Callirrhoë Athen

Callirrhoë proposes a presentation by the artist duo Ileana Arnaoutou and Ismene King, whose collaborative practice investigates the afterlives of industrial ruins and natural remnants. Working across sculpture, installation and field research, they transform discarded matter into forms that explore memory, resilience and the ways in which material landscapes hold traces of past labour. Their practice is rooted in Greece’s post-industrial and cultural terrain, engaging with remnants such as destroyed wind-turbine blades, aluminium factory by-products, eroded resin moulds.

Ileana Arnaoutou & Ismene King (b. 1994 and 1993, Athens, Greece) are a collaborative duo living and working in Athens. Arnaoutou studied Fine Arts at Slade School of Fine Art and holds an MA in History of Art from UCL, London; King holds an MFA in Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art. Their work has been exhibited in the solo exhibition Lo que una vez fue, lo que perdura at Artnueve, Murcia, Spain (2025), as well as in group exhibitions, including In Bright Green Field organized by DESTE Foundation and the New Museum, New York, at the Benaki Museum, Athens (2025). They have been awarded the 2022 G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize, ARTWORKS-Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship and Ducato Residency Award (2026).