KORE in/fertility.
Productions during the ongoing fellowship at the Interuniversity Organization arts&knowledge, Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Mozarteum University
Salzburg (A)
MUTTiER. Was nicht gesagt werden kann (What Cannot be Said).
Productions during the ongoing fellowship at IPU International Psychoanalytic University
Berlin (D)
POIESIS, May 2025
Publication/ artis book with an essay by Thomas Ballhausen.
Designed by Nik Thoenen.
VFMK, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna.
KORE in Athens, October 2025
Exhibition and Performance with Chloe Aligianni
Attikon General Hospital, Athens (GR)
HYSTERA Talks to her Psyche, September 2025
Short film and artist lecture at TTT Taboo-Transgression and Transcendence 2025, Ljubljana.
Published in To Aloni Edition, vol. 5.
Gespräch mit einer Kurve. (Talking With the Curb) 2025
A dialogue with the world population forecast curb, with Romana Sammern, published in “Nachhaltig vergänglich. Zur Materialität des Verfalls,” (Sustainably Evanescent. On the Materiality of Decay) Sonderzahl Verlag.
MUTTiER III. Wenn die Worte fehlen, (When Words don’t Come) September 2025
With Dorothea von Haebler and Meredith Stone
Lecture series on Psychosis und their Therapy IPU International Psychanalytic University Berlin
Mourning for Medea, June 2025
Hasard in yarn on photographies, a collaboration with Xenia Tsilochristou, in Anti/Medea. Phantasms/Love/Deceptions, Back to Athens 12, 2025 Iasias Mansion, Athens
Muttermilchbanken, (Human Milk Banks) April 2025
A radio feature by Juliane Nagiller/ Dimensionen Ö1, ORF Austrian National Radio.
Sarah’s Laughter, 2024
Ink drawing, shown at Anonymous Drawings
Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin (D)
Amaltheias Nipples, 2024
Hommage and in memoriam of Bodo Hell, Künstlerhaus Vienna
Published in Salz, literary journal of Literaturhaus Salzburg (A).
MUTTiER II. Reparaturen. Kinderwunsch-Kunst-Psychose. Zu Kinder(Nicht)wunsch, Wunschkindern und Mutterrollen in Kunst und Klinik, (MUTTiER – Motheranimal II. Mendings. The Wish to have Children – Art – Psychosis. To the Wish (or not) to have children, planned children and mother roles in art and in the clinic), 2024
Lecture and participative performance on Psychosis und their psychodynamic therapy, IPU International Psychanalytic University Berlin, with Dorothea von Haebler und Meredith Stone (AUS), IPU International Psychoanalytic University, November 2024
KORE, 2024
Solo show in Sehsaal, Wien
With a performance by Anat Stainberg and Zara Zlanabitnig, June 2024.
Almost White. Colors of Milk, 2023/2024.
Publication, Poem and shortfilm on Human milk banks as models of distributive economies
With text contributions by Anna Kathrin Bleuler, Michael Brauer, Romana Sammern, Meredith Stone.
SFKB Salon für Kunstbuch 2024, presented during the Independent Art Space week in Vienna in Salon für Kunstbuch a nd Miss Read – The Berlin Art Book Fair 2024.
Without a Shadow, 2024
Lecture performance on surrogate motherhood with Dana Papachristou and Werner Michler during the symposium “Schatten und Schattenseiten. Erkundungen in Kunst und Wissenschaft” (Shadows and Underbellies. Explorations in Art and Science) in Atelier of the Interuniversity Organization Arts&Knowledge, Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Mozarteum University Salzburg (A)
Published in To Aloni Edition, vol. 3
Die Kurve. Eine kollektive Performance (The Curve. A Collective Performance), 2023
Charcoal drawing on paper, in the exhibition “Nachhaltig vergänglich. Zur Materialität des Verfalls,” (Sustainably Evanescent. On the Materiality of Decay), Stadtgalerie Salzburg.
