Exhibition Showcases West Attica University Student Art

An exhibition of works by the University of West Attica students opened at the “Art & Environment” area of the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” this week.

The exhibition is free and will remain on the premises until the end of the year (December 31, 2023).

Works by the students of the “Visual Art Applications” laboratory of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the University of West Attica will be exhibited.

Student participants enthusiastically embraced the challenge and were engaged, for over a year, in the creation of original works through the collage technique, developing their ideas on the following creative themes:

Sky, Limited-Unlimited, Countries, Journeys, Nations, Earth, Travel, Space, Border-Borderless, etc. or adopting personal interpretations of concepts and terms.

Visual and conceptual approaches followed literal, metaphorical, symbolic, realistic, hyperrealistic or abstract paths or even a combination of some of them.

The selected artworks of this “journey” are presented at the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” both in wall-mounted digital prints and in a continuous stream of images projected on a video.

Concept & Curating of the Exhibition: Harris Pressas, Professor, Dean of Faculty of Applied Arts & Culture; Myrto Vounatsou, Assistant Professor, Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts & Culture.

The recently established University of West Attica is headquartered near the iconic archaeological site of Plato’s Academy in Athens.

It places emphasis on research and innovation, and plans to attract more students from abroad through specially-designed courses for foreigners.

West Attica University launched in 2018

Launched in 2018, UNIWA was born from the merger of three historic universities that had been operating in the Greek capital for decades: the multidisciplinary Technological Educational Institute of Athens and Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, both founded in 1973, and the prestigious National School of Public Health, founded in 1929 by then Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.

“Before the merger, the former two schools could only provide undergraduate and master degrees, not doctoral. Now, with the completion of the University, and joined by the National School of Public Health, which has been producing postgraduate and research alumni for over 90 years, we are able to offer the full spectrum of titles in our disciplines”, Rector Panagiotis Kaldis, PhD, told Greek Reporter recently.

Spanning across three campuses and with a fourth one in the making, UNIWA is already the third largest in the country in terms of student numbers; 57,000 undergraduates, 5,500 postgraduates and 570 doctoral candidates.

It boasts twenty-seven departments, covering a wide range of modern science, including social, administrative and economic sciences, engineering sciences, health and welfare sciences, food sciences and art studies.