silvina Der Meguerditchian

 
 
Moved, or What My Bones Know
Curated by Lusin Reisch 
Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten
1 September - 28 October 2023
 
Silvina Der Meguerditchian approaches questions of memory, heritage, and identity from an Armenian diasporic perspective.  She explores the spaces between language and semantics while transforming them into multi-layered visual bodies.
 

Panos Tsagaris

 
 
Healing Ruins
Curated by Anlam de Coster
Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Istanbul
30 September - 5 November 2023
 
 
 

Maria Loizidou

 
 
Moi Balbuzard Migrant
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
29 September - 7 January 2024
 

Bill Balaskas

 
Shortlisted for the 422 Public art commission in Manchester, UK.
 
For further information:
https://422arts.org/events/public-commission-announcement
 
 
 

Encore

 
Encore
Curated by Christoforos Marinos
Municipal Gallery of Athens
27 June - 10 September 2023
 
Participating artists:
Andreas Ragnar Kassapis
Karolina Krasouli
Sasha Streshna
Antrea Tzourovits
 
 
 

Adrian Paci

 
 
In Displaced Rememberance
Group show Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour
Curated by Katerina Gregos
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents the international group exhibition Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour: In Search of the Third Paradise
7 June - 13 September 2023
 
 
 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian - Workshop at MOMus

 

 

Thursday, 10 March 2022

MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessaloniki, Greece

Duration: 8 hours

 

For further information:

https://www.momus.gr

 

 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian at The Flanders Fields Museum

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 
Exhibition: 'for Civilisation’ - The Great War in the Middle East 1914-1923 (group show)
Duration: 12 March - 2 October 2022
Venue: The Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium

For further information:
https://www.inflandersfields.be/en/program/middenoosten-e
 

Kalos&Klio at MOMus

Kalos&Klio

 

"The Event of a Thred" - Global Narratives in textiles

Curated by Christian Oxenius

Venue: MOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

For Further information:

https://www.momus.gr/en/exhibition/event-of-a-thread

 

Andreas Ragnar Kassapis at A SUD

 

"The Shallow Room"

A SUD gallery, Pescara, Italy

 

Yiannis Papadopoulos at WIELS, Brussels

Yiannis Papadopoulos

 

ELOS

Solo Exhibition at Wiels Project room, Brussels

https://www.wiels.org/en/events/yiannis-papadopoulos---_elos

 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian at nGbK, Berlin

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 

“Twister”
Venue: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK, Oranienstrasse), Berlin
 

For further information:
https://www.ngbk.de/en/show/685/twister-oranienstrasse

 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian at Falkenrot Preis 2021 - “CONSTRUCT YOUR STORIES II”

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 

Falkenrot Preis 2021 - “CONSTRUCT YOUR STORIES II”
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Prize winners: Tamy Ben-Tor, Winfried Bullinger, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Šejla Kamerić, Melody Melamed, Dawit Shanko

For further information:

https://www.bethanien.de/exhibitions/falkenrot-preis-2022-construct-your-stories-2/


 

 

Maria Loizidou at the Whitechapel

 
A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020
24 February – 5 June 2022
 
Whitechapel Gallery presents a 100-year survey of the studio through the work of artists and image-makers from around the world.
Whether it be an abandoned factory, an attic or a kitchen table, it is the artist’s studio where the great art of our time is conceived and created. In this multi-media exhibition, the wide-ranging possibilities and significance of these crucibles of creativity take centre stage and new art histories around the modern studio emerge through striking juxtapositions of under-recognised artists with celebrated figures in Western art history.
 
The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, installations and films depicting the studio as work of art and presents documentation of artists’ studios by world-renowned photographers and film-makers. A series of ‘studio corners’ also recreate the actual environments where great art has been produced.
 

Bill Balaskas at AI exhibition, Onassis STEGI

Bill Balaskas

 

Exhibition: 'You and AI: Through the Algorythmic Lens"

Organised by Onassis STEGI

Venue: Pedion tou Areos.

Bill Balaskas & Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Before the bullet hits the body, 2021, ground mural at Pedion tou Areos.

The work takes its title from the seminal 2018 report by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which led to the dismantlement of “predictive” policing programmes of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The algorithm presented at Pedion tou Areos describes an area’s predicted rate of crimes based on its historical average rate of crimes combined with recent trends. The Coalition’s community organizing expanded the critique of LAPD’s algorithm beyond just questioning the “feedback loop,” showing how police use the veneer of science to mask their violence and, thus, exposing crime data as a social construct intended to contain, control, and criminalize Black, brown, and poor communities. The Coalition argued that surveillance and crime data create the conditions of police violence “before the bullet hits the body.” These conditions include incidents of police brutality like the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to global protests by the Black Lives Matter movement. The installation adopts the visual language of these protests, which included slogans written on major roads in the U.S. Along with the installation at Pedion tou Areos, the project consists of a curated presentation of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition’s work on Stegi’s website and a series of online discussions.
 

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Forever Now
at Teloglio Foundation of Arts
8 October - 8 November 2020

 

 

 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 
Group show: ZIET
R17 Experimental Zone
Berlin

3 - 24 October 2020

 

Panos Tsagaris

 
Participating at the Digital Yerevan Biennial Art Foundation
"The Time Complex"
curated by Lorenzo Fusi
from 1 October 2020 - 17 January 2021

To view the digital exhibition: https://yerevanbiennial.org/panos-tsagaris

 

Bill Balaskas

 

'Images of a Floating World'

Primarolia Festival
12-30 September 2020
Kanellopoulos-Kritsotalakis Building, Aigio, Greece

For further information https://primarolia.com/
 

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Kostis Velonis

‘199’
DESTE - old Hydra Slaughterhouse

Hydra island
21 June - 31 October 2020

For further information:

https://deste.gr/

 



 

Kostis Velonis

 
 

Interview - Athens Voice Online

15 April 2020

https://www.athensvoice.gr/culture/arts/638679_o-kostis-velonis-ehei-paradeigma-ton-gato-toy-otan-halaronei

 

HOMEmade

 
 

Online curated project of Kalfayan Galleries

A series of new projects launched at the gallery’s social media. Thoughts, ideas, feelings taking digital form…

Save the Date: Tuesday 21 April 2020 - Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 

Silvina der Meguerditchian

 
 

"Hadjintsik Tum Agho En" Hadjin - Local Dialect and Customs

Film: Concept and editing by Silvina Der Meguerditchian.

For further information:

https://www.houshamadyan.org/mapottomanempire/vilayet-of-adana/hadjin/local-characteristics/language-and-dialect.html

 

 

Raed Yassin

 
The sea between my soul
Onassis Stegi
13-15/3, 20:00 & 22:00
For further information: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/sea-between-my-soul
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Land of Creation. A Tribute to Metsovo
Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece
19 October 2019 - 12 January 2020
 
For further information:
www.averoffmuseum.gr
 

Panos Tsagaris

 
Truthiness and the News
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
11 October 2019 - 15 March 2020
For further information:

https://dc  https://decordova.org/art/exhibition/truthiness-and-news

 

 

Silvina Der Meguerditichian

 
“Better together” - DiVAversity of Arts
24-25 October, 2019
Universität der Künste, Berlin (UdK) 
Presentation of film: “The Dust of History” (2017)
 
For further information:
https://www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet/gleichstellungspolitik/akteurin-sein/divaversity-of-arts/divaversity-of-arts-event-jetzt-anmelden/

 
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Berliner Herbstsalon

Gorki theatre, Berlin.
26 October – 17 November, 2019
Organized by Shermin Langhoff, with Aljoscha Begrich, Çağla İlk, Elena Sinanina, Ong Keng Sen, Erden Kosova, Irina Szodruch, Rebecca Ajnwojner
 
For further information:
https://berliner-herbstsalon.de/vierter-berliner-herbstsalon

 

Bill Balaskas

 
'Archive: Between the Public and the Private'

3rd MedPhoto Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymo, Greece
Curators: Pavlos Fysakis, Maria Marangou and Dimitris Kechris
7 November 2019 - 15 March 2020

For further information:
https://medphoto.gr
 

Bill Balaskas

 

'the HOLD'

Bill Balaskas is participating in a group exhibition by the We Are Publication collective
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
25 September - 14 December 2019

https://www.stanleypickergallery.org/exhibitions/we-are-publication/
 

 

Maria Loizidou

 
Look Under The Hood
at Garage Art Gallery, Nicosia
27 September - 31 October 2019
In the context of a retrospective approach, the artist shapes a platform for workshops, discussions and challenges for the production of thought and new proposals.

Loizidou re-connects with 22 venues in Nicosia, with which she has collaborated over the course of her 35 years of work. In collaboration with artists, art theorists, journalists, poets and historians, new synergies are proposed, adapted to the current activities of each venue.

This approach contributes to understanding our dialectical relationship with art and the city, thanks to the diversity of the reasons supporting it and by questioning the means of documentation of memory.
 

Kostis Velonis

 

Kostis Velonis
“Crossing Lines”

24 August – 3 November 2019
Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück

For further information: https://kunsthalle.osnabrueck.de/ausstellungen/vorschau/
 

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslani

 

13,700,000 Km3 (group show)
Curated by Katerina Gregos.
4 August – 30 September 2019
Art Space Pythagorion, Samos

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis is participating as member of the ‘Depression Era’.

For further information: http://www.schwarzfoundation.com

 

 

Yiannis Papadopoulos

 
Performance: "reading stones"

a piece for one bass tuba and five stones

Thursday 27 June 2019, 19:30h

Kalfayan Galleries, 11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens

proposition by Yiannis Papadopoulos

read and performed by Sarah De Wilde**

Special publications in limited editions are released on the occasion of the performance.

In the context of his solo exhibition titled "the book of stones", Yiannis Papadopoulos proposes the shapes of the stones depicted in his paintings, to be read as a score for a brass instrument (bass tuba).low frequency

On this instrument sound comes from a vibrating column of air inside the instrument. The sound is round, earthy, cavernous and resonant.

The performance is an attempt to synch both sonic and visual frequencies in order to produce one singular vibe. It is a short walk through the subtle qualities of resonances in the spaces between things. One could say for instance, under hitherto unobserved circumstances stones were able to speak*.

* from Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities"

** Sarah De Wilde is an artist working with film and sound
 

Bill Balaskas

 

TOYOTAYA Commission

Bill Balaskas is the winner of the TOYOTAYA Commission by the Cork Opera House and the National Sculpture Factory for Cork Midsummer Festival 2019.

https://www.corkmidsummer.com/programme/event/red-air-bill-balaskas
https://visualartists.ie/news/bill-balaskas-awarded-the-the-toyotaya-commission-cork/

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Platforms Projects 2019

'Autobiographical Systems', curated by Emmanuel Mavrommatis
16-19 May 2019
“Nikos Kessanlis” Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts

https://platformsproject.com/

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Group show: The Palace at 4 a.m. at the Archeological Museum of Myconos. Curated by Iwana Blazwick and Elina Kountouri. Duration of the exhibition 18 May - 31 October 2019.
Opening tomorrow: 17 May 2019 - 7pm
The Palace at 4 a.m. is organized and commissioned by NEON and presented in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades

 

Yiannis Papadopoulos

 
Residency at WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Brussels

Yiannisʼ work is inspired by his deep interests in the classical sources of the arts and sciences, their impact on modernity and their continued relevance in the contemporary understanding of the world. The range of his references –from geometry and Greek philosophy to European Scholasticism and the Enlightenment– reflects Yiannisʼ historical awareness and through this, his commitment to addressing some of the most pertinent cultural and political issues which define –and divide- todayʼs Europe. His practices drawing simultaneously on the traditions of the performing and plastic arts, literature and poetry, making his work notable from its sparse formal qualities and aesthetic economy.

Yiannis Papadopoulos (b. 1975, Patras GR) lives in Athens and Antwerp and has studied Mathematics, Fine Arts and Typography, in Greece, The Netherland and in Belgium. Nominated for DESTE prize 2015, granted from Kunsten en Erfgoed and V. Valambous prize GR. Selected recent exhibitions include Unpacking my library, cur. T. Pandi, A. Mykoniati, EMST, Athens (2018); Perished Sun, Kalfayan galleries, Athens (2017); Actopolis, cur. e. Karaba, Goethe Athens, PAT (2016). He is editor of OMBLOS imprint.

 

http://www.wiels.org/en/residencieslist/147/Yiannis-Papadopoulos

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Participating in a group show Asthenia No.7 / Cosmology
Organised & edited by Amalia Vekri, Antonín Jirát, Alexios Papazacharias
at City Surfer Office, Prague from April 26- 1 May 2019
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Curved Arrow
Kunstaum Am Schauplatz, Vienna
30 April - 1 June 2019
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Life Without Tragedy
Onassis Festival 2019: Democracy is Coming
 Public Theater, Astor Place, New York
10 - 30 April 2019
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Group show Bed Matters
curated by Charlotte Silbermann, Galerie Kunstpunkt, Berlin
28 March - 9 April 2019
 
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Group exhibition Πενταδάκτυλος (Pentadaktylos)
curated by Savvas Christodoulides
Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
28 March - September 2019

 

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Group exhibition "Voyage Around My Room"
curated by Kika Kyriakakou  
Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center
Vasilissis Sofias Av., 11521 Athens
18 March - 2 May 2019
 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 

Artist talk:

Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Memory is my daily bread at ALBA in Beirut, 19 March at 6.30pm.

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Farewell to thee (solo exhibition)

A new site-specific installation inspired by the US-North Korea crisis.

