Month: April 2022

Spring Forward, the great celebration of contemporary dance, comes for the first time in Greece, from April 28 to May 1, 2022. On the occasion of its 10-year anniversary edition, the city of Elefsina will become an international center of contemporary dance for four days, hosting 25 performances from 16 countries, with free entrance. More than 100 choreographers and dancers from Europe and Asia will participate in the event, attracting the interest of lovers of contemporary creation.

In this context, the first Startup Forum will be launched: a group of emerging dance presenters will be guided through the festival by four Aerowaves Partners, addressing current programming issues by example. Awards will be offered to three of them to plan presentations of Aerowaves artists when they return home. Aerowaves board member and former director of Dance Umbrella Betsy Gregory will lead the initiative.

Participants: Nicolas Vamvouklis (GR), Eva Posedel (SI), Pétur Armannsson (IS), Chiara Bersani (IT), Tendai Malvine, Makurumbandi (NO), Fatima Ndoye (FR), Guillaume Guilherme (CH), Maria Manoukian (GR), Jenna Jalonen (HU), Thjerza Balaj (DK), Aleksandra Lytvyn (UKR).

Spring Forward is a co-organization of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, in collaboration with the artistic organization DAN.C.CE UNITIVA and the largest European network for contemporary dance, Aerowaves.

More information: https://aerowaves.org/

Access to Elefsina
# 21 km

Via car or motorcycle via Attiki Odos or Athinon Avenue, just a 25-minute drive from the Athens city center.
Via bus (lines 845 and 871 from Piraeus, line 876 from the “Agia Marina” metro station and line 878 from Acharnai).

Via the suburban railway (Magoula Station and then bus line 863).
Via KTEL (intercity public transport bus service -> line Megara – Nea Peramos – Eleusis; starting point at Asomaton Square, Thission).

*Nicolas Vamvouklis is a curatorial SNF ARTWORKS Fellow.

“The World” is a pop-up show, presenting the most recent series of works by artist and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021 Margarita Athanasiou. The large-scale glass prints and the text in the publication that accompanies them were created during a very brief period of time in January 2021 and will be on view for a week only.

Athanasiou’s work is text-based, utilises collage techniques and brings together autobiography and historical facts to create multi-layered narratives that span from humorously personal to eminently political. In this very personal project, she presents a series of A0 glass prints alongside a publication created in collaboration with MISC’s design team, Sylvia Sachini and Mano Tzavolakis. In line with her visual language, these newest collages combine original illustration and found imagery to construct esoteric landscapes ripe with hidden references. The partially-transparent syntheses depict wild animals, plants, plastic rock formations, personal objects and items of historical significance to create small-scale monuments of the mystical and the ordinary, still-lives that utilise archetypically romantic imagery, such as flowers and heart shapes to depict fantastical scenes that are grandiosely pop, playfully whimsical and unashamedly self-referential.

Usually working digitally or in the form of publications, this is Athanasiou’s first time toying with the exhibition format. Releasing her collages into the physical realm is the last stage of a creative ritual that she is hoping will give her usually digital worlds a different kind of space to breathe in.

Misc Athens
Toussa Mpotsari 20, Athens, 11741
[email protected]
+30 6934291552

Opening: Tuesday, April 26, 7pm
Dates: 26/04/2022 — 03/05/2022
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Thursday – Friday 12:00 – 20:00
Wednesday – Saturday 15:00 – 19:00
and by appointment

Not allowed for algorithmic audiences (2021) will be presented as a solo exhibition in KVOST – Kunstverein Ost in Berlin.

Opening: 27 April 2022 . 6 -9 pm
Duration: 28.04.2022 – 21.05.2022

Curated by Nathalie Hoyos & Rainald Schumacher

A cooperation between KVOST & Art Collection Telekom

https://kyriakigoni.com/

KYRIAKI GONI

KVOST
Kunstverein Ost e.V.
Leipziger Str 47 /
Jerusalemer Str
10117 Berlin

Maria Louizou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020) will be participating at the Watermill Art Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities on Long Island, New York.

Her residency starts on April 2022.

The solo show “What If We Kissed In The Exhaustion Funnel” by Spiros Kokkonis (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019) is hosted at Saigon Athens from April 8th until April 30th 2022.

You are ready to work 12-16 hours a day. You don’t make any excuses. Employees who move on from Nesting Agent status must place their training notes in an approved shredding bin. Toned abdominal muscles and a flat stomach are the Holy Grail of your vacation appearances. Don’t go to parties. Study highly profitable skills all day long. Record your progress. Sell your skills and experience. Electronic devices capable of capturing or storing information, which could be used to exfiltrate data, are not permitted in Production Areas. You are determined to work hard to succeed.

