Our Fellows Apollon Glykas takes part in the exhibition ‘Overmorrow’ at the Ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou gallery along with the artists: Annita Argyiliopoulou, Michalis Arfaras, Kornilios Grammenos, Marion Igglesi, Antigoni Kavvatha, Juliano Kagli, Panagioti Baxevani, Niko Papadimitriou, Ilia Sipsa, Aggelo Skourti, Kosta Tsoli, Panteli Chandri.
Opening : Thursday June 25, 12.00 – 21.00
Until July 24
Ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou gallery: Valaoritou 9a, Athens, 10671
‘Motorway 65’, a short film by Evi Kalogiropoulou (Fellow 2019) is officially selected in competition of Cannes Film Festival. Winners will be announced in the fall of 2020. ‘Motorway 65’ was selected among 3.810 movies from 137 countries.The movie is founded by Eleusis 2021 – European Capital of Culture and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
The movie describes the relationship between two siblings living in the industrial zone of Elefsina, an area near Athens. The neighborhood, where the characters live, is connected by a bridge, named motorway 6, to an adjacent area, which has much more diverse demographics than the first. The two areas, called ‘Ano small Moscow’ and ‘Kato small Moscow’ coexist in tension because of a conflict rooted on the cultural differences between the two communities: on one side, immigrants from Ponto, and on the other, immigrants from varying backgrounds, such as Albanians, Africans, Pakistanis. The hostility brought by cultural differences is also present within the strong sports culture of the area, further sparking the mutual antagonism. This geographical and social division perplexes and gets reflected in the relationship between the two siblings. The sister, Sima, is much more open-minded than her brother and prefers to hang with people from the opposite side of the bridge; including her best friend Ksenia.
The artists Amalia Vekri and Valinia Svoronou (Fellow 2019) create an imaginary environment at P.E.T. Projects, using the Avalon of the Heart as a metaphor for an activated space.
Avalon of the Heart is a book by British occultist and ceremonial magician Dione Fortune. The book refers to Glastonbury as a mythical place of transcendental experiences and spiritual encounters. Discovering where the heart resides, the writer develops a love affair with the landscape and its emotional counterparts.
The viewer travels through narratives of female identifying characters elevating themselves into super heroes through the use of potions, and ritual; while listening to old love songs, they groom as preparation to unveil a mysterious encounter. As a place inhabited by the heart, that is only revealed to its lovers / mystics, the Avalon is not a literal spatial manifestation but rather the nucleus of an ethereal atmosphere; an enchanting experience similar in nature to the ephemeral essence of an extraordinary perfume. The set up of the works alludes to bodily female desires and anxieties, simultaneously longing for spiritual transcendence. Through the interplay of their works, the artists aim to invoke and reconfigure the legendary environment of the Avalon of the Heart, oscillating between references to new age, popular culture, storytelling and the overpowering construct of romanticism in a contemporary technological landscape.
Vekri and Svoronou’s installation comprising of paintings, sculptures, digital prints, sound and light, invites the audience to confront their internal dialogue, where one meets the heart and by extension the internalised lover.
Once the Avalon is activated, your other half is just around the corner.
During the exhibition, a series of participatory performances will take place resembling a blind date, utilizing the installation itself as a working set. These performances will be formed by invited small groups.
P.E.T. TREAT
The 3rd commission on the facade of P.E.T. is presented entitled P.E.T. Treat with a work by Amalia Vekri and Valinia Svoronou. The project serves as an invitation, found meditation, and daily positive affirmation for passers-by on Kerkyras street. Perfumes travel across time and space re-affirming events and evoking memories, sending a message. This message can be a trigger for a long lost encounter or for a new one to begin.
Opening 23rd of June 16:30 – 22:00 (covid 19 measures apply)*
24th of June – 12 October 2020: by appointment only
* Taking into consideration all the safety health measures,
– the number of visitors will be controlled in the entrance
– a 2mt distance is mandatory
– wearing a mask is highly recommended.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Flux Laboratory Athens presents the dance project ‘WHAT IF IT WAS YOU?” on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Performed by artists Joanna Toumbakari and Andi Xhuma (Fellow 2019), and choreographed by Markella Manoliadi, the piece has been inspired by Imany’s song “Take Care”, aiming at conveying through dance a call for unity and encouragement among people.