7 March - 14 April 2019
Phoenix
4 Midland Street
Leicester, LE1 1TG

More information: https://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/bill-balaskas-farewell-to-thee/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Squared" & "Apertures"

UKYA presents a "dispersed" solo exhibition ("Squared") and a lecture-performance ("Apertures") by interdisciplinary artist and distinguished UKYA alumnus Bill Balaskas. The events are hosted in the context of the inaugural UKYA City Takeover festival, which will take place in Nottingham, UK.

"Squared" - a "dispersed" solo exhibition
7 - 13 February 2019
Multiple venues
Nottingham, UK

"Apertures" - a lecture-performance
Sunday 10 February 2019, 14:00
The Florist
Nottingham, UK

More information: http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk
 

 

Breda Beban

 

Participating in a group show Nostalgic Whiplash at Site Gallery, Sheffield from 29 Jan – 17 Feb 2019.

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

Photography in Crisis
A retrospective exhibition of Depression Era, a collective art project in Athens, Greece engaging the "Greek crisis" and its aftermath at Slought, Philadelphia, from 17 January – 17 February 2019.

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"Open Archive," a public workshop with Depression Era, a collective lens-based arts project based in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 10am-12pm. The workshop will be facilitated by members Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Yorgos Prinos, and Georges Salameh, and has been organized in conjunction with "Photography in Crisis," a retrospective exhibition of the work of Depression Era that engages the so-called "Greek crisis" and its aftermath, on display January 17 – February 17, 2019.

 

Rania Bellou

 

Participating in a group show Artists are the New Athletes at the Edit Gallery in Limassol

Duration: 20 January - 3 March 2019

 

Yiannis Papadopoulos

 

Group show Le Bouc Divin at WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels
05 - 09 December 2018, 11:00 - 18:00
 

 

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

Participating in a group show Photo-graphē - Between the Visual & The Literary, curated by Maria Nicolacopoulou at the Museum Benaki, Pireos. Opening 29 November 2018. Duration until 5 January 2019

 

Bill Balaskas

 

‘RCA SECRET 2018’

Fundraising exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by internationally acclaimed artists, illustrators and designers.
Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, UK
30 November - 3 December 2018

More information: https://london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2018/
 

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Residency program at VHGD in Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Europe's Cultural Capital 2018.

 

Talk: Vartan Avakian

 
All That Is Seen And Unseen:
Vartan Avakian in conversation with Klea Charitou (Art Historian - Curator)
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 18.00
at Kalfayan Galleries, Athens

On the occasion of the closure of the artist’s solo exhibition "Residual Histories"
venue: Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
 
 

Short Biography

Vartan Avakian is a multidisciplinary artist, working with installation, video and photography. He studied Architecture and Urban Culture at the Universitat Politegravecnica de Catalunya and the CCCB, Barcelona, and Communication Arts at the Lebanese American University. Vartan Avakian is a founding member of “Atfal Ahdath”, a Beirut based art collective. Awards/Grants: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon (2014); Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013). He has exhibited throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the US. Recent solo show: “All That is Seen and Unseen”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Upcoming group show: ”Light in Wartime”, Apexart, New York, USA.  Germany. Selected exhibitions: “That, Around Which The Universe Revolves - Chapter V”, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; “Theatre of Measurement”, Kunsthaus München; “Thread”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (all in 2017); Esma’/Listen (Marcella Lista and Marie Muracciole), Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Project 35: The Last Act, Garage 35, Moscow (all in 2016);“The City in the City”, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon; “Dust” (group show), Center for Contemporary Art -Ujazdowski Castle (curated by Anna Ptak, in collaboration with Amanda Abi Khalil), Warsaw; VideoWorks, Beirut; " Collapsing Clouds of Gas and Dust” (solo show), Marfa Projects, Beirut; “Collapsing Clouds of Gas and Dust and One Other story” (residency and solo show), Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo, Egypt (all in 2015); ‘InVisible – Public Art Commission’ (curated by Amanda Abi Khalil, produced by 17A Art Consultants/Hetal Pawani). Commissioned and funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Dubai; “Whistling in the Dark” (curated by Aischa Berg), Workshop Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon; Film (curated by David Gryn), Art Basel Miami Beach, Kalfayan Galleries (all in 2014); ‘InVisible – Public Art Commission’, Commissioned and funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Dubai; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; The Sultan Gallery, Kuwait; Wallach Art Gallery, New York; Transmediale 2K+12, Berlin (all 2012); Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Sharjah Biennial X; South London Gallery, London; Can Felipa, Barcelona; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; ACVIC, Vic; Cer Modern, Ankara; The Cube, Taipei; Museum Alex Mylona, Athens; Al Hoash, Jerusalem; The Goethe Institut, Cairo; 5th Indonesian International Video Festival, Jakarta; 33rd Cinemed, Montpellier; 2nd Antakya Biennial (all 2011); Home Works V, Beirut; Journées de la Photographie 10, Damascus; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Beirut Art Center, Beirut (all 2010); Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo; Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (all 2009). Avakian is a founding member of "Atfal Ahdath", a Beirut based art collective. He lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.

Klea Charitou is an art historian and curator based in Athens. After a BA in Greek Literature at Kapodistrian University of Athens she graduated with an MA in Art History from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and a second MA in Curating from the University Rennes 2, Rennes. Currently PhD candidate in the School of Fine Arts of Athens she prepares a thesis titled “The relations between Logos and Art in the Greek art in the 1970s”. She has worked as a curatorial assistant for documenta 14 and she has been part of the Curatorial team of Kunsthalle Athena. She has collaborated in various projects, including: South as a State of Mind arts and culture magazine, This Is Not My Beautiful House, POLITICAL SPEECHES (Kunsthalle Athena), Cady Noland, (University Rennes2 and FRAC Bretagne), PAWNSHOP, E-FLUX Project (3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art), Demo #2, Architecture, Theory, Visual Arts, Design, Performance (DYNAMO project-space) and she has been curatorial fellow in different programs in Europe.

 

Raed Yassin

 
Participating in a group show
Beirut, Beyrut, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout
at Ystads Konstmuseum, Sweden
8 September 2018 - 6 January 2019
 

Farida El Gazzar

 

Participating in a group exhibition Nothing Vanishes, Everything Transforms curated by Nadine Abdel Ghaffar at Manial Palace, al-Rhoda Island, Cairo. Opening 28 October 2018. Duration until 27 November 2018.

 

Bill Balaskas

 


Bill Balaskas has been invited by Italy to represent his home country Greece in the official World War I centenary exhibition ’Quando scoppia la pace’ (‘When peace erupts’).

The exhibition will be inaugurated by the Italian President on 4 November 2018, in Vittorio Veneto - the site of the Great War’s final battle.
Curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, curator of contemporary art at the Hermitage State Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.

 

Nina Papaconstantinou

 

Multitudinous Seas (group show)
curated by Gregory Castera, Iordanis Kerenidis, Piergiorgio Pepe at Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France.
Duration of the exhibition 15 October until 16 December 2018.

 

Maria Loizidou

 

MLNY at Party Contemporary, Nicosia.

Opening Friday 19th of October from 6-9.30.
Duration of the exhibition until 23 November 2018

 

Panos Tsagaris

 
Panos Tsagaris in a group show SHINE ON ME
The Sun and Us, curated by Catherine Nichols at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden from
28 September 2018 - 18 August 2019
 

Kostis Velonis

 

Artist in residence, Stanley J. Seeger Fellow, Princeton University, USA 
 

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Group show "56 -year span" 
Vrachimis Art proposals,
Nicosia, Cyprus
19 - 29 September 2018
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Participating in a group show:
The Value of Freedom
curated by Severin Dünser
at Belvedere 21 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
 
18 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
Arsanalstraβe 1, 1030 Vienna
 

Yiannis Papadopoulos

 

Residency at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

For further information: http://www.wiels.org/en/residencieslist/147/Yiannis-Papadopoulos

 

 

 

Nina Papaconstantinou and Yiannis Papadopoulos

 

Nina Papaconstantinou and Yiannis Papadopoulos are participating in a group show Unpacking my Library at EMST Reading room / Library from 14 June - 15 July 2018

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Autobiographical Systems"
A group exhibition curated by Emmanuel Mavrommatis, in the context of Platforms Project 2018.
"Nikos Kessanlis" Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts
17 - 20 May 2018

https://platformsproject.com

 

Silvina Der Meguerditchian

 
"Hello World. Revised a Collection"
Portable Homelands From Field to Factory
Curated by Clémentine Deliss
at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
from 28 April until 26 September 2018
 

Bill Balaskas

 

European Investment Bank Institute Artists’ Development Awards

Bill Balaskas has been selected as one of the four winners of the 2018 EIB Institute Artists' Development Awards.
A newly commissioned installation will be unveiled by the artist in Luxembourg on 25 June 2018.

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"When All is Said... and Done"

A group exhibition curated by Artemis Potamianou
Agnus-Hughes Gallery & Centre for Contemporary Curation, London, UK
9 March - 8 April 2018

http://angus-hughes.com

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"On Technology and the Nature of Truth"

Panel discussion at Watermans Arts Centre, London
Saturday 3 March 2018, 11:30 am

https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/trajectories-symposiumon-technology-and-the-nature-of-truth/
 

 

Nina Papaconstantinou

 

Group show: Stopping Point curated by Kostis Velonis at Daily Lazy Projects

Until 24 March 2018

 

Bill Balaskas and Nina Papaconstantinou

 
Participating in a group exhibition Theorimata
at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Bill Balaskas proposed by Artemis Potamianou
Nina Papaconstantinou proposed by Charis Kanellopoulou
Temporary Exhibition Space EMST (-1)
8 February - 15 April 2018
 
For further information: http://www.emst.gr/en/exhibitions-en/upcoming-exhibitions-en/theorimata-the-exhibition-of-the-greek-section-of-the-international-association-of-art-critics-aica-hellas
 

Hrair Sarkissian and Kostis Velonis

 
Refusing to Be Still, 21, 39 5th Edition
Curated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
07 Feb - 05 May 2018
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Paroikia – Παροικία,
Curated  by Zoe Paul
Company Gallery, NYC
Jan. 28 – March 11, 2018
 

Bill Balaskas

 

'Trajectories'
A group exhibition curated by Eszter Bircsák, Sara Choudhrey and Irini Papadimitriou.
Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK
24 January - 7 March 2018

For further information: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/trajectories/

 

Vlassis Caniaris

 

Participating in a group show A Good Neighbour at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
14.12.2017 ‐ 01.04.2018

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Urgent Conversations: Antwerp - Athens
Part III Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), Antwerp
16 October - 12 November 2017
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Face Forward ...into my Home
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
22 /11/17 – 31/01/ 2018

 
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
OUTPOSTS: Global boundaries and national borders at Glucksman, University College Cork, Ireland. 
Opening 30 November 2017at the Glucksman, University College Cork
 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Balance Exercises"
23-26 November 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece

Bill Balaskas is participating in the museum exhibition "Balance Exercises", curated by Prof. Emmanuel Mavrommatis, in the context of Art Thessaloniki 2017. Balaskas will present his installation "Anarchy near the UK", which was commission in 2016 by MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
 

 

Yiannis Papadopoulos and Kostis Velonis

 

ACTOPOLIS / H Τέχνης της Δράσης at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASKT) Pireos 256, Athens.
3 November - 16 November 2017

 

Rania Bellou

 
"Taking Roots" at The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
Curated by Orestis Andreadakis
Duration until 12 Nov 2017
 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 
Yiannis Hadjiaslanis (Depression Era)
participating in a group show The Decline of Heroes
curated by Kateryna Botanova at Culture Scapes, Basel
19 October 2017 - 21 January 2018
 

Kostis Velonis

 
NEON /  CITY PROJECT 2017
A Puppet Sun
curated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos
at Kaplanon 11, Kolonaki
11 October 2017 - 14 January 2018
 

Dimitris Tataris

 
6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
Imagined Homes
 
30 September 2017 - 14 January 2018
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Negotiating the Future
2017 Asian Art Biennal, Taiwan
30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 

Horizon

Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts

Curated by Lisa Fischman

19 September - 17 December 2017

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Hrair Sarkissian

Homesick

Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

7 July - 2 October 2017

Twin Galleries, GF

 

Bill Balaskas

 

‘RCA SECRET 2017’

Fundraising exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by internationally acclaimed artists, illustrators and designers.
Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK
9 - 15 September 2017

More information: https://london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2017/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

SHOW RCA 2017

Bill Balaskas presents his doctoral research for his PhD by thesis at the Royal College of Art, alongside his mixed-media installation "Re: Evolution" (2013).

Royal College of Art
School of Humanities Research Exhibition
Stevens Building, Kensington Gore, London
24 June - 2 July 2017

http://www.rca.ac.uk/show2017

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Artist Talk: "Against the Slow Cancelation of the Future’

Talk at the Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross, London
Friday 16 June 2017, at 12 pm

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Athens Photo Festival
June 7- July 30 2017
Benaki Museum

http://www.photofestival.gr

 

 

"The Times" (group show)
The Flag Art Foundation


Opening Reception: Thursday, June 1, 6-8pm
On view through August 11, 2017
545 West 25th Street, 9th & 10th Floors


The exhibition uses The New York Times as its point of departure and features over 80 artists, artist duos, and collectives who use the "paper of record" to address and reframe issues that impact our everyday lives.

 

http://flagartfoundation.org/exhibitions/the-times/

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

JUMP BALL
June 2 - June 25, 2017
at DIO HORIA  contemporary art space, Mykonos


http://www.diohoria.com
 

 

Panos Tsagaris / Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Homeland
Çanakkale Art Walk 2017: Homeland
Kunsthalle Osnabrück
curated by Christian Oxenius.

