Valentina Triet
Akwa Ibom, Greece
1 June - 31 July 2026
Founded in 2019, Akwa Ibom is a non-profit exhibition space in Athens that approaches curating like editing a book – exploring how exhibitions can live on through photography and text. It focuses on experimental documentation and embraces the challenges of translating complex formats and ideas into other forms. Akwa Ibom brings together works from diverse disciplines, places and histories to uncover shared sensibilities and create new narratives.
Valentina Triet’s first solo exhibition in Greece will present new works alongside her ongoing video series Provider. For the first time, Provider will be shown as an immersive installation, combining pixelated fashion footage with sculptural elements. Exploring repetition, identity and consumer culture, the series transforms runway videos from the 1980s to the present into abstract visuals. The newly commissioned works expand the Provider series in two key directions: a collaborative engagement with fashion archives and the realisation of sculptural floor installations. Additional photographs from German designer Kostas Murkudis and British designer Mary Quant’s archives will expand the Provider series by adding additional layers to this evolving dialogue between fashion, art and institutional commissioning.
Valentina Triet (born 1991 in Winterthur) lives and works in Vienna. Her practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture and video. She deals with techniques of orientation in architecture, infrastructure and landscape. She is interested in how certain patterns and arrangements help organise our surroundings, shaping how we think and move, but also limit certain perspectives. Her art plays with both recognisable forms and abstract elements, treating them as equals rather than placing one above the other.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
This exhibition was aided by a research trip to Vienna by the curator Maya Tounta, organised by Phileas in February 2024, and by her participation in the PART – Prater Art Residency Austria in July 2025.
