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Lecture “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities” by Despina Zaharopoulou

Despina Zaharopoulou, Performance Artist, Dr. of Philosophy and Fine Arts specializing in Performance Art (Onassis Foundation Scholar & SNF ARTWORKS Fellow), Royal College of Art, London will give a lecture on: “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities” on Thursday, April 4, 12:00 – 15:00, AKTO Amphitheater (11 A, Evelpidon str., 11362, Pedion Areos, Athens, Greece)

AKTO
Department of Fine Art & New Media
Evelpidon 11A, 11362, Pedion Areos

Despina Zaharopoulou
Lecture “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities”
Thursday, April 4th, 12:00-15:00

 

 

KOSTIS CHARAMOUNTANIS’ FEATURE WORLD PREMIERS AT ACID SECTION, CANNES FESTIVAL

Kostis Charamountanis’ feature film “Kyuka – Before Summer’s End” world premieres at Cannes parallel section Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independant Cinema) !

Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.

This year’s selection world premieres nine features and will be screened at Cannes Festival between May 15 and 24, 2024 at Palais des festivals, Les Arcades, Studio 13, Alexandre III.

Read the conversation between Kostis Charamountanis and Tassos Chatziefraimidis that was published at READING section on ARTWORKS website here.

*Kostis Charamountanis is SNF ARTWORKS Moving Image Fellow (2020)

 

SNF ARTWORKS FELLOWS PERFORMANCES ΣΤΟ ΕΤΗΣΙΟ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΤΟΥ GCDN

Last week we had the pleasure to attend the 10th Annual Convening of Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN), an independent, international association committed to improving the quality of urban life through the contribution of the arts, culture and creative industries,  hosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC). 

In collaboration with AEA Consulting, a “walkshop” was organized consisting of 3 performances presented by SNF ARTWORKS Fellows. The performances were held outdoors which enabled the attendees to walk around the park and experience in person how live performance can occupy and shape space, create moments for reflection and challenge the way audiences navigate public spaces.

Iria Vrettou (SNF ARTWORKS Visual Arts Fellow 2021), during her performance “Liquid pleasures”, focused on the multifaceted nature of identity and the intersection of body politics and queer ecologies, inviting the audience to engage with the nuanced complexities of identity and its manifold manifestations.

Konstantinos Papanikolaou (SNF ARTWORKS Dance Fellow 2021) presented “WHODUNIT”, a plot-driven performance of detective fiction about dance crimes. The investigation around the crime is usually conducted by Konstantinos, an amateur, semi-professional detective and choreographer.

Chara Stergiou (SNF ARTWORKS Visual Arts Fellow 2020) performed around performance, bringing together the story of the ‘stagemaker bird’ and memories of the SNFCC stage. In between recorded and live tweets as well as concert material, the GCDN convening turned into a ‘conference of birds’.

It was an invigorating experience! Thank you SNFCC and AEA Consulting for the vote of confidence and of course a big thank you to our Fellows for sharing their creative practice with such grace! Always grateful to our founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), for their continuous support!



 

              

TALK: MENELAOS KARAMAGHIOLIS

What are the effects of cinema in society? How can the difficulties that one faces when creating a film be transformed into creative opportunities? How can the audience engage in a more interactive way with a film? What is the relationship between cinema with the visual arts? These are few of the questions raised by filmmaker and member of our selection committee Menelaos Karamaghiolis during the talk he gave for our current cohort of Fellows last Friday at Romantso!

Menelaos Karamaghiolis is a filmmaker who works in Athens producing feature films, documentaries, video art and radiomovies and video installations starring real-life neglected heroes and transcending frontiers and stereotypes to serve as an essential tool for dialogue and social change. His films have been screened globally and won many awards. His filmography includes the feature documentary ROM, 1989, that was considered “a turning point for Greek documentary films” and “a masterpiece that must become a classic of the history of cinema”, the fiction films  BLACK OUT (p.s. RED OUT), 1998, considered to be “the first post-modern Greek film” and J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant, 2011, participated in 48 international festivals (including TIFF Toronto International Film Festival) and won 11 awards and the first greek interactive documentaries, MEETING WITH REMARKABLE PEOPLE (12 feature films, 180 short films). His video installations have been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the Venice Biennale, the Rodeo and the Geneva Contemporary Art Center (mini retrospective) etc.

