Venetsiana Kalampaliki

Short Bio

Venetsiana Kalampaliki (b. 1991, she/her), is a dance artist based between Athens and Hamburg. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance (2016), the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens (2018) and holds a MFA in Visual Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2022).

Her diversified studies have initiated an expanded use of media in her works that involve text, voice and movement, focusing on the body as a central component and evolving within sociopolitical contexts of accessibility and inclusion. She develops her artistic practice through interdisciplinary collaborations extended in the fields of contemporary dance, digital and visual arts, performance and disability arts.

Her work has been presented at the ONC#7 of Onassis Stegi, the Holland Dance Festival, the 27th Kalamata International Dance Festival, the Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, the Skånes Dansteater, the Nicosia International Festival, the Mill of Performing Arts Festival (“Re-call”, 2020), at the ONC#8 of Onassis Stegi (“Besuch” collective project, 2021), at Kampnagel and the Hauptsache Frei Festival (“Phrases”, 2022-23), at FIAT Athens and Lichthof Theater (“Sonic Dances”, 2025) and at Kampnagel (“Anatomy of Words”, 2026) . In 2021-22, she was a resident choreographer at K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg and was invited to the international residency programmes at NAVE, Santiago Chile (2022), Seoul Dance Centre, Seoul S. Korea (2023), and CCOV Montréal Canada (2025).

As a performer, she has worked together with Anna Konjetzky (“Tomorrow…we…were”), Antje Velsinger (“Goodbye/ Farewell”), Sina Saberi (“basis for being نرگس”) Jenny Beyer (“ENSEMBLE”), Romeo Castellucci (“Democracy in America”), Lenio Kaklea (“The age of Crime”), Iris Karayan (“17 gestures forced uttered”), the OKTANA Dance Theatre (“The Right of Spring”), and the Hellenic Dance Company, amongst others. As a choreographer she has collaborated with Antje Pfundtner for the piece We call it a house (Kampnagel, 2023), Rimini Protokoll for the production La danse d’Amazon (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 2023) and the Contemporary Dance School of Hamburg (CDSH) for the creation of Phrases Group Version (Hamburger Sprechwerk, 2024). 

Venetsiana is a coordinator of the Professional Training Programme of K3 Tanzplan Hamburg since 2022. She is a certificated danceWELL teacher for people with Parkinson’s and she is regularly leading dance trainings for professional dancers and movement research workshops for people with physical disabilities, visual impairments and intellectual disorders.

Her work has been supported by the Dis-Tanz-Solo Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, the Residenzförderung of Fonds-Daku (Kampnagel), the Goethe Institut Montreal, the Goethe Institut Athen, the Behörde für Kultur und Medien (BKM), the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, the Flux Foundation and the Greek Ministry of Culture.

She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022, she has received the danceWEB scholarship of Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival for 2023 and has received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute Montréal for her participation in the Conversations on Performance program of the FTA Festival TransAmériques in 2024.