Bida 2005 – Bienal Internacional del Deporte en el Arte.
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Kaftatzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece & Las Atarazanas Reales, Seville, Spain.
Project Participation: The Soma The Psyche The Spirit The Self
Curators: Marta Moriarty, Tono Arean, Sania Papa, Christos Savidis.
The International Biennial on Sport in Art (BIDA) is sponsored by the International Olympic Committee.
This international Biennial will be held for the first time outside Spain and the works will be displayed in the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art and the Kautanzogleio National Stadium in Thessaloniki. At the end of the exhibition the works will be transported to Seville in Spain to be exhibited in November (2005) at the La Atarazanas Imperial Shipyard.
The Greek artists represented: Manolis Babousis, Dimitris Xonoglou, Yorgos Lazongas, Leda Papakonstantinou, Danae Stratou, Chrysi Tsiota, Efi Halyvopoulou, Ersi Hatziargyrou, Elli Chryssidou, Alexandros Psychoulis, and Yioula Hadjigeorgiou (Cyprus). Other artists represented: Fernando Baena (Spain), Yoav Ben-David (Israel), Juan Carlos Bracho (Spain), Joan Cortes (Spain), Javier Grandes (Spain), Rula Hallawani (Palestine), Frederique Lecerf (France), Clara Montoya (Spain), Tobias Putrih (Slovenia), Daniel Vega (Spain), and José Luis Vicario (Spain).
