GROUP EXHIBITION “LAND ATTUNEMENTS” CURATED BY IOANNA GERAKIDI

Upper Ankyle, the new artist-run space in Athens, presents from November 6, 2025, to January 17, 2026, the group exhibition Land Attunements, featuring works by Vasilis Galanis, Konstantinos Giotis, Tasos Gkaintatzis, Chrysa Gregoriou, Panagiotis Kefalas, Eleni Odysseos, Stephanie Iris Orati, Martha Panagiotopoulou, Despina Sanida-Crezia, Alexandros Tzannis, curated by Ioanna Gerakidi. The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday, November 6, at 8pm.

Through a series of paintings, sculptural, archival and other vernacular gestures that respond to both inhabited and imagined lands, Land Attunements unfolds as a reflection on how we, as human beings, inhabit, rest, transgress, or fight for the spaces around us; not to possess them, but to feel sheltered within them. The exhibition engages with the historical and sociopolitical framework of its location while seeking tools of resistance to the exploitations, appropriations, and seizures of landscapes, resources, and lives—human, non-human, and more-than-human.

By briefly encountering urban legends, oral stories, unstated words and embodied images, yet also documents and archives that have informed their relationships to spatial realms, the participating artists explore multi-sensory rituals, remnants of once-living organisms, keen intuitions and acute memories. Their works open up ways of thinking about public space as a site of inscription, whilst allowing for the unpolished to be looked at as a means for reimagining temporal and spatial relations.

The land, its surfaces, and its subterranean processes are approached not as neutral or static entities but as restless terrains that grow through decay, letting wandering to exist as a right and rest as a form of resistance. Across gestures of gathering, protest, touch, and dance, the exhibition maps an alternative syntax of the real and the speculative, where observation turns into a conversational matter.

Land Attunements invites viewers to attune. It’s a show made with the nonlinear yet unlimited possibilities of listening to the spaces that surround and sustain us, proposing a paradigm in which care, attention, and embodied presence circulate and multiply across lands, times, and beings.

Ioanna Gerakidi is a writer, curator, and educator based in Athens. Her research interests think through the subjects of language and disorder, drawing on feminist, educational, and psychoanalytical studies. Poetry and other diaristic and archival schemes are often embedded in her practice. She is the founder of CHEAT CODE, a platform dedicated to alternative knowledge production and artistic development.

Upper Ankyle is an artist-led initiative founded by Vangelis Tzolakis and Tania Kapoglou, initially active through exhibitions and events in a temporary space in London. Now based in Kolonaki, Athens, it operates as a hybrid model between a gallery and a project space, encouraging active community engagement. Focusing on what often goes unnoticed—underground flows, hidden stories, and forgotten narratives—Upper Ankyle explores the memory of places and their psychosocial transformations, drawing its name from the ancient Athenian deme Ankyle Kathyperthen, which once extended across the area of Kolonaki and beyond.

INFO

Land Attunements
Group Exhibition at Upper Ankyle

6.11.2025 –17.01.2026
Opening: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8-11pm

Curated by: Ioanna Gerakidi
Participating artists: Vasilis Galanis, Konstantinos Giotis, Tasos Gkaintatzis, Chrysa Gregoriou, Panagiotis Kefalas, Eleni Odysseos, Stephanie Iris Orati, Martha Panagiotopoulou, Despina Sanida-Crezia, Alexandros Tzannis

Visual identity: Alex Brouhard

Website: upperankyle.com | Instagram: @upper_ankyle

*Ioanna Gerakidi, Vasilis Galananis, Konstantinos Giotis and Alexandros Tzannis are ARTWORKS Fellows.