Author: gourgourini

Sofia Georgovasili’s third short film (SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2020) premiers at the competition programme Generation 14 of the 72nd Berlinale.

Memoir of a Veering Storm by Sofia Georgovassili
Greece, 14’, 2022
It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school, and with the help of her boyfriend, they visit a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.

Myrto Xanthopoulou (visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020) launched her project 100KARATEBLOWS on Kickaster.

“100KARATEBLOWS is a series of short video works, an audio visual collage of gestures, gazes and words, filmed with a mobile phone and presented as Instagram stories. It began as an experiment, an attempt to explore and communicate aspects of my practice. It has gradually become an art research project of its own merit, which is important to me for a number of reasons: it creates a video archive, confirming ideas that are at the core of my practice, materiality, fragility, mundanity, the struggle to articulate, the labor that is inarticulate. At the same time, it is a hybrid form that challenges and renegotiates these ideas, embracing new possibilities, gestural, vocal, focal, performative. Through this campaign, I’d like to invite the community to become part of my exploration, by supporting my project. My wish is to be able to create another hundred of 100KARATEBLOWS until May.”

Myrto Xanthopoulou

Learn more about 100KARATEBLOWS here

Support 100KARATEBLOWS here

Elma is pleased to present Coffee Cigarettes Amore, a new series of paintings by Kyvèli Zoi, dedicated to the inner pondering of unhealthy habits and how to work with them. By creating an homage to Jim Jarmusch’s film “Coffee and Cigarettes”, she uses repetitive symbols and structures to tell a linear story of a beloved daily routine that ends up becoming toxic.

Figures and tightly framed gestural details refer to memory and projection of oneself while foregrounding moments of tension. Kyveli portrays instances of crisis within the assumed routine in an attempt to personify the combination of nicotine, caffeine and heartbreak.

The series focuses on a personal contemplation of one’s bad habits and the lack of clarity within them, while insisting that love is the only thing worth living for. It is the first time throughout her practice that she attempts a self portrait in search of an honest reflection. Utilizing heartache and the quest for self love, she achieves a form of introspection within the metaphorical atmospheres of her paintings.

Kyvèli Zoi

Coffee Cigarettes Amore
February 3 – March 13 2022

Opening Reception: Thursday February 3rd / 5-8 pm

Elma Gallery
216 Plymouth st. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Wed – Sat, 12-6 pm and by appointment.
607 379 3133 / www.elmanyc.com
For further inquires please contact: [email protected]

Special thanks to Sozita Goudouna with Greece In USA.

From January 18 to March 6, 2022, Technopolis City of Athens presents the contemporary art exhibition “Eidyllia odost”, with works by 33 artists from Greece and abroad, conceived and curated by Maria Marangou.

Participant artist:

Nikos Alexiou / Dimitrios Antonitsis / Evgenia Apostolou / Antonis Volanakis / Lynda Benglis / Zoi Gaitanidou / Voula Gounela / Marianna Ignataki / Anestis Ioannou / Ilias Koehn / Thanos Kyriakides [Blind Adam] / Kallipi Lemou / Vasiliki Lefkaditi  / Eleni Lyra / Despina Meimaroglou  / Michalis Michailidis  / Efsevia Michailidou  / Konstantinos Paleologos / Malvina Panagiotidi / Aggelos Papadimitriou  / Raimondos / Dimitiris Redoumis  / Adrián Villar Rojas / Efi Spyrou / Danae Stratou / Magda Tammam / Nakis Tastsioglou / Nobuko Tsuchiya / Panos Famelis / Maro Fasouli  / Sokratis Fatouros / Despina Flessa / Pantelis Chandris

Curated by:

Maria Maragkou, art critic / director of the Museum of Contemporary Art

*Zoe Gaitanidou, Anestis Ioannou, Malvina Panagiotidi, Maro Fasouli and Despoina Flessa are visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

