About us

GesamtAtelier is a company founded in London by Kyriaki Nasioula & Argyris Angeli, who work towards the conception and realisation of interdisciplinary, collaborative projects. Inspired by a play on the word “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art) and atelier, the company creates pieces which break the boundaries of several domains, media and genres, such as contemporary dance, fine art, architecture, design, sound composition, video, performance art and interactive digital media. For each creation, the collaborators involved intertwine their professional experience, their academic and artistic research, creating a composition of their practices. GesamtAtelier adapts to the nature of each project having designed performances, exhibitions, installations, and workshops in the United Kingdom (Whitechapel Gallery, Truman Brewery, Watermans Arts Centre, Michaelis Theatre Roehampton University, UK Young Artists National Festival, Architectural Association), Austria (Architecture Centre Vienna MQ), Poland (4th Biennial of Interior Design Krakow) and Cyprus (1st Larnaca Biennial). In 2018, they showed their work for the first time in Greece at the festival the “Spatial Performance” they curated in coproduction with the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio London. In 2021-22 they presented their new, interdisciplinary piece Loom, a production of Megaron the Athens Concert Hall, with a state grant by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. The also completed the pilot stages of Dance Walk, an innovative augmented reality application for smartphone devices, under the auspices and with the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, in collaboration with Centre for Research and Technology Hellas.

Argyris Angeli
FINE Art - PERFORMANCE - Architecture - Education​

Argyris is an artist, architect, academic and co-director of GesamtAtelier, born in Nicosia. Having received a student grant by the State Scholarship Foundations of Greece and Cyprus, he graduated with honours from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), acquiring a Bachelor and MSc in Architecture Engineering. He further earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an educational grant from the A. G. Leventis Foundation.  He completed his studies at the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio, Master of Fine Arts in Spatial Performance and Design with a bursary award and graduating with distinction.

His interdisciplinary body of work incorporates sculpture, fibres art, installations, as well as video, participatory and performance art. He investigates the plasticity of human identities, perceptions, and interactions as they morph within thresholds of transitional states. He has participated in exhibitions, performances, socially engaged art projects, residencies, and competitions in USA and Europe, with award winning pieces. As a member of the art collaborative “Collective Cleaners” he was involved in projects at the Jane Adams Hull-House Museum, Columbia College and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

As a designer his practice spans from exhibition design for the Field Museum Chicago, to freelance work as a performative costume and structures designer, interior architect, and graphic designer.

As an academic, Argyris is currently a Studio Master at the MA/MFA in Spatial Performance and Design programme of the AA Interprofessional Studio delivering tutorials, workshops and seminars. He has been a part of the team of the School of Art, Design and Performance at the Buckinghamshire New University. He had the role of the Course Leader of the BA(Hons) Interior and Spatial Design programme and a tutor of Fine Arts at the Diploma in Foundation Studies programme. He has previously taught for the First Year of the AA School of Architecture, the Interior Architecture & Design and Fine Art courses at the University of Suffolk. In the past Argyris has worked with children and teenagers teaching fine art, architecture, and design to the Continuing Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and leading the Design & Make workshops at the Hive, London.

Kyriaki Nasioula
Choreography - Dance - production - Architecture - education

Kyriaki is a choreographer, dancer, licensed architect, set designer and educator whose practice intertwines a range of creative fields. She is a co-founder of GesamtAtelier. Her choreographic practice is equally aiming to embrace the triplet: four-dimensional space / movement / individual, along with the design of performative costumes, structures and installations.

She has been trained in dance at Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and in architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (MSc) and TU Berlin, supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKKY).  She has combined both disciplines by completing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Spatial Performance and Design (distinction), with a double Architectural Association Bursary as an exceptional candidate.

Among others, she has been part of Sasha Waltz and Guests Dance Company, while performing in the production “Installations, Objects, Performances” at ZKM Karlsruhe. She has choreographed and danced for all GesamtAtelier’s productions. Her choreographic work has also been presented at Young Choreographers Session of Sasha at Center for Arts and Media (ZKM), Athens Video Dance Project, Central Saint Martins London, Brighton University, TU Berlin.

She has been awarded the “i-portunus” fund by Creative Europe (2019) and the OneDanceUK Observership award (2017).

As a set / costume designer she has collaborated with Anastasia Valsamaki at Onassis Stegi (costumes) , Alexandros Eykleidis at Greek National Opera (set-designer assistant), Georgia Tegou at Truman Brewery London (set-design), May Rooslvelt at Onassis Stegi (set-designer assistant) , Alexandros Balamotis at Kefallinias Theatre (set & costume design), Isidoros Sideris at Olympia Theatre (set-designer assistant), 

She was a lecturer at the Architecture Department, University of East London. She has taught choreography, improvisation and intermedia composition at East London Dance and MA Mediated Choreography, University of Roehampton London.