Every Cinema Publication Launch

Every Cinema/Texts is an attempt to broaden the dialogue around the political context of contemporary film practices through a feminist perspective. It highlights the distinction between ethics and aesthetics, and the perils in interpreting feminism and politics as genres and categories in lieu of practice. Whereas numerous pleas for gender equality have been made to film festivals – and a short attention wave was directed to films where female characters hold a central place – there is still the need to formulate new working terms and conditions, as well as to propose new, hybrid production, curatorial and educational models in the field. Every Cinema is a tool for investigating the potential of the moving image to become a practice of social organization, a feminist multidirectional transmission of experience, and a collective form of thought and action. It proposes a mode to produce personal and political experiences for the reconfiguration of the ecosystem of the moving image, as well as an introduction to feminist film practices; it aspires to contribute to the revision of the production framework and affect the choice of subject matter in future filmmaking. The publication’s methodology employs documentation and artistic expression as a means of autotheory, balancing between creative and deeply personal writing. Five authors and a film club researching the moving image make use of the written word to narrate personal stories about their bodies, motherhood, sexuality, creativity and collectivity.
Texts by Lina Bembe, Hilda Kahra, Nikoleta Leousi, Geli Mademli, Sofia Secín, Ubuntu Film Club, Mousidora.

 

Every Cinema Publication Launch Party
Thursday January 19, 2023
20:00 – 00:00
Neos Cosmos (Laboratory for Urban Commons)
Efstratiou Pissa 51, 117 45 Athens
Edited by Danai Anagnostou, Pegy Zali, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
*Danai Anagnostou and Pegy Zali are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

TALK: MARIELA NESTORA

Mariela Nestora, choreographer, researcher and member of our dance selection committee gave an extensive talk about her experimentations and collaborations, her deep interest in the environmental crisis and other key areas that are the driving forces behind her work. Mariela also elaborated on the idea of approaching choreography as a gathering and the methodology that she has developed referred to as “molecular choreography”.

Mariela Nestora is a choreographer, researcher and Feldenkrais practitioner based in Athens, Greece. She studied: Master’s program on artistic research- ArtEZ University of the Arts (Holland), Feldenkrais method Professional Training (Greece1, IFF), Contemporary dance and Choreography-London Contemporary Dance School (UK), Biology-B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield (UK) and Human Molecular Genetics (M.Sc. St.Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College (UK). Her artistic research is situated within Post Humanism, investigating choreography as a gathering, currently developing a methodology on what she has coined as molecular choreography. As the choreographer of YELP danceco. (2001-) she has been creating performances for the stage, as well as site specific and public space projects, supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, Kalamata International Festival a.o. As an independent artist, (2011-17), she has been involved in several collectives (Green Park, Kolektiva Omonoia, Embros Theatre, Syndesmos Chorou), while she instigated the Collective Choreography Project CCP and from stage to page an artist led platform and publications on the Greek dance scene YELP danceco. works have been presented in Maribor, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Kassel, Berlin, London, Brighton, Ipswich, Bologna, Montpellier, Breste, Bucharest, Parnu, Aarhus, Brussels, Athens, Kavala, Patras, Thessaloniki, Volos, Hydra, Heraclion, Chania and have been selected to participate in ITI platform, Greek Biennial Dance Platform, Athens Biennial, Plesna Isba, Municipal Theatre of Patras, Patra Cultural Capital, The Place Commissions, The Video Place, Videodance festival and MIR festival. Mariela works as choreographer, Feldenkrais practitioner, movement director for theatre and mentor.

“A day after a day after a day after a day”, a Solo Exhibition by Paky Vlassopoulou

In 2023 One Minute Space (OMS)  will focus on the temporal turn in art which approaches questions of global contemporaneity and chronopolitics.

OMS is very pleased to begin the year with the solo exhibition “A day after a day after a day after a day”, by Paky Vlassopoulou, curated by Florent Frizet.

Paky Vlassopoulou presents a new body of work taking as a starting point her research on Leros island, located in the east of the Aegean Sea and only an hour off the coast of Turkey, and its histories of multi-layered confinement.

Leros has a long history of incarceration rooted in its exemplary landscape defined by water and unique architectural heritage.

In the area of Lepida, military barracks built during the Italian occupation (1912-1943), have been reused ever since as indoctrination institutions in post-Greek Civil War era (1948-1964), prison cells for political dissidents during the military junta (1967-1974), mental healthcare facilities (1958-today), and refugee camps, known as hotspots (2016-today).

Last year, right above the existing infrastructures, on top of the hill, a new controlled refugee camp, with barbed wire fencing, surveillance cameras, x-ray scanners and magnetic doors and gates, was built.

Thinking of the common living conditions of all these very different cases of unwanted bodies, Vlassopoulou is drawn to the plate as an object widely recognized as a symbol of sustenance and as a domestic object linked to material culture. She creates multiple porcelain plates to carry words, lines, scratches. Each plate acts like a journal entry documenting numbers of confinement. In the exhibition space, the plates build up a storyline through drawings, notes and quotations.

A day after a day after a day after a day serves as a cognitive and sensorial experience on placement and displacement.