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Info

January 18 – March 6 2022

Tuesday – Sunday,  11.00 – 20.00

Technopolis City of Athens

Buy online your tickets at  viva.gr

In addition to fat and protein, humans primarily need carbohydrates for their metabolism. The WHO recommends a 55-75% calorie content of carbohydrates in the diet. Bread can deliver that. It is compact energy and a staple food due to its ease of manufacture, storage and transport. You need bread to function. You earn bread by working. You work so that you have something to drink, something to eat, something to wear and something to sleep in. Those who earned themselves a place to sleep can seclude. But isn’t isolation the downside of privacy? Bread also becomes hard if it lies around for too long. But if you have a stone in your stomach, you still have to digest it.

With works by Eleni Bagaki, Carina Brandes, Anastasia Douka, Francesco Gennari, Sophie Gogl, Lisa Holzer, Christian Jankowski, Jiří Kovanda, Soshiro Matsubara, Orestis Mavroudis, Maria Nikiforaki, Daniel Stempfer, Marina Sula and Philipp Timischl, a short film by Jørgen Leth and a hand axe; curated by Severin Dünser

*Eleni Bagaki, Anastasia Douka, Orestis Mavroudis and Maria Nikiforaki are visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

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Callirrhoë

Kallirrois 122
Athina 117 41
Greece

27 January – 19 March 2022
Opening: 27 January 2022, 6–10 pm

Thursday–Saturday 4–8 pm
and upon request

The symbolic “places” that one explores in the process of detoxification, the sense of constant alertness and waiting for “for that one thing that will infinitely enlarge your life”, as R.M.Rilke writes, are inscribed in an anthology of images open to interpretation.

On the occasion of the new photographic book by Stefania Orfanidou, Cold Turkey, an open discussion will take place on the different levels of the experience of addiction and the adventure of rehabilitation from it. Through the narration of personal experiences, an approach will be taken to the relationship between addiction and grief, the path to redemption, and the exile from the imaginary.

The journalist Matthaios Tsimitakis and the photographer-architect Stefania Orfanidou will be in discussion, moderated by Georges Salameh.

Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/3127024047512245/?ref=newsfeed
More about the presentation
https://www.miscathens.com/cold-turkey
More about the book
https://www.stefaniaorfanidou.com/BOOKS

Find out more about
Stefania – www.stefaniaorfanidou.com/
Matthaios – www.nema.media/ & tsimitakis.wordpress.com/
Georges – georgessalameh.blogspot.com/

*Stefania Orfanidou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (visual arts)

What’s in a nation? What constitutes a sense of belonging?

State of Concept is happy to open its new year programme with the presentation of a project by Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí as part of the public programme of “Kapwani Kiwanga: Deposits”, an exhibition that is on until the 12th of February 2022.

Adérè̩mí has been researching in her work the role of language in self-determination and identity. This prompted her to embark on an inquiry in 2017 of the term Afrogreek, a newly discussed term that, belatedly, followed similar forms of self-determination from other Afroeuropeans. In 2018 and before the global pandemic, Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí together with Jackie Abhulimen interviewed several Afrogreek citizens and denizens, discussing ideas of racism, identity, nation building and their views on the term itself, creating a film that State of Concept was honoured to support. It is with great pleasure that we present this film to the public, in a time where discriminatory speech, racism, and xenophobia are on the rise in Greek society, and after two years of a global pandemic, that have augmented in European and global level sentiments of nationalism.

Online screening 20th of January at 7 pm via our Facebook live stream, with a discussion with Jerome Kaluta, Jessica Anosike, and Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí.

Please read below an excerpt from the filmmaker’s note:

This film explores the stories of our fellow citizens, a portrayal of Black Greeks, a story of AfroGreeks from the AfroGreeks themselves. In this film, AfroGreeks are taking ownership of their stories boldly and courageously as they invite you all into their lives and experiences.

Read the entire note by clicking here.