Published in Ästhetik und Kommunikation, Tiefes Erzählen, Vol. 186/187
MUTTiER I Kunst-Frau-Psychose. Was nicht gesagt werden kann, 2023
Lecture and participative performance on Psychosis und their psychodynamic therapy, IPU International Psychanalytic University Berlin, with Dorothea von Haebler und Meredith Stone (AUS), IPU International Psychoanalytic University, September 2023 Published in To Aloni Edition, Vol. 4
Talking Breasts, 2023
Drawing and Poem,
Published in Ästhetik und Kommunikation, “Tiefes Erzählen”, Vol. 190/191, 2023
Wo/Man Without a Shadow, 2023
A Lecture performance and Video in collaboration with Dana Papachristou, TTT, Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence 2023, Malta, Society of the Arts, Malta
STILLLEBEN. Devenir Symbiote, 2023
Performance and artist talk at « de la performance à la micro-performativité » a project by art&science of École Polytechnique/Chaire Art-Science, Paris, Le Générateur, le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles et l’Association OU/VERT, at Le Générateur, Paris Milch (Ökonomien des Mutterleibs), 2023
Artist lecture, performance and film presentation with Bodo Hell at the “Atelier” of the Interuniversity Organization Arts&Knowledge, Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Mozarteum University Salzburg (A) Milk and Honey, Utopias of Plenty/ Milch und Honig, Utopien der Fülle, 2022/23
Exhibition, Seminar, Publication, with Romana Sammern
at the “Atelier” of the Interuniversity Organization Arts&Knowledge, Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Mozarteum University Salzburg (A) and in To Aloni, Kea Island (GR)
published in To Aloni Edition, vol. 1 und 2
Fast Weiss (Almost White), 2022
Short film 8min, with a composition by Dana Papachristou,
Screening in Das Kino, Salzburg (A)
How is the Weather 2, 2021/22
Ink Drawings. Part of the exhibition ::KAIROS. Recall of the Earth
AIL Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Wien (A)
Lait de mère, 2021
Photography. Part of the exhibition « Holobiont. Life is Other” curated by Jens Hauser and Lucie Strecker,
Magazin 4, Bregenz (A)
TOP SECRET - Körperflüssigkeiten als Ware (body fluids as commodity), 2020
Dokumentary film about the commodification of body fluids shown on the National Austrian television and the Bavarian Television; Karin Berghammer Film Productions. Shootings of MILCHKÜCHE/ Milk Kitchen in the historic venue Semmelweisklinik, Vienna Mai 2019
STILLLEBEN with Symbionts, 2020
Article and Images of growing milk bacteria on “Milk Bond” and “Formula Bond” designed bu Nik Thoenen. With David Berry, Pages 83-87 | Published online: 09 Nov 2020, A Journal of the Performing Arts, Volume 25, 2020 - Issue 3: On Microperfomativity.
Baby-Making. Reproduktionsmedizin und Ästhetik (Reproduction Technology and Aesthetics), 2020
Artist Talk with Romana Sammern, online due to COVID, at the Interuniversity Organization Arts&Knowledge, Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Mozarteum University Salzburg (A)
KORE. Revisted, 2020
Short film at TTT2020, Taboo, Transcendence and Transgression conference, online due to COVID, AIL Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (A).
How is the Weather (going to be) 1, 2019/2020
Silk screen printing on textile and soundfile with a weather forecast until 2050; part of the exhibition
::KAIROS. Ανακάλεσμα της Γης | Recall of Earth, Miet, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki
Hasard. 2019,
Falling yarn as portraits, exhibited in Supersouk, la Soukra, (TN)
MILK. Gabe, Lust und Verlust. (MILK. Gift, Desire and Loss), 2018.
Passagen Editor Wien (A)
Art Works with and on milk as matter that matters, 2011-2019
Design by Nik Thoenen, Photographie Pascal Petignat. With text contributions by Eva Laquièze-Waniek, Antonio Lucci, Thomas Macho, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Heinz Stahlhut, Marcus Steinweg, Ernst Strouhal and a MILK-MANIFESTO – On milk as a model on symbiotic economics of the female body with Anna Godfrey. Austrian National Prize for the most beautiful art book 2018. Presented with Bernhard Cella, Ernst Strouhal and Nik Thoenen at Salon für Kunstbuch, Belevere 21, Vienna (A).