Text by Giannis Galiatsos

What If We Kissed In The Exhaustion Funnel
Solo show by Spiros Kokkonis
Saigon
Space for visual arts and sound
Thu-Fri: 5-8pm, Sat: 2-4pm or by appointment

The third chapter of the exhibition There is Nothing Inevitable About Time, in which Etel Adnan, The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Konstantinos Giotis, Efrosini Doxiadi, ΦΡΜΚ, Karrabing Film Collective, Lala Meredith-Vula, Malvina Panagiotidi, Praneet Soi.participate, starts on Saturday, April 9

Read more, here

Exhibition:
3 February – 7 May 2022

Opening hours:
Wednesday-Friday: 12:00-20:00
Saturday: 12:00-17:00

Tavros Space
Anaxagora 33, (1st floor), Tavros.
Tavros Μetro station

Supported by:
SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art From Turkey provided support for Sena Başöz, Iaspis, Swedish Institute at Athens, Perianth Hotel

*Konstantinos Giotis and Malvina Panagiotidi SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

When was the last time that you inadvertently broke out a little smile? Or felt warm inside, albeit fleetingly? Or your body and mind were moved, even if just by a tiny bit? When was the last time that you observed or obsessed with a fragment that points somewhere else but is so powerful in and of itself? Anxious about its sweeping force, we often forget the love that is in the details. Unruly, ungovernable, radical, delirious, transformative love inhabits everything that it is part of, no matter how small. These fragments, details of an ever expansive, changing cosmic flow, once released and observed, are capable of raising waves. Beyond the categories of the human, beyond attempts to define or control it, love is a catalyst of change, perhaps the most powerful. Its pieces, like transgressive undercurrents, set the pace, they track the movement, like the bass hitting the body allowing for the melody to travel, change and express itself.

The artists who are part of this initiative are asked to send their details of love, to share a piece that perhaps has been operating alone somewhere, which, once in focus, can emanate new light and foster new connections, by becoming part of a networked expression of love in all its forms, registers and channels.

Moving like vessels in the sea, details of love produce waves that can travel its expanse until the shore feels their impact, big or small. Aware of the depths of the world beneath them and of its currents, they precipitate like foam that fleetingly marks its vast, fluid surface. The inaugural SECCMA Trade, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos, looks at the details of community, solidarity, collectivity and of loving. Details of Love forms a collection of different things that are important to those who love and a connection across shared principles that have allowed their existence.

Text by Kostas Stasinopoulos

All profits of SECCMA Trade: Details of Love will be donated to Emantes International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity , a charitable social cooperative enterprise that provides psychosocial support to LGBTQIA+ refugees/migrants.

With works by Chioma Ebinama, Adham Faramawy, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Pennie Key, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Karolina Krassouli, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Spyros Rennt, Giles Round, Sin Wai Kin, Himali Singh Soin, P. Staff, Bones Tan Jones, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen.

SECCMA Trade is an initiative of SERAPIS & SECCMA Trust* that expresses a vision of synergy and community through art projects based on exchange and support. It forms a network or a hub port of collaboration in order to establish a method of ever-expanding openness.

*SECCMA Trust is a creative venture of SERAPIS that aims to form an alliance supporting the growth and expansion of contemporary art locally and internationally.

Preview: Saturday 2 April, 4-9pm at SECCMA Trust, Likomidon 13, Athens GR

Pennie Key, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Karolina Krasouli and Spyros Rennt are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows. 

The weather is a dynamic system of pressure, temperature and humidity. It manifests through maps, media, and simulations while it touches the skin. Weather is felt unevenly, from extremes to mundane mildness of a breeze. Some are exposed, some are sheltered; weather wears some down, some gain profit.

“Weather Engines” is an art exhibition and a program of talks, performances and workshops taking place at ONASSIS STEGI and the National Observatory of ATHENS (Thissio). It explores weather as a complex system, as observation and control, and as a lived experience. The projects and events refer to natural phenomena and climate change, past and contemporary strategies of engineering the weather, as well as to different sociopolitical atmospheres related to breathing and living. Approaching the models and systems of art as techniques of knowledge, “Weather Engines” addresses the need for climate justice, and for embracing the surrounding more-than-human world(s).

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication “Words of Weather: A glossary” that maps terms for a political ecology of experience.

