Kalos&Klio
The World Awaits You As A Garden
On View
15 January – 28 February 2026
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries presents the solo exhibition of Kalos&Klio, titled “The World Awaits You As A Garden”. The text accompanying the exhibition is written by Dora Vasilakou (Art Historian – Curator). With their new series of works, which consists of a 3D printed sculpture and handwoven rugs, the artistic duo from Thessaloniki redefines the world as a garden that flourishes through care, vigilance, and unity among its caretakers. In the exhibition, as the artist remark “democracy unfolds like a garden: not a static landscape, but a living ecosystem, a liminal realm acting as a threshold where public and private spheres intersect and transform each other, where individual beliefs meet collective dialogue”. Directly referring to the symbolic role of the garden was also the recent presentation of the work ‘The Keeper of the Garden’ (recreation of the eponymous carpet: 3-D Animation, video projection, transparent LED installation) at Pedion tou Areos Park, commissioned by Onassis Stegi for the exhibition Plásmata 3 (2025).
Artists
Kalos & Klio
Kalos & Klio (Klio Tantalidis and Christos Kalos) is a Thessaloniki-based Greek artist duo collaborating since 2005 as “Two People – One Artist”, known for blending traditional craftsmanship with cutting edge digital media to explore pressing socio-political themes. Klio Tantalidis holds an MFA, in Digital Arts, full scholarship, The University of Chicago, USA, an MA, Printmaking, Governors’ State University, Chicago, USA and a BFA, Painting, summa cum laude, Hanze University, Groningen, NL. Christos Kalos has a BA in photography, ESP, School of Photography, Thessaloniki, GR and studied painting at Boston College UK. Their multidisciplinary practice spans from prints, textiles, handwoven carpets to digital photography, 3D-printed sculptures, installations, augmented reality (AR), and 3D animation, delving into themes of human rights, war, migration, and democratic struggles. Research-driven and focused on reviving traditional motifs from East and West in pop culture, their work reimagines traditional iconography to examine global interconnectedness, revealing the enduring power of ancestral symbols to speak to contemporary realities. Their work has been featured in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Recent exhibitions include: Plásmata 3, Onassis Stegi, Pedion Areos, Athens (2025); “Genius Loci – Lessons of History”, Museum Schlosspark, Romerhalle, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (2025); “Technofetishism – Whip it into shape!”, MOMus-Experimental Centre for the Arts, Thessaloniki (2025); “DIE VERHÄLTNISSE ZUM TANZEN BRINGEN – 50 Jahre Kemnade International”, Bochum, Germany (2024); “The Event of a Thread”, MOMuS- Experimental Centre for the Arts, Thessaloniki, (2022). Kalos&Klio are represented by Kalfayan Galleries.
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