Eleana Louka
www.eleanalouka.co.uk
eleanalouka@hotmail.com
+44 (0) 07722653475
E11 1BS London UK
Profile Working within the scope of Images that can be found online
Eleana Louka suggests links and newly established entities that reflect
on the potential structures of meaning within photographic surface and a
medium that can evade our scrutiny and in depth understanding. Not only
does the digital resist traditional methodology of experimentation and
observation as the basis of knowledge, it also boasts vast capacities of
reproduction, scale, quantity, position and storage. Adding to that, the
loose, anarchist structure of the Internet as the primary digital platform,
poses a new challenge: Can it promote Global Communication and Democracy
within a context of crisis, returning nationalism and growing social
tension? Trying to reconsider the doctrines of Luhmann within the broader
theory of Mediology, the work explores the potential of interactivity, the
inherited vocabulary of Modernism and the tradition of the avant-guard.
Education
2008-2009 Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Media
MA Image & Communication. Grade: Distinction 76/100
2005-2006 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
MA Fine Art. Grade: First 70/100
1999-2005 Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Fine Art Department
BA Art & Design. Grade: Distinction 8.5/10
2003-2004 Student Exchange Program to Hamburger Hochschule fur Bildente Kunst, Germany.
Duration: Six months, Proffessor: Michael Ligner, Franz Erhard Walter
Artist’s Assistant
2006-2010 I have worked as assistant for Artist/Curator David Goldenberg for a number of
projects
2010 A discussion on Reasonance FM on the role of Biennials and large European Art Fairs
based on the text by Oliver Marchart ‘Hegemonie Kunstfeld: Die documenta-Ausstellungen
dX, D11 , d12 und die Politik der Binnalisierung’
2009 Mobile Documenta, Fordham Gallery, London, UK
2008 DTN Pt 2, Artists anonymous, A-foundation, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2010 Threads, Tank Gallery, London
Show comprising of works responding to each of the participating
Artists’ work. Cornelia Baltes David Goldenberg, Eleana Louka,
Sascha Mikloweitand Nikos Varitimiadis
2009 Dynamo
Series of six Art Exhibitions organized by Dynamo Projects, Thessaloniki,
Greece
2009 Going Youth Festival
Art Festival at Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2009 Graduation Show
Goldsmiths University of London, the Old Truman Brewery, Brick
Lane, London
2009 Kollective22
Goldsmiths Gallery, New Cross, London
2009 Take Away
Show at the Mansion of Lord Edward Davenport in Regent St, London
2008 In Transition Russia
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (16 October-16 November)
National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russian Federation
(28 November- 21 December)
2007 Creekside Open
Exhibition selected by Victoria Miro at the APT Gallery
2007 Private Prop
Curated by Ingrid Feat, The Residence Gallery, Hackney,London
2007 Banal Circus
Curated by Anne-Laure Ponsin, Novas Gallery, London
2007 ACTART 5
Curated by Oliver Frost and Oliver Massive, Arches Club (XXL
Club), London Bridge
2006 Red Wire Open
Curated by Josh Tennant, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool
2006 Now or Neverland
Curated by Ingrid Feat, The Residence Gallery, Hackney, London
2006 Xhibit Show
Curated by Ronan Hughton, The Hub, Davies St, London
2006 Landmark
Curated by Annie Hall, the Lethaby Gallery, Holborn, London
2006 Grduate Show
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
2006 Quick & Dirty
curated by Jeremy Akerman, the Barge House, Oxo Tower, London
2004 New Visual Artists
Teloglion Foundation of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2004 KODRA
Annual Visual Arts Festival at the Former Military Barracks, Directed by Christos Savvidis,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Awards
2007 The Sovereign European Art Price
Chaired by Sir Peter Blake, Club Row, The Rochelle School Buildings, London
Residencies
2008 Can Serrat
Centre of Creative Activities for Artists and Writers, (Full Stipend), Barcelona, Spain
2008 New Life
Wooloo Projects, Berlin Festival, Berlin (short listed)
2007 Bernie Grant Temporary Residence
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham, London (Short Listed)
Publications
2008 In Transition Russia, Catalogue
Paperback: 356 pages – colour Publisher: NeMe;
1st edition (2008)
http://neme-imca.org/678/in-transition-russia-
2008
2007 The Sovereign European Art Prize, Catalogue
Club Row, The Rochelle School Buildings, London
2007 lnside Out Magazine, a new breed of literary
arts magazine
2007 Irk Magazine, sporadic publications
2007 Arteri, Art & Creative Industries Magazine
2006 Graduation Show, Catalogue
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