6 June 2017 - 8 August 2017

 

Bill Balaskas

 

‘The Assassination of Guy Debord’

A new performance & participatory installation presented in the convention hall of the EU Council.

Friday 12 May 2017, 6 pm

European Convention Center Luxembourg (ECCL)
Place de l' Europe, 4
2311, City of Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Organized in the context of the ‘Friday Island’ event series

 

Breda Beban

 

BREDA'S LESSON
A symposium on the Art and Life of Breda Beban
curators Ana Čavić and Dubravka Cherubini
Trieste, Studio Tommaseo, via del Monte 2/1
Saturday, 22 April, 2017, from 6 pm
The event is organized by Trieste Contemporanea

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Participating in a group show 'ECO ART - Paths on Common Ground. Artists in Situ’ - European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017 at Akamas / Arodes, Mylopetres, Cyprus

Curated by Thouli Misirloglou
23/4/2017 - 31/8/2017

 

Bill Balaskas

 

‘Living Forward, Looking Backward’

Essay by Ioli Tzanetaki in ‘Archipelago' journal of Goldsmiths University of London (2017).

The essay is based on Bill Balaskas' most recent solo exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries, in Athens, titled ‘Remains of a Summer Bliss’ (September-October 2016)

http://www.archipelagojournal.org/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 
Participating in a group show: Gestures of Resistance at Romantso Cultural Centre, Athens
20 - 30 April 2017

Address: Anaxagora 3, Athens 10552

For further information: http://gesturesofresistance.com/

 

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Participating in a group show " The Memory of the Relolution"
Curated by Yiannis Bolis
At The State Museum of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki
Moni Lazariston
22 March - 22 July 2017.
 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"Looking for the Clouds, Contemporary Photography in Times of Conflict"
Curated by Paul Di Felice, Pierre Stiwer, Kevin Muhlen
Casino Luxembourg
April 28 - June 11 2017
 

Artists: David Birkin, James Bridle, Sinje Dillenkofer, Richard Drew, Omer Fast, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Anush Hamzehian&Vittorio Mortarotti, Carine&Elisabeth Krecke, Aude Moreau, Swen Renault, Panos Tsagaris, Valentin Vallhorat, Wolfang Reichmann
 

For further information: http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/en/Exhibitions/Looking-for-the-Clouds-Contemporary-Photography-in-Times-of-Conflict

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"EMOP ARENDT AWARD 2017" Exhibition
Shortlisted for the 2017 Emop Arendt Award


The exhibition at the Arendt & Medernach premises presents five merging artists selected from the EMOP Looking for the Cloud exhibition. Shortlisted for the 2017 prize are Panos Tsagaris, Samuel Gratacap, Jure Kastelic, Aida Silvestri, Daniel Mayrit.
Curated by Paul di Felice and Pierre Stiwer
 

For further information: http://www.emoplux.lu/?p=3925
 

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"BAKER’S DOZEN VI", at Torrance Art Museum, California
Curated by Max Presneill
25 March 19 May, 2017


http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/upcoming-exhibitions

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Participating in a group show "Baker's Dozen VI" at Torrance Art Museum.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503

 

Maria Loizidou

 

"déshabillé"
Curated by Yves  Sabourin
30 March - 29 June 2017
Benaki Museum-Mentis Center for the Preservation of Traditional Textile Techniques

co-organized: the House of Cyprus and the Benaki Museum

 
Mentis, Polifymou 6, 11854 Athens

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Transformed: reclamation, re-invention + identity
Showing History Zero, 2013 (3 channel video)
18 February - 25 March 2017
Site131, Dallas Texas

For further information: http://site131.com

 

Kostis Velonis

 
 

On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 7 pm Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart will be opening the exhibitions of Kostis Velonis, Georges Senga Assani and Jelena Vesić.
With a reading by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and a book presentation by Jelena Vesić on the opening evening.


Kostis Velonis
"Precision German Craftsmanship"
The title was borrowed from a poem by the American poet Matthew Rohrer, in which he describes his ideas of German craftsmanship, especially with regards to the proverbial German thoroughness and precision. Kostis Velonis plays with this idea and intentionally creates crafts which are not based on such values. The smoothness and polish of typical design products are substituted by scratching on the raw surfaces and the aspect of deterioration and collapse of the cultural object. Most of the surfaces of these objects remain dirty, smudgy and stained, offering their own narratives.
 

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Participating in a group show "Instructions for Happiness", curated by Severin Dünser and Olympia Tzotzi at 34 Periklous Street, Athens.Opening Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 8pm. Duration until 30 December 2016.

 

Kostis Velonis

 
"The Kids Want Communism”
MoBY Museums of Bat Yam,  Bat Yam,  Israel
15 December 2016
 
For further information: http://moby.org.il/
 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Panos Tsagaris: Let the Sun Protest' at Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome

28 November 2016 - 28 January 2017

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"GREEK MOMENT / MOMENT GREC"

Bill Balaskas' work is featured in a collective book, edited by Emmanuel Saulnier
Paris: Editions du Regard

http://www.editions-du-regard.com/regard/accueil.htm
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Bill Balaskas

 

nEUROsis
Curated by Yiannis Colakides
NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
19 November - 17 December 2016

http://news.neme.org/1808/neurosis
 

 

Nina Papaconstantinou

 

Participating in a group show "Where there is Sea There are Pirates" curated by Poppy Bowers at 3137, Mavromichalis 137, Athens. Opening on 10th November 2016. Duration of the exhibiiton until 20 November 2016.

 

Vlassis Caniaris, Nina Papaconstantinou, Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Kostis Velonis

 

Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp at EMST. The first exhibition that will inaugurate the temporary exhibition spaces of EMST is a coproduction of EMST and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). The exhibition entitled Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp will be inaugurated on October 31, 2016 and last until January 29, 2017.

 

Rania Bellou

 
Participating in a group show "The Human Condition". Session II. "Human and the Others: Love, friendship, suspicion, aversion" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Duration of the exhibition: 2 November 2016 - 8 January 2017.
Artistic Director: Viktor Misiano and Co-curator of the session: Elena Yaichnikova.
 

Breda Beban

 

Showing "The most beautiful woman in Gucha" at Centre Pompidou Malaga "Hips Don't Lie" curated by Charlene Dinhut. Duration of the exhibition until November 13, 2016.

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Group show "Whispers" curated by Maria Marangou at The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki of the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki Port. Duration of the exhibition: 4 November 2016 - 7 January 2017.

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

Group show: "n Elite Now", curated by Antonakis Christodoulou at Agora Kypseli, Athens.
Duration of the exhibiiton: 5 - 30 November 2016.

 

Raed Yassin

 
Exhibition soundtrack titled "Parallel Gems" for "But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise"
Organized by Sara Raza
The Guggenheim Museum, New York.
29 April - 5 October 2016
For further information:
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/but-a-storm-is-blowing-from-paradise-contemporary-art-of-the-middle-east-and-north-africa
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
ATLAS [DE LAS RUINAS] DE EUROPA
Curators: Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga and Jos? Riello 
CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain.
 
29 September  2016 -  29 January 2017
For further information:
http://www.centrocentro.org/centro/exposicion_ficha/202
 

Kalos&Klio

 

"Psychedelia"
Curated by Thanassis Moutsopoulos at Skagiopoulio Center, Patras, Greece. From 21 October - 9 December 2016.
In the realm of Re-Culture 4 ( 4th International Contemporary Art Festival), Patras, Greece.

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart from October till December 2016

For further information: http://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/stipendium/stipendiaten/kostis-velonis~pe3809/

 

Bill Balaskas

 
Performance: "The Market Will Save Us"
ArtWeek Boston, Boston Common, USA
Friday 30 September 2016, 1-2 pm

More information: http://www.artweekboston.org/event/the-market-will-save-us/
 

Bill Balaskas

 

Participating in a group show: “Good Night, And Good Luck“
A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy.
28 September – 30 November 2016
 
For further information:
http://aplusa.it/exhibitions/c-c-personal-exhibition/

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
Power and Architecture
The afterlives of Modernity - shared values and routines
Calvert 22, London
15 September - 9 October 2016
 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"Looking for the Clouds"
Contemporary Photography in Times of Conflict
at MUSA Museum, Vienna Austria.
25 October 2016 - 4 February 2017
Exhibition Opening, October 24th 2016, 19.00
http://www.musa.at

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"STUDIES IN SYMBOLOGY"
at 68Projects, Berlin
10 September - 22October 2016

 

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

“And Now the Good News, Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection”
at The Museo darte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano)
curated by Elio Schenini and Christoph Doswald
May 28th-August 15th 2016
selected artists exhibited:
Hans Arp, Alighiero Boetti, John Baldessari, Georges Braque, Olaf Breuning, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Gilbert & George, Ryan Gander, Candida Höfer, Alfredo Jaar, On Kawara, William Kentridge, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Olaf Metzel, Joan Miró, Vik Muniz, Willem de Kooning, Antoni Muntadas, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Roman Signer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Kelley Walker, Andy Warhol.
http://www.masilugano.ch/en/507/and-now-the-good-news
 

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

“Unstable Fields”
at Benaki Museum, Athens.
curated by Manolis Moresopoulos
part of the main program of the Athens Photo Festival.
9 June - 31 July 2016
Maxim Dondyuk, Nick Hannes, Martin Kollar, Dimitris Michalakis, Pietro Paolini, Emine Gozde Sevim, Issa Touma, Panos Tsagaris, Apostolos Zerdevas.
http://www.photofestival.gr
 

 

Raed Yassin

 

In a group show "Unravelled", curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muracciole at Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon. Unravelled is a group exhibition that deals with embroidery in contemporary artistic practice. Duration until 6 November 2016.

 

Bill Balaskas

 
Participating in a group show "De regreso a la isla" ("A Return to the Island"), Curated by Helena Lugo at Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Dates: 14 July - 18 September 2016

 

 

Vlassis Caniaris

 

Bound for Tinos II
Curated by Christoforos Marinos
at Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos
June 25 - October 31 2016
Opening: Saturday, June 25, 8pm

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Talk : “Ugly wooden eyes, why do you stare so?
The “Pinocchio Effect” and the Desire of Devouring in Design”
Performance Biennial :“No Future”
24 June – 4 July 2016 Athens & Cythera Island
 

More Info: https://performancebiennial.org

 

Bill Balaskas, Aikaterini Gegisian, Adrian Paci and Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

"Fireflies in the Night Take Win"
Video art survey organised by curators Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Francesca Pietropaolo with artistic director Robert Storr at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), from June 23–26, 2016

For further information: snfcc.org/metamorphosis

 

Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis

 

are participating in a group show:
“CHEZ EUX: Unseen Collections”, curated by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos, Circuits and Currents Project Space of the Athens School of Fine Arts from 9 - 25 June 2016 (Notara 13 & Tositsa, Exarcheia, Athens).

 

 

 

Bill Balaskas and Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 
are participating in a group show PIGS - Curatored by Blanca de la Torre
Galeria Municipal do Porto - Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, Oporto, Portugal.
3 June - 21 August 2016
 

Maria Loizidou

 

Venice Biennale of Architecture at the Cyprus Pavilion, Palazzo Malipiero, Campo San Samuele.

"Contested Front", curated by Socrates Stratis

Opening 27 May, 2016, 17.15

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Venice Biennale of Architecture at the Cyprus Pavilion, Palazzo Malipiero.

"Contested Front", curated by Socrates Stratis

 

Bill Balaskas

 

PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art.

Curated by David Torres
MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Spain
13 May - 25 September 2016

Bill Balaskas is participating with a new installation specially commissioned by MACBA for the exhibition, titled "Anarchy Near the UK" (2016).
 

Further information:
http://www.macba.cat

 

Rania Bellou and Maria Loizidou

 

Rania Bellou and Maria Loizidou are participating in a group show "Typography as an act of art" at the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston) Thessaloniki. Curators: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director - State Museum of Contemporary Art, Syrago Tsiara - Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki. The exhibition runs until July 9, 2016.

 

Vartan Avakian

 

Participating in a group show “Esma'/Listen” at the Beirut Art Center. The exhibition runs until 21st August 2016.

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Archive Crisis, Lecture/ Screening at Princeton University, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103, on Thursday, 5 May 2016, 6 pm.

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Monument for a Forgotten Education (based on Goeritz's and Barragan's “Torres de Satélite”,1958), Curated by Elena Lydia Scipioni at MoRE Museum - a museum of refused and unrealised art projects, Casa Maauad, Mexico City from 1st of May 2016.

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

 Aikaterini Gegisian's "A Small Guide to the Invisible Seas" book has been shortlisted for the First Book Award.

 

Kostis Velonis

 


Group show "Au nom de le Corbusier", Maison Spiteris, curated by Panayotis Tournikiotis, Fanis Kafantaris, organised by NTUA School of Architecture, Fondation Le Corbusier (FLC)

6 October  -8 November 2015

http://lecorbusier.arch.ntua.gr

 

Kostis Velonis

 
Participating in a group show "Super Superstudio"
PAC-Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Valter Scelsi 
10 October 2015 - 30 January 2016
http:// www.pacmilano.it/
 

Kostis Velonis

 
Kostis Velonis "Part Company"
Casa Maauad, Mexico City
March 17- April 29, 2016  
 
http://www.casamaauad.com/#!exhibitions/cxwk
 

Bill Balaskas

 

RCA Secret 2016
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK
8 - 15 April 2016

www.london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2016/

 

Kostis Velonis

 

Kostis Velonis:  "Vlassis Caniaris' practice of Collapse and its Relation to the British Sculptural Production of the 1950s-70s" Anglo-Hellenic Modernism Workshop, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, London.  Org. by Angeliki Spiropoulou on April 8.

http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/comparative-modernisms-anglo-hellenic-modernism-workshop


 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Devalue - Value - Surplus Value: Between work and art" (group exhibition)

Curator: Charis Kanellopoulou
ISET - The Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens, Greece
31 March - 25 June 2016

http://www.iset.gr

 

Sister Corita, Aikaterini Gegisian and Maria Loizidou

 
Participating in a group show "Overseas"
Curated by Galini Notti at the ACG Art Gallery - The American College of Greece
6 Gravias Street, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 12-16.00
Organized by the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree - The American College of Greece as part of the Arts Festival 2016
 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

On Wednesday March 2nd Wiels, centre for contemporary art in Brussels hosts the book launch of Archive Crisis by artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos.

