Historical Aarchives Museum of Hydra | 23 June 2026

Rob Pruitt, in collaboration with ArtCinema and Powerhouse Arts hosted Rob Pruitt’s Hydra Flea Market, on 23 June at the iconic Historical Archives Museum Of Hydra building in Hydra’s Main Port. Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market represents a community-minded participatory art concept with the first event first launched by Rob in 1999 at Gavin Brown's Enterprise Gallery in New York City.

The project reimagines the traditional flea market as a living artwork, where artists, collaborators, and friends are invited to set up informal stalls offering everything from original artworks and studio remnants to personal objects, found materials, and unconventional collectibles. Visitors were invited to browse the stalls while enjoying food, music, and a lively atmosphere.

Meet The Participants

  • Vanessa Nawak is a UI/UX Designer working for Audi (the car company) but doing art too. Sideways she has a business also for Mindfulness, being a certified meditation teacher and a certified Tarot Coach.

  • Born in 1956, Andreas Horstmann is an autodidact artist with a German surname - and - a Greek first name. Since August 2016 Andreas spended most of his time on the island of Hydra and since January 2023 he is a resident of this "Island of Artists".

    It was in 2011 that his “artistic touch“ really came to life. He first started with sculptures and expanded his work with paintings.

    Essentially an abstract painter he always tries (for him) new techniques such as swab and scraper as well as collages.

    As a resident of Hydra, Andreas is keen to meet everyone either at solo or group exhibitions he now takes part in. And he is happy to welcome visits st his home studio on Hydra.

  • Natalie is an upcycling artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Working under the name &LadyMondegreen, she transforms unwanted garments and discarded materials into striking one-of-a-kind pieces that blur the line between wearable art and couture. Old umbrella fabric is draped onto a tailcoat, Converse sneakers are reimagined as a sculptural bustier and corset belt, used basketballs are turned into cross-body bags.
    Raised with the belief to use what is already there, be creative with it, and never be wasteful, sustainability has always been at the heart of her practice. “Your Trash is My Treasure” is not just a motto but the essence of her work.

    The unique beauty of Hydra already sparked her creativity before her professional education in tailoring and pattern making. After years of working in theaters in New York, San Francisco and Germany, she keeps returning to this inspiring island.

  • Perched high above Hydra town, with panoramic views of the sea, distant Peloponnese and Hydra's rocky hills, is the studio of Jacqueline Savidge.

    Originally from England she made Hydra her home over 35 years ago. Much of the island is only accessible on foot or by mule and armed with only a packed lunch and a sketchbook Jacqui has explored every corner.

    Her work over the years, in various media including painting, printmaking and textiles has been a response to these surroundings.

    Jacqui's current body of landscape works combine silk and linen textiles with embroidery details. They are inspired by a deep appreciation of the island's natural beauty, quality of light and dramatic seasonal colour changes. Hydra's magical atmosphere is intuitively captured in calming and timeless images.

    Furthermore the materials she uses have their own stories to tell. Silks sourced in trips further afield, gifts from friends, repurposed much loved clothes, all combine to create unique pieces and a certain poignancy in the meeting of worlds - the already lived and the moment of awe or silent reflection which inspired the creation.

  • Oliver Altermatt is a Swiss-Australian photographer and visual creative whose work explores the relationship between people, place, memory, and time through analogue photography, social documentary, portraiture, and historical photographic processes.

    For several years, Hydra has been the central focus of his practice. Through long-term projects including Faces of Hydra, Hands of Hydra, Traders of Hydra, Tintypes of Hydra, and Echoing Passage, he has been building an evolving visual archive of the island and its community. His work documents the people, traditions, labour, commerce, architecture, and everyday life that shape Hydra's unique identity.

    Returning year after year, Oliver's photographs examine how communities preserve their character while adapting to change. Alongside documentary work, he explores Hydra's visual details, from architecture and craftsmanship to colour and texture, exemplified by his limited-edition poster series Adoorable Hydra.

    For Deste Art Week and the ArtCinema Flea Market, Oliver presents analogue photographic works, limited-edition posters, and portrait sessions celebrating human connection and the enduring spirit of Hydra.

