Walls, real and symbolical, visible and invisible, are raised everywhere around us. They are intertwined with the geography of a place, its political identity, with its history and many of its cultural claims . Equal importance has “the geography of souls”. These walls, which are raised by the human psyche and are sometimes used as […]
The Caravansarai program, was an artistic event of contemporary art for international artists based in Tbilisi. The highlight of this event dwelled on getting together production and reflection. (Universities, Museums, Curators, Artists, Art Critics..), theory and practice, and putting side by side artists from all over the world. Actually the aim of this forum was […]
The Topoi exhibition was the Museum’s third grand venture in Athens. By proposing the rather abstract title of Topoi, which translates to “places”, art historian and the Museum’s artistic director, Denis Zaharopoulos, referred to “conceptual places which every one of us can be part of, or imagine what artistic creation and works of art mean, what meaning and […]
This exhibition included different currents of photography as they were expressed through the works of Prix Pictet, as well as projects by artists from Greece and abroad. One part of the exhibition included photographs from the short listed artists of the Pictet award and presented the issue of sustainability, the social and environmental dimension which […]
Curator Anna Chatzinassiou and “Salon de Bricolage” (Athens), presented a group exhibition of Greek artists at “The Hospital Club” in London. The term “domestic” is used in this exhibition with its dual meaning, indicating both the home and the native. The title could thus be interpreted both as “installing artwork within a domestic environment” and as […]
Icastica was the third sequence of a cultural event that deals with international aesthetics through art. It is organized by the Culture Department of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. Icastica took place in Arezzo from the 27th June to the 25th October. That year’s theme was ‘cultivate the culture’ in the wake of the concept of Expo 2015, ‘feeding the […]
The Art Biennial of Cerveira is the oldest art festival in Portugal. It focuses on the promotion of contemporary art. Existing since 1978, this event is of national and international repute, fostering and stimulating the region’s creativity, its cultural decentralization and internationalization. This Biennial has, for over 35 years, provided a space for meeting, interaction […]
The exhibition was entitled Borders, Barriers, Walls and indeed, borders, barriers and walls delineated this project that included artists from around the world. It reflected on how these selectively impervious, contested or convoluted forms shape the world, producing situations of separation, isolation or thwarted passage across the globe, from the exile of Tasmanian Indigenous peoples to the islands of […]