Archive Crisis consists of previously unpublicized visual and textual records that document three distinct political moments in Greeces recent past; the Truman Doctrine, the Dictatorship of the Colonels, and the Marxist Revolutionary Organization 17 November. Tsivopoulos organized and edited this material in the form of a multi-layered visual essay, after an extensive research into both private and public media archives over a period of seven years. Tsivopoulos is interested in these records as visual by-products of tumultuous political times, marked by nationalist propaganda, crypto-colonialism and terrorism. He reintroduces them as the remainders of an unsettling past and a present in crisis.

The book furthermore includes commissioned essays by Dimitris Antoniou (Adjunct Assistant Professor Hellenic Studies at Columbia University), Hilde de Bruijn (freelance curator and Curator at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art) and Alfredo Cramerotti (Director of MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales) providing academic reflection and linking these historical images to a broader contemporary context.

Editors: Hilde de Bruijn, Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Design: NODE Berlin Oslo
Paperback, 176 pages, 21 x 28 cm, English
Published by Jap Sam Books
Supported by the Mondriaan Fund
ISBN 978-94-90322-44-1

Programme
Introduction to the book by Amsterdam-based curator Hilde de Bruijn, one of its co-editors and authors.
Presentation by the artist into his relationship to archive material, specifically the images in Archive Crisis and their urgency in relation to the current and historical international context of Greece.
Followed by an interview with WIELS Senior Curator, Zoë Gray.

Stefanos Tsivopoulos is a Greek artist and filmmaker. His poetic and often allegoric works, are driven by a strong interest in the sociopolitical and economic aspects that determine the world we live in. His films are presented in both art museums and film festivals around the world. In 2013 he represented Greece in the 55th Venice Biennial with the work History Zero.

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Book launch - Stefanos Tsivopoulos ARCHIVE CRISIS
Shaking up the Shelves of History: A Visual Essay on Media Images from the Recent Political Past of Greece
Tuesday March 1st, 2016 – from 18.30 hrs, free entrance!

Manifesta Foundation, Herengracht 474
1017 CA Amsterdam

Reserve tickets (free) via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-stefanos-tsivopoulos-archive-crisis-tickets-21636936660

On Tuesday March 1st, 2016 Manifesta (Amsterdam) organizes the book launch of Archive Crisis by former Manifesta 8 artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos.

Archive Crisis consists of unpublicized visual and textual records that document three distinct political moments in Greeces recent past; the Truman Doctrine, the Dictatorship of the Colonels, and the Marxist Revolutionary Organization 17 November. Tsivopoulos organized and edited this material in the form of a multi-layered visual essay, after an extensive research in both private and public media archives over a period of seven years. Tsivopoulos is interested in these records as visual by-products of tumultuous political times, marked by, among other things, nationalist propaganda, crypto-colonialism and terrorism and reintroduces them as the remainders of an unsettling past and a present in crisis. The visual essay further focuses on the tactility and pictorial idiosyncrasies of these photographs in light of the immateriality of the digital age.

The book furthermore includes commissioned essays by Dimitris Antoniou, Hilde de Bruijn, Alfredo Cramerotti providing academic reflection and linking these historical images to a broader contemporary context. Dimitris Antoniou is an interdisciplinary scholar teaching in the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. Hilde de Bruijn is a freelance curator and a curator at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art. Alfredo Cramerotti is the director of MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales and was one of the curators of Manifesta 8.

Editors: Hilde de Bruijn, Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Paperback, 176 pages, 21 x 28 cm, numerous ill. English.
Published by Jap Sam Books, supported by the Mondriaan Fund. ISBN 978-94-90322-44-1.

Programme

18.30 hrs: General introduction to the format and organization of the book by Amsterdam- based curator Hilde de Bruijn, co-editor and one of the authors of Archive Crisis.

18.45 hrs: Introduction by the artist into his relationship to archive material, and the collection of images in Archive Crisis specifically. Tsivopoulos will also go into the urgency of these images within the current and historical international context of Greece

19.00 hrs: If I Can't Dance Director Frederique Bergholtz interviews Stefanos Tsivopoulos

19.30 hrs: Q&A with audience

19.30 hrs: Screening of Tsivopulos' Amnesialand at the Manifesta offices

Stefanos Tsivopoulos is a Greek artist and filmmaker. His poetic and often allegoric works, are driven by a strong interest in the sociopolitical and economic aspects that determine the world we live in. His films are presented in both art museums and film festivals around the world. In 2013 he represented Greece in the 55th Venice Biennial with the work History Zero.

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

“Hacking Habitat, Art of Control”
Foundation Niet Normaal

Venue: Old Prison, Wolvenplein 27, Utrecht.

26 February – 5 June, 2016
Opening: Friday 26 february 2016

 

Bill Balaskas and Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Participating in group show "PIGS", Curated by Blanca de la Torre at Artium, Spain.
Exhibition dates: 19 February – 15 May 2016

 

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

"The Billboard Creative" (TBC) Public Art Project, Los Angeles. The Billboard is located at Highland North of Willoughby, West Side, Facing South - Los Angeles, CA. It will be up until Jan 3, 2016.

 

Raed Yassin

 
Participating in a group show
White Cube... Literally
On form and convention of display
Curated by Amanda Abi Khalil at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai. Opening 18th January 2016, 6-9pm.
Duration of the exhibition until 3 March 2016.
 

Kostis Velonis

 

Participating in a group show “Birth of Coextistence", curated by Hara Piperidou at the Hellenic American Union Galleries, Massalias 22, Kolonaki, Athens.
Duration: 18 January - 10 February 2016

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Participating in a group show "Language of the Birds: Occult and Art" curated by Pam Grossman at 80WSE Gallery, New York University from January 12 – February 13, 2016.

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Solo show "Apocatastasis" at Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Opening tomorrow 14 January 2016. Duration until 27 February 2016.

 

Rania Bellou

 

 

; erotimatiko ?
HYam: The Mediterranean Basin Emerging Artists awards finalists will be exhibiting at the Artcurial Auction House, Paris.
Duration of exhibition 8 - 17 January 2016.
 

Kostis Velonis

 

Talk: Kostis Velonis with Hilde de Bruijn and Yannis Isidorou
One day of lectures and Q&A in the framework of HILDE GOES AGER, a curatorial research into the thinking and writing of the experimental artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973).
On Friday 08 January 2016, 12:00 at Circuits and Currents
Project Space of the Athens School of Fine Arts,
Notara 13 & Tositsa, Exarcheia, Athens, Greece

 

Bill Balaskas

 
"The Aesthetic of Capitalistic Vampirism" (panel discussion)

Launch presentation of "CUT", a special issue of the Journal of Visual Culture
Chair: Marquard Smith. Speakers: Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Mark Fisher and Irini Papadimitriou.

Friday 27 November 2015, 3 - 5 pm
Goldsmiths University of London, Room PSH LG02

More information: http://vcu.sagepub.com/
 
 

Vartan Avakian

 
First solo exhibition in Lebanon "Collapsing Clouds of Gas and Dust",at Marfa Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
22 October - 12 December 2015
 

Bill Balaskas

 

Group show “PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art”, Curated by David Torres.
23 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Group show "WHISPERS"
Curated by Maria Marangou
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Messolonghiou 32, Rethymnon
30 October 2015 – 29 February 2016

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Group show "To What End?", Curated by Gülsen Bal & Walter Seidl at Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
26 September - 22 November 2015

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

Group a show "Final Destination" at the Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, curated by Anna Chatzinassiou
5 October - 31 December 2015

 

Vartan Avakian

 

Group show “The City in the City” at the Sursock Museum, Twin Galleries, Beirut, Lebanon
8 October 2015 – 11 January 2016

 

Stephanos Tsivopoulos

 

Group show “The Beast and is the Sovereign” curated by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Paul B. Preciado, Valentín Roma, at Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV), Stuttgart. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Portugal.
17 October 2015 – 17 January 17 2016

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

"To What End?", Curated by
Gülsen Bal & Walter Seidl, Camera Austria Graz, Austria.
27 September –22 November 2015

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

“Money and Greed”
Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
Curator: Urs Stahel
Kunsthalle Mannheim
18 September – 15 November 2015
 For further information:http://www.fotofestival.info/en/venues/?v=ma_1

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“Dreamscapes”
Armenian Special Exhibition                                   
6th Beijing International Art Biennale 2015
Organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia
Curated by Anna Gargarian
National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing
24 September - 16 October 2015

For further information: https://dreamscapesbeijingbiennale.wordpress.com
http://www.bjbiennale.com.cn/en/news.aspx?id=87
 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

“Je Me Souviens”
Curated by Patricia Kishishian and Jean-Claude Ghenassia
CAC Alfortville

17 September – 21 November 2015

 

Breda Beban

 

“Faces of Disappearance”
Curated by Thomas Elsen
24 September 2015 – 11 January 2016

H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartkunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg, Germany

For further information: http://www.kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de/index.php?id=25663
                                    http://www.h2-glaspalast.de/

 

Maria Loizidou

 

"170 x 170"
Curating by Yves Sabourin
Atelier Pinton
71, rue du Cherche-Midi, 75006, Paris

Opening 17 September 2015

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Performance
Blindness
In the context of "The Dark Precursor"
Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
9 - 11 November 2015
 
For more information:
http://darkprecursor.org/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Screening:
Videozoom Greece: "On ause!"
Curated by Maria Dialektaki and Maria Papaioannou
C/E Contemporary, Milan, Italy
1 & 2 October 2015
 
For more information:
http://www.cecontemporary.com/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

1st Biennial of the South: "Peoples in Resistance"
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1 November 2015 - 28 February 2016
 
For more information:
http://iartes.gob.ve/index.php/the-bienal
 

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Publication
Journal of Visual Culture
Article in the special issue "Visions of Contemporary Cuts", edited by Lanfranco Aceti: "Liberating Speculation: Art, the Currency of Capitalism and the Death of Currencies"
Autumn 2015
 
For more information:
http://vcu.sagepub.com/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

“PUNK: Its traces in contemporary art”
Curated by David Torres.
23 October 2015 - 31 January 2016
ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain
 
For more information:
http://www.artium.org/English/Exhibitions/Exhibition/tabid/336/language/en-US/Default.aspx?pidExposicion=280
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

“TOUS POUR TOUS”
Exhibition organised in the context of TEMPOCOLOR 2015
18 September – 21 October 2015
Les Chiroux, Centre culturel de Liège, Liege.
 
For more information:
http://www.chiroux.be/event/ec-rire-des-siner/
http://www.tempocolor.be/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

10th Mildura Biennale: "Everywhere All at Once Here"
Curated by Jonathan Kimberley.
18 September - 18 October 2015
Mildura Arts Centre/Rio Vista, Mildura, Australia
 
For more information:
http://www.mildurabiennale.com/
 http://mildurapalimpsestbiennale.com/artists-thinkers/bill-balaskas-2/

 

Vartan Avakian

 

 

In a group show "Dust", curated by Anna Ptak and co-curator Amanda Abi Khalil at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
4 September - 15 November 2015

 

 

Sister Corita

 

Pasadena Museum of California Art
Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent
June 14, 2015–November 1, 2015
 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

Is participating in a group show "Magic Inventions" in Batumi - Odessa
Curated by Beral Madra
27 August - 20 September 2015
 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

In a group show "In Flux" curated by Shoair Mavlian at Leonidas Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Eleusis
1 September - 9 October 2015
 

 

Maria Loizidou

 
NEON CITY PROJECT 2015
Maria Loizidou - A Transfer
Curator: Sirago Tsiara, Director of the Center of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki
 
CITY PROJECT is an initiative on public art and the city which is conceived and commissioned by NEON (founded by Dimitris Daskalopoulos), realized annually.
 
