Month: June 2018

Our Fellows, Giorgos Palamaris and Pavlos Tsakonas, participate at the group show Shell / the politics of being, at the 15th High School in Kypseli, curated by Dr Kostas Prapoglou.

Embarking from the first chapter of the [un]known destinations exhibition that took place at the former 1924 Zarifi residence in Kypseli Athens (September – October 2017), curator Dr Kostas Prapoglou activates with the second chapter of the exhibition one of the most significant historical buildings of the area, whose trajectory was in parallel terms with those of all neighbouring buildings including the Zarifi residence.

Participating artists: Katerina Apostolidou, Maria Adromachi Chatzinikolaou, Evangelos Chatzis, Mary Christea, Aikaterini Gegisian, Kleio Gizeli, Apollonas Glykas, Yannis Kondaratos, Eleni Lyra, Despina Meimaroglou, Giorgos C. Palamaris, Rena Papaspyrou, Andreas Savva, Dimitris Skourogiannis, Rania Schoretsaniti, Marianne Strapatsakis, Yannis Theodoropoulos, Nikos Tranos, Pavlos Tsakonas, Betty Zerva, Eleni Zouni.

On View:  26.06.2018 – 24.07.2018

Eirini Vianelli (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), participates in the Edinburgh International Film Festival with her short animation Icebergs.

Based on the book “Scenes” by award-winning screenwriter Efthymis Filippou (“Dogtooth”, “The Lobster”, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), Icebergs is an existential, dark comedy consisting of 14 short vignettes, ranging from the mundane to the absurd.

Established in 1947, the Film Festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema – and for heralding and debating changes in global filmmaking.

Ioannis Koliopoulos and Vasilis Papageorgiou -both ARTWORKS Fellows 2018- take part in the exhibition An exercise on Values at Haus N Athens, curated by Alexios Papazacharias.

Exhibition text:

Dear,

an exercise on values sounds very appropriate. Somehow it sounds nice, it is vague enough and equally precise, seductive but not flattering. Here is what an exercise on values consists of: two oil paintings negotiating nothing through completely different approaches, a common ancestor, a photo taken in a laundry service, empty bottles of alcohol (drinks), a couple of material gestures, some bread, car related stuff, a water sprinkler playing drums, three guillotines, something created to bring joy to everyday life, an homage to Asger Jorn, an image of a large truck or a large image of a truck, some hands pointing out the difference, watercolors, tree trunks and knives, colored photograms, a quotation, a bucket with water, a brain, a heart and a spinal cord, a curtain, a photograph of a person checking a book, a handful of silver neck chains, an image and a mirror image.

Kind regards

Alexios Papazacharias

Works by: Eugenia Apostolou, Maria Polyzoidou, Nana Sachini, Natasha Papadopoulou, Amalia Vekri, Kostas Sahpazis, Ioannis Koliopoulos, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Albert Mayr, Eleni Kamma, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Antonín Jirát, Antonis Pittas, Thanassis Totsikas, Aleksandra Vajd, Maria Papadimitriou, Jiří Kovanda, Peter Kogler, Alexis Akrithakis, Jiří Thýn, Alexios Papazacharias, Yorgos Sapountzis

Our Fellows Alexis Fidetzis and Giannis Delagrammatikas with Foteini Palpana (as part of Campus Novel artist collective), participate in the exhibition Homo Sportivus curated by Konstantinos Argianas.

This exhibition deals with a number of issues related to sports spectacles, sports subjects and objects, as well as their relevant spaces. The participating artists are critically exploring, among other things, the political uses of sport, sport as heroization process, the excessive worship of healthy and trained bodies, as well as the role of the stadium as a place for shaping national, political and gender identities.

Participating artists: Marilena Aligizaki, Giannis Antoniou, Dimitris Antonitsis, Giannis Vastardis, Vasilis Vlastaras, Giannis Theodoropoulos, Georgia Kotretsos, Christos Michailidis, Nikos Papadimitriou, Panos Sklavenitis, Theodoros Stamatogiannis, Alexis Fidetzis, Nikos Charalambidis, Yula Hadjigeorgiou, Dionysis Christofilogiannis, Campus Novel, Versaweiss, Theo-Mass Lexileictous and Poka Yio.

On View: 28.06.2018-27.07.2018.

Our Fellow, Orestis Mavroudis, participates in the exhibition That’s IT!  at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.

On view: 22.06.2018–11.11.2018.

Our Fellows Paky Vlassopoulou, Kosmas Nikolaou and Chrysanthi Koumianaki  founding members of 3137, Dimitra Dimopoulou and Manolis-Daskalakis-Lemos from SERAPIS, Hypercomf (Ioannis Koliopoulos and Paola Palavidi), Vasilis Papageorgiou with Enterprise Projects, Katerina Kotsala, Valia Papastamou, Iason Megoulas (Cacao Rocks), Stefania Strouza and Rania Bellou will be presenting their works at Art Athina 2018.

Art Athina is one of the oldest international art fairs of Europe with a constant and consistent presence since 1993, upon its inauguration. The first edition of Art Athina, bearing the title A contemporary art meeting, was composed by 18 galleries. Through the years, the core of the art fair has been enriched by national and international participations. Its multidisciplinary program has been extended by synergies with distinguished art practitioners, museums and institutions, as well as focus towards the local scenes of other countries and educational programs. The expansive profile of Art Athina has marked the local field, and is imprinted on the conscious of the professionals and the public. For its 22nd edition, Art Athina presents its new profile. Apparent on every aspect, it aspires to live on the high standards of today.

