An exhibition of 51 artists with works inspired by their encounter with the region of Ioannina. The works of sculpture, figurative, abstract and geometric painting, conceptual installation, video installation and animation, wall hangings and mobiles, light boxes, and photography created a microcosmic record/presentation of the Greek contemporary art scene. As part of the exhibition Sketching […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The important visual arts festival of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Action Field Kodra 2017, titled “Retrospection” opened on Friday, the 22nd of September 2017, at the Dorms building, in the ex-military camp Kodra. This year’s exhibition was open with the Mayor’s, Mr. Theodosis Mpakoglidis, speech. The festival celebrated 17 years of existence and was a […]
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“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” Michel de Montaigne Flowers symbolise the opposite of force. Flower power was, in the 1960s, a rejoinder to killing fields. A flower placed in the barrel of a gun renders the weapon benign. Blooms are the […]
The work was created for, and presented in the Greek Pavilion, at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. It is comprised of a perpendicular video projection which only becomes visible through the openings of 936 square sectioned aluminium tubes (10cm X 10cm X 3.30m), placed next to and above each other, creating a cube which […]