Duration - 9 September – 31 October 2015
Kerameikos rchaeological site and Museum
Opening hours - Daily 08:00 -20:00
Opening - Wednesday 9 September 2015 - 17:00 - 20:00

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Show Me the Money" (group show)

Curated by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Paul Crosthwaite and Isabella Streffen
People's History Museum, Manchester, UK
11 July 2015 - 24 January 2016

More information: http://www.phm.org.uk/

 

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

member of the collective Depression Era
5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art curated by Katerina Gregos
23 June – 30 September 2015
Main exhibition: “Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will”
Venue: Pavilion 6 (Leof. Stratou Ave. & 3 Septemvriou St, TIF-HELEXPO premises)

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

Is participating in a group show Dio Horia in Mykonos, curated by Marina Vranopoulou, June 27th - October 31st, 2015.
Opening: June 26, 8-11pm at Dio Horia Art Platform, Panahra Sq., Chora, Mykonos, Greece

 

Vlassis Caniaris

 

Is participating in a group show

Atopolis

Curator: Dirk Snauwaert
Co-Curator: Charlotte Friling

13 June–18 October 2015

WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels


Manège de Sury 
Rue des Droits de lHomme 2
7000 Mons
Belgium
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12–18h

 

Raed Yassin

 

Raed Yassin's work on the cover of Art Asia Pacific issue 94 (July/August 2015) - and 8 page feature by Stephanie Bailey

 

Raed Yassin

 

Kissing Amnesia
Exhibition & Concert
13 July - 2 August 2015
Leighton House Museum, London - as part of Shubbak

 

Panos Tsagaris

 
"Dio Horia" (group show) in Myconos
curated by Marina Vtanopoulou
27 June - 31 September 2015
venue: Dio Horia Art Platform, Panahra Sq., Chora, Myconos
 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 
Member of the collective "Depression Era"
5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art curated by Katerina Gregos
23 June - 30 September 2015
Pavilion 6 (Helexpo) - Thessaloniki
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

Participating at the 3rd Mardin Biennial
"Mythologies", 15 May – 15 June, 2015

 

Raed Yassin

 

KARAOKE solo show at Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany
Opening: 12 May 2015
Duration: 13 May - 13 June 2015

For more information:
http://www.academycologne.org/en/article/498_karaoke
www.kalfayangalleries.com

 

Aikaterini Gegisian and Hrair Sarkissian

 

Awards of the 56th International Art Exhibition
The Golden Lion for the national pavilion goes to Republic of Armenia for forming a pavilion based on a people in diaspora, each artist engaging their specific locality as well as their heritage. The pavilion took the form of a palimpsest, with contemporary positions inserted into a site of historic preservation. In a year that witnesses a significant milestone for the Armenian people, this pavilion marks the resilience of trans-cultural confluence and exchanges.

 

Aikaterini Gegisian and Hrair Sarkissian

 

Aikaterini Gegisian and Hrair Sarkissian
are exhibiting at the 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia

The National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia

Armenity Հայություն
Curated by Adelina Cüberyan v. Fürstenberg
 
Venue: The Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni
Dates: 9 May – 22 November 2015

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art" (group exhibition)

Curated by David Torres
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
25 March - 30 September 2015

More information: http://www.ca2m.org/en/future/punk-traces-contemporary-art

 

Raed Yassin

 
Film screening “Reappearing Things”, on the occasion of the exhibition “The Future of Memory”, Kunstahalle Wien, Austria
Screening of The New Film of Raed Yassin
12 March 2015
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Solo show "Imagined Futures"
at the Mosaic Rooms, London
13 March - 25 April 2015
 

Rania Bellou

 
 
The Story, Like All Stories, is Incomplete
Solo show at Taymour Grahne Gallery, N.Y.
10 January - 20 February 2015
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity”
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
22 January – 13 April 2015
Curated by Marco Scotini
Produced by Arte Fiera Collecting
 
Fore more information: http://www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it/en/events/in-town/too-early-too-latebr-middle-east-and-modernity/2051.html

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

“EX-CHANGE: RISK” (group show)
Curator: Eva Kekou
House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece.
Opening: Tuesday 27th January 2015, time: 20:00
Duration: 28 January – 6 March 2015

For more information: http://spititiskyprou.gr

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“Sitter” (group show)
Columbus College of Art & Design (USA), Canzani Center Gallery.
22 January – 3 April 2015

Opening reception: Thursday, 22 January, 18.00 - 20.00
For more information: http://www.ccad.edu/events-2015/sitter

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Board Meeting"

Bill Balaskas will chair a panel discussion with Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Haydn Jones and Jonathan Munro, in the context of the "Executive Chair" exhibition.

Guest Projects / Yinka Shonibare Studio
1 Andrews Road, E8 4QL, London
Saturday 24 January 2015, 3 pm

For more information: http://www.guestprojects.com/

 

Raed Yassin

 
is participating in a group show "Work" at Elika Gallery
Curated by Irini Bachitzanaki
22/01 - 28/02/2015
 

Bill Balaskas

 

Screening of Parthenon Rising (II) as part of "Rencontres du film dart"

Thursday 29 January 2015, 8:45 pm
The Regent Cinema
16 rue de lIndépendance, 31800 Saint-Gaudens, France

For more information: http://leregent.wix.com/rencontres-art

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Screening of Parthenon Rising (II) as part of "Rencontres du film dart"

Thursday 29 January 2015, 8:45 pm
The Regent Cinema
16 rue de lIndépendance, 31800 Saint-Gaudens, France

For more information: http://leregent.wix.com/rencontres-art

 

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

History Zero
at MuCEM, Marseille
20 November 2014 - 15 April 2015

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Videozoom Greece: On ause!" (group exhibition)

Curated by Maria Dialektaki and Maria Papaioannou
Museo di Roma in Trastevere & Sala 1, Rome, Italy
14 - 29 November 2014

More information: http://www.museodiromaintrastevere.it/ & http://www.salauno.com/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Breaking the Bank II" (panel discussion)

Chaired by Nat Muller, with Georgina Adam, Bill Balaskas, David Batty and Edo Dijksterhuis
TENT, Rotterdam, The Netheralnds
Thursday 13 November 2014, 8 pm

More information: http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"The Secret Life of Data and the Future of Value" (artist's talk),

Facilitated by Irini Papadimitriou and Alison Powell
Mozilla Festival 2014, Ravensbourne, London, UK
Saturday 25 October 2014, 3pm

More information: http://2014.mozillafestival.org/

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Screening of "History Zero" and conversation of the artist with SMFA faculty members Jane Gillooly and Tina Wasserman
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium, 230 The Fenway, Boston
Thursday 9 October 2014, 7.30pm
 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
3rd Mardin Biennale "Mythologies"
17 October - 17 November 2014
 
For further information: www.mardinbienali.org/web/
 

Bill Balaskas

 
"Show Me the Money" (group show)
Curated by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Paul Crosthwaite and Isabella Streffen
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
7 October – 22 November 2014
 
More information: http://www.imageoffinance.com/
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
"The Space Between" at One Athens
Curated by Olga Hatzidaki and Maria Thalia Karra
2 October - 14 November 2014

http://www.locusathens.com/The-Space-Between-1
 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Athens Video Art Festival" (group show)
Installations section, curated by Ifigenia Papadatou
Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2 - 5 October 2014

More information: http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/

 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 

"" at The Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
26 September - 29 October 2014

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Untitled (The Remake)
TV as Material 3: The Television Studio
Tate Moderm, Starr Auditorium
Saturday 27 September 2014, 19.00-21.00

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

4th International Canakkale Biennial
"Only the Dead have Seen the End of War"-Plato
27 September - 2 November 2014

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

“STEFANOS TSIVOPOULOS. HISTORY ZERO”, The Greek Participation at the 55th Venice Biennale, at The State Museum of Contemporary Art, CACT (Warehouse B1, port of Thessaloniki). Curated by Syrago Tsiara.
3 October 2014 – 10 January 2015
Supported by NEON organization and OUTSET

 

Raed Yassin

 

"Blue Times" exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien
1 October 2014 - 11 January 2015

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"No Rest for the Wicked" (solo show)
Curated by Lanfranco Aceti
ArtInternational, Istanbul, Turkey
26 - 28 September 2014

More information: http://istanbulartinternational.com/ & http://museumofcontemporarycuts.org/no-rest-for-wicked/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

“The Aesthetics of Scale” (artists talk)

Chaired by Lanfranco Aceti
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Saturday 20 September 2014, 1-3 pm

More information: http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/

 

 

Rania Bellou

 
I Need A Hero - Valuable Matters in Valuable Times
Action Field Kodra
Thessaloniki (ex-military camp Kodra) 
Opening: Friday the 12th of September at 20:00
12 - 28 Spetember 2014
 

Bill Balaskas

 

“Passé simple, futurs composes” (group show) (curated by Amanda Abi Khalil), Festival du Temps d images

Le Centquatre, 5 rue Curial, Paris

17 September  – 28 October 2014

 For more information: http://www.tempsdimages.eu

 

Raed Yassin

 
“Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema”
Curated by Omar Kholeif

ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London

21 – 27 September 2014
For more information: http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/safar-journey-through-popular-arab-cinema
 
 

Vartan Avakian

 
Talk: “Imagined Shared Territories”

Vartan Avakian in conversation with Rima Mokaiesh (Arab Image Foundation), 'Freeport' – 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2014, Moditalia, Arsenale, Venice
Friday 12 September 2014, 12.25 am – 11.45 am

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Yeosu International Art Festival 2014
"Community & Territory"
Curated by Kim, Sun-jun
4 - 24 September 2014
Jeon-nam University Art Center, YEULMARU Yeosu Cultures & Arts Park

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“Sinus Arabicus”
Works from the Collection of the Sharjah Art Foundation
Former factory 4711 (Barthonia Showroom), Cologne
5 – 28 September 2014

 

Vlassis Caniaris

 
Arrivederci - Willkommen - 1976
at Gwangju Biennale 2014
Burning Down the House
5 September - 9 November 2014
 
 
 

Bill Balaskas

 

"The Value of Nothing" (group exhibition)

Curated by Jesse van Oosten and Michel van Dartel
TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
4 September - 16 November 2014

More information: http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"The Small Infinite" (group exhibition)

Curated by Lanfranco Aceti, with Vince Dziekan
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
4 August - 20 September 2014

The exhibition will feature a new commission by the artist, the mixed media installation "Ou la mort" (Or death, 2014).

More information: http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance From 1700 to the Present" (book)

Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014

The book features the artist's 2013 installation "The market will save us"

More information: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Art Out of Time" (artist's talk)

Participants include Bill Balaskas, Whitney Davis, Ian Kiaer, Elizabeth Price and Alexander Sturgis.
University of Oxford, Institute for Visual Research, Oxford, UK  
26 – 27 June 2014  

More information: http://oxfordvisualresearch.org/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"An Opera of Labour and Revolution" (group exhibition)

Curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Susanne Jaschko
Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey  
26 June – 30 July 2014  

More information: http://kasagaleri.sabanciuniv.edu/
 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

"East and West: Visualising the Ottoman City" (group show)
Peltz Gallery, Birbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London, UK.

6 – 30 June 2014

For more information: http://ottomancosmopolitanism.wordpress.com

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Art After the Crash"
Round table chaired by Julian Stallabrass, with Bill Balaskas, Geraldine Juárez and Brett Scott

Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, UK

Friday 13 June 2014, 3:30 – 5:30 pm

More information: http://www.imageoffinance.com/?portfolio=581

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Show Me the Money" (group exhibition)
Curated by Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Paul Crosthwaite and Isabella Streffen

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

13 June – 30 August 2014

More information: http://www.imageoffinance.com/
 

 

Breda Beban

 
"Subdued Existence – Cargo East" (group show)

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2, sec. 1, Wu Chan W. Road, Taichung 403,
Taiwan, R.O.C.

31 May – 3 August 2014

 

 

Ala Dehghan

 

“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” (curated by Raúl Zamudio) (group show)

Pristine Galerie, Monterrey, Mexico

15 May – 9 July 2014

 

“Incident Light: gendered artifacts and traces illuminated in the archives” (curated
by Leila Pourtavaf, Azar Mahmoudian) (group show)

Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road,
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

25 May – 27 July 2014

Opening: Sunday 25 May 2014, 15:00 – 18:00

For more information:
http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/exhibitions/2014/IncidentLight.html

 

Raed Yassin

 

"Songs of Loss and Songs of Love" (group show)
Gwangju Museum of Art, 52 Haseo-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea

19 May – 25 August 2014

 For more information: artmuse.gwangju.go.kr

 

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

"History Zero" (solo show) (curated by Syrago Tsiara)
Cycladic Art Museum, Neophytou Douka Street, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece

23 May – 28 September 2014

 For more information: http://www.cycladic.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=RESOURCE&cresrc=3472&cnode=74&clang=1

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism"

New book publication by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(The MIT Press; New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development; OCR, Operational and Curatorial Research; Leonardo/ISAST; Sabanci University; and Goldsmiths, University of London).

Edited and with introductions by Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Susanne Jaschko and Julian Stallabrass.

Official book launch: Monday 19th May 2014, 5:30 pm, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London.