Film credits:
Videographer: Aggelos Barai
Editor: Gevi Dimitrakopolou
Design: Danielle Rosales
Translation: Andromachi Papaioannou
Producer and Director: Adéọlá Naomi Adérè̩mí MPH, FRSA

The film “I am Afro Greek: Black portraiture in Greece” was supported by State of Concept Athens.

The exhibition “Deposits” is supported by Institut Français.

*Aggelos Barai is a visual art SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021.

The recent intensification of digital media in work, education, communication & the arts, is still resonating in the anthropological experience of personal space. As space becomes hybrid in all possible ways (analog/digital, public/private, physical/imaginary, visible/invisible, fragmental/continuous), the shrinking of public spaces, the dominance of the workplace over our homes, and the simultaneous increase in rents, intensify the feeling of being trapped within a monitored zone, where one feels more and more exposed. Meanwhile, however, and mainly through the current inclusive and interdisciplinary feminist discourse, the claiming of another type of visibility is generating anew spatial experiences, as well as perhaps a healing concept of boundary, both as a meeting surface, but also as a line of defence.

MUTE is the third work of COCHLEA res & Georgia Paizi that explores the synaethesiac play between visual and auditory experience, within a series of works on gesture, oral broadcasting, distraction, literiality and metaphor. What is the trace of dance when it is not dance? Reversing the main question of the Auditory Dances (AUX studio, Greek Ministry of Culture funding 2020-21), where the audience followed the real-time oral broadcasting of 6 solos taking place in a recording studio with no image shared, MUTE investigates the traces of music when the music is missing, in the empty space’s transient shifts, when the very recent past and the very immediate future overlap, and the body is everywhere.

INSTRUCTIONS
Four dancers on wireless headphones, on four platforms of 9sqm each, tune into four different soundscapes for four hours. Groups of 12 members of audience enter the space for 40min slots. Visitors can browse or sit, watching the four solos either in silence wearing earplugs provided at the entrance, or plugging their own ear-pods on to one of the four audio cables that can be found around the space. A fifth platform and an audio channel remain available to the public. To watch one solo at a time, close one eye and watch it through this hole.

Haus N Athen
Kairi 6, Athens 10551
2nd floor

Wednesday January 26
Friday January 28
Sunday January 30
Tuesday February 1

dancers Lina Vergopoulou, Katerina Delakoura, Elton Petri, Augustinos Potsios
choreographer Georgia Paizi
music curating & performance Jeph Vanger
video Iasonas Arvanitakis
production management Delta Pi

booking link 
www.cochleares.com/mute
Admission free

MUTE is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

Special thanks to ARTWORKS

*Georgia Paizi, Elton Petri and Jeph Vanger are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

The sci-fi video-opera by ΦΥΤΑ is celebrating its official cinema premiere in Athens after a sold-out world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, where it competed in the International Competition >>Film Forward, The screening will be followed by a Q&A with FYTA and the creators of the film.
The struggles of Orfeas, the first gay prime minister of Greece, against a history of oppression in the “land of heroes”. The first queer opera in Greek, a post-modern experimental work, oscillating between baroque melodrama, DIY collage, post-internet and VR/AI aesthetics. The film is dedicated to the memory of activist “Zackie Oh!”

A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus.
The first gay prime minister of Greece struggles to carry the legacy of LGBT history at a time of post-truth alt-right dystopia. The mysterious algorithm of the collective unconscious and heavy-handed tradition of “the land of heroes” proves unshakable. Will liberal Europe and its so-called ‘freedom of speech’ provide an alternative or is it just another platform for neo-reactionary culture wars?

Oscillating between operatic melodrama, queer DIY collage, 80s-inspired post-trash hauntology and VR/AI aesthetics, the film creates a kaleidoscopic take on political purity, alternative histories and institutional critique. The synthetic consciousness of techno-utopian inevitability seems to have transformed from post-human complexity to deepfake apocalypse. In the end, melancholy, trauma and despair are the only remnants (and perhaps weapons) on the bruised body of political movements.
The opera is influenced by and dedicated to the memory of Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh!, a queer performer and activist, murdered in 2018 in the centre of Athens.

