Fix in Art - Anazitites Theatrou
Contact
info@fie.gr
Fix in Art, founded by Dionisis Zafiridis, is a community space and non-profit organization in Epanomi, Thessaloniki, built around art, non-formal education and youth empowerment. Since 2011 it has been a place for people of all backgrounds, with a particular focus on young people, refugees and those with limited means. It runs food solidarity initiatives alongside its cultural work, collaborates with local associations on food redistribution, and is working towards self-sufficiency. It has participated in numerous Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps projects. Fix in Art has spent over a decade building food solidarity infrastructure in Thessaloniki through food waste initiatives, collaboration with Boroume and partnerships with associations such as Wave. The residency extends this work by creating a framework where artistic practice can engage responsibly with these networks.
Project Lead
Aishwarya Kumar
Aishwarya Kumar is the Artistic Director of Sobremesa: Vagaries of Palate, a Creative Europe small-scale cooperation project (Feb 2026-May 2027). Leading the consortium across Italy, Portugal, Basque region of Spain, and Greece, the pilot confronts nation-state identities through food practices via co-curatorial research, transnational residencies, and transdisciplinary dissemination against gastronationalism.
Since 2016, Kumar's practice examines systems and aesthetics through performance, with fieldwork across South Asia, Northern and Southern Europe. Her research intersects corporeality and cognition, analyzing body-space interactions on perception through film, visual arts, and endurance methodologies (dance, somatics, deep sea diving). Founder of Stage Rabbit studio - producing artists from Portugal, India, Belgium, Spain - she curated Down The Rabbit Hole pavilion for The Wrong Biennale (Nov 2025-Mar 2026).
Trained in Bharatnatyam, Information Arts (India), and Media/Performance theory (Netherlands), she is an FCT scholar and PhD candidate at Universidade Católica Portuguesa researching 21st-century diasporic curiosity. Her recent work has been disseminated through Junctions Journal (2021), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Contemporanea (2024), Arte Capital (2024), Culture Moves Europe grant (Poland 2025), assistant curator A Study in Isolation, Universe Pavilion (Venice Biennale 2025).
Contact
info@fie.gr
Fix in Art, founded by Dionisis Zafiridis, is a community space and non-profit organization in Epanomi, Thessaloniki, built around art, non-formal education and youth empowerment. Since 2011 it has been a place for people of all backgrounds, with a particular focus on young people, refugees and those with limited means. It runs food solidarity initiatives alongside its cultural work, collaborates with local associations on food redistribution, and is working towards self-sufficiency. It has participated in numerous Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps projects. Fix in Art has spent over a decade building food solidarity infrastructure in Thessaloniki through food waste initiatives, collaboration with Boroume and partnerships with associations such as Wave. The residency extends this work by creating a framework where artistic practice can engage responsibly with these networks.
Project Lead
Aishwarya Kumar
Aishwarya Kumar is the Artistic Director of Sobremesa: Vagaries of Palate, a Creative Europe small-scale cooperation project (Feb 2026-May 2027). Leading the consortium across Italy, Portugal, Basque region of Spain, and Greece, the pilot confronts nation-state identities through food practices via co-curatorial research, transnational residencies, and transdisciplinary dissemination against gastronationalism.
Since 2016, Kumar's practice examines systems and aesthetics through performance, with fieldwork across South Asia, Northern and Southern Europe. Her research intersects corporeality and cognition, analyzing body-space interactions on perception through film, visual arts, and endurance methodologies (dance, somatics, deep sea diving). Founder of Stage Rabbit studio - producing artists from Portugal, India, Belgium, Spain - she curated Down The Rabbit Hole pavilion for The Wrong Biennale (Nov 2025-Mar 2026).
Trained in Bharatnatyam, Information Arts (India), and Media/Performance theory (Netherlands), she is an FCT scholar and PhD candidate at Universidade Católica Portuguesa researching 21st-century diasporic curiosity. Her recent work has been disseminated through Junctions Journal (2021), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Contemporanea (2024), Arte Capital (2024), Culture Moves Europe grant (Poland 2025), assistant curator A Study in Isolation, Universe Pavilion (Venice Biennale 2025).
Image credits from left to right: Maria Giovanna Giugliano, Fix In Art