A day after a day after a day after a day
Solo Exhibition by Paky Vlassopoulou
Curated by Florent Frizet
14.01.2023-11.02.2022
Opening: Saturday 14 January 2023, 18:00-22:00
Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 17:00-20:00

GIORGOS KONTIS CURATES THE GROUP EXHIBITION “post-truth, fiction, object”

CRAMA is pleased to present the group exhibition post-truth, fiction, object with works by Noi Fuhrer, Vangelis Gokas, Michael Müller, and Tom Palin.

A questioning gaze, an introverted, self-referencing or self-examining act, one of groping or outlining matters but, simultaneously, outlining the very same act of this. An outlining-physical yet conceptual as well-in duality and as an act of a mirroring between the object and the hand that depicts it. With the occasion of this exhibition, we aspire to take painting as a case study. Painting as an operation through which one may touch the matter of one’s relation to the world and to themselves in both manners of depicting and perceiving, regardless actually whether any actual depiction takes place. Painting as fieldwork regarding individual perception and interpretation, in relation to objects and objectivity, regarding one’s relation to the world. Painting as an act in the dark, an operation in blindfold, yet with a disarming simplicity and honesty. Moreover, painting with the awkwardness that may come along with it; the feeling of uneasiness when standing in front of a painting, of not being sure how to act in relation to it. Are we meant to ‘read’ the painted image, to decipher its deeper meanings? Is there a given path, a possible structural analysis starting perhaps from the ‘thingly’ character of the work and moving to its ‘symbolic’ sides or semiotic connotations?

Noi Fuhrer, Vangelis Gokas, Michael Müller, Tom Palin
curated by Giorgos Kontis
post-truth, fiction, object

Opening December 10th 2022, 4 – 8pm, the exhibition will continue until December 17th 2022 only by appointment: +49 152 04 983 376, [email protected] CRAMA Triftstraße 66, 13353 BERLIN

*Giorgos Kontis is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellows (2021)

3 Fellows participate in the exhibition “Broken Heart Syndrome”

Two Thirds Project Space presents the new exhibition entitled “Broken Heart Syndrome”, with artworks of Ileana Arnaoutou, Sevastiana Konstaki, Mariandrie, Natalia Papadopoulou, Eleanna Balesi, Elektra Stampoulou and Evi Zampeli, curated by Faidra Vasileiadou

Broken heart syndrome is a now-recognized cardiomyopathy that mimics a heart attack: it manifests itself with intense chest pressure, shortness of breath and sudden weakness, symptoms that match a heart attack. The syndrome was discovered as a separate pathological entity in the early 1990s by Japanese doctors and became known as “takotsubo cardiomyopathy” due to the similarity of the shape of the affected heart to the Japanese octopus fishing tool. Usually, this condition is triggered by intense mental stress, such as the death of a loved one, a breakup, anger, or the feeling of betrayal.

Can our hearts literally break? Disassemble into its component parts or even more? If this breaking process happens, does it really break us beyond repair? And even if we manage to restore it, what happens to the rupture we know is always there? The exhibition Broken Heart Syndrome recounts the ways that a heart can shatter and fall apart, while at the same time elucidates the processes that occur after a major crack; an attempt to reassemble the discontinuities and fragments. The participating artists present works that flirt with pain and mourning, through the kaleidoscopic prism of emerging to the surface.
Faidra Vasileiadou
museologist – art curator

Opening: 25/11 | 19:00 – 22:00
Duration of exhibition: 26/11 – 10/12
Opening hours: Tues, Wed, Fri | 17:00 – 21:00, Sat | 11:00 – 14:00
Location: Two Thirds Project Space, Themistokleous 42, Exarcheia, 5th floor, #2

*Ileana Arnaoutou, Sevastiana Konstaki and Natalia Papadopoulou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

multimedia exhibition “terri(s)tories”

Memory as a form of wandering: The multimedia exhibition titled terri(s)tories attempts to narrate the recent history of dance in Athens, the past 15 years (2005-2020), through some examples of artistic spaces, ultimately highlighting nomadism as the dominant element of the dance community.

The advent of the economic crisis in 2008, the December 2008 uprising, the Indignant movement (Aganaktismenoi) in public squares Indignant, the occupation of Embros Theater, the demolition of cultural sites or their commercial exploitation and transformation ―by ironic coincidence― into places of consumption, were only some of the successive and necessary “awakenings” of a society that was about to refute the general climate after the successful organization of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. At the same time, new spaces emerged despite the aforementioned cracks. These were cultural spaces that renewed that (presumably) necessary turn to a promising future.

