Author: dimitra

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

Kyriaki Goni (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), participates in the group show DYS[u]topia presented at T.A.F / the art foundation.

The exhibition presents some disturbing questions about the current shift in human civilization, the desire to change humanity through technology and even to replace the human being with a new species -the Homo-Deus- (superhuman). DYS[u]topia contextualizes the emergence and convergence of new technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, cognitive science technology and future technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, super-intelligence and transferring thoughts.

The exhibition is organized and curated by the Austrian agency of art and visual media -global:artfair-.

Participating artists: Julia Zastava, David Osthoff, Litto Daniela, Anna Vasof, Sarah Howorka, Tina Muliar, Kyriaki Goni, Ioannis Pitsikalis & Konstantinos Venis, Maria Paneta

On view: 31.05.2018 – 15.06.2018

In conjuction with the exhibition The Short Small Weak Film Festival, programmed by Loukianos Moshonas (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) and Alexandra Streshna, presents six short films that offer a glimpse into international and local contemporary cinema. The program also features Hiwa by Jacqueline Lentzou (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018).

Program: Copa Loca (2017) by Christos Massalas, The Party and the Barking (A Festa e os cães) (2015) by Leonardo Mouramateus, Astrometal (2017) by Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, Springtime Suns (Soles de primavera) (2013) by Stefan Ivancic, Hiwa (2017) by Jacqueline Lentzou, La Bouche (2017) by Camilo Restrepo

The Short Small Weak Film Festival is organized in conjunction with Slower, Smaller, Weaker, which aims at mobilizing spaces in the Olympic Village and creating conditions for encounters for local residents.

Screenings: 02.06.2018

Last day to see SONGS FOR SABOTAGE and the works of Manolis D. Lemos and KERNEL, Petros Moris and Pegy Zali as KERNEL (ARTWORKS Fellows 2018) at the New Museum in New York.

The New Museum Triennial is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture. The first edition was initiated in 2009. Songs for Sabotage, the fourth New Museum Triennial, questions how individuals and collectives around the world might effectively address the connection of images and culture to the forces that structure our society.

Together, the artists in Songs for Sabotage propose a kind of propaganda, engaging with new and traditional media in order to reveal the built systems that construct our reality, images, and truths. The exhibition amounts to a call for action, an active engagement, and an interference in political and social structures, and brings together works across mediums by approximately thirty artists from nineteen countries, the majority of whom are exhibiting in the United States for the first time.

Songs for Sabotage is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, and Alex Gartenfeld, founding Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, with Francesca Altamura, Curatorial Assistant. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished by the New Museum and Phaidon Press Limited.

On view: 13.02.2018 – 27.05.2018

Alexandros Simopoulos (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) will present his latest work Plantarium as a result of the residency he did at Malta under the initiative Esplora Interactive Science Centre and Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture.

A visual botanical compendium, documenting some of the “magical” plants that belong in the Maltese flora and narrating their secret life and the stories that surround them.

Duration: 30min

Directed by: Alex Simopoulos
Music by: Ian Caruana
Narrated by: Sarah Galea

Malvina Panagiotidi (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in Acropolis at the Bottom, a group show curated by Katerina Nikou.

Taking as a fact the existence of an Acropolis at the Bottom, the exhibition raises questions about the economic, social and political situation of today. What can happen when a group of people is forced to live in a box in the water? What does danger mean in contemporary society? What can contain a box that traps people into a situation? What is an external threat?

Participating artists: Andreas Angelidakis, Aristide Antonas, Dimitris Andreadis, Katerina Apostolidou, Nikos Arvanitis, Christos Athanassiadis, Vicky Betsou, Panos Charalambous, Thaleia Chioti, Kostas Christopoulos, Vaggelis Hoursoglou, Anestis Ioannou, Antonis Kiourktsis, Ioanna Kostika, Konstantinos Kotsis, Varvara Liakounakou, Fanouris Moraitis, Malvina Panagiotidi, Panos Papadopoulos, Angelo Plessas, Socratis Socratous, Theophilos Tramboulis, Alexandros Tzannis, Dimitra Vamiali, Jannis Varelas, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Anastasia Ax, ATH1281, Antons Kats, Caroline May, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Prinz Gholam, Hiwa K., Em Kei, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Anja Kirschner-David Panos.

On view: 25.05.2018 – 11.06.2018

With his first solo exhibition at Elika Gallery, Augustus Veinoglou (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) redefines the exhibition space by incorporating into the gallery architectural elements of an underground tunnel. What triggers it and guides it is the inextricable urban landscape with its inconspicuous structures of a hidden town.

The installation focuses on networks of invisible aqueducts, extending under archaeological sites, on subway tunnels, as well as on the excavation tracks formed by the archaeologists. It is an environment composed by three-dimensional, wall-mounted sculptures, associated with urban myths of the city.

Station Retrograde, emits an allegory regarding the definition of retrogression. Throughout excavations and a tendency to rake-up the soil, we inherit today the works presented at this exhibition, like fossils and machinery complex, pointing to an underground technological world. This process does not focus on the past. Seen from the future, the pieces converse with the destructible and indestructible, they become with the use of natural and synthetic materials the traces of a decomposing space.

On view: 25.05.18 – 30.06.18

Despina Flessa (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) participates in group show In Loco Parentis:

Last November, in Moscow, six artist friends met at the home of Maxim Illiukin and Natascha Strutchkova to share short presentations of their work. Eleni Mylonas showed a video she had just completed about her mother. The video was moving and powerful and at the end of the projection there was an outburst of enthusiastic clapping. Maxim then suggested that the six artists present including our friend Rafael Mahdavi, form a group of seven artists to revisit the legacy of their parents through their own work. It is interesting to note that some of the parents were artists themselves. This exhibition is made possible with the kind support of the art space Romantso.

Participting artists: Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Despina Flessa, Maxim Ilyukhin, Rafael Mahdavi, Ivan Masteropoulos, Eleni Mylona, Natasha Struchkova

The show runs through 31.05.2018.