Cycladic Late Night

Venus Volcanism, Anna Vs June & Jan Van Angelopoulos, and OKO DJ engage with the questions raised by the exhibition around the female form, fertility, and the primordial body. From prehistoric small-scale sculpture to the contemporary sculptural surface, the human body remains a central bearer of meaning: a field where matter, desire, memory, and collective imagination converge. What remains unchanged when the same symbol travels across forty thousand years, shifting in materiality from mammoth ivory to polished steel?

Venus Volcanism is a vocalist who creates atmospheric soundscapes, moving between tradition and experimental electronic sound. She explores the voice as a vessel of cultural memory through drones, field recordings and analogue synthesizers, building hybrid, ritualistic sonic worlds.

Anna Vs June & Jan Van Angelopoulos present for the first time in Greece their album Mutable Ground, a sonic work for percussion, voice and live sampling. Processed drums, interrupted vocals and dynamic patterns compose a dialogue between acoustic and electronic elements.

OKO DJ (Marine Tordjemann), from France, one of the most singular DJs of her generation, with appearances at festivals such as CTM and Unsound and at venues including Tresor, and resident at NTS Radio with her show The Twisted Dream Diary, closes the night with a DJ set in the garden of the Stathatos Mansion. Her set draws inspiration from the exhibition, from nature and from the Divine Feminine, blending experimental dub, industrial folk, ’90s rock and spoken word.

Venus Volcanism

Venus Volcanism (Rena Rasouli) is a vocalist, musician, sound explorer and music producer, originally from Crete and currently based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her musical practice moves across a wide spectrum of sonic landscapes, centred on the duality of the voice as a linguistic medium. She explores the relationship between traditional music and technology; how traditional forms can be expressed through electronic sound without losing the cultural memory they carry.

Drawing on notions such as pattern, the primordial, and sonic ritual, her compositions construct sonic worlds from voice, drones, field recordings, and analogue and digital synthesizers.

She has released her first solo EP Rizitiko on Weaponize Your Sound (sub-label of Optimo) and Tissue on Submersion Records. She has presented her work in Greece, Iceland, Austria and Denmark, and has collaborated with the Stegi Radio TakeOver of the Onassis Foundation and with Extreme Chill Festival. She has composed music for the exhibition Kykladitisses: Untold Stories of Women of the Cyclades presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art, and for the dance film Ruins Within Ruins by Lefteris Parasyris, while also being one half of the post-punk duo V.V.I.A.

For Cycladic Late Night, she presents a selection of earlier and new compositions, with femininity at their core, across all its expressions, from tenderness to chaos.

Stathatos Mansion | First Floor
Time: 19:30

Anna vs June & Jan Van Angelopoulos

Anna Papaioannou (Anna Vs June) and Yannis Angelopoulos (Jan Van Angelopoulos) present for the first time in Greece their album Mutable Ground, which was recorded in the winter of 2025 and presented in the autumn of the same year in England and Scotland.
Processed and repetitive percussion, interrupted voices, latent atmospheres, live sampling, and an ongoing dialogue between acoustic and electronic elements capture unstable natural and social phenomena, with the intention of creating a ritualistic environment reminiscent of dances around fires.

Anna Papaioannou lives and works in Athens and writes her own music as Anna Vs June, using analogue and digital sound-producing machines combined with traditional sounds and personal recordings.

Her work has been presented at festivals and venues such as Sonar (Barcelona), Reworks (Thessaloniki), Red Bull Music Festival (Berlin), Stegi Radio Takeover, Hidden Door (Edinburgh) and Sameheads (Berlin), and she has released on labels including Rocket Recordings, Osare! Editions and Invisible Inc.

Yannis Angelopoulos is a drummer and composer, a graduate of the Rotterdam Conservatory (Jazz & World Music Department, 2002). A long-standing collaborator of the theatre group Vasistas, he has composed music for productions by Argyro Chioti at the Onassis Stegi and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, as well as for the dance companies Stereo Nero and the choreographers Katerina Foti and Christiana Kosiari.

Stathatos Mansion | First Floor
Time: 20:30

OKO DJ

Marine Tordjemann, known as OKO DJ, grew up in Paris and lives in Athens. She is one of the most singular DJs of her generation: her sets have been presented at festivals and venues such as Art Basel, Atonal, CTM, Unsound, Tresor, Dekmantel and Solstice.

She is a resident at NTS Radio with her show The Twisted Dream Diary, where she weaves narrations of personal dreams with ambient, psychedelic and experimental soundscapes, and she curates the event series PU$$Y NIGHTMARE, which seeks to bring the notions of consciousness and spirituality back into underground music spaces, bridging electronic and organic practices.

As a producer, her music sits at the meeting point of experimental dub, industrial folk, ’90s rock, spoken word and ritual sound. Inspired by nature, cycles and the Divine Feminine, she has released on labels including Dispari, Futur2010, Metaphore and Red Bull Music. In October 2025, her long-awaited debut album As Above, So Below was released on Stroom, receiving rave reviews from Pitchfork, Boomkat and Nina Protocol.

Stathatos Mansion | Garden
Time: 21:00

The exhibition Jeff Koons: “Venus” Lespugue, on view until 31 August 2026 at the Stathatos Mansion, brings prehistoric and contemporary sculpture into dialogue, examining how the figure of Venus has travelled across more than 40,000 years of human creation.

At its centre stands the first public presentation of Jeff Koons’ Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange), from the Homem Sonnabend Collection, in dialogue with ten Palaeolithic “Venuses” housed in major museums in France, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic.

Rather than offering a linear art-historical narrative, the exhibition unfolds as an open reflection on the evolution of the symbolic body, on the existence of a universal archetype of fertility and femininity that transcends time, and on the way in which the transformation of material, from ivory and limestone to reflective steel, alters or preserves the sacred meaning of the form.

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