Month: January 2019

ARTWORKS Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the Living Networks, a talk organised by Transmediale, on January 1, 2019.

ARTWORKS Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the Creating Empathy exhibition at Spectrum Berlin with her project Eternal u.inc. The exhibition is on view fromJanuary 30 to February 8 2019.

In the exhibition Creating Empathy, Spektrum presents works investigating the relation of the self with the other person and, more generally, humans with other life forms. In neuroscience, empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share someone else’s feelings by means of a mirroring effect provided by special type of neurons—mirror neurons—in both animals and humans. This reflective state of feeling-the-other as a means of sustaining the nature of the relation between beings is affirmed via the ongoing evolutionary success of technology.

What if artists created approaches to critically expand this mirroring effect between people by using machines? When do tools and knowledge of technology and science become meaningful enough to catalyze social empathy in new cultural and artistic forms? And could it possible to technologically extend this sense of feeling-the-other to non-human creatures or things?

The exhibition is curated by Alfredo Ciannameo for SPEKTRUM in collaboration with TRANSMEDIALE. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

ARTWORKS Fellow Giorgos Nikopoulos, with his work Urban OX, participates in the exhibition Performance Rooms 2019 organised by Kappatos Gallery at Saint George Lycabettus Hotel starting Thursday 24 January until Sunday 27 January from 19:00-22:00.

Kappatos Gallery in collaboration with the non-profit organization Pantheon present the exhibition titled Performance Rooms 2019. Now entering its third decade ROOMS is an event which was first organised in 1999. This year, nineteen curators present performers from the visual arts as well as other artistic fields such as theatre, dance, music and multimedia in the rooms of a hotel.

The exhibition aims to systematically present and record contemporary trends and propositions in the artistic field of performance, both in theory and practice. It also aspires to create an essential and fruitful dialogue between the participants, in continuation of previous Rooms events, which have contributed in promoting a large number of artists and curators.

The exhibition is of a non-profit mentality and will take place at the rooms of the St. George Lycabettus Hotel .

Participating Artists: Marilena Aligizaki, Katerina Drakopoulou, GAAM (Konstantinos Gkarametsis) and Anna Papathanasiou, Maria Galazoula, Giannis Gardiklis, Vera Iona (Papadopoulou) and Eliza Krikoni, Roula Karaferi, Spyros Kouvaras, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Artemis Orfanidou, Evgenia Papageorgiou, Iro Papakosta, Marios Stamatis, Vasilis Skarmoutsos and Foteini Alexopoulou, Antigoni Theodorou, Thodoris Trampas, Eleni Tsamadia, Evtixia Tzanetoulakou, ZS Ensemble.

Participating Curators: Domna Gounari, Dio Kaggelari, Nasia Kalamaki, Dora Kechagia, Francesco Kiàis, Alkistis-Maria Kontopoulou, Macklin Kowal, Maria Maragou, Valentini Margaritopoulou, Dimitra Marini, Christina Mot, Simoni Niarou, Vasiliki-Maria Plavou, Nikoleta Prepi, Irini Savvani, Marianna Strapatsaki, Lina Tsikouta, Evtixia (Faye) Tzanetoulakou, Antonis Volanakis, Maria Xypolopoulou.

ARTWORKS Fellows Giorgos Moraitis and Panos Profitis participate in the exhibition of the ASFA – Department of Fine Arts “Graduates 2014-2017 Part 2”, curated by Katerina Tselou. The exhibition runs  17.01.2019-09.02.2019

The Exhibition of the Graduates of the School of Fine Arts is one of the oldest and most established large-scale events in the visual arts in Greece. For many decades, the public is given the opportunity to get to know the work of emerging artists, to meet them and to get a representative picture of contemporary art at the present time.

Our Fellow Kyriaki Goni, participates in the group show Bunker, organised by Athens Intersection 18.01.2018-28.01.2018.

Bunker
From a war shelter, to a “shelter” of ideas

The word ‘bunker /shelter’ did not exist in the Athenian vocabulary. Haven foreseen the clouds of the War of 1936, the Metaxas government designed and implemented a civil protection program, a network of shelters.
‘Bunker’ exhibition takes place in a real bunker shelter located at 33 Praxitelous street, within a modernist building of the second half of the 1930s which remains well preserved in its original form. Within a distinctive atmosphere in which art meets the hidden heritage and history of Athens, 17 artists comment on issues of power, withdrawal, decay, conflict, time and transformation, staging their work as a temporary ‘refuge’ of ideas.

Participating artists: Nikos Artemis, Eleanna Balesi, Kostas Bassanos, Athina Pavlou Benazi, Katerina Botsari, Hrakleia Dede, Kyriaki Goni, Babis Karalis, Anna Maneta, Dimitris Merantzas, Alexandra Nakou, Sofia Ntovoli, Natassa Poulantza, Angelos Skourtis, Kostas Tsolis, Andreas Vousouras, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos.

Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos
Coordinated by: Fotini Kapiris

Our Fellows Malvina Panagiotidi and Pavlos Tsakonas participate in the group show In Total Light at Allouche Benias Gallery 17.01.2019-31.03.2019.

Allouche Benias is pleased to present the group show “In Total Light”, featuring the work of Stelios Faitakis,Panayiotis Loukas, Malvina Panagiotidi, Vassilis H., Filippos K., Elias Kafouros, Pavlos Tsakonas, Vassilis Karouk, Diamantis Sotiropoulos, Vassilis Markosianand ATH Kids.

Large-scale installations, sculptures and painted works create an expressionistic, and even at times, psychedelic atmosphere that invites us to familiarise ourselves with each artist’s cosmic consciousness, intimate concerns and fantasies. Simultaneous to our authorised submission, forceful images and references of pop culture emerge until we are urgently drawn back to reality and to its uneasy truth.

We become sensitive to the fragile corporeality of Malvina Panagiotidi’s sculptures and Pavlos Tsakonas’ symbolistic painting. We open ourselves up to hybrids of reality: from Faitakis’ saints and sinners to Elia Kafouros’ action figures and Vassili H.’s anthropomorphic creatures. We travel to Panayiotis Loukas’ fantastical places of the subconscious and to Filippo K.’s realistic, sombre landscapes.

The show “In Total Light” comes together to explore freedom from the preconceived. Each character comes to own their idiosyncratic diverse human and bestial qualities, posing as a reminder of a collective social compromise that implicates each human entity.