Georgia Lale: Lola Speak (2025) by Photographer: Pelagia KaranikolaStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
The exhibition “Lola Speak!” commemorates victims of femicide in Greece and internationally and challenges the victim blaming culture. Womxn all around the world are fighting for their right to make decisions for their own bodies, for equal pay, for safety and happiness.
Georgia Lale: Lola Speak (2025) by Photographer: Pelagia KaranikolaStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Our inner child wants to be happy, carefree and playful. Instead, we have to look behind our backs when walking home at night. And, for many of us, home is where we are most exposed, unprotected and stripped off our human dignity.
Georgia Lale: Lola Speak (2025) by Photographer: Pelagia KaranikolaStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
We fight, mourn, and celebrate life, so that we, our mothers, sisters and friends will lead empowered lives. Our unity changes collective mindsets and prompts the creation of social structures that will ensure equality beyond gender, race, physical challenges, immigration status.
Georgia Lale: Lola Speak (2025) by Photographer: Pelagia KaranikolaStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
The exhibited works were made with bedsheets donated by women that live in Greece, under the condition that they have used them to rest on them and dream of a safe world. The works' visuals are inspired by the 1955 ‘Alphavitarion’ (ABC book) illustrated by K. Grammatopoulos.
Georgia Lale: Lola Speak (2025) by Photographer: Pelagia KaranikolaStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Georgia Lale is a Greek-born American visual artist.
Georgia Lale
Georgia Lale is a Greek-born American visual artist. They were raised in Chaidari, Athens and live in New York since 2014. They received their MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2016) as a Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation and State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) scholar and their BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2013).
Their work has been featured in major art festivals, such as the Art in Odd Places, NYC (2022), the Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy (2020) and the Brussels Nuit Blanche Festival, Belgium (2016).
Lale’s work has been exhibited at the General Consulate of Greece in NY (solo show 2023), Technopolis-Gazi, Athens (solo show 2024), A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, NYC (2023), Border Project Space, NYC (solo show 2022), Collar Works, NY (2021), Smack Mellon, NYC (2018) and A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens (2021), among others.
They have participated at academic conferences organized by the New York Public Library, the Dedalus Foundation, the MoMA Archives and the Yale History of Art Modernist Forum. In 2024, they participated at art residencies by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, NYC and the Live Art Ireland, IE. Their #OrangeVest performance was presented at the Greek Pavilion of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016).
SNFCC Lead Donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) WOW Athens 2025
Major Sponsor: Uber
The WOW Athens 2025 festival is co-funded by the European Union through the Program “Attica” 2021–2027
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