For more information: http://www.leoalmanac.org/

 

Maria Loizidou

 

“Curating Body” (solo show)

Cyprus Museum, 1 Museum Avenue, Nicosia, Cyprus

17 May 2014 – 17 February 2015

 

Breda Beban

 

“Lets Call it Love” (solo show)
The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 6, Belgrade, Serbia
3 – 27 April 2014
 For more information: www.kcb.org.rs

“Lets Call it Love” (solo show)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Trg slobode 1, Novi Sad, Serbia
15 May – 15 June 2014

 

 

Tarek Al Ghoussein

 

“Lost in landscape” (group show)
Mart, Museo D Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Corso Bettini 43, Rovereto, Torino, Italy
4 April – 31 August 2014
For more information: http://www.mart.trento.it

 

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

EVA International 2014, Limerick, Ireland Curated by Bassam El Baroni
12 April – 6 July 2014
 For more information: http://www.eva.ie/
 
ISELP - Institut supérieur pour l'étude du langage plastique, bd. de Waterloo 31, Brussels, Belgium
26 April – 28 June 2014
 
For more information: http://www.iselp.be, http://www.agenda.be/fr/detail/id/319132.html

 

 

Bill Balaskas and Panos Tsagaris

 
“No Country For Young Men. Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis” (group show)
Curated by Katerina Gregos
Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, Brussels, Belgium
26 March – 3 August 2014
 
For more information: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=14351&selectiondate=2014-03-01
 
 

 

“Afresh A New generation of Greek Artists” (group show) (curated by Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi, Daphne Vitali)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
24 October 2013
For further information: http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=224
 
“No Country For Young Men. Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis” (group show) (curated by Katerina Gregos)
Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, Brussels, Belgium
26 March – 3 August 2014
 
For more information: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=14351&selectiondate=2014-03-01

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Syros International Film Festival, Greece
Screening of the works: Land (2006), Untitled (The Remake) (2007), Lost Monument (2009), History Zero (2013).
26 July – 1st August 2014
 
For more information: http://www.syrosfilmfestival.org

 

Bill Balaskas

 
“SelfConscious” (group show)
Curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis
ACG Art Gallery, Deree – The American College of Greece, Gravias 6, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
7 – 28 March 2014
 

Stratos Kalafatis

 

“Nautilus. Navigating Greece” (group show)

Curated by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, Brussels, Belgium
24 January – 27 April 2014
 
For more information: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=14253&lng=en

 

 

Ala Dehghan

 

“I Have Never Been to Heaven” (group show)
Kremer Pigments Inc., 247 West 29th Street, Btw 7th and 8th Avenue, New York, USA
18 January – 8 February 2014

For more information: http://kremerpigments.com/

 

Vartan Avakian

 

“Whistling in the dark” (group show)

Curated by Aischa Berg

Workshop Gallery, W8 Building, Beirut, Lebanon

21 January – 1 March 2014

 

For more information: http://www.workshop-gallery.com/index.php

 

Raed Yassin

 
"The Politics of Food" (group exhibition)
Delfina Foundation
29/31 Catherine Place
London SW1E 6DY
Exhibition dates: 20 January - 15 February 2014
Times: Monday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00
 
For further information: www.delfinafoundation.com
 
 

Ala Dehghan

 

“PAINTINGWALL (Janus at 8:16)” (group show)

Curated by Ala Dehghan and Florencia Escudero
Touch Gallery, 281 Concord Ave, Cambridge, UK.
2 January – 2 February 2014
Reception: 25 January 2014, 15.00 – 18.00
 
For more information: http://touchag.com/
 

 

Raed Yassin

 
Politics of Food
Delfina Foundation
19 January  - 15 February 2014
29/31 Catherine Place, London SW1E 6DY
 
For further information: www.delfinafoundation.com
 

Ala Dehghan

 

“A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It” (group show) (curated by Raúl Zamudio)
Queens Museum, Partnership Gallery, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York, USA.
14 December 2013 – 18 January 2014
Opening: 14 December 2013, 5 – 7 pm
 
For more information: http://www.sawcc.org/a-bomb-with-ribbon-around-it/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

“Future past – past Future”, Transmediale Festival
SUPERMARKT, Brunnenstabe 64, Berlin, Germany
25 January – 2 February 2014
 
For more information: http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/event/transmediale14/

 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

History Zero

Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

19 December 2013 - 2 February 2014

For further information: http://www.safmuseum.org/

 

Raed Yassin

 

La Ceramica in Italia

http://laceramicainitalia.com

 

Maria Loizidou

 

“12 x 12” (group show)
Galerie Maria Lund, 48 rue de Turenne, Paris, France
12 December 2013 – 1 January 2014
Opening: Thursday 12 December 2013, 18:00 – 21:00
 
For more information: www.marialund.com

 

Breda Beban

 

Breda Beban
 
Screening of “Walk of the Three Chairs”
Film and Video Umbrella, Project: 25 Frames
Peer, 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London, UK
Saturday 14 – Thursday 19 December 2013
 
For more information: http://www.peeruk.org/forthcoming-project.html
 
Screening of “Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic”
Film and Video Umbrella, Project: 25 Frames
Picture House, 270 Mare Street, London, UK
Tuesday 17 December 2013, 19:00
 
For more information: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Breda_Beban_Hrvoje_Horvatic/#
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

"Parthenon Rising (II)" included in The Art Newspaper's Art Basel's Best Artist Films.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-Basels-best-artist-films/31292
 

 

Constantin Xenakis

 

“Tradition - Reversal” (group show) (curated by Katerina Koskina, Yannis Bolis)
Exhibition of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in the framework of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale: “Old Intersections – Make it New”
Warehouse B1 (port area), Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
 
For more information: http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/751.html

 

Maria Loizidou

 

“Tradition - Reversal” (group show) (curated by Katerina Koskina, Yannis Bolis)
Exhibition of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in the framework of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale: “Old Intersections – Make it New”
Warehouse B1 (port area), Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
 
For more information: http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/751.html
 
“Violence [?]” (group show) (curated by Maria Marangou)
CAID -  Societas, Scientia et Ars, 6 Spyrou Polykratous Street, 18233 Athens, Greece
30 October – 30 November 2013
 
For more information: www.caid.gr
 

 

Stratos Kalafatis

 

“Greek Seas: A Photographic Journey in Time” (group show)
Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos Street, Athens, Greece
10 October 2013 – 5 January 2014

 
For more information: http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=202020001&sid=1347&cat=0&lang=en
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Living in a Global 'Society of the Spectacle'

Online article in 'Third Text'
Special Issue: 'Global Occupations of Art' edited by Jonathan Harris

http://www.thirdtext.org/living-in-global-society-of-the-spectacle

 

Bill Balaskas and Rania Bellou

 

Afresh A New generation of Greek Artists
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
24/10/2013 - 2/3/2014
Curated By: Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi, Daphne Vitali


For further information: http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=224

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“HIWAR - Conversations in Amman” (group show)
Darat Al-Funun, 13 Nadeem al Mallah Street, Jabal al Weibdeh, Amman, Jordan
Opening: 9 November 2013, 18.00-21.30
 
For more information: http://www.daratalfunun.org/

 

Raed Yassin

 

“Dancing, Smoking, Kissing” (solo show)
The Running Horse, Al Rehban St, Beirut, Lebanon
12 September – 25 October 2013
Opening: 12 September 2013, 18.00 – 21.00
 
For more information: http://therunninghorseart.com/
 
“Everywhere but Now” (group show) (curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg)
Central exhibition of the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale: “Old Intersections – Make it New”
Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
 
For more information: http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/751.html
 
“The Blue Route, Journeys and beauties from the Mediterranean to China” (group show)
Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67, Brussels, Belgium
27 September 2013 – 9 February 2014
 
For more information: http://www.villaempain.com/en/index.php?page=9

 

Panos Tsagaris

 

 

“Everywhere but Now” 
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
 4th Thessaloniki Biennale
Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
 
For more information: http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/751.html

 

 

Bill Balaskas

 

 

“Everywhere but Now” 
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
 4th Thessaloniki Biennale
Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September 2013 – 31 January 2014
 
For more information: http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/exhibitions/article/751.html

 

 

Anna Maria Tsakali

 
“Infini Vegetal” (solo show)
Musée Lambinet, 54 boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, France
14 September – 15 December 2013

For more information: http://www.versailles.fr/?58
 

Breda Beban

 

“Lovely Days” (group show)
Bol, island of Brač, Croatia
17 - 22 August 2013
 
For further  information: www.lovelydaysbol.tumblr.com, www.facebook.com/lovelydaysbol
 
“BREDA BEBAN: The Adventure of the Real” (solo show)
Galerija Kazamat, Jagićeva 2, Osijek, Croatia
7 – 22 September 2013
 
For further information: http://www.hdlu-osijek.hr/

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Kalfayan Galleries present at ReMap4
Bill Balaskas - "Critical Mass"
Opening: 8 September 2013, 17:00 - 22:00

Kerameikou 43 (2nd Floor), Metaxourgeio, Athens

Duration: 8 - 30 September 2013  -  Hours: Monday - Friday 17:30 - 21:00, Saturday/ Sunday 12:00 - 21:00

 

Stephena Antonakos

 

With regret we announce that Stephen Antonakos passed away at the age of 87 in New York (1926 - 2013).

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

ALANICA 2013, Curated by Beral Madra
7th International Contemporary Art Symposium in Vladikafkaz, North Osetia-Alania, Russia
1 -16 August 2013
 

 

Breda Beban

 
BREDA BEBAN: The Adventure of the Real
20 June – 3 July 2013
Opening: 20 June 2013, 8PM
 
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art,
Av. Dubrovnik 17, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

For more information: http://www.msu.hr/#/hr/19984/
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

Artist Talk: Aikaterini Gegisian talking about her work The  City / Game 1 in the colloquium Reading Cavafy in Difficult Times, organized by the Sub-Faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek, University of Oxford

Taylorian Institute, St Giles, University of Oxford
Saturday 08 June 2013, 10 am – 4 pm

For further information visit: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/cavafy-week

 

Raed Yassin

 
Postponed Noon, curated by Amanda Abi Khalil
4 June - 14 July 2013
VITRINE, Bermondsey Square, London

For further information: http://www.vitrinegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/postponed-noon/
 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 

Kalfayan Galleries are pleased to announce the participation of
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
History Zero
Greek Pavilion   -  Curator: Syrago Tsiara   -  Preview: 31 May 2013, 12.00 
Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports
55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
1 June - 24 November 2013

 

Nina Papaconstantinou

 
Arezzo, Italy
ICASTICA, 1st edition: 2013 Project: Global Women
7 June - 1 September 2013

For further information: http://www.icastica.it/
 

Bill Balaskas

 

Artist Talk: Radical Gestures: Designing Protest, Resistance and Refusal

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
Saturday 1 June 2013

For more information and in order to book a place, please, visit:
http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/radical-gestures-designing-protest-resistance-and-refusal/
 

 

Bill Balaskas

 
The Cost of Living

Bill Balaskas will chair a panel discussion with:
Professor Lanfranco Aceti, Professor Johnny Golding, Dr Marquard Smith and Professor Julian Stallabrass.

Royal College of Art, Stevens Building, London
Thursday 11 April 2013, 6pm
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Artist Talk:  Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Vali Mahlouji

Hrair Sarkissian talks about his work shown at Darat al Funun with London based independent curator and writer Vali Mahlouji

Darat al Funun - main Building, 6.30 pm
2 April 2013
 

Breda Beban

 
Musical for the Senses
 
Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
22 March – 30 April 2013
 

Bill Balaskas

 
Artists Talk at the 11th Sharjah Biennial
March Meeting, Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts, UAE
Saturday 16 March 2013, 3:30 pm

Following his talk, Bill Balaskas will be in conversation with artist Burak Arikan.

For more information: http://www.sharjahart.org/
 

Maria Loizidou

 
 
Maria Loizidou presents her new installation Collective Autobiography at The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), the Project Room, Athens.  Her monograph Collective Autobiography (Peak Publishing) will also be presented on the opening night at 20.00 by the Professor of Psychology, University of Athens, Mr. Klimis Navridis. 
 
7 March - 10 April 2013
EMST (Project Room), Athens
 
For further information: www.emst.gr
 

Raed Yassin

 
 
Raed Yassin on Double Bass
Performance at Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation
Amman, Jordan
Opening: 9 March 2013, 6 - 8 p.m.
 
For further information: www.daratalfunun.org
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 
Solo Exhibition at Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation
Amman, Jordan
Opening: 9 March 2013, 6 - 8 p.m.
 
For further information: www.daratalfunun.org
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Bidoun Projects presents artist Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Sheena Wagstaff, Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 6:30 – 8pm
The Arts Club
40 Dover St, London

 

Bill Balaskas

 
Red Tape Discussion Series: Ways of Changing

Bill Balaskas in conversation with Ha-Joon Chang (Reader, University of Cambridge) and Johannes Grenzfurthner (writer, curator, artist and director)
 
Tuesday 26 February 2013, 6 pm

Royal College of Art, Stevens Building, South Kensington, London

For more information: http://redtape.rca.ac.uk
 
 

Stefanos Tsivopoulos

 
Kalfayan Galleries is proud to announce that Stefanos Tsivopoulos has been selected to represent Greece at the 55th Venice Biennale.  The curator is Syrago Tsiara.

55th Venice Biennale 2013
International Art Exhibition
1 June - 24 November 2013
 

Farida El Gazzar

 
Alexandria Vitrines
Liana Vourakis, Anagnostopoulou 26-28, Athens
Opening Thursday 7 February 2013, 10.00 a.m. - 20.00 p.m.
7 February - 9 March 2013
 

Raed Yassin

 
“The Impossible Works of Raed Yassin” (Performance)
 Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
Participating curators: Amanda Abi Khalil, Kyla McDonald, Nat Muller, Rasha Salti and Eline van der Vlist
25 January 2013, 6 – 9 p.m.