STILLLEBEN and BREAST III. 2018.
Performance with KROOT JUURAK and DAVID BERRY; Milk powder installation at AIL, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (A), part of “Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn” by Jens Hauser, Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker.
WHITE GOLD IN TRANSLATION. 2018.
Artist talk und Performance with KROOT JUURAK and LUCIE STRECKER.
LASER TALK, Leonardo, Medical University Vienna (Art&Science Programm) (A).
LACTATIO. 2018.
Performance with Haytam Nawar, Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess, being part of MYKOVALUTA, by Klaus Spiess and Lucie Strecker
Cairotronica, Kairo, Egypt. (EGY).
MILK WITHOUT FRONTIERS (Milch ohne Grenzen). 2018.
Artist talk and Performance
ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (A): Essen und Migration (Food and migration).
MILK IV: AMALTHEIA.
Milk as Mater-ia
Solo show in TAF The Art Foundation Athens (GR).
POEM OF THE CITY – Médina. 2017.
BIAT Exhibition, Sfax, Tunisia (TN).
VOYAGE EN TUNISIE, (Reise nach Tunesien). 2017.
Im Kontext von MOI NON MOI, Carrying Owls To Athens, THE ART FOUNDATION, Wien in Athen (GR), DOCUMENTA Parallel Programm, sowie im Büro für Weltausstellung Wien (A).
WALKING. 2017.
Zeichnungen von Migranten-Routen im Kontext von WALKING THROUGH....VIENNA, Künstlerhaus Wien (A).
A.R.T. and Poiesis und HYSTERIUM/MYSTERIUM. 2016.
Artist Talk und und Ausstellung im Kontext von TTT2016, Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence,University of Courfou, Corfou, and The Old Asylum, Corfou (GR).
MILK. 2016.
Solo Show, fAN Wien/ Vienna Art Foundation (A).
Objects and drawings with and on breast milk and formula milk powder; publication MILK in collaboration with Michael Jung.
Ich bin eine Berlinerin. Ein Alphabet. 2015.
Poems. Homage to women from Berlin of yesterday and today. dlv (by Deutscher Lyrik Verlag, D).
Éclats de Ville (Walking in Thessaloniki). 2015.
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (GR) Collages.
Bonds Matter (Obligations obligent). 2015.
Intervention during the symposion „Gespenster der Gastfreundschaft. Agora – Gabe – Gegengabe (Phantasma of hospitality– agora – gift – counter-gift) at the University of Macédonia/ Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki (GR).
−+−. (Die Gekreuz(ig)ten) (The Crucified). 2014/2015.
Agora und Gabe. (Agora and Gift), MIET (Art Foundation of the National Bank of Greece), Thessaloniki (GR). Objects and oil on wood, a detructures crucifix.
Pochette Surprise. Contribution to the Mysteries and Ministeries of OikoNomia. 2014.
A wondrous lady’s hand bag and it’s contentes in collaboration with Helena Barcikowski and Nina Reisinger. Objects, Drawings and texts. Solo show, Galerie Gabriel, Vienna (A).
Prinzen. Rollen. Gedichte (Roles of Prince, Poems). 2014.
Poems. dlv (Deutscher Lyrik Verlag), D.
BONDS MATTER. Schuld mit Schein. Schulden mit Schein. Einige Aspekte des Lebens, Liebens und Schuldens (« Obligations oblige. Some aspects of life, love, and debt »), 2013-2014.
Published in Thomas Macho (Ed.): Bonds. Schuld, Schulden und andere Verbindlichkeiten (Bonds. Guilt, Debts, and Other Liabilities), Fink, D)
Es ist die Schwerkraft die uns umbringt (Gravity is What Kills Us), science fiction novel by Ulrike Schmitzer, using realized and unrealized works and real life experiences of Irini Athanassakis; by Edition Atelier. 2014.
