Pavlos Fysakisis is an Athens-based artist working with lens-based media.
Founder of the non-profit cultural organization KOLEKTIV8 and of the art collective Depression Era (2011-2019), which has been documenting the social landscape of the Greek crisis through images and texts. Founder and artistic director of the Mediterranean Photography Festival (MedPhoto) taking place since 2016 in Rethymno, Crete, organizing various international exhibitions in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, workshops, public discussions, publications, and the Nomadic Library, a mobile photography book collection traveling across Greece.
He has published two books: “Land Ends” (2010) and “Documents of Breathing” (2023 – in collaboration with Pasqua Vorgia). He has presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His artworks can be found in the collection of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Onassis foundation and in private collections.
In his work he repeatedly explores the notion of boundaries, memory, and time, and how their interconnections to politics, identity, mobility, transgression, transformation, or liminality.
Pasqua Vorgia is a visual artist, curator, and documentary producer. Since 2016, she has been a member of the cultural organization Kolektiv8, organazing the Mediterranean Photography Festival (Medphoto), in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete in Rethymno, and various venues in Athens. From 2011 to 2019 she was a member of the art collective Depression Era, where she co-curated, organized and participated in exhibitions, workshops and public events in Greece and abroad. From 2015-2026, she coordinated the Talks & Thoughts series at Onassis Stegi, organizing symposia, discussions, exhibitions, workshops, and various interdisciplinary programs in the city of Athens – addressed to the international academic and artistic community. In her artistic and curatorial practice in the realm of lens-based arts, she explores aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the dialectics of politics and aesthetics in artistic practice, mass culture, the Media, urban life and history. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Pasqua studied cultural management at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, organizational psychology at Columbia University, (Fulbright and Onassis scholarships), and psychology at the Kapodistrian University of Athens.