The project has taken the form of a video dance directed by Andi Xhuma and will be openly disseminated through international social platforms and channels on Saturday, June 20. On the same day, the dancers will perform live with the participation of the audience in various, symbolically significant places in the center of Athens as well as Flux Laboratory Athens.
Video directed by: Andi Xhuma
Choreography: Markella Manoliadi
Dancers: Joanna Toumbakari & Andi Xhuma
Music: ‘Take Care’ by Imany. From the Album ‘The shape of the broken heart’ (2011), Time Records
Production & Artistic Direction: Cynthia Odier, founder and artistic director of Fluxum Foundation and Flux Laboratory
Camera operator: Klaus Shehaj
Camera assistant: Fotini Xhuma
Please note: In compliance with the safety guidelines pertinent to social-distancing in the pandemic, our audience is kindly asked to follow the performances, wearing a mask or scarf. During the performance at Flux Laboratory Athens, the participants are encouraged to stand around the perimeter of the building, enjoying the piece through its open doors.
Soap by Francis Ponge feels more pertinant than ever. What does an artist have to say about wax, wood, clay, skin and ashes? What can materiality tell us about its existence? Christoforos Marinos talks with Anastasia Douka (Fellow 2019), Malvina Panagiotidi (Fellow 2018), Kostas Roussakis, Maria Tsangari (Fellow 2019) and Paki Vlassopoulou (Fellow 2018) about the multiple possibilities of materiality and the importance of matter in their work. The invited artists will be asked, amongst other things to comment on Giuliana Bruno’s assertion that, “materiality is an archive of interrelations and transformations.”
Info:
Wed., 17 June
free entrance
the conversation will be held in Greek
following the updated instructions, up to 160 people can enter the space
Curated by:
Christoforos Marinos
Access:
Anaxagora 33, (1st floor), Tavros.
Tavros Μetro station
During the unsettling times of a global pandemic and national lockdowns, which seem to have emerged out of dystopic fiction, what does it mean for earth and the anthropocene to remain on hold? Which are the challenges and the environmental concerns that are raised for an artist? How can social distancing and quarantine reshape artistic practices and environmental narratives? In which ways can covid-19 impact environmental crisis and our general perception of the issue?
In response to this unprecedented and urgent situtation and its toll on the planet’s well-being and safety, PCAI, on the occasion of the “Anthropocene On Hold” exhibition, has invited 20 international visual artists to address the gravity of a global pandemic and its impact on art engagement and production as well as earth’s resilience and sustainability. Our Fellows Kyriaki Goni, Hypercomf (Paola Palavidi & Ioannis Kolliopoulos), Evi Kalogiropoulou and Kosmas Nikolaou, and James Bridle, Ionian Bisai & Sotiris Tsiganos, Matthias Fritsch, Lito Kattou, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Rindon Johnson, Bianca Kennedy and the Swan Collective, Marcin Liminowicz & Trang Ha, Charly Nijensohn, Ira Schneider, Andrew Norman Wilson participate with new works in PCAI’s first online group exhibition curated by Kika Kyriakakou; an ongoing digital project that will be hosted on PCAI’s YouTube Channel from May 14 to December 31, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3PQrka5So1idol6w0VM91bV-x6kP3rcB
The short film “The sky will migrate with this cup of water” created by Neritan Zinxhiria (SNF Fellow 2018) was at the Corona Short Film Festival – the first International Pandemic Short Film Festival. The Festival is a newly launched online competition for short films initiated as a reaction to the current COVID19 developments. Neritan’s film was selected among 1250 submissions from more than 70 countries
You can view the film at Corona Short Film Festival (number 33) and vote for the best short film by May 25th.
Our Fellow 2019 Carolina Krasouli in conversation at Crossings#2 .
Crossings#2 will focus on the relationship between the visual arts and literature. The film director Vasilis Noulas and the cinematographer Konstantinos Hadjinikolaou, both with a background in visual arts combined with a literary output will be in conversation with Carolina Krasouli and Nina Papakonstantinou two artists who have consistently visualized literary texts. Christoforos Marinos will coordinate the conversation.