IT WAS EVENING ALL AFTERNOON is a ‘single-day’ show presented by visual artist and ARTWORKS Fellow 2018 Malvina Panagiotidi at YOU CANNOT HIDE FOR MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS, a public space in a private time. It is the name for a series of visual propositions of artists and architects to showcase on a single day.

THE INVITATION TO AN INTENTIONAL HIDE N ‘ SHOW DECLARATION suggests a ‘single-day’ show by artists and architects; a moral imperative to do with the meeting place of the artwork presented; a direct experience; works of art that tell you what is happening at the moment, the moment you see it. The single day show form deals not with duration but with time , it emphasizes the momentousness of the moment in artist’s life; one moment is called HIDE, next moment is called SHOW; one moment ‘these things never happened but are always’, next moment ‘these things happen but never were’. Now we need to invent reality . Either way, anyway, it is always about now, both the now in which it is being created and the now it is being seen.

On view: 16.06.2018 from 19:30 to 01:30

In collaboration with independent pop-up Galerie SOON, Fotis Sagonas (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) is presenting his work during Art Basel.

Participating artists: Liliane Freiermuth, Wojtek Klimek, Naoki Fuku Remo Lienhard / WES 21, Kostas Maros, Pierre-Alain Münger, Fotis Sagonas, Serge Nyfeler, Bruno Streich Vermibus, VinZ feel free, Maja Hürst / TIKA

On view: 12.06.2018-16.06.2018

Our Fellows Vasilis Papageorgiou and Anastasis Stratakis take part in the 6^th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.

The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the sphere of contemporary art in Russia. The biennial’s goals are to bring attention to new names, to support and encourage the creative initiatives of the latest generation of artists and curators, to create the conditions for their public expression and, as a result, to develop the modern art community. Participants in the project are given the chance to make connections and establish creative engagement with the professional artistic community. The biennial provides a space to present the most up-to-date strategies of young artists and curators.

This year’s biennial main project ‘Abracadabra,’ will be dedicated to the pressure to perform of contemporary life, in which the boundaries between what is private, professional and public have been completely blurred. The title refers to the archaic incantation ‘Abracadabra’ as well as to the homonymous disco song by the Steve Miller Band, popular in the 80s. The metaphor of the dance floor will be a red thread and framework to investigate the relationship between independent agency, pleasure and commitment.

The main project is curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.

On view: 08.06.2018 – 81.07.2018

Room E-10 27 at Center is pleased to present Siren Daylight, a two-person exhibition by Petros Moris (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) and Lito Kattou.

In a lecture titled ‘How Better to Register the Agency of Things’, Bruno Latour shows the audience a photograph taken from the seat of an airliner. The window of the plane frames a partial view of the wing and front section of the jet engine. Thousands of meters below the engine is a view of a patch of the north Atlantic filled with scattered pieces of ice. Latour tells the audience: “In earlier times I would have seen the ice and the reactor as two separate things. But now when I look at the ice and the reactor of the Boeing itself, you feel that they are related so that the distinction between foreground and background is finally gone. It’s very difficult to see the ice just as a spectacle in the new/old idea of a landscape. There is no landscape anymore, we are in it.”

On view: 14.06.2018-21.07.2018

Kyriaki Goni (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in the group show Cosmonauts of Inner Space at the National Observatory of Athens.

Cosmonauts of Inner Space exhibition focuses on the relationship between the different loci of the human quests for acquiring knowledge, the conjunctions and disjunctions between the inner and outer space, the microcosm and the macrocosm, the private and the social, as well as on the different ways/means of approaching them. As an initiative point, it aims to explore the dialectic relationship between the “microcosm” and the “macrocosm”, with conceptual emphasis on the inner voyage or the assumption of a figurative trip inside the human body.

Concerning the opposition between inner vs. outer space and microcosm vs. macrocosm, some scholars argue that there is no contrast; there is symmetry and isomorphy, or as Yuri Lotman argues, boundaries unify exactly as they divide.

The event will take place at the same time with exhibitions and performances in other big cities, like Athens and Tokyo, as part of the homonymous project: Cosmonauts of Inner Space, which is founded on the idea/concept of Spyros Verykios. He used the film Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer 1966) as the initial trigger, for focusing on the explorers of the “inner space” and their journeys within humans, which are an integral part of the human exploration in the seek of acquiring knowledge. The film recounts the adventures of a submarine crew which shrinks and becomes tiny so that it can enter the body of an injured scientist and fix the damage that his brain has suffered.

Participating artists: Manolis Aggelakis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Nikos Arvanitis, Zaharias Arvanitis, Isidora Avraam, Dimitris Baboulis, Emmanouil Bitsakis, Manos Chrisovergis, Rory O’Connor, Kyriaki Goni,Ioanna Gouma, Juliano Kaglis, Antonis Kapnisis, Apostolos Karakatsanis, George Kazazis, Thanos Klonaris, Kiki Kolympari, Panayiotis Lamprou,Varvara Liakounakou, Maria Mavropoulou,Christos Michaelides, Tassos Missouras, Vasilis Papatsarouhas, Marios Pavlou, Stefanos Rokos,George Tourlas, Giorgos Tserionis, Marios Fournaris, Spyros Verykios.

On view: 08.06.2018 – 22.06.2018