Who We Are
ABOUT THE SPACE
Potamia is an intermedia arts platform, performance space, and gallery that supports experimentation across creative disciplines. Founded in 2024 by artists Nico Alonso and Zeljko McMullen, the project is inspired by years of experience in the DIY and experimental arts and music world, carving out space for communities interested in expanding the boundaries of traditional media, performance, and educational formats.
Potamia [Po-ta-mi-ah], which translates to “rivers” or “land of many rivers” in Greek, embodies the project's ethos as a space for the evolving confluence of many voices, perspectives, and practices.
Situated in the forest on the traditional homelands of the Munsee Lenape people, the founders acknowledge the Indigenous communities who have stewarded this land for generations and whose presence and cultural contributions continue to this day.
POTAMIA’S FOUNDERS
Nico Alonso is an artist and advocate for independently operating artists, curators, and organizers across creative disciplines. She has previously worked with Alanna Heiss’ Clocktower, Pioneer Works, ROOM EAST Gallery, Times Square Arts, Cleveland MoCA, and Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, among others. Skilled in live-stream event production, cross-institutional program development, grant writing, and digital archiving, she is currently a consultant and writes and edits for the arts and entertainment industries.
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Zeljko McMullen is an artist, composer, filmmaker, and photographer who creates perpetually shifting walls of sound and moving images that deconstruct the experiential space of the viewer. He is one of the founders of Paris London West Nile in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a space that became one of the defining DIY experimental venues of late-2000s Brooklyn and later evolved into 285 Kent.
McMullen has worked with artists including Lou Reed, Maryanne Amacher, Tony Conrad, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Larry Clark, among many others. He has been deepening his painting practice over the last 10 years and is currently working on several large-scale visual exhibitions.