A key issue in this research was the “redesign” of the map of the center of Athens, in the context of a review of recent, artistic and non-artistic events; a matter that also led to the investigation of the relationship between urban space and memory. A garage in the heart of Metaxourgeio, a shop in Koukaki and a basement in Vathi square are beingjuxtaposed with landmarks of Dance, such as the Piraeus 260 space of the Athens Festival or the Onassis Stegi, revealing not only the particularities of the era and its cultural manifestations, but mainly the intensity and extent of the artistic practices and contrasts.

From the historically constituted memory to the scattered traces of memory; to the materiality of the spaces that hosted dance actions/performances, the multiple physical and emotional registrations that potentially create a collective experience through which the dance community is formed and rises. In this unique exhibition co-organised by htmylh and the Onassis Foundation Scholars Association, the “exhibits” take the form of maps and oral testimonies, conversing with snapshots of current events, with publications and posters, in a multilayered and open archive of the history of spaces in Athens and, by extension, the history of contemporary Greek dance.

The aim is to imagine the spatial depictions of community as an act of empowerment, against the spirit of our era, that of urban renewal and gentrification which erase our traces.

Co-Organisers: htmylh and the Onassis Foundation Scholars Association

Hosted by: Flux Laboratory Athens

The team:

Anastasios Koukoutas, Dance Theorist / Dramaturgist
Dimitris Mytilinaios, dancer / choreographer / Onassis Foundation scholar
Marina Skoutela, Architect

The exhibition is implemented with the support of Flux Laboratory Athens.

The research on terri(s)stories was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in 2021.

Special thanks to the interviewees:
Katia Arfara, Christiana Galanopoulou, Maria Gorgia, Antigoni Gyra, Penelope Iliaskou, Stathis Livathinos, Kiki Baka, Mariela Nestora, Vassilis Noulas, Margo Perdiki, Costas Tzimoulis, Frosso Trousa, Steriani Tsintziloni

as well as: Athina Delyannis, Hara Syrou, Yannis Nikolaidis, Christina Souyoultzi, Sealed Earth, Rebecca Stamou, EPILOGOS magazine

*Dimitris Mytilinaios is a dance SNF ARTWORKS Fellow
**Anastasio Koukouta was a member for our dance selection committee for the 2nd SNF Artist Fellowship Program

Sam Albatros’ performance based on their best-selling novel “faulty boy”

PERFORMANCE
Sam Albatros’ performance based on their best-selling novel “faulty boy”
drag artist: Aphrodite HGW
Mavromichali 138 & Komninon, Athens, 114 72

Group Exhibition “This Current Between Us”

This “Current Between Us” is a group exhibition held at the first steam-electric power station in Greece. Opening to the public, the power station welcomes visitors to previously inaccessible areas of the industrial complex, a unique site of the Greek industrial cultural heritage.

The exhibition brings to light rich material from the historical archives of the PPC, in dialogue with site-specific works by an international group of artists, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. This Current Between Us examines the factory as a centre for the production of both power and materials, and moreover views it as a social model, a system for the organisation of space and human – and nonhuman – life, an architectural management of existing relationships and a generator of new ones. The electricity factory is at the same time a desire factory, as the generation of desire supercharges power production. The artists respond to the past and present of the building by following the sensorial resonances of the facility and fragments of personal stories, immersing themselves in interactions of the act of remembrance and its physical sediment. The constant presence and flow of electrical charge is connecting and disrupting. In the present moment, electric current induces words and views – charges, tensions, attractions and repulsions.

“This Current Between Us” focuses on infrastructure and organisation, processes of production and consumption,emergence and transformation conveyed through metaphor and beyond rhetorical effect. A driving force in modern history, steam is condensed and harnessed, enabling a world of machines. Its strong association with modernist discourse can, in the light of climate change, be interpreted through its constitutive instability and elusive form. Steam affords new possibilities for speed, growth, urban expansion, inspiring a futuristic nostalgia – a longing for a future that never came to be. In this exhibition, steam produces a fluid undercurrent, channelling new and exciting connections. This atmosphere of vapour saturates artistic practice, driving a critical investigation of the relationship between creative production and the industrial architecture, commenting on the use of industrial sites as sites for cultural production and underlining the contradictions of the generalised tendency to aestheticise these sites. The participating artists explore condensation and diffusion processes, network systems, substrates of energy, transport, communication and information, resource flows, digital management and traffic. They seek hidden, invisible and subversive textures in the networks of our everyday environment – technology, the interactions between virtual and actual space, the physical encounters between humans and other entities – to create new infrastructure for wandering. The exhibited works intend to reflect on the industrial past and draw parallels with the present economic environment. The electric grid inevitably powers societal and cultural links.