EXHIBITION PARTICIPANTS
Kat Austen, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Felipe Castelblanco, Kent Chan, Coti K., Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, DESIGN EARTH, Matthias Fritsch, Geocinema, Abelardo Gil-Fournier & Jussi Parikka, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Hypercomf, Lito Kattou, Zisis Kotionis, Manifest Data Lab, Barbara Marcel, Matterlurgy, Petros Moris, Sybille Neumeyer, Afroditi Psarra & Audrey Briot, Susan Schuppli, Rachel Shearer & Cathy Livermore, Stefania Strouza, Superflux, Paky Vlassopoulou, Thomas Wrede

CURATORS
Daphne Dragona & Jussi Parikka

* Hypercomf (Paola Palavidi, Ioannis Koliopoulos), Petros Moris, Stefania Strouza and Paky Vlassopoulou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

More info here

With the exhibition Waste/d Pavilion, episode 1, the Temporary Academy of Arts (Elpida Karaba, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos, Despina Zefkili) inaugurates its collaboration with State of Concept Athens, by taking over its artistic directorship for a year and presenting Waste/d Pavilion, a project which comprises exhibitions, public events, performances, educational activities, screenings, lectures, workshops, discussions and readings around the thematic axes of waste, surplus and abject

Participants: Nikos Arvanitis, Ege Berensel, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand, Peggy Zali and Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Jumana Manna, Dimitra Kondylatou, Fred Lonidier, Armando Lulaj, Tatiana Mavromati and Laura Maragoudaki, Tina Pandi and Marina Markellou.

At the opening, composer Georgia Kalodiki will present a 45′ real time soundscape performance, live electronics.
The performance starts at 21:00.

Waste/d Pavilion unfolds through a series of “episodes,” focusing on different thematics: labor, body, ecology, and language. Artists, researchers, and scientists from Greece and abroad have been invited to present different conceptualisations of the notion of Waste/d, through various ways of viewing, circulating, and developing methodologies for an anti-Waste/d front.

“For Work, about Work, by Work.” These words, used by American artist Fred Lonidier – a core member of the San Diego group that adopted the methods of conceptual art for the purpose of social documentation in the 1970s – to describe the essence of his work, could serve as a leitmotif for the first episode of the Waste/d Pavilion. Although Waste/d does not focus on a strictly delimited theme, episode 1 revolves around different waste/d bodies and places and their claims. Looking at labor in the cultural sector itself, such as the violent occupation of the National Theater in Tirana, where art became a front for the controversial real estate projects of former artist and current Prime Minister Edi Rama.

What are the new wastes of the ongoing “crisis,” with the current war bringing to the fore how expendable and exhaustible human lives are and reminding us once again of the urgency of the energy-related crisis. Can we attempt to write a new social contract? And what can be the role of art and culture in that?

The opening text “Europe after Eurocentrism?” by Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand, included in the publication accompanying episode 1, invites us to rethink the European project in a global context, characterized by mass migration, the challenges of establishing new forms of citizenship, and the new forms of oppression produced by war and climate change.

Waste/d Pavilion is part of State of Concept Athens’ new research chapter ‘Coalition of the Care-full’, a project of the European Pavilion, an international programme of the European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with Camargo Foundation, Fondazione CRT, and Cultura Nova Foundation, in which six cultural organizations from Europe participate: Studio Rizoma Palermo, Arna Vombsjösänkan, Iniva London, L’Internationale, Brunnenpassage Vienna and State of Concept Athens.

Τhe European Pavilion enables cultural spaces to experiment and reflect on Europe. To question, discuss and define what Europe is and what it could become in the future. To tell stories, to imagine, to question. Is there a more appropriate venue for such an undertaking than the European Pavilion?

The Coalition of the Care-full research chapter is funded by the European Cultural Foundation.

Waste/d is an ongoing art and pedagogy research project on social and artistic potential in times of extended crisis, by the Temporary Academy of Arts, PAT (Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos). Waste/d involves research and production of new theory and artistic projects, creating alliances among practitioners from different localities, as well as art and scientific fields and taking various forms (books, lectures, interviews, seminars, performances, live events).

The Temporary Academy of Arts was initiated by Elpida Karaba in 2014. PAT (the abbreviation of Temporary Academy of Arts / Προσωρινή Ακαδημία Τεχνών) is a mobile academy of arts and at the same time an art project of experimental education that adopts mechanisms from various systems of knowledge and art practices for the production and transmission of artistic programs and the construction of their historicity. PAT is a para-institution engaged with a range of activities involved in different levels of institution affiliations. It depends on an ‘expanded’ curating, incorporating exhibitions, events and publishing projects persistently addressing the relationship of art and its institutions, the labour involved and the public.

The Academy is working upon different educational, artistic and social models and adopts a research based and multidisciplinary approach to knowledge production, in order to investigate the boundaries, permeabilities and repressed contradictions that underlie public spaces. Rather than being merely an educational platform or an art school, PAT functions as an analytical tool, concentrating on spatial and institutional criticism. PAT’s projects, combine the symbolic with the mediated and the tactical in order to examine art and its production, inquire on the status and potential of art to address the urban condition and to question the mechanisms of producing and framing knowledge.In each project of the Academy, different artists and theorists are invited as educators, visitors or as consultants to organize and carry out the outcome of the project while different modes of art and educational practice are used, such as workshops, discussions, interviews, performances, (re)enactments etc.

April 7th – May 21st, 2022, State of Concept Athens
Opening : Thursday April 7, 6 – 10 pm