  • Lee Wells(b. 1971, New York and Athens based) is a conceptual artist and curator. Classically trained as a painter, Wells has spent over three decades integrating traditional media with video, new media, performance, and curatorial work.

    Wells’ work refuses easy consumption. It moves fluidly between representation and abstraction, internal introspection and outward expression. The work requires the viewer to be present to fully experience its physical and psychological scale whether large or small through its materiality and conceptual frameworks. It borrows from the canon without genuflecting. It uses AI without evangelizing or apologizing.

    Wells’ work has been featured in important international exhibitions, festivals and was featured by The Golden Globes, alongside universities, art fairs, and galleries. Wells founded and directed the alternative curatorial platform IFAC Arts since 1996 and continues today with project spaces in New York’s Lower East Side and Athens, Greece.

    PLUS ULTRA Further Beyond. Post Verba Verbera.

    www.ifacarts.com / www.ifac.ai / www.plusultra.art

  • Left Australia at 20, bright and bushy tailed seeking all the questions.

    At 60, via years in London, Greece and Bordeaux, settled for good in Hydra.

    less brightly, but still seeking.

    Painting every day, many works take a long time, sometimes returning to them year after year, scratching back, painting over, trying to catch them unawares. Layers. Looking. Learning. Is this finished? Is this true?

    Subjects and styles vary with each fresh concentration on the work at hand.

    Through portraits; still life; landscape; abstract, and recent years combinations of collected finds wandering Hydra: bones, marble, wood, shards.

    What unites them? Who knows?

    Only aware that when painting I am somehow seeking, joining, something bigger than myself.

    Which in turn, maybe, unites them all.

    (Or not :).

  • Ben Wolf Noam was born in Cambridge, USA, and received a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited widely across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

    Selected exhibitions include The Journal Gallery (New York, Los Angeles), The Pit (Los Angeles), Galería Mascota (Mexico City), Museo di Capodimonte (Naples) Biennale of Contemporary Keramics (Rhodes, GR) SADE Gallery (Los Angeles), The Breeder Gallery (Athens), Aïshti Foundation (Beirut), and 10 Hanover Gallery (London).

    He has received performance commissions from Night Gallery (LA) and MoMA PS1 (New York). His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, T Magazine, ArtFCity, ARTnews, Artnet, Art in America, Nylon, and Purple Magazine. He lives and works in New York City and Connecticut.

  • Before attending art academy, Korrie Vulkers was trained as a drawing teacher, although she never went on to teach. For more than 30 years, she worked as a fashion designer for several Dutch brands. Throughout that time, drawing remained a constant in her life; from life model-drawing sessions to fashion illustrations.

    In 2020, during a sabbatical, she began creating portraits, primarily in acrylic paint. Using bold brushstrokes and dynamic blocks of colour, she seeks to capture the essence of the person she portrays. This loose, free approach, characterized by clear colour planes, aims to convey the unique expression and character of each individual.

    Vulkers translates her subjects into her own distinctive technique and style. Her paintings capture the gaze of a single moment with a palpable sense of emotion: is it suspicion, concentration, or perhaps a quiet melancholy? Through these expressions, she invites the viewer to connect with the inner world of the person portrayed.

  • Lucile Littot is a French artist who divides her time between Paris and Athens. Her work has been shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Galeria Duarte Sequeira in Braga, and New Galerie in Paris.

    She has also been featured in group shows at major institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Over the years, she has completed artist residencies at the Villa Medici in Rome and Ceramica Suro in Guadalajara, and her work is now part of public collections like the Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou.

    As part of her artistic practice, she collaborates with Greek musician Markos Mazarakis-Ainian. Together, they perform as the duet Adieu Dolorès, bringing projects and performances to audiences across France, Greece, and the US since 2022.

  • Born: 1961 in Paris, France. Natacha lives and works in Paris, France and Hydra, Greece dividing her time equally between the two. The landscapes, especially the architecture, of all the countries she has traveled to, have attracted her passion and imagination.