Participating artists: Nikos Alexiou, Micol Assaël, Eleni Bagaki, Eleni Christodoulou, Kostas Christopoulos, Anastasia Douka, Panayotis Evangelidis, Hypercomf, Konstantinos Giotis, Eleni Kalara & Valia Papachristou & Evaggeli Fili, Dimitris Kamarotos, Mikhail Karikis, Ali Kazma, Athina Koumparouli, Anna Lascari, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki & Marianne Tuckman, Petros Moris, Bill Morrison, Olga Migliaressi-Phoca, Paola Palavidi, Natasha Papadopoulou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Kostas Sahpazis, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Maria Sideri, Miriam Simun & Daria Kaufman, Iris Touliatou, Alexandros Tzannis, Theodore Tzannetakis, Jeph Vanger, Zafos Xagoraris, Marina Xenofontos

Participants from the Athens School of Fine Arts Lab: Alexandra Apsokardou, Despina Vaxevanidi, Anna Mastromichali, Katerina Messini, Olga Souvermezoglou

Curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Georgia Liapi

Concept, research, coordination: Eleni Kalara

The exhibition “This Current Between Us” takes place within the framework of the project “The Other Body”, in collaboration with Blow-Up, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and the PPC, with the support of the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture & Sports . Powered by PPC.

This Current Between Us
PPC Historic Electric Steam Power Station of Neo Faliro
Solomou 1 & Dimitriou Falireos, 185 47 Piraeus, Greece

Thursday–Sunday: 4pm–8pm
Exhibition duration: Friday, December 16, 2022 – Sunday, March 12, 2023

*Extension until April 9, 2023

*Eleni Bagaki, Anastasia Douka, Konstantinos Giotis, Athina Koumparouli, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Petros Moris, Paola Palavidi & Ioannis Kolliopoulos (Hypercomf), Maria Sideri, Iris Touliatou, Alexandros Tzannis and Jephn Vanger are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

3 FELLOWS PARTICIPATE IN THE GROUP EXHIBITION “Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)”

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is the next major group exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ. Curated by artistic director Katerina Gregos, it launches the museum’s winter-spring exhibition cycle, which focuses on digital technology and its influence on intimate human relationships.

The subtitle of the exhibition is a reference to Eva Illouz’s book, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, which argues that these relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) explores the state of love and human bonds in the age of the Internet, social media, and high capitalism, probing how the digital sphere, the impact of technology giants, and neo-liberal practices have transformed love, social relations, and the way we interact with one another.

The accessibility of the Internet to an ever-greater number of people has had liberating effects, encouraging and empowering more open and diverse lifestyles, contributing to the dissolution of interpersonal orthodox conventions and social constrictions, and crumbling taboos and biases around gender and sexuality.

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) looks at how the Internet has facilitated the expression of non-heteronormative sexual identities, especially in societies where queerness or non-binary sexuality are considered taboo, or even forbidden. It also explores the human pathologies associated with the commodification of emotion and the effects of digital dependency on relationships, as well as the issues that arise when the boundaries between the public and private, as well the virtual and the real, become more and more fluid. The Covid-19 pandemic and physical distancing have added yet another challenge to achieving fulfilling, intimate and meaningful human interaction.

At the same time, we also live in a time that philosopher Byung-Chul Han has labelled “emotional capitalism”, where human emotions have been co-opted by market forces. Thus, apart from offering an open and potentially endless sense of possibility, the dating supermarkets of Tinder and Grindr, “speed dating”, and the ease of Internet exchange have also hollowed out relationships and led to selfish or narcissistic forms of behaviour and the creation and curation of misleading images of the self, making it ever more difficult to establish what is real, meaningful, or true.

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is as much about individuals as it is about the systems of control that bind us together. Equally, it is about new societal patterns, investigating the challenges and possibilities that the Internet and social media present. It recognises love as a potent emotional force and intense psychological bond between people that gives meaning to our lives in ways that no other interaction, object, or experience can.

At a time of increasing alienation, individualism, and loneliness – symptoms of our world’s increasingly urbanised lifestyles – how can we reclaim meaningful intimate relationships? How can love be rescued from the claws of capitalism and the corporate technosphere? How can one resist the instrumentalisation of love, its superficialisation and banalisation by commerce and social media? Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) looks into the pathologies and problems afflicting love and matters of the heart and attempts to imagine a way out of our current alienation, emotional sterility, and loneliness.

The product of ongoing research, the exhibition – which features 24 artists from 14 countries – comes to Greece after presentations at the Museum für Neue Kunst (Germany), Tallinna Kunstihoone (Estonia), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and Centraal Museum (Netherlands). For the exhibition at EMΣT Athens, Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) has been expanded to additionally include Greek as well as international artists, most of whom are presenting their work for the first time in Greece.

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is accompanied by a bilingual (English-Greek) publication designed by Rafaela Drazic and edited by Katerina Gregos and Theophilos Tramboulis.