More info: crossings#2
Supported by:
The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, Outset Contemporary Art Fund Greece, The Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation, FIX Hellas
Our Fellows, Christina Dimakogianni and Vera Chotzoglou, participate in the exhibition ‘Resides and work in Athens’.
A three-storey house in the heart of Exarcheia in Athens, becomes the field of action for a group of ten artists who explore and transmute their environments as sites of psychic-mental processes and states of affectedness (disorders, traumas, oscillations, modes of recovering and rebalancing etc.), through the use of photography, video and sound. The artists involved in the project all reside and work in Athens. In their fragmented everyday life, they inexorably yield to “multitasking”, in full accord with the dominant socio-economic and behavioral model of their era. Their daily activity is split into diverse forms of production. They live as internal “nomads” moving amidst a closed existential landscape of multiple ever-changing speeds and imploded time. Every once in a while they slow down unexpectedly. They pause, set up their equipment to “document”. They abandon the prey for the shade. The selection and arrangement of their works as a unity did not result from topic-based criteria (such as: the city, art in public space, urban culture etc.), but from a purely ergo-centric approach, emerging from the specificity of each individual work of art. All works involve projections on two-dimensional surfaces, forming a mosaic-like overall composition, rich in morphological and contextual qualities, textures, sensitivities, tonal values, degrees of introvertedness/extrovertedness, varying significantly in each project.
Participating artists: Vicky Betsou, Vera Chotzoglou, Taxiarchis Diamantopoulos, Christina Dimakogianni, Gabriella Gerolemou, Yannis Karpouzis, Marietta Kavvadia, Vladimir Necakov, Alfredo Pechuan, Michaelangelo Vlassis-Ziakas.
Lectures and presentations of the artists’ work will take place during the exhibition.
Duration: 28.02 – 13.03. 2020
Bernier-Eliades Gallery presents works on paper created from 1972 until today, by the older and younger generation of artists that have been collaborating with the
gallery.Our Fellow Alexandros Tzannis is participating in the exhibition with a series titled ‘Blue Black Layers Over the White Cities’ that has been
ongoing from 2015 until today. It concerns mapping of areas of cities, particular details or specific places of those. Drawings made of ink and pen, in multiple layers of black and blue covering the white paper in a correlation to the layers of melancholy and darkness which cover the cities.
Artists: Alexis Akrithakis, Stephen Antonakos, Delia Brown, Michael Buthe, Lionel Estève, Hannah Greely,
Dionysis Kavallieratos, Jannis Kounellis William Kentridge, Richard Long, Valérie Mannaerts, Brice
Marden, Marisa Merz, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, Juan Muñoz, Nikos Navridis, Tony Oursler,
Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Richter, Thomas Schütte, Jim Shaw, Christiana Soulou, Wayne Thiebaud,
Alexandros Tzannis, Monique Van Genderen, Kara Walker, Lawrence Weiner, Sue Williams, Robert
Wilson, Gilberto Zorio.
Duration: 20 February – 2 April, 2020
Can we capture our lives overturned by a crash?
Three of our Fellows – Evi Kalogeropoulou, Eva Papamargariti, and Valinia Svoronou – participate with their works in the exhibition Cra(u)sh. Or how you made me kiss the pavement the pavement., which examines the other side of the accident. Streets, routes, vehicles, encounters, crashes, are revisited through the new materialist agenda and pop culture. Twelve young artists study drifts and wounds, isolate and re-construct the entanglement of matter and flesh, the absolute fusion of machine, landscape and man, within the premise of organic and inorganic world.
With reference to J.G.Ballard’s literary work Crash from the 70s and the notion of the fetishistic desire erected by he crash, the body as anatomy and sign encounters emotions and the inorganic. The wound, as the engraved trace upon the skin, becomes a mouth or a vagina, revealing love for the inorganic. The exhibition’s space stimulates the scene of the crash.
Through different mediums and practices, the artists unfold different sides of crash and crush. The artworks include image bendings of an automotive legacy, interpretations of erotic symbols, exhausting trials of hard/soft materiality, perfomative reductions of conflict, techno-bio-philic studies of the hybridal boy and docu-fictove formulations of archival material.
