26, 2024
Athens
ALBERT OEHLEN Exhibition
Works on Paper and a Sculpture
June 9–August 20, 2022
Athens
GIUSEPPE PENONE Exhibition
Impronte di corpi nell’aria / Bodies Imprinted in the Air
September 16–November 27, 2021
Athens
Direction - Cinematography: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing - Color Grading: George Charisis
Check our videos:
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2024/henry-moore-and-greece/
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/albert-oehlen-works-on-paper-and-a-sculpture/
Ostracon was formed through the constant effort of a few multidisciplinary academic background individuals to merge innovation, entrepreneurship as well as concise and scientifically proven engineering disciplines in order to expand the the business potential that the health sector holds in the Greek market.
Nowadays, Ostracon is comprised of academically active individuals in diverse scientific fields such as biomechanical engineering, medical electronics, therapeutic ultrasound and remote patient monitoring in addition to a creative and highly competent salesforce.
AEK FC uses Ostracon equipment: Indiba Activ and Game Ready!
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Cinematography: Fanis Karas
Editing: George Charisis
In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (www.SNF.org) announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), a project that includes the construction and complete outfitting of new facilities for the National Library of Greece (NLG) and the Greek National Opera (GNO), as well as the creation of the 210,000 m² Stavros Niarchos Park.
Education and culture are the backbone of any advanced society. In funding the SNFCC, the Foundation’s vision is to provide the country and the city with the new institutional foundations it needs to move forward and with a framework for the future. Education, culture and sustainability, the SNFCC’s three main elements, are essential requirements in enhancing the potential of the city and its people and placing them within a twenty first century global context.
Discover behind-the-scenes the installation process of Louise Bourgeois’s monumental sculpture Maman (1999), on display at the SNFCC’s Esplanade until November 6th 2022. In collaboration with NEON.
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Editing and Color Grading: George Charisis
Drone Operator: George Charisis
Sound Recording: Theofilos Botonakis and Panayotis Papaporfyriou
Sound Mixing: Spyros Tsitsis
Produced by: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
This is the video of the open discussion between Gilbert & George and Michael Bracewell, commissioned by SNFCC, in January 2018.
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Cinematography: Fanis Karas
Camera: Panayotis Kravvaris, Fanis Karas, Nikos Psaras
Sound: Theofilos Botonakis
Editing: Michalis Trolias
Produced by: Lilette Botassi - Inkas Productions
The State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), founded in 1951, has a long history in contributing to the promotion of Education, Sciences, Arts, Languages and Hellenic Civilisation.
In the Framework of its activities, IKY plans and implements annually thirty (30) scholarship programmes both in Greece and abroad and is since 2014 the Erasmus+ National Agency.
In 2012, the Foundation celebrated the 60+1 years of existence at Zappeion Megaron Hall. This is the video we made for IKY.
Direction: Panayotis Kravvaris
Cinematography: Dimitris Stambolis
Editing: Nikos Gavalas
Sound recording: Aris Athanasopoulos
Sound mixing: Panos Angelothanassis