A Greek National Opera production
www.orfeas2021.com

Jan. 19 & 26, 2022 – 21.30
Duration: 111 mins
Tickets: €7 / €5 (concession)
Pre-sale from January 13th 2021 at the box office of the Greek Film Archive
The film will be screened with English subtitles

Projections is a series of screenings exploring the unexpected unfolding of minimal and fragmented narratives. The selected works use a plain yet evocative language and merge diverse generations, origins and styles. Each day of the screening two videos are screened simultaneously. Presenting the eight videos in pairs aims to highlight the reciprocal influence they have on understanding the other, in addition to the relationship between the works and the viewer. The pairing responds to their complementary functions, both in terms of form and content, as an attempt to reveal the impact of associations and manipulations in the perceptual process. Projections investigates the discomforting aspects of the act of seeing and being seen, ultimately focusing on the contradiction between what we see and what the I/eye wants to see.

Artists: Luca Bolognesi, Anna Valeria Borsari, Maria Friberg, Nassia Kalamakis, Orestis Mavroudis, Bruno Muzzolini, John Smith, Fani Zguro
Screening period: 20.01.2022-23.01.2022, 19:00-22:00

*Orestis Mavroudis is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow

Screening program:

20.01.2022, 19:00-22:00

Anna Valeria Borsari
Il testimone
1976-1977
Super 8 transferred to digital video
Color, sound
3 minutes

Fani Zguro
Let me see your eyes
2009
SD video
Color, mute
47 seconds

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21.01.2022, 19:00-22:00

John Smith
Om
1986
16 mm film transferred to digital video
Color, sound
4 minutes

Luca Bolognesi
Smiler #2
2008
SD video
Color, mute
8 minutes, 16 seconds

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22.01.2022, 19:00-22:00

Nassia Kalamakis
Ci si prova
2016
HD video
Color, sound
2 minutes, 26 seconds

Bruno Muzzolini
Wolf
2008
SD video
Color, mute
4 minutes, 37 seconds

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23.01.2022, 19:00-22:00

Orestis Mavroudis
Clap hands
2010-2018
SD video
Color, sound
3 hours, 2 minutes, 11 seconds

Maria Friberg
No time to fall
2001
SD video
Color, sound
5 minutes, 43 seconds

“The First and Last and Always Psiloritis Biennale aspires to become a platform of contemporary outdoor culture. By not aiming at an audience allows for an exhibiting condition which is unhindered by financial or political interests, but also by the unwritten rules of exhibition viewing interconnected with the current social conventions and morals. The site of the biennale, Mt.Psiloritis, is delineated symbolically as a space of cultural expression through a gesture of conquest, as one conquers a peak and not an inhabited territory that is nationally or culturally determined. The time of the biennale, “always”, results from the acknowledgment of the impossibility of regular event planning in such a untamed place. It’s aim is to provide the temporal and spatial framework for the conception, design and potential realization of artworks that bring the human psyche face to face with nature”.

From the catalogue of “The first and last and always Psiloritis Biennale”.

Curated by Stamatis Schizakis

Exhibition Duration: 16/12/2021 έως 16/02/2022

*Maria Tsagkari and Malvina Panagiotidi are visuals artists and SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

K-Gold Temporary Gallery in co-organisation with the North Aegean Region presents from December 11, 2021 to March 6, 2022, the exhibition “RADIUM PALACE” in Agia Par-askevi, Lesvos, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis.

The show includes the work of sixteen Greek and international artists (sculptures, photographs, videos, music, performance, and archival material), while its title refers to the homonymous hot springs hotel, built in Mytilini in 1911 as a place of therapy and recreation. Radium Palace was part of an ambitious planning for developing well-ness tourism on the island, which had a very short life, as it burned completely after its construction.