A public programme with performances, talks, and screenings will kick off in the new year in collaboration with IMPAKT Media Organisation in the Netherlands.

The opening of this major international group exhibition will be followed in January 2023 by the launch of a series of solo exhibitions that focus on the impact on social relations and contemporary life of digital technology, the Internet, social media, and the economies they produce.

Curated by Katerina Gregos

ARTISTS
Gabriel Abrantes (1984, US/PT)
Andreas Angelidakis (1968, GR)
Melanie Bonajo (1978, NI)
Candice Breitz (1978, ZA)
Laura Cemin (1992, IT)
Benjamin Crotty (1979, US)
Kyriaki Goni (GR, 1982)
David Haines (1969, UK)
Juliet Jacques (1981, UK)
Sanam Khatibi (1979, IR/BE)
Mahmoud Khaled (1982, EG)
Duran Lantink (1988, Nl)
Ariane Loze (1988, BE)
Maria Mavropoulou (1989, GR)
Lauren Lee Mccarthy (US)
Kyle Mcdonald (US)
Marge Monko (1976, EE)
Eva Papamargariti (1987, GR)
Peter Puklus (1980, RO/HU)
Yorgos Prinos (1977, GR)
Marijke De Roover (1990, BE)
Margaret Salmon (1975, US/UK)
Hannah Toticki (1984, DK)
István Zsíros (1985, HU)

*Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou and Eva Papamargariti are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

More info here

“Domesticated mythologies”: Art exhibition by Elina Niarchou and Jérémy Lacombe

The art exhibition by Elina Niarchou and Jérémy Lacombe, entitled “Domesticated mythologies” opens on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at or.artspace.

The two artists draw on material from their everyday life in the place they live, the island of Tinos, and interpret it through visual means. As the two of them navigate the island, the past, the present and the future become blurred and spatial and temporal discontinuities are created. In their work, various fragments are woven together and form a new visual mythology. The mysterious world of Elina Niarchou is captured through painting, as well as through sewing, and receives within it the Jérémy Lacombe’s marble sculptures that look like fossils of mutant creatures of an era that has passed or is to come. The new landscape resulting from the collaboration between Niarchou and Lacombe takes on a dreamlike dimension, revealing another aspect of the familiar environment.

Elina Niarchou is a visual artist who lives and works in Tinos. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and of the Marble Sculpture Art School of Panormos in Tinos. Niarchou has participated in artistic programs in Greece and abroad (Into the ocean, Bourglinster, Luxembourg 2017/ Roder, Rodez, France, 2019 / Contemporary art practices engaging with the unexplored folk culture of Xiromero in Aetolia- Akarnania, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, 2020). Since 2018, she has been organizing art workshops for children and adults in Tinos, in collaboration with Jérémy Lacombe (Museum of Marble Crafts, PIOP). In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS.

Jérémy Lacombe is an artist who lives and works in Tinos. He is a graduate of the Fine Art School of Bordeaux and holds a master’s degree in visual arts pedagogy for adolescents from ESA-ERG of Brussels. His artistic work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Ces lieux qui nous gouvernent, Gallerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, France 2018/ Murs en suspens et autres météores, Rodez, France, 2019/ Marmania, Antiparos 2022/ Zig Zag Festival, Ysternia, Tinos, 2022). Since 2018, he has been co-organizing, together with Elina Niarchou, art workshops in Tinos.

Visual communication: Jérémy Lacombe

Duration of the exhibition: 8 to 24 December 2022
Opening, Thursday 8 December, 18:00-22:00
Thursday 15 and 22 December, 18:00-22:00
Friday 9, 16 and 23 December, 18:00-22:00}Saturday 10 and 17 December, 12:00-22:00
Sunday 11 and 18 December, 12:00-22:00
Last day, Saturday 24 December, 12:00-16:00.

or.artspace,
89
Dimitrakopoulou street
Koukaki

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https://orartspace.com/?p=411

or.artspace was founded in Athens, in 2021, by Dr. Elpida Rikou, a visual artist and anthropologist. It is a personal working space, which remains open to collaborations. At or.artspace, at 89
Dimitrakopoulou street in Koukaki, works of art are created, exhibited and sold, while workshops are also organized for small groups, on various subject matters. The project’s aim is to explore alternatives (see or -disjunction) for self-subsisting art making in Greece.

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VISIT: THEO TRIANTAFYLLIDIS | PHEROMONE SPA & Sub Rosa| Joanna Piotrowska & Formafantasma

On Friday November 25th, SNF ARTWORKS Fellows were guided through the exhibitions “Theo Triantafyllidis | Pheromone Spa” at The Breeder gallery and “Sub Rosa |Joanna Piotrowska & Formafantasma” at ARCH, Athens.