For more information: http://www.beirutartcenter.org/parallel-events.php?exhibid=334&statusid=2
 

Bill Balaskas

 
 

Greek Student Unfurls 23-meter Banner on RCA Façade to Protest Against Finances Dominance - Artinfo

http://www.artinfo.com/node/856712

 

Bill Balaskas

 
Parthenon Rising (II) will be screened in the following two events, as part of Miden Festivals international collaborations:

In Case of Emergency Break Glass
2 February - 3 March 2013
Vetlanda Museum, Vetlanda, Sweden (A collaboration between Art:screen and Miden Festival)
 
For further information:
http://www.vetlanda.se/vanstermeny/kulturfritid/museer/vetlandamuseum/utstallningar/artscreenfestontour2013.4.3eed94031359de5c45e8000948.html

Celebration: 50 Years of Video Art
7 - 10 February 2013
Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland (In collaboration with Miden Festival)

For further information: http://www.nordice.is/
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 
Marseille-Provence 2013
European Capital of Culture
Ici, Ailleurs
MuCEM - Musee des Civilisations de lEurope
et de la Mediterranee (Esplanade du J4 - boulevard du Littoral -2nd district)
12 January - 31 March 2013
 

Aikarini Gegisian

 
Places of Memory - Fields of Vision (Group Show)
Curated by Syrago Tsiara
organized by The State Museum of Contemporary Art
at The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki
Warehouse B1, Port Area
21 December 2012 - 24 February 2013
 
For more information: www.cact.gr
 

Vartan Avakian

 
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“House Arrests: Tales of the Hidden Inside”
Curated by Nat Muller
Special Screening: Thursday, 25 October 2012
 
Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
“Project 35 chapter One”
25 October –1 December 2012
 
For more information: www.rawmaterialcompany.org
 
Artists Talk: Megawra, Cairo
How I Started to Stutter: Action (in)jection. Language games, urban disjunction and a very personal reading of Lebanese action films.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
 
For more information: http://megawra.org/
 
Esker Foundation, Canada
“Project 35 chapter Four”
7 September 2012 – 5 January 2013
 
For more information: http://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition-project35.html
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
ARTISTERIUM5, Tbilisi, Georgia
5th Tbilisi Annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition
“The Protest that Never Ends”
5 - 15 October 2012
 
For more information: http://www.artisterium.org/home.html
 
Conference: “STRATEGIES OF (UN)SILENCING: A Blind Date Project”
Yerevan, Armenia
Presenting: The Harem, from Orientalism to Popular Culture: Post-Ottoman Womens Fashion
26 - 27 October 2012
 
For more information: http://blinddatesproject.org/sous/
 
PIST, Istanbul residency
Works on a collaborative project with Fatma Ciftci
 

Bill Balaskas

 
“ArtUP!”: Media Art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey (on-line database)
http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/kue/gri/bba/enindex.htm
 
La Soirée de Votanique, Athens
A special presentation of Festival Miden in Athens, curated by Olga Daniylopoulou 
1 December 2012 – 8 January 2013

For more information: http://www.festivalmiden.gr
“Disruption” Royal College of Art Research Biennial Exhibition – 2013
Group Exhibition   
Gulbenkian Galleries, South Kensington, London, UK
21 - 27 January 2013

For more information: http://disruption.rca.ac.uk/bill-balaskas

“The Market will Save the World”
Solo Exhibition
KASA Galeri, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
25 January – 8 March 2013

For more information: http://www.kasagaleri.sabanciuniv.edu

The Vision of the Market  
Online Solo Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Cuts
25 January - 8 March 2013

For further information: http://www.museumofcontemporarycuts.org/
 

Yiannis Hadjiaslanis

 
Greek Pavilion, 13th Venice Architecture Biennale
“Athens Bedrooms” in collaboration with deca ARCHITECTURE
Until 25 November 2012
 
For more information:
http://athensbedrooms.wordpress.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/aug/29/venice-architecture-biennale
 

Nina Papaconstantinou

 
Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
“La Plasticité du langage : Entre les langues”
16 October - 16 December 2012  

For more information: http://www.fondation-hippocrene.fr/

 

Panos Tsagaris

 
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“NEAR-FAR”
27 September - 3 October 2012
 
For more information:
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/modules-fondation-pierre-berge-yves-saint-laurent/berlin-kreuzberg-biennale-2012
 

Stephen Antonakos

 

box Eatery

Selection of works on vellum from “Spring Series” (2006) and video “Permanent Public Installations” (2007) at box Eatery, Haritos, Athens
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7)

8 December 2012 - 14 April 2013
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) & Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane, Australia

For more information: http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

“Encounter. The Royal Academy in the Middle East”

6 December 2012 - 6 March 2013
Cultural Village Foundation - Katara, Doha, Qatar

For more information:
http://www.katara.net/english/?s=encounter

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

2nd Mardin Biennial: “Double Take”
Curators: Paolo Colombo and Lora Sarıaslan
21 September – 21 October 2012
For more information: http://www.mardinbienali.org

 

 

Diohandi

 

“Steps on a Journey”
A retrospective exhibition of the seven artists who have presented installations at the Elaiourgeio,
Elefsina Cultural Center L. KANELLOPOULOS, Elefsina, Greece
1 September - 14 October 2012

 

Breda Beban

 
Tribute to Breda Beban in Trieste, Italy
 
BREDA BEBAN & GERTRUDS TALK OF LOVE
Cinema Ariston, 15 September, 4.15 pm
screening of My Funeral Song (5 films)
 
“The Adventure of the Real”
Gallery Studio Tommaseo
Curated by Dubravka Cherubini and Branko Franceschi
15 September - 3 October 2012
On display: Arte Vivo photographic series; projection of the videos/films: Jasons Dream, Lets Call it Love, Walk of Three Chairs, How to Change your Life in a Day and I Cant Make You Love Me.
The event is organized by Trieste Contemporanea and by the International Film Festival I Mille occhi, in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries and with courtesy of the artists estate.
For more information:
http://www.imilleocchi.com/files/1000occhi_PROGRAMMA_2.pdf
http://www.triestecontemporanea.it/attivita.php?id_attivita=85&l=e&id_m=3&id_sm=
 

Bill Balaskas

 
World Event Young Artists, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
7 - 16 September 2012
 
Bill Balaskas has been selected to represent the UK in the field of the Moving Image.
Exhibited work: Parthenon Rising
For more information:
http://worldeventyoungartists.com/events/2012-09-07/surface-gallery
 
Artists Talk: TATE Liverpool, UK
ART, CRITICISM AND THE FORCES OF GLOBALIZATION: The Artist as Critic/The Critic as Artist
14 September 2012
For more information:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tateliverpool/conference/art-criticism-and-forces-globalisation
 
Public Discussion
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION, Liverpool Biennial 2012
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
15 September 2012
Bill Balaskas will be in conversation with artists participating in the Liverpool Biennial, on
the events opening day.
More information: http://liverpoolbiennial.co.uk/whatson/future/all/401/artists-in-conversation/
 
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
The Main Guard, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK
19 - 23 September 2012
For more information:
http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/venues/7/the-main-guard
 
ART:SCREEN
Bio Roxy, Örebro, Sweden
5 - 7 October 2012
 
Bill Balaskas is participating in the special programme IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, BREAK GLASS,
which showcases recent work of 11 Greek artists working with video.
For more information: http://artscreen.se/fest.htm
 

Vartan Avakian and Hrair Sarkissian

 
Winner of the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013
For more information: http://www.abraajcapitalartprize.com
 

Stephen Antonakos

 
MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
“NEON. La materia luminosa dellarte” (group show)
21 June – 4 November 2012
For more information: http://www.museomacro.org/it/neon-la-materia-luminosa-dellarte
 
ARTFORUM / September 2012
For more information: http://artforum.com/inprint/
 
“Steps on a Journey”
A retrospective exhibition of the seven artists who have presented installations at the Elaiourgeio,
Elefsina Cultural Center L. KANELLOPOULOS, Elefsina, Greece
1 September - 14 October 2012
 

Constantin Xenakis

 

Participating with the French Delegation at the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum
in Naples, Italy.
1 – 7 September 2012
For more information: http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=672

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Discussion: “Tracing History” Session
Mori Art Museum & Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art
MAM Pop-Up Mathaf
28 & 29 September 2012

 

Vlassis Caniaris

 

GAK Gesellschaft für Actuelle Kunst
29 September 2012 - 6 January 2013
For more information: http://www.gak-bremen.de/index.php?id=983

 

Bill Balaskas

 

Maribor 2012
London 2012 Cultural Oympiad
European Capital of Culture
6 - 31 July 2012

Bill Balaskas has been selected to represent the United Kingdom

For further information please visit: www.maribor2012.eu

 

Maria Loizidou

 

Musée Jean – Lurçat, Angers, France

“Sacré Blanc! Hommage à Thomas Gleb (1912-1991)” (group show)
28 June - 18 November 2012
 

For further information please visit: http://musees.angers.fr/expositions/expositions-a-venir/sacre-blanc-hommage-a-thomas-gleb/index.htm

 

Diohandi

 
“Des Architectures” (group show)
at Galerie Gourvennec Ogor
Marseille
France

 

 

Rania Bellou

 
III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia
Section: “Strategic Project”

For further information please visit, www.youngart.ru/index.php

 

Hrair Sarkissian, Raed Yassin (Atfal Ahdath) and Vartan Avakian (Atfal Ahdath)

 
 
Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World
Mori Art Museum,  53F Ropponngi Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo
16 June - 28 October 2012

All eyes are now on the contemporary artists of the Arab world.

From lifestyles to identity, the rapidly transforming Arab world possesses a diversity of cultures that cannot be overstated. And the traditions, religion, customs and aesthetics that constitute that diversity are vividly reflected in the work of the regions artists.
In the last few years, many exhibitions of contemporary art from the Arab world have been held globally, and within the region itself there are indications that the art industry is maturing, with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art opening in Doha (Qatar) in 2010, and branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim Museum now under construction in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). “Arab Express” introducing the artworks by 34 artists from the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding Arab countries, is the first exhibition of its kind ever to be held in Japan.

This exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Kingdom of Bahrain, Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates; as well as the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

For further information please visit Mori Art Museum

 

Diohandi

 
In the framework of the Greek Participation at the 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale
di Venezia 2011, a video presentation of Diohandis installation titled BEYOND REFORM
will be held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, on Thursday, 7 June 2012 at 20:00,
in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries.
 
The 35-minute video presents the whole procedure of the realization of Diohandis site specific
installation, from the very beginning when the construction materials were transported to the
exhibition venue through the water channels of Venice, and were then unloaded at the area
surrounding the Greek Pavilion; it documents the construction of the building frame supported
by iron scaffoldings and covered with 10m high wooden boards, the architectural configuration
of the interior space, the water supply, the lighting, and the specially designed sound installation. 
 

Rania Bellou

 
 
Between I and Me
12 Star Gallery
Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU

Opening Hours
30 May - 15 June 2012 - Monday to Friday, 10 am - 6 pm (excluding public holidays)
For further information please visit: http://www.europe.org.uk/2012/01/20/between-i-and-me/
 

Bill Balaskas

 
Kalfayan Galleries are pleased to announce that Bill Balaskas has been nominated in the Emerging Artist category of the 2012 ALICE Awards. He is one of the four finalists for this award that is presented to artists up to 35 years of age for their innovations in contemporary art.
ALICE Awards (Artistic Landmarks in Contemporary Experience) is an initiative organized by the Global Board of Contemporary Art, which received more than 1,000 proposals for nominations from over 30 countries, for 2012. The selectors of the nominees and judges of the awards include: curator and director of the Stockholm Moderna Museet Daniel Birnbaum, curator and director of the Ècole nationale supérieure dea beaux-arts Nicolas Bourriaud, Chinese born Hou Hanru curator and director Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and the Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute, director of Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona Bartommeu Marí, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Elizabeth McGregor, Sao Paulo based independent curator and critic Adriano Pedrosa, Indian art collective Raqs Media Collective, writer and curator Denys Zacharopoulos (Greece), amongst others.
 
The decision of the Committee will be announced on June 1, 2012.  Members of the public can vote for the Peoples Voice Award on ALICE Awards website until May 27, 2012.
 
For more information and in order to vote for the Peoples Voice Award, please visit http://www.global-board.org/en.
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

The Artists\' Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol, UK.
6 April to 17 June 2012

For further information, please visit: http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/exhibitions/artists-postcard-show/

 

Raed Yassin

 
 

Raed Yassin is one of the winners of the 4th edition of The Abraaj Capital Art Prize.

Art Dubai
21-24 March 2012

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 

Hrair Sarkissian is partiicipating in the group show “Lines of Control” at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, 21 January - 1 April 2012

For further information please see: http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/lines-of-control.htm
 

 

Anna Maria Tsakali

 
 

Labyrinthes Vegetaux
8 - 31 March 2012

Galerie Lefor Openo
29 rue Mazarine 75006 PARIS

 

Raed Yassin

 

Raed Yassin will perform a video and music performance, “Horror is Universal” (The End), on Thursday 26th of January 2012, at the New Museum, New York (New Museum Theater, 7:00 pm). It is presented as part of “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center,” organized by guest curators Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige.

For the last eight years, Raed Yassin has been undergoing a lifelong project of deconstructing Arab popular culture by sampling audio and visual material from TV, radio, pop songs, and feature films.

For further information please visit: www.newmuseum.org/events/604

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Podbielski Contemporary
Berlin
24 September - 15 November 2011

Hrair Sarkissian belongs to a new generation of promising Middle Eastern artists, now internationally acknowledged. In his work Hrair Sarkissian raises issues of identity, politics, faith and space. Hrair Sarkissian presently lives in Damascus and London. The show is organised in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki. For the occasion a brochure will be published with a short essay by Nico Anklam.

The Zebiba series (2007) consists of portraits of pious men in Egypt who all have the Zebiba or prayer scar on their foreheads, caused by kneeling on a prayer rug or a Mussallah (Stone of God) and touching the ground with ones forehead. On one level, the worshipper aspires to disinvest himself from earthly culture. Paradoxically, the desire to become invisible when facing god, renders him more visible within his social environment. Overall it raises the universal issue of religious faith, integration, and tolerance.

The Churches series (2009) is realised in Amsterdam, a new and unfamiliar environment with different cultural coding. The photographed churches no longer serve as sacred spaces, but have been turned into public ones for social activities, such as reception halls, or music and dance clubs. By intentionally using only scarce natural light, these spaces are invested with a mystical atmosphere, which they otherwise no longer possess through their new function.