    Her recent water colors of the Greek Islands are extraordinary; capturing meticulously the detail and spirit of Greece. The Mediterranean light and shade are perfectly reflected in her work.

    Natacha's emotional balance can be found in her imaginative pastel portraits of women. She has exhibited for over forty years throughout France, Spain and Greece. Her delightful and compassionate work has found the homes of many collectors and art lovers.

    In 2003 she started to run her own gallery every summer on Hydra , showing the work of other artists as well.

    And since 2006 , she is the Vice President of the Verena Foundation on Hydra , Greece ,

    http://www.verenafoundation.org

  • Born in Athens, Nayia Frangouli has participated in many solo and group shows, including; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Venice Biennale, Italy; Manifesta Biennale; Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris; Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Els Hanappe Gallery, Athens; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; among others.

    Nayia has shown work at art fairs such as Armory Show, and ARCO. She is represented by art dealer Els Hanappe.

    Nayia holds an MFA from Yale University. She has taught at Yale University, Barnard College - Columbia University, and Parsons school of Design.

  • Kleopatra Haritou is an Athens-born visual artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, performance, and installation. Her practice engages with displacement, memory, urban space, and the political and material afterlives of contemporary life, often through long-term, research-based projects.

    Her major works include The Refugee Housing of Alexandras Ave., presented at the Benaki Museum and other venues, and ACROBATS, a large-scale public installation developed through a year-long collaboration with drug-dependent individuals, homeless people, and sex workers in Athens.

    She recently completed IERA ODOS, a mid-length film tracing a journey from the underworld to the surface through the myth of Persephone and the fractured landscapes of the Anthropocene. She is currently shooting REST IN PIECES, a feature documentary funded by the Greek Film Centre and EKOMMED. Her work has been exhibited widely in Greece and internationally, including museums, biennials, galleries, and cultural institutions across Europe.

  • Stasis is not a word that’s ever been used to describe London-based, American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician Zoë Greenbaum.

    Just returned from Japan where her most recent short film, Feel Nothing Inc, won the grand prize in fiction, Zoë quickly found herself on the road again - this time in France - with An Unmarried Woman, a series of 18 watercolors in the form of an intimate diary transforming the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards into an out-of-control, alcoholic divorcée, Keira Richard.

    As she prepared to bring Keira to Greece for Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market in Hydra, Zoë was simultaneously prepping a solo show for September at IFAC in New York, working on Low Fidelity - her graphic novel on the foibles of dating in the UK, rehearsing in London with her new band, One Hour Diner, while meeting with potential partners for her debut feature, My World at Night.

    Trained as a manga artist in Japan, Zoë did her Masters in filmmaking at London Film School before going on to make several award-winning short films. A Top 10 finalist in Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, as well as in Nantucket’s Tony Cox Awards, Zoë has three feature screenplays in development.

  • MAYA HOMBBURGER:

    Since meeting Barry Guy - on the occasion of an extended concert tour with Christopher Hogwood’s Academy of Ancient Music in 1988 - Maya Homburger has devoted her time developing her own personal style on the baroque violin as well as managing Improvised and New Music projects and running her own CD label Maya Recordings.

    The idea to perform baroque solo works in the context of free improvised music and newly commissioned pieces sparked off the Homburger/Guy Duo and together Maya Homburger and Barry Guy have given concerts in many major Jazz, New Music and Baroque Music Festivals all over Europe and in Canada.

    Her speciality are performances of Bach’s Solo Violin works as well as compositions by Barry Guy and György Kurtág.