Associate Director of Exhibitions & Special projects at The Breeder, Alkistis Tsabouraki, introduced our Fellows to the concept of Theo’s Triantafyllidis solo exhibition, while Theo guided them through the space, consisting of two performative systems, Bugsim (Pheromone Spa) and Ork Haus. The artist presented the immersive installations, including sculptural furniture, custom electronics and a homebrew pheromone aroma, and shared ethical questions and concerns around the concept of the exhibition.

Our next stop was at ARCH, where Nassia Kalamakis, guided our Fellows through Sub Rosa, an exhibition by artist Joanna Piotrowska and design studio Formafantasma.

Joanna Piotrowska kept returning to photographing roses and reflecting on them in the context of her time in Nagorno-Karabakh. Inspired by the ambiguous qualities of the interrogation room as a starting point, she invited Formafantasma to collaborate on translating this multilayered experience into objects. The result of the collaboration is a series of “anti-frame” framing devices that contain Piotrowska’s images of roses. These stainless steel devices, made of elements, materials and forms found in interrogation rooms, impose a threatening tension upon the prints, and replicate the power dynamics inherent in her story.

Read more about the exhibitions:

https://archathens.org/project/sub-rosa

Theo Triantafyllidis_ Pheromone Spa

CURATOR’S TALK: DAPHNE DRAGONA

Our series of curators’ and artists’ talks was initiated this year by our beloved collaborator Daphne Dragona, independent curator, theorist, writer and member of the 5th SNF Artist Fellowship Program selection committee.

Daphne talked about the areas of her curatorial research, and she particularly elaborated on the concept of degrowth and what it could mean for the arts.

Thank you Daphne for sharing such insightful knowledge and inspiring ideas.

Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin. Among her topics of interest have been: the controversies of connectivity, the promises of the commons, the importance of affective infrastructures, the ambiguous role of technology in relation to the climate crisis. Some of her curated -or co-curated- exhibitions are: Weather Engines (Onassis Stegi & National Observatory of Athens, 2022), Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea: Recited from and Empty Middle (AnnexM, Megaron, Athens, 2021), Trials & Errors (Romantso, Athens, 2021) Reprogramming Earth (NeMe, Limassol, 2020) Kyriaki Goni, Counting Craters on the Moon (Aksioma, 2019), Tomorrows, Urban fictions for possible futures (Diplareios, Athens, 2017), Capture All (transmediale, Berlin, 2015), Afresh, a new generation of Greek artists (ΕΜSΤ, 2013), Homo Ludens Ludens (Laboral, Gijon, 2008). Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press, Diaphanes, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Talks of hers have been hosted at Mapping Festival (Geneva), MoMA (New York), Hek (Basel), Arts in Society (London), Leuphana University (Lueneburg) and Goethe University (Frankfurt). Dragona has worked as curator for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019, and more recently for EMAF (Osnabrück) for the editions of 2021 and 2022. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens.

https://daphnedragona.net/

“Grasping Time” curated by Alexia Alexandropoulou

Drawing, as a primary visual language, remains a powerful means to translate, document, and analyze our society. The need to understand the world through visual lenses seems more urgent than ever: images transcend the barriers of language and enhance communications in an increasingly fluid society, in a world that changes rapidly and where nothing remains the same.

Considering this rapid change to be inevitable, we came up with the theme Here And Now, which conceals multiple meanings. First, it creates urgency. It causes the act of pausing, to understand the moment before it fleets. Secondly, it represents the literal action of the Lisbon Drawing Club: a community indulging in the present, drawing together. This togetherness allows experiencing a unique moment of creation, reflection, and representation.

Through quiet contemplation, the viewers will be able to see the body’s different sensations and forms, as well as the images evocatively suggested by these works. While they may look small in scale, they open up a wide space to rethink the actual notion of the body and the human condition.
By collecting drawings from the Here and Now, this exhibition also grasps the mutation of time. Moments are ever-evolving, time continuously transforms the (now-past) present into a new (more-current) present. Each of the selected drawings testifies to the liveliness of both the drawer and those being drawn; for life means movement, action, and transformation. Therefore, this exhibition acts as an archive of moments in time, an archive of people and connections. Here and Now might seem difficult or uncertain, but it can also be a great time to live — unquestionably, a time worth grasping.

Text: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ines Neves

The exhibition Grasping Time will be on between the 25th and 27th of November at Fabrica Braço de Prata, open from 17h-21h. The exhibition’s vernissage will take place on November 25th, between 19h00-22h00. On November 27th from 11h-16h there will be the 5h drawing session Big Draw, held between Lisbon Drawing Club and Drink&Draw Tallinn, followed by a finissage from 16h-22h.