Von einer unwahrscheinlichen Schuld (about an improbable guilt). 2013.
Performance, with Susanne Schuda and Peter Szely, Die Vierte Welt, Berlin (D).
A Merry Bond? A Love Bond! How to consent to give a pound of your own flesh for money you do not have but you have promised to a friend who wishes to marry a rich lady. And why justice has to be dealt by that very lady. 2013.
Artist Lecture, conference "Money Matters" an der Queen Mary University London (GB).
WARUM (WHY). 2013.
Drawings. Part of evolving book of WHY, Anonyme Zeichner, Galerie Nord, Berlin (D) and Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven (NL).
SCHULDSCHEINGESCHICHTEN (DEBTBONDSTORIES), 2012.
An experimental short film Sasha Pirker. HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (D).
BONDS: Schuld, Schulden und andere Verbindlichkeiten (BONDS. Guilts, Debts and Other Liabilities). 2012.
Initiative With Thomas Macho and artistic direction. Conference, Exhibition, Theater. A cooperation of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (D).
SCHULDSC HEIN. (DEBT BOND) 2012.
Silk screen print. A collaboration with Nikolai Franke: The SCHULDSC HEIN was placed and distributed 2012 during Kassel Documenta (D).
RESTRUCTUR ART ION – bilan des bilans (balance of the balances). 2012.
Installation. Poster. Design: Nina Reisinger. A project of IAE Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, in der Maison des Métallos, Paris (F).
In Erwartung des Lebens (In Expectation of Life), 2012.
Solo show. Drawings, objects, paintings
Galerie Katja Krämer, Berlin (D).
snowball effect winter party – Ist es ein Plus? Oder ein Minus?(Is it a plus? Or a Minus) 2012.
Drawings, kaleidoscop-art, Berlin (D).
Summer of Love – so wie die Fäden fallen (Familie). 2012.
Bindfaden rot-blau-grün, Kleber, Papier. Galerie du Platane, Avignon (F)
Random Walks. 2011.
Ausstellung Die Zähmung des Blicks – Zeichnungen, Bestift, Buntstift, Tusche, auf Papier. The Art Foundation (TAF), Athen (GR).
mOre Or less. 2011.
Ink drawing, in the exhibition Die Zähmung des Blicks (Taming the Gaze). MIET (National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation), Thessaloniki (GR).
Und wenn das Universum weiss wäre? (And If the Universe were White?), 2011.
Ink Drawings on Paper. Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna (A).
The Dictionary of the Possible and the Uncertain. 2011.
Fictuous dictionay, published in "Gedanken in freiem Fall" (Thoughts in Free Fall), Sophia Panteliadou, Elisabeth Schäfer (Hg.), Sonderzahl, Vienna (A).
Engel. Angelos, Malak(h), Fereshteh. Figuren des Dazwischen und des Möglichen (Figures of the Inbetween and the Possible). 2011. Essay. Published in "Daimon", Online Thesaurus by Thomas Feuerstein: daimon.myzel.net/Autor:Irini_Athanassakis.
Was ist was wert? (What is Worth?) 2010.
Inquirey and public intervention in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, with students of Hochschule Liechtenstein (LIE).
Heiliger Schein (Holy Light Bond). 2010.
Paper banknote for the exhibition „Die Kunst der Krise“ (Art in Crisis) in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D).
Anamnese. 30 Häuser. (Anamnesis. 30 Houses) 2010/2008.
Drawings of the 30 homes the artist lived in with the emotions and memories attached to them as diagrammatic approach to the evolving self.
In the context of „Zeichnung Eins“. Galerie Lukas Feichtner Vienna (A).
Es ist möglich. Es ist ungewiss. (It is Possible. It is Uncertain.), 2010.
Drawings. Objects.
Moabiter Kulturtage „Inselglück“, Atelier 5, Berlin (D).
