Evangelia Kranioti

Evangelia Kranioti is a Greek artist and film director based in France. She studied law (National University of Athens), visual arts (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris) and cinema (Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Atelier Scénario – La Fémis).

Winner of numerous grants and awards, Evangelia Kranioti develops an artistic work that embraces photography, film and video installation. Her first feature documentary Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (2015 Berlinale Forum) was selected in several international festivals (including IDFA, BFI London FF, Göteborg IFF, Thessaloniki IDF, Karlovy Vary IFF, Sarajevo IFF) where it received numerous awards, as well as two Iris awards from the Hellenic Film Academy. Her second film Obscuro Barroco (2018 Berlinale Panorama, TEDDY Jury Prize) also won him several awards, including two Iris of the Hellenic Film Academy, as well as several nominations (American Society of Cinematography Documentary award, Cinema Eye Honors, Glashütte Original Documentary Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest Art Award, among others). In 2019, her exhibition Les vivants, les morts et ceux qui sont en mer (“The Living, the Dead and Those at Sea”), presented at the 50th edition of the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, was acclaimed by the international press and awarded the Prix Madame Figaro.

Her photographic and filmic project at Villa Medici, entitled Les messagers, explores the issue of migration in the Mediterranean through the figure of Hermes and the prism of myth.