The exhibition focuses on physicality and the evolving notion of care through contem-porary cultural practices and emotional experiences. It proposes alternative methods of meditation and decompression at a time when technology, especially after the limi-tations of COVID-19, has significantly expanded the boundaries of the physical body. Finally, it addresses critical issues that concern the reuse of materials and the re-signaling of established ideas over time.

Participating artists re-examine our perspectives on collectivity and contact, highlight-ing how art and creativity can exercise a healing force for developing a symbiotic fu-ture. Their works explore the relationship between wellness and human ingenuity in the context of social empowerment and communication.

Participating Artists: John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Lydia Dambassina, Miltiadis Digkas, Mario Fantin, Maro Fasouli, Kata Geibl, Bianca Otilia Ghiuzan, Saskia Janssen, Georgia Kotretsos, András Ladocsi, Kali Malone, Sarah Michelle Riisager, Kostas Valioutis, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Erwin Wurm

PUBLIC PROGRAM

-Saturday 11 December, 19:00 at K-Gold Temporary Gallery: DJ Charalambos Kourkoulis aka Photoharrie creates an immersive musical environment in the courtyard of the Gallery. At the same time, dancer Angelos Papadopoulos performs a long-durational act of repetitive gestures and poses, interacting with the artworks and the visitors.

-Sunday 12 December, 11:30 at the Eressian Hotel & Hammam Spa: Reading session with visiting artists coordinated by actress Georgia Xirou, followed by relaxation drinks. The hotel serves as a satellite space of the exhibition, hosting selected artworks. Combine your visit to Eressos with a spa treatment at the traditional hammam or a massage.

A bilingual catalog (Greek/English) accompanies the exhibition with contributions by Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, Nikos Lampropoulos, and Maria Tsitimaki.

INFORMATION
Opening: Saturday 11 December, 19:00
Exhibition opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, 15:00-20:00

Free admission, only upon presentation of a vaccination or recovery certificate. Visitors also need to provide photo identification. The use of a face mask is required.

Address: Agia Paraskevi, 81102 Lesvos, Greece
Telephone: +306942202222
Website: kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Social Media: @kgoldtemporarygallery

Κ-GOLD TEMPORARY GALLERY
K-Gold Temporary Gallery was founded in 2014 on Lesvos. It brings contemporary art closer to everyone through exhibitions, performances, publications, and educational programs. The Gallery has presented the work of acclaimed artists such as Joan Jonas, Bas Jan Ader, Lucy+Jorge Orta, Ana Mendieta, Maria Papadimitriou, and Ilias Papailia-kis. Recent partnerships include Institut français and Italian Council, while in 2015, it received a distinction as an innovative cultural initiative by Nantes Metropole.

*Nicolas Vamvouklis, Maro Fasouli and Angelos Papadopoulos are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

Can kid’s drawings function as public art? Why and how? What could be their relationship with the aesthetics and tools of graffiti? When creating public artworks, how do we share space and/or interact with the communities that get to experience them daily? What is a conceptual drawing, what is a representational one and what is a replica? What is the distance and/or hierarchy between scribbles, tags, murals, and public artworks?

Thinking about how we hold or share public space as muralists, Alexandros Simopoulos decided to ask the children of this public kindergarten to collaborate with him. He invited them to create their own designs/ statements for the facade of their school. Becoming only their tool/ mouthpiece, Alexandros just replicated, enlarged, and painted their designs on the wall. No design or idea was rejected or altered. They all share equal space on the wall. He also added one of his own designs that was initially made when he was their age and found recently in the basement storage of his parents.

Our demands (sun, hugs, space), acrylics on wall, 12x12m, 2021 Agios Nikolaos, Crete

Commissioned by the Culture and Sports Organization of the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos and
curated by Theofilos Tramboulis and Eleni Koukou
Thanks to Haris Alexakis and Georgia Kaliva

*Alexandros Simopoulos is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2018)