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FACULTY

ARCHIVO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

AIKATERINI GEGISIAN


Visual Artist / Researcher, Greece


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and of Armenian descent, Aikaterini Gegisian is a visual artist, filmmaker, educator, and researcher whose practice is rooted in image-making. Working across collage, film, photography, installation, and textile design, her work engages a feminist re-reading of optic technologies.

She has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Venice Biennale (Golden Lion-winning Armenian Pavilion, 2015), Mathaf (Doha), ICP (New York), the National Arts Museum of China (Beijing), MOMus (Thessaloniki), BALTIC (Newcastle), Spike Island (Bristol), IVAM (Valencia) and Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Her films have screened at festivals such as Oberhausen and Videoformes, and her work is held in collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and Frac des Pays de la Loire. 

She works extensively with the photobook as an expanded cinematic and photographic form. She has published A Small Guide to the Invisible Seas (Venice Biennale, 2015), Handbook of the Spontaneous Other (MACK, 2020), and most recently Third Person Plural (BÜCHS’N’BOOKS, 2025), which draws on postwar U.S. archival film material to examine the formation of gendered political imaginaries. She regularly leads workshops and lectures internationally, while currently teaching at London Metropolitan University and Arts University Bournemouth (online).

COURSES

This workshop explores how artists engage with photographic archives through subjective, critical, and speculative readings. Moving beyond the archive as a stable repository of knowledge, participants will approach it as a fragmented and contested space marked by gaps, silences, and multiple possibilities. Through discussions and case studies, the workshop will examine how artistic practices can reimagine archival materials, uncover suppressed narratives, and open new ways of relating to memory, history, and the photographic image.




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