    BARRY GUY:

    Barry Guy is an innovative bass player / composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, chamber and orchestral performance and solo recitals is the outcome both of an unusually varied training and a zest for experimentation. He founded the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, BGNO (Barry Guy New Orchestra) and recently the “Blue Shroud Band” to perform his composition “The Blue Shroud” based on Picasso’s painting “Guernica”. His concert works for chamber orchestras, chamber groups and soloists have been widely performed and his skillful and inventive writing has resulted in an exceptional series of compositions. Barry Guy continues to give solo recitals throughout Europe as well as continuing associations with colleagues involved in improvised, baroque and contemporary music. His current ensembles are the Homburger / Guy Duo, the "Acanthis" Trio with Lucas Niggli and Maya Homburger, the Duo with Jordina Milla (piano), the Parker / Guy / Lytton trio as well as various piano trios: The Izumi Kimura Trio with Gerry Hemingway, the trio with Agusti Fernandez and Zlatko Kaucic , the trio with Angelica Sanchez and Ramon Lopez and the longstanding trio with Marilyn Crispell and Paul Lytton.

  • Maribe Lambert Markouizos was born in Paris in 1947 and raised in Toulouse, France. From 1964 to 1969, she studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-arts et des Arts Appliqués à l’industrie in Bourges under the direction of Henry Malvaux. During her studies, she was a student of Legrand for decoration, Marcel Gili for sculpture, Labore for academic drawing, and Noel Feuerstein for painting. During this period, she also participated in numerous group exhibitions at the Maison de la Culture in Bourges.

    In 1968, she earned her CAFAS (Certificate of Aptitude for Artistic Training), specializing in decoration. She moved to Athens in 1970, where she established a painting workshop for children. In 1971, she was awarded first prize at the XEN painting exhibition in Kifissia and discovered the island of Hydra. After several years of splitting her time between Athens and Hydra, she moved to the island permanently in 1978.

    Maribe remained active in the local art community. Her contributions to both were well received and highly applauded.

  • Gisler Gähwiler (Fabienne Gähwiler 1997, Mario Gisler 1994) is a Swiss artist duo holding a Master in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts.

    Their practice explores primordial matter as a carrier of deep time and planetary transformation. Working with found everyday objects alongside materials whose histories span from stellar formation to the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere, including elements such as phosphorus, as well as noble gases, minerals, and algae, they investigate the material origins and entanglements of daily life and planetary systems.

    Light, atmospheric composition, wind, and electromagnetic frequencies are approached as sculptural materials, revealing invisible relationships between geological, biological, and atmospheric processes.

    Their installations expose how matter is embedded in global energy flows and complex systems that unfold across temporal and spatial scales beyond immediate human perception.

  • "I wrestle with materials, shaping them into fluid works that blur the boundaries between sculpture and performance. My work embraces the tension between rigid geometric structures and the organic flow of movement, continuing a dialogue that explores the continuous actions of the human body alongside the conversation between materials and their transformations."

  • Canadian painter Stephen Appleby-Barr, currently based in London, approaches painting as storytelling. Wandering through museums and city streets, he searches for characters and settings to weave into his cinematic, otherworldly universe. His dark, intimate scenes, rich colour palettes, and dramatic lighting recall the timeless influence of Baroque masters such as Caravaggio.

  • Laetitia Chauvin is an art critic and independent publisher who divides her time between Paris and Hydra. After gaining experience abroad (Guggenheim Museum in New York) and spending ten years working for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, she co-edited Code Magazine 2.0 from 2010 to 2015.

    Since 2016, she has headed the publishing house Semiose (with over a hundred titles to its credit, including the magazine Pleased to meet you, the series color me, Corpus Painting, Face à face) and has coordinated book projects for other publishers (Zamân Books, JRP Éditions).

    She has organized various events at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Ideal Glass (New York) and writes regularly for institutions and galleries (Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, Fondation Pernod Ricard, etc.). In 2026, she founded Hydra Press, Paris, a publishing house dedicated to the island’s creative scene, guided by friendship, hedonism, and artistic curiosity.

  • Returning Creative Saudi-American photographer and ArtCinema advisor Hisham Abahusayn will join us this June to begin preparations for his October exhibition, as well as to introduce an exclusive pop-up portrait studio experience for our esteemed guests.

    With over 30 years of experience in the Los Angeles entertainment industry, Hisham has recently returned to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he founded Alkimiya Studios - a dynamic creative hub specializing in celebrity, fashion, and editorial photography.

    His work and presence mark an exciting expansion of ArtCinema’s cross-cultural programming.

