GROUP EXHIBITION “ΔΕΚΑ” CURATED BY NICOLAS VAMVOUKLIS

K-Gold Temporary Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary in Lesvos in the summer of 2023, marking comprehensive artistic and educational programming in collaboration with re-nowned art professionals and institutions. This social experiment has been warmly em-braced by the local community and succeeded in bringing art closer to everyone while demonstrating how contemporary culture can catalyze the development of the Greek is-lands.

The exhibition ΔΕΚA, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis, is developed as a screening pro-gram featuring representative works by some of the most acclaimed international visual art-ists and choreographers, who have experimented with video and film to capture the body in motion. In particular, the show explores performativity in the moving image by revisiting key themes that traverse previous events of the Gallery. Ideas around transformation, faith, care, gender identity, and travel are elaborated to create new meeting points through hybrid audiovisual narratives.

The selection of ten groundbreaking works from the 1970s to the present day immerses the viewer into a unique atmosphere of theatricality and rituals while celebrating the need to re-define human relationships in the here and now. The camera functions as a revolutionary tool for documenting immaterial and ephemeral artistic practices; it also highlights the body as a means of resistance and claim at the boundaries of art, politics, and activism. These approaches affirm that performance is an integral part of our everyday lives.

Beyond the screening program, the Gallery’s yard hosts a sound installation by American artist and composer Cory Arcangel, who has a strong interest in the technology of music and its impact on contemporary art. Based on house and techno riffs, his suite “24 Dances For The Electric Piano” was previously performed on a world tour that included The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Berliner Philharmonie.

The educational program of the exhibition is developed in collaboration with the experiential art space “Lefko Harti” in Mytilini. It features creative workshops by Mari Moustaizi and Mi-chael Meimaroglou. More information will be announced on social media.

Artists: Marina Abramović, Allora & Calzadilla, Cory Arcangel, Vanessa Beecroft, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Liam Gillick & Gelatin, Maria Lassnig, Anna Maria Maiolino, Li Ran, Pipilotti Rist

*Νicolas Vamvouklis is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2021) in curating.

“ΔΕΚΑ”
K-Gold Temporary Gallery
10 years of contemporary art in Lesvos

21-30 July 2023

INFORMATION

21-30/07/2023
11:00-14:00 and 19:00-22:00
Free entrance

Exhibition opening: Friday 21 July, 20:00
The public space outside the Gallery is flooded with dynamic beats and traditional flavours at a party that bridges contemporary music with local gastronomy.

For the opening of the exhibition, there will be a free round-trip bus from Mytilini to K-Gold Temporary Gallery. Departure from the KTEL bus station (Friday 21 July at 19:00). Reservations: +30 6942202222.

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Κ-GOLD TEMPORARY GALLERY

K-Gold Temporary Gallery brings contemporary art and culture closer to everyone through exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist residency programs, educational activities, and publications. It is a founding member of the Mediterranean network MIRAMAR and collabo-rates with the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.

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