Who’s next to cra(u)sh?
Artists:
Phaidon Gialis, Konstantinos Giotis, Christos Delidimos, Evi Kalogeropoulou, Byron Kalomamas, Orestis Karalis, Konstantinos Lianos, Eva Papamargariti, Marios Stamatis, Valinia Svoronou, Marina Velisioti, Iria Vrettou.
Curator:
Vassiliki-Maria Plavou.
Exhibition Duration: 14 February – 08 March.
Opening: 14 February, 20:00.
Our Fellow Evi Kalogiropoulou shows sculptural works in addition to a filmic work by examining the connections between mythology, patriarchal social structures and notions of femininity in her first solo exhibition in Germany.
Evi Kalogiropoulou is concerned with ancient feminist concepts and myths relevant to the female body. How were they perceived in the past and how are they represented in today’s society? Can new cultural identities arise from the emancipation of the female body in the context of technical developments?
In her examination of post-feminist theories, the Greek artist not only questions patriarchal historiography, she also inscribes her view in a speculative and questioning continuation of the ancient myths.
Curator: Lotte Puschmann
Georgis Grigorakis‘ (Fellow 2018) first feature ‘Digger’, won the CICEA Art Cinema Award at the 70th Panorama of Berlin Film Festival. The movie world-premiered at Berlinale on February 24th 2020.
Digger is a contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting against an expanding industrial monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a 20-year separation. They turn into enemies under one roof. Father and son confront each other head-on, with nature as their only observer, a showdown that ultimately yields an unexpected redemption for both.
Georgis Grigorakis studied Social Psychology at the University of Sussex and obtained his Master’s degree on Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School (NFTS, London). He has written and directed 8 short films that have been screened in more than 100 international festivals winning at least 20 prizes. They have also been shown on TV and distributed in movie theaters or as VODs. ‘Digger’ is his feature debut, a production of Haos Film, co-produced by Le Bureau (France) and Match Factory (Germany).
More info: https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202004783
Our Fellow 2019 Aggeliki Bozou designs live cinema shows and art workshops for children inspired by Pablo Picasso’s paintings at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
Vlefaro Live Cinema lands at the SNFCC in February to present original productions based on Pablo Picasso’s life and work. A series of screening shows and art workshops will take place, based on handmade moving images and paper constructions that produce patterns of movement.
In the first part of each session, children and their adult chaperones attend a screening in which images are being painted and composed before their eyes, accompanied by live music. Following the screening, they participate in a sound and image art workshop, in which they process the screened material creatively.
Kids Lab
Saturday 08/02
11.00-12.30
Meeting point: NLG Lobby
For children aged 7-11 years old and their adult chaperones
Up to 15 children and 15 adult chaperones
Free admission by online preregistration (the workshop is conducted in Greek) ηλεκτρονική προεγγραφή
Music Collages
Saturday 15/02
11.00-12.30
For children aged 3-6 years old and their adult chaperones
Up to 15 children and 15 adult chaperones
Free admission by online preregistration (the workshop is conducted in
The award winning film by our Fellow 2019 Rhino Dragasaki will be screening from January 30th exclusively at Astor Cinema.
Anna, an eccentric and neurotic supermarket cashier, lives alone in Athens in her parents’ huge apartment. One day she will be forced to take in the 10-year old girl from next door after her father goes missing. At the same time, she will be confronted with her possible dismissal from work and the overwhelming scenario of a workplace romance. And all this, under the influence of excessive Cosmic Candy consumption.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/360078196
Production: Βlonde, Εx Νihilo, Faliro House, ΕΚΚ, ΕΡΤ
Distribution: Weirdwave
Karolina Krasouli (Fellow 2019) has created a new production inspired by objects related to the transmission of a message for the frac île-de-france Window Display. Sheets of paper, envelopes ans containers of words, in a simultaneously opaque and transparent stack, create spaces. In a play on the appearance of multiples and doubles the message is directed to both one person and everyone. The intention to deploy corresponds to the act of concealing. Showing what has been undone to the point where the message lies exactly at the centre of what escapes us.