  • Carla Borel is a London based artist, working with photography and collage. A self taught photographer, she also utilises archive items to explore themes of memory, nostalgia, and family. Borel is most well known for her Stillsoho series, a multidisciplinary project encompassing black and white portraits and ephemera, documenting a generation of artists, writers, friends and lovers, and the landscape of a disappearing London.

    Born in Paris, raised in Las Vegas and a Hampshire village, she was formerly a croupier in Mayfair casinos; a bartender at the French House in Soho; a gallery girl in London’s art world, working with curator Emma Dexter; and assistant to Beat Generation expert, Barry Miles.

    Her work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, German Vogue, AnOther Man, Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian. She is included in art collections through Europe and the US, including Seamus McGarvey, Jessica and James Purefoy, and Dolly Alderton.

  • Nela Eggenberger is a Vienna-based art historian specializing in contemporary photography. She is the editor of the new periodical P.IN.E.A (Photography, Intermedia Et Al.), which she founded together with Pia Draskovits. P.IN.E.A seeks to offer orientation within the cosmos of apparatus-based images and to open up new perspectives on the photographic medium.

    Since 2025, P.IN.E.A Periodical has been published continuously online and, since May 2026, semiannually in print. Previously, Nela Eggenberger was Editor-in-Chief of EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art (2013–2025). She regularly serves as a juror for various grants and artist-in-residence programs, and occasionally curates exhibitions. A member of AICA, her texts are frequently published in international journals and catalogs.

  • Christian A. Lang is a lens-based artist and filmmaker living and working in Berlin, whose long-term, conceptual projects explore space, memory, and the visible impact of time. Following media science studies in Berlin, he completed film training in New York under Emmy-winning cinematographer Sol Negrin. His fine art practice has developed a distinct visual language balancing documentary precision with atmospheric dissolution—strongly influenced by the conceptual power of the Düsseldorf School.

    A Berlinale Talents alumnus since 2004, Lang has realized numerous acclaimed visual projects and has lectured at the University of the Arts Berlin. He has received multiple international awards, recently being named a finalist for the MPB Award at the BBA Prizes 2025 for his portrait series Oscillationen. In 2026, his work is featured in a large-scale presentation at the renowned NordArt exhibition. His latest series, PlantAge, captures the poetic transformation and dissolution of materials, offering a striking condensation of structural order and temporal decay.

  • Adam Shapiro is a figurative artist who splits his time between Hydra, India, and Canada.

    The valley between Kamini and Vlichos has been his main motif while constructing his landscapes, contains a magical harmony of forms, combining the vital elements of land, water, and sky.

    Adam has held solo exhibitions of his work on Hydra, Paris, and Bangalore.

  • Originally from Sicily, Salvatore Di Gregorio is an award-winning photographer whose work explores cultural diversity and social identity through intimate, candid imagery. In 2014, he won the Sony World Photography Awards for Kushti, a project on India's ancient wrestling tradition.

    In 2019, his project Taliami e te fazzu Petra was selected for Red Hook Labs New Artist III. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Fototeca de Cuba in Havana, C|O Berlin, and Gibellina PhotoRoad. His latest project, Sicily Not Alaska, premiered in 2023 and has been featured by the Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and Zeit Magazin. Di Gregorio has photographed for Vogue America, Vogue Italia, W Magazine, and Gucci. He is represented by Sevensix and lives and works between London and Sicily.

  • Lara Pan is a curator, writer, and researcher based between New York and Paris whose cross-disinplinary work explores the intersections of contemporary art, science, technology and systesm of knowledge.

    She has organised exhibitions and projects internationally with institutions including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Performa, Kunsthalle Winterthur, the Museum of Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML), and the Château de Montsoreau - Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.

    In 2025, she curated the critically acclaimed exhibition The Mirror Effect, marking 60 years of Art & Language. She is also known for the book of interviews From Then and Beyond, published with Verlag für moderne Kunst in collaboration with Oliver Kielmayer, which examines the life and work of Carolee Schneemann. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and WhiteHot Magazine.