Ioanna Sakellaraki is a Greek visual artist and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people.
Today is the last day to visit "Surrender to the Dreamers" at the Museum fur Fotografie in Berlin
The exhibition brings together a selection of 13 artworks from "Tales of Sea, Lust and Death", a trilogy realised with and against my father`s maritime archive found after his death. Offering a glimpse into the complexities of inheriting a family secret, the work reveals the delicate and at times frightening path between memory, loss and desire.
Mixed media and photographic works:
A family that never was, Nine Years on the Lizard Reef, 2025
Art book/objects:
[Between 7 sets of labial tentacles and a spadix], 2025, sliced Nautilus pompilius shell from my father`s archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread
Installation view of The Seven Circuits of a Pearl, archival pigment prints and velvet fabric, 2025
Curated @claducbo and @stanka.mono and organised @analoguenow
Together with artists @mdborowski
@caidongdong @anais.boudot
@ria.wank @timotheusbuettner
Part of @emopberlin
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![Today is the last day to visit "Surrender to the Dreamers" at the Museum fur Fotografie in Berlin
The exhibition brings together a selection of 13 artworks from "Tales of Sea, Lust and Death", a trilogy realised with and against my father's maritime archive found after his death. Offering a glimpse into the complexities of inheriting a family secret, the work reveals the delicate and at times frightening path between memory, loss and desire.
Mixed media and photographic works:
A family that never was, Nine Years on the Lizard Reef, 2025
Art book/objects:
[Between 7 sets of labial tentacles and a spadix], 2025, sliced Nautilus pompilius shell from my father's archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread
Installation view of The Seven Circuits of a Pearl, archival pigment prints and velvet fabric, 2025
Curated @claducbo and @stanka.mono and organised @analoguenow
Together with artists @mdborowski
@caidongdong @anais.boudot
@ria.wank @timotheusbuettner
Part of @emopberlin
#emop #Berlin #art #photomuseum #exhibition #analoguenow #ioannasakellaraki #thesevencircuitsofapearl #europeanmonthofphotography #surrealism #maxernst #photographer #contemporaryart #experimental #conceptualart #creative #museumofphotography #archives #familyarchive #archivo #archivalresearch #practiceasresearch #shells #nautilus #snakeskin #exposition #photoexhibition #contemporaryart #contemporarywomenartists #gaze](https://ioannasakellaraki.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
Friends in Berlin, this is the last chance to visit our exhibition at the Museum for Photography! Closing tomorrow 🐚
Mixed media and photographic works:
The sailor`s gaze and his allies, 2023
Nine thousand miles of meanders, 2023
177 twists of luster, 2024
Installation view of The Seven Circuits of a Pearl, archival pigment prints and velvet fabric, 2025
Art book/objects:
[Between 7 sets of labial tentacles and a spadix], 2025, sliced Nautilus pompilius shell from my father`s archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread
Curated @claducbo and @stanka.mono and organised @analoguenow
Together with artists @mdborowski
@caidongdong @anais.boudot
@ria.wank @timotheusbuettner
Part of @emopberlin
#emop #Berlin #art #photomuseum #exhibition #analoguenow #ioannasakellaraki #thesevencircuitsofapearl #europeanmonthofphotography #surrealism #maxernst #photographer #contemporaryart #experimental #conceptualart #creative #museumofphotography #archives #familyarchive #archivo #archivalresearch #practiceasresearch #shells #nautilus #contemporaryartist #gaze
The rhythm of this journey is tidal 🌀
I travel from Greece to Australia
from my father’s archive to the archives of Australia’s pearling history
from encountering a family secret to making something out of it from a place of discomfort
to integrating this knowledge into a body of work that goes on to re-imagine it historically, materially, subjectively and symbolically.
All works from trilogy `Tales of Sea, Lust and Death`
Part II: Nine Years on the Lizard Reef
A sea-slug wonder in two, mixed media, collaged paper, image from my father’sarchive, analogue medium format photograph, scanned and post edited digitally, 2025
Part I: The Seven Circuits of a Pearl
[A spiral of tissue lined with 28 tiny teeth], 2025, Internal spiral of Nautilus pompilius shell from my father`s archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread, clothbound panels, debossed labyrinth motif with golden foil
Installation view of Fragment A, archival pigment prints and velvet fabric, 2025
Currently exhibited as part of `Surrender to the Dreamers` until this Sunday 27 April
Museum fur Fotografie | Jebensstraße 2, Berlin
Part of @emopberlin
Curated @claducbo and @stanka.mono and organised @analoguenow
Together with artists @mdborowski
@caidongdong @anais.boudot
@ria.wank @timotheusbuettner
The show is running concurrently with FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography. A visit from the Würth Collection, which includes an extraordinary collection of the surrealist artist`s works over the years.
I hope you can get to visit this weekend!
I am honoured to be part of it 🙏
#emop #Berlin #art #photomuseum #exhibition #analoguenow #ioannasakellaraki #thesevencircuitsofapearl #Berlin #europeanmonthofphotography #surrealism #maxernst #photographer #contemporaryart #experimental #conceptualart #creative #museumofphotography #archives #familyarchive #archivo #archivalresearch #practiceasresearch
Some of my exhibited artworks from "The Seven Circuits of a Pearl" at the Museum for Photography in Berlin. The show is still on for a few more days. Visit until 27 April!
Mixed media and photographic works:
A parasite invasion, 2023
177 twists of luster, 2024
My father`s lover`s eye, 2023
Pearly Nautilus- the golden spiral, 2024
The sailor`s gaze and his allies, 2023
Art book/ objects:
[Between 7 sets of labial tentacles and a spadix], 2025, sliced Nautilus pompilius shell from my father`s archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread
[A spiral of tissue lined with 28 tiny teeth], 2025, Internal spiral of Nautilus pompilius shell from my father`s archive, fine art paper, perspex, silk thread, clothbound panels, debossed labyrinth motif with golden foil
Installation view of Fragment A
`Surrender to the Dreamers `
Museum fur Fotografie | Jebensstraße 2, Berlin
Open daily 11AM-7PM (except for Mondays)
Part of @emopberlin
Curated @claducbo and @stanka.mono and organised @analoguenow
Together with artists @mdborowski
@caidongdong @anais.boudot
@ria.wank @timotheusbuettner
The show is running concurrently with FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography. A visit from the Würth Collection, which includes an extraordinary collection of the surrealist artist`s works over the years.
I hope you can get to visit in the coming days
I am honoured to be part of it 🙏
#emop #Berlin #art #photomuseum #exhibition #analoguenow #ioannasakellaraki #thesevencircuitsofapearl #Berlin #europeanmonthofphotography #surrealism #maxernst #photographer #contemporaryart #experimental #conceptualart #creative #museumofphotography #archives #familyarchive #archivo #archivalresearch #practiceasresearch