Every month, the “Window Display” at l’antenne is home to a new art project linked to le plateau’s exhibitions, collection and educational outreach ventures.
Our Fellow 2019 Valinia Svoronou’s new work “ENDYMION / Chapter 1: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse” is the first narrative chapter of the artist’s augmented reality application. The work is an astronomy-stargazing application that reveals a story alongside new year’s celestial events beginning with the penumbral lunar eclipse on January 10, 2020. The app is informed by various myths surrounding the zodiac constellations, as well as their use as a means of navigation across the centuries.
The underlying narrative of the app takes the ancient Greek myth of Endymion as a point of departure to explore romantic ideas around historical exchanges between East and West in relation to the contemporary world. Endymion’s myth assimilates the plot twists of Roman times, its romantic readings, and appropriations in pop culture.
Svoronou uses the tools of astronomy to create a node where mythologies across time and geographical boundaries converge with scientific observation. The work, in addition to the app, exists as sculptural installation and a series of prints. As a porous membrane between the material, the digital, and the corporeal, the work allows for various stories to interweave, exploring their individual boundaries and allowing for them to resolve variously. Zodiac myths are understood here as escape plans, distractions, detours and wanderings. Svoronou brings together seemingly contradictory content to create something new, suggesting a kind of intuitive navigation-reading. She raises a series of questions about positivist readings of science, history and the art world. Through the mythological connection of Endymion and the Moon, she focuses on the power relations of the observer and the observed, subject and object, on the gendered dimension of the gaze to negotiate the concrete nature of the latter.
Svoronou seeks to rethink the political possibilities of appropriation in art within the museum. Language, representation, and the space of action become tools and targets of critique – a means of reflection on the way stories are constructed, exhibited and consumed.
The exhibition is a living documentation of continuous artistic activity in the city as established Athens based artists, former Snehta residents and experimental practitioners will be coming together to exhibit small scale works, representative of their work and practice.
Fellows participating: Augustus Veinoglou, Eriphyli Veneri, Panos Profitis, Stefania Strouza.
Opening: 18th December, 20:00
Duration : 18-28 December
The legendary Rebound Club Athens opens its doors in Amerikis Square to nine contemporary Greek visual artists. Stripped of music, its atmospheric underground space turns into a one-night stand actionfield for interventions in the form of performance, video, installation and sculpture. Everything black, black only. The bar will operate normally.
Rebound Club Athens
Mithimnis 43, Amerikis Square
Thursday, 12th December 2019 @ 20:00
Curated and coordinated by: Eriphyli Veneri (Fellow 2019), Naira Stergiou
Artists participating:
Despina Charitonidi | Olga Evangelidou (Fellow 2019)| Panos Profitis (Fellow 2018) | Vasilis Papageorgiou (Fellow 2018) | Thalia Raftopoulou | Naira Stergiou | Alexandros Tzannis (Fellow 2019) | Augustus Veinoglou(Fellow 2018) | Eriphyli Veneri (Fellow 2019)
It moves and it shouts. In my head. Shhhhhhhhh, writes queer French author Guillaume Dustan [1965-2005], who delved into the hedonism of the nightclubs and politicized the state of desire, the drive for ecstatic celebration.
IT MOVES AND IT SHOUTS wants to talk about empathising, becoming hybrid — dancing bodies, dancing minds towards a political body. It investigates new ways of perceiving the world, contextualising knowledge as a situated experience, but also playing with and dissolving the idea of borders, somatic, geographical, online or offline. It is through desire and pleasure that we navigate through this world, contesting at the same time various hierarchies. The works bring into consideration class, race, gender and sexuality, ability and illness as intersectional and propose new ecologies of existence.
The exhibition brings together works by Dimitris Dokatzis, Virginia Mastrogiannaki (Fellow 2019), Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019), Theodoulos Polyviou & Kiss the Architect, Spyros Rennt, Korallia Stergides, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Leontios Toumpouris, Kyle Vu-Dunn, Marina Xenofontos.
Curated by: Panos Giannikopoulos
Haus N Athen, Kairi 6, Monastiraki
Opening: 5 December at 20:00
Duration: 5 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
Opening hours: Fri.-Sat. 16:00-20:00