Participating artists:
Adrien Genevard , Alina Shpakova , Ana Beatriz Ávila, Barbara Ryckewaert, Chris Markland, Flora Gasnier, Inês Garcia, João Guapo,
João Miguel Feijão, Lígia Fernandes, Madalena Bettencourt, Margherita Batoréu Annibale, Marianne Maina, Nicola Lonzi, Nicole Sánchez,
Pedro Cabral, Rita Almeida, Rita Ivo, Susanne Malorny, Tati (entalle), Tomás Reis, Utku Yavasca ,Valerio Giovannini, Vasilisa Omelchenko, Vera Joao

Curated by: mais uno +1 — Alexia Alexandropoulou (GR), Alina Shpakova (RU), Dorottya Ács (HU), Inês Nêves (PT)

Poster design: Ines Neves

*Alexia Alexandropoulou is a curatorial SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2022)

“ICARUS” exhibition, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis

K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents the exhibition ICARUS in Agia Paraskevi Lesvos, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis. With the participation of the artists: Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Yannis Voulgaris, Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Katerina Komianou, Giorgos Kontis, Mark Wallinger, and Angelos Frentzos.

ICARUS is developed as an exhibition in a flight condition. The artists-as-passengers present their work in an environment of extended levitation, exploring how human ingenuity relates to physical and mental journeys. What can we learn from the cross-cultural wanderings in the (artistic) universe? Who are our fellow travellers in this transformation process? How can these voyages act as a healing force and contribute to social change?

Nine acclaimed Greek and international artists share personal stories about expectation, love, loss, and fall while referencing current affairs. Through the quests of each era, the mythical Icarus manages to express the primordial desire for transcendence. In this direction, the exhibited artworks (photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations) testify to the relationship between society, culture, and technology across expanded geographies.

In this context, a parallel exhibition on the second floor of K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents selected works from its collection linked to important moments of its course as a nomadic platform. The display includes a photograph by Christian Michael Filardo and a sculpture by Virginia Russolo that address themes of mapping and spirituality.

The educational program of the ICARUS exhibition is developed in collaboration with the experiential art space Lefko Harti in Mytilini. It features creative workshops and screenings for children and adults curated by Mari Moustaizi and Michael Meimaroglou. More information will be announced on social media.

Finally, a catalog (Greek/English) is published with contributions from Alain de Botton and Every Ocean Hughes, documenting all the actions and synergies carried out by the Gallery in 2022.

ΙCARUS
10/12/2022 — 05/03/2023
Opening: Saturday 10 December, 19:00
Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, 15:00-20:00
Free entrance

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 (Saturday 10 December at 18:00). Reservations: +30 6942202222.

Address: Agia Paraskevi, 81102 Lesvos, Greece
Telephone: +30 6942202222
Website: kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
Email: [email protected]
Social Media: @kgoldtemporarygallery

*Katerina Komianou, Giorgos Kontis are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

 

K-GOLD TEMPORARY GALLERY
K-Gold Temporary Gallery was founded in 2014 in Lesvos to bring contemporary art and culture closer to everyone. It has presented the work of established artists such as Joan Jonas, Erwin Wurm, Lucy+Jorge Orta, Lynda Benglis, Jonathas de Andrade, Ana Mendieta, Cosima von Bonin, and John Baldessari. The Gallery currently collaborates with the Hellenic Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs and is part of the Miramar network. It distinguished as an innovative European cultural initiative by Nantes Métropole.

Supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports.

Group exhibition “La Jalousie”

The exhibition “La Jalousie” is presented from 26 November to 27 November at Lycra in Hamburg. It is a group exhibition by Niklas Arnold and Despοina Pagiota, in which the two artists will present paintings and photographic works.

La Jalousie

Niklas Arnold & Despoina Pagiota

Exhibition in Lycra 26 & 27 November 2022
Address: Lycra, Eiffestrasse 432, 20537 Hamburg
https://www.instagram.com/lycra_raum/

Duration: 26/11 – 27/11/2022
Opening hours: Saturday 19:00 – 23:00 & Sunday 15:00 – 18:00

“ΝΟΑ Project” by Evangelia Vatsaki

Visual artist and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021 Evangelia Vatsaki, organized & implemented “NOA project” in collaboration with the municipality of Rhodes. This was a travelogue project taking place between May and August 2022. In this context, Evangelia held a total of 44 painting workshops, 42 in the villages and 2 in the city of Rhodes. For 3 months Evangelia wandered on her bicycle from one village to the next, responding to each community and then holding a three-hour painting
workshop in nature, with participant residents of all ages.

For more information check the video here.

This video was shown as part of the final exhibition – a presentation of the project, at the Auberge de France à Rhodes, a space that presents art exhibitions and cultural activities in Rhodes.