Collectif masi
Collectif MASI was founded in 2018 by Greek architect and urban scenographer Madlen Anipsitaki and French sociologist Simon Riedler. Exploring the interdependence between people and their environment, they treat a given space, and the possibilities it offers, as their primary material, focusing especially on the relationships that can be formed within it. This practice of social sculpture in public space gives rise to an evolving archive, exhibited internationally.
Following their matrix project in South America with numerous universities (2018–2019), MASI live and work between Athens and Paris. Their partners include 2023 Eleusis, VSP, ARTWORKS, MISC, Art Athina (Greece), Salon de Montrouge, Villa Belleville, Nuit Blanche (France), KKARC (Japan), and Kunstmuseum Moritzburg (Germany).
madlen anipsitaki
Born in 1987, Madlen Anipsitaki is a Greek architect and urban scenographer, graduated in 2015 from Paris-Malaquais inside the Fine Arts of Paris. Since her thesis « The Parisian passage in the 21st century : Passage as network through a block », she focuses on experimenting with the links between public and private spaces.
simon riedler
Born in 1991, Simon Riedler is a French sociologist graduated from Paris-Dauphine (2014) and Paris-Diderot (2017) universities, specializing in the field of international migrations and interethnic relations. Since, his social and artistic work has been questioning the city’s ability to integrate people from different backgrounds.
« MASI chooses as material for their artworks a given space and the potentialities it offers, in particular the relationships that can exist and be woven within it. »
VIOLETTE MORISSEAU, Curator
« Collectif MASI’s artistic practice assiduously explores the built and the inhabited in interaction with public space. It’s an art of the field, a tangible collective imprint. »
STEFANIA ORFANIDOU, Curator
« The gestures proposed by MASI are simple: pulling a thread, hanging painted sheets from balconies, marching in procession up on mobile sculptures. […] It is also about the art of recycling (out of necessity), the death of individualism, the shift away from the sacred space of the institution, the rejection of certain production logics, and the choice of a discredited aesthetics: all that is valuable. »
EVA BAROIS DE CAEVEL, Curator
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