Laboratory of Uncertainty. 2009.
Foundation of the Laboratory of art-based research to the Uncertain in Art and Science. With Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Axel Stockburger and Thomas Feuerstein.
Das Spiel mit dem Geld. (Playing with the Money) 2010.
Essay on similarities and incompatibilities of play and money. Published in Passagen des Spiels II; Ernst Strouhal/ Matthias Fuchs (Ed.), Springer, Vienna/New York
Fin Arts. Die feine Kunst und die Kunst der Finanzen. (Fine art and the art of finance) 2010.
Essay with distinct artistic positions on fine art and the art of finance; published in im Kunstforum International, vol. 200: Kunst und Wirtschaft (Art and the Economy); Dieter Buchhart / Gerald Nestler (Ed.)
Das Mädchen mit dem blauen Mantel. (The Girl With the Blue Coat) 2009.
Drawings for a childrens book with the story written by Sylvie Durbec. La Petite Librairy de Champs, Provence (F).
La Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l´Homme rencontre le hasard, (The Declaration of Human Rights Meets the Hasard), Public Hand-out. 2008.
To the jubilee of the Declaration of Human rights the original text meets the hazard and is rewritten in a public hand-out. Public intervention in Paris.
Die Aktie als Bild. Zur Kulturgeschichte von Wertpapieren. (The Share as Image. To the Cultural History of Stocks) 2008.
The iconography of shares as icons of venture capital and their possible meaning and agency. Published with Springer Vienna/ New York.
Die Aktie in Österreich.(Stock in Austrian History), 2008.
Conception of historical stocks documenting the history of stock in Austria for the Numismatic Section of the Art Historical Museum, Vienna (A).
ValYou Corporation, concept and company history with Susanne Schuda. 2007/8/9.
Story for a fictious company valuing people, von KÖR, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (Art in Public Space), Public intervention at Schwedenplatz, Vienna (A).
„Aktien. Shares. Effekten. Zur Kulturgeschichte von Wertpapieren. 2003-2007.
Dissertation in Kunst-, Kulturgeschichte und Wissenstransfer zur Aktie als Erfindung, Objekt und Ikone. Universität für Angewandte Kunst: Wissenstransfer, Kunstgeschichte/ Universität Wien: Numismatik.
Sustainability and Social design, Designing desires, general history of design, etc. lectures. 2001-2004.
Lectures and seminars on the sustainability of signs and things and social design, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (A).
Acces surface. 2002.
Questionings of talking surfaces.
With Rosa von Suess and Acces Local. A project for art & economy in Deichtorhallen Hamburg (D).
bilanal – with acces local, bilan analytique ironique de la production d´art, DVD. 2001.
A fictious and ironic balance and annual report of artistic practice with Acces Local; shown in Schnitt Ausstellungsraum Cologne (D).
Dis-positiv, zur Produktivität von Kunst und Diskurs. Dis-positive. To the Productivity of Art and Discourse), 2000, 2001
with and for KunstundPunkt.
Exhibition of selected representatives of art and discourse in a display cabinet, contributions to the Interventions in Semperdepot, Vienna (A), Magazin 4 Bregenz (A) und Schnitt Ausstellungsraum Cologne (D); Paris (F).
Die Option, ein Lexikon. (The Option. A Dictionary) 2000.
Exhibition of the Dictionary of the Possible in the exhibition Art&Economy in OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst (OK Center for Contemporary Art) in Linz (A).
Die Option, eine Skulptur (The Option. Caught by the possible). 1999.
Three dimensional sculpture of a risk curve simulation of a financial option; Diploma at the University of Applied Arts, (A).
CELL. 1998.
Pneumatic Cell sculpture produced in collaboration with Michael Schultes Vien, Performance in the public space. Being part of the exhibition „Auch Heinz und Susi“, Künstlerhaus am Karlsplatz, Vienna (A). Acquisition by the Kindermuseum, Childrens’ Museum, Vienna (A).