For further information please visit: www.podbielskicontemporary.com

 

Matteo Montani

 
Landscape of the Soul
24 September - 11 December 2011
Museum am Dom, Würzburg
 
For further information please visit: www.museum-am-dom.de
 
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 
SALT
Modern Essays 2
Hrair Sarkissian
Istory
 
1 November - 31 December 2011
 
SALT Beyoğlu
founded by Garanti
İstiklal Caddesi 136
Beyoğlu 34430 İstanbul, Türkiye

For further information please visit: http://www.saltonline.org/en/#!/en/84/modern-essays-2/

 

Hrair Sarkissian and Raed Yassin

 

Facing Mirrors

3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
Old Intersections.  Make it New
18 September – 3 November 2011

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Warehouse A, Port

 

Vlassis Caniaris, Hrair Sarkissian and Constantin Xenakis

 
Biennale:3
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
Old Intersections-Make it New
18 September - 18 December 2011
 
Main Programme
A Rock and a Hard Places
Curated by: Paolo Colombo, Marina Fokidis and Mahita El Bacha Urieta

For futher information, please visit www.thessalonikibiennale.gr
 
 

Rania Bellou

 
 

British Perception
17-19 October 2011
Venue: National School of Arts (UNAM), Mexico City
Curated by Javier Caderón

 

Tayfun Serttaş

 
 

The Other The Other and Beyond

REMAP3
Venue: Leonidou 11 (2nd Floor), Metaxourgeio, Athens

12 September - 30 October 2011

For further information: www.remapkm.org

 

Stephen Antonakos

 
 
The Search
Aeschyleia Festival 2011
Elaiourgeio, Elefsina
 
For further information: www.aisxylia.gr
 

Navarino Natura Art Award 2011

 
 
The winner of the Navarino Natura Art Award 2011 is Barbara Fluxa from Spain.
Art is a very important part of the experience at Costa Navarino. A significant art collection with works from the 17th – 19th centuries together with more contemporary pieces is to be found at Navarino Dunes. This emphasis that has been given to Art is reflected also at the Navarino Natura Hall by Hellenic Postbank. An exhibition of the winner of the Navarino Natura Art Award will be held each year in the permanent exhibition space Natura Art. The award has been established through the collaboration of Kalfayan Galleries (Athens-Thessaloniki), the NGO Organization Earth and Navarino Foundation. This international annual award aspires to become a dynamic platform which will address contemporary environmental themes through art.
The theme of this years award was Green Art and Nature, and artists were invited to submit video artworks/video installations which explored the harmonious co-existence of art and nature.

Amongst several entries from around the world, including Spain, Thailand, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Switzerland, USA, Austria, France and Greece, the winner of the Navarino Natura Art Award 2011 was Barbara Fluxa\'s six screen film entitled \"Future Testimony\".
 
 

Diohandi

 
 
Diohandi (b.1945) will present an extensive installation titled Beyond Reform in the Greek Pavilion, as part of the 54.th International Art Exhibtion – la Biennale di Venezia, opening in June. This exhibition is curated by Maria Marangou, and has been commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The Greek Pavilion is situated in the Giardini.  
 
Taking as her starting point the overall theme of the 54.th International Art Exhibtion – la Biennale di Venezia, namely ILLUMInations, Diohandi will create a site specific installation in the Greek Pavilion. This major intervention will explore space and time and will see the pavilions interior and exterior revised, as an existing space which stands at a given point in time. The byzantine-like façade will be visible through small cracks in the surface of a new outer shell which will cover the original structure, while water light and sound will be dominant elements of the pavilions interior. Access to the interior will be via an ascending hallway running the length of the Pavilion between a surface of water, leading all the way up to sheer light. Following extensive research into the architecture and history of the Greek Pavilion, Diohandis new space will see the surrounding environment blend with the interior, proffering new ways in which building fabric, light, sound and water can coexist. Venices spatial structure and the citys historical features have also had a crucial role in developing the work.
 
Diohandi remarks in reference to ILLUMInations: “My research understands the theme in its deepest, most basic sense. Starting with what is a very specific, concrete, strictly rational space, I am intervening to reform the space, one that is different in terms of both structure and emotional charge, where the dialogue between viewer and work/space is at once ambiguous and animated. I am shaping the pavilions image, both outside and inside: the entire space is remodeled, although none of these interventions will actually affect the existing structure. Sound and light will also feature, which are indispensable to the work.”
 
Of the artist, curator Maria Marangou comments, “Diohandi is an artist almost exclusively concerned with site specific work, and especially with the relationship  between space and time. It is precisely her interest in specific spaces at specific moments in time that leads her to use materials found at the site of each of her works. The installation at the Greek pavilion in a way reflects, with Diohandis specific work, the current political state of Europe and of the world at large. It is at the same time, obviously, a comment on the contemporary Greek experience of economic recession and IMF tutelage: a place of light thrown into darkness and decline, holding on, almost willy-nilly it seems, to hopes of spiritual and sociopolitical reconstruction; in other words, to a vision of light that should bring along clarity of mind, as if the ultimate catharsis.”
 
Biography - Diohandi
Diohandi was born in Athens in 1945. She studied painting and engraving at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, as well as Architecture, Costume Design and Graphic Design in London and Rome. Since 1967, she has presented fourteen (14) solo exhibitions in cities including Rome, Athens, Nicosia, Edinburgh and Eleusis. She has participated in 119 group exhibitions in several countries including Greece and Cyprus, as well as in the VII Biennale de Paris and the XII Bienal de São Paulo. Diohandi has collaborated with Greek and European art historians and curators. She has won international awards in Italy, Ireland, Germany and Norway, while her works are in museums and private collections in amongst others: Greece, Italy, Poland, New York and the Seoul Olympic Park, Korea. She lives and works in Athens, Greece. Diohandi is represented by the Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Thessaloniki.
 

Stephen Antonakos

 

Espace Louis Vuitton Hong Kong
5 Canton Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

“See the Light”. Curated by Jonathan Thomson
20 May – 23 October 2011

Stephen Antonakos is participating in a group exhibition.



2011 Gabby Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
Venue:  Ellis Island, New York
4 June 2011

Stephen Antonakos award will be presented by Helen Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

For further information please visit:
http://www.gabbyawards.com/about-the-event/lifetime-achievment-award/stephen-antonakos/showachievement
/2011-lifetime-achievements-antonakos/

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — SCULPTURE
National Academy Museum, New York
May 19, 2011

This award will be presented by Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center, New York


Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
“SPACES”
25 May — June 25, 2011

Works of various media and from different periods in this exhibition will highlight Antonakos\\\' central concerns with space — space within the work of art and the space activated by the art, which is occupied also by the viewer.


Cream Contemporary, Berlin
\\\\\\\"Channa Horwitz, Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos: Works on Paper\\\\\\\". Organized by Daniel Marzona
9 April - 11 June 2011

For further information please visit:
http://www.creamcontemporary.com/index.php?s=exhibition

 

Ala Dehghan

 
 

As Ala Dehghan (b.1982) completes her residency, the Delfina Foundation presents an open studio event and a public talk on Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 19.00-20.00.

Ala\'s capricious draughtmanship is drawn from Persian customs and traditions deeply embedded within an expansive and varied history; however, she has grown up in the paradoxical environment of post-revolution Iran. These significant contradictions are recreated in her art. She combines sensitive lines and strikingly bright colours, which are components of Persian miniature painting, with the contemporary scenes and the cultural and social experiences of life in Iran today.  Her process is intuitive, always unplanned and often imperfect. They are documentaries of her psyche, and connect people, objects and nature. Her work is an attempt to recreate the emotional suspense that she has lived through, and its multiple implications; an intricate line of humor and refinement in confrontation with tragedy and excitement.

The talk will be moderated by curator and writer, Vali Mahlouji, and aims to discuss themes and references in Ala\'s work as well as an in depth examination of techniques and materials.

The Delfina Foundation
29 Catherine Place
London SW1E 6DY - United Kingdom

 

 

Matteo Montani

 

Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany
“Il Santo Momento - Der heilige Augenblick”. Curated by Davide Sarchioni.
26 March – 31 July 2011

Matteo Montani is featured in group show with Bruno Ceccobelli, Enzo Cucchi, Rainer Fetting, Jannis Kounellis, Thomas Lange, Markus Lüpertz, Jonathan Meese, Mimmo Paladino, Marco Tirelli, Wolf Vostell and Ben Willikens.

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

TATE Modern

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Jessica Morgan
28 March 2011, 18.30 – 20.00
Venue: Starr Auditorium

On the occasion of the “Out of Place” exhibition, Hrair Sarkissian will discuss his work with Jessica Morgan (The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern) and will present his latest photographic series.
 “Out of Place” exhibition continues until 17 April 2011.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/23630.htm

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Near and Middle East Department, SOAS, London
24 March 2011, 19.00
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre

Artist Presentation:  Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Helin Anahit (Artist and researcher, Middlesex University).

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial
 
Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project and Rasha Salti, Creative Director, ArteEast with Associate Curator Haig Aivazian.
 
Duration: 16 March - 16 May 2011
 
For more information: Sharjah Biennial

 

 

Rania Bellou

 
 

Rania Bellou
\"Art exhibition from international artists based in London\"
INARSS (International Art Space Station), Mexico City
Opening: 11th of March 2011


In Paradise Lost Rania Bellou uses a multiple print of a sketch, representing the interior of a palace. A projection of a little girl is overlaid on the print, just with the outline of her body. The girl occupies the space and moves from room to room without being able to escape. She has an Obsessive Compulsive personality. All her movements are cyclical and repetitive, acting as Proustian triggers.

For further information, please visit http://inarss.org

 

Hrair Sarkissian

Hrair Sarkissian

 

Out of Place
Tate Modern, Level 2

11 February 2011 – 17 April 2011
 
Tate Moderns Level 2 Gallery presents Out of Place, an exhibition that has arisen from a collaboration between Tate Modern and Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan. The exhibition features four artists from different backgrounds whose diverse political and social circumstances have prompted them to consider their environment. The artists in Out of Place each explore the relationship between dominant political forces and personal and collective histories by looking at urban space, architectural structures and the condition of displacement.
 
Hrair Sarkissians In Between 2007 is a series of large-scale photographs of austere Soviet-style buildings left abandoned in the dramatic hills and valleys of rural Armenia. They register the paradox experienced by this Syrian artist of Armenian origin of returning to a land which he had only known from family stories, as the reality of the region replaced the country he had imagined. Taken in the village where she grew up, Ahlam Shiblis The Valley 2007-8 documents the lives of Palestinians facing restrictions when trying to build their houses. Goter 2002-3, her series on the Bedouin people of the Negev region who have settled in townships or temporary shanty towns also shows the impact of restrictions at the level of daily life.
 
In the 1970s, Ion Grigorescu began recording everyday scenes in his home city of Bucharest with an 8mm camera. In his films and photographs he focuses on the unregimented activities taking place amid the rapidly changing urban landscape. His images of children playing, as well as of haphazardly discarded objects, contrast with the uniformity of the surrounding architecture from Romanias Communist past. Cevdet Ereks Shading Monument for the Artist 2009 reflects more generally on the possibilities of political art. The shadow-sculpture casts text on the gallery wall with varying intensity throughout the day; the words have been taken from memorials to those who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Appropriating these words for his artists monument, Erek blurs the status of political activism and artistic action.
 
Out of Place is curated by Kasia Redzisz and Ala Younis.
 
The Level 2 Gallery programme has been made possible with the generous support of Catherine Petitgas. It is conceived and led by Tate Moderns Assistant Curators, in dialogue with Tanya Barson, Curator.
 
This exhibition is a collaboration between Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman and Tate Modern, London initiated by Suha Shoman (Founder, Darat al Funun) and Sheena Wagstaff (Chief Curator, Tate Modern).
 
Presented at both venues, this exhibition is supported by the World Collections Programme with additional support from the Romanian Cultural Institute at Tate.

Open every day from 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
 

 

Antonis Donef

 
 

is participating in the group show \"Drawing Stores\", curated by miss(s) group at 501 Gallery in Limassol, Cyprus.

 
Opening: 20 December 2010, 20.00

 

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 11.00-13.00 & 16.00-20.00, Saturday: 11.00-14.00

 

50-1 Gallery
Elados 49, 3041 Limassol, Cyprus

 

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Fotografie di Hriar Sarkissian
at Studio Geddes
Via del Babuino 125, Rome
14 December 2010 - 25 February 2011
 

Panos Tsagaris

 

THE WEST AT SUNSET
December 9, 2010-February 20, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 9 - 6-8 pm
Public Programming Event: Saturday, January 29 - 2-9 pm

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present The West at Sunset, a multidisciplinary group exhibition in response to a masterwork of spiritual literature, Rene Daumals 1952 novel Mount Analogue.

Artists:
Jaq Belcher
Alberto Borea
Amy Finkbeiner
MaryKate Maher
Rachel Pollak
Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff
Adam Parker Smith
Panos Tsagaris

Curator:  Adrian Geraldo Saldaña

Mount Analogue, a surrealist allegory of an expedition to the top of a holy mountain, garnered Daumal considerable recognition in France as a poet and student of mysticism. Unfinished due to his death from tuberculosis, the text notably provided the premise for Alejandro Jodorowskys 1973 film The Holy Mountain. The West at Sunset displays, in works installed throughout the Abrons Arts Centers multiple gallery spaces, the imagined remnants of this journey.

The concept of the mountain climb appealed to Daumal because, like his vision of spirituality, it involves both transcendent impulses and practical considerations. The novel, and the exhibition, seeks the possibility of holy sparks, but embedded in the world of matter — physical bodies, topographies and landscapes, water, and air. The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists whose practice considers our perception of space and geography with a second group whose forms and concepts depict ritualized human behavior.

The title of the exhibition refers to the particular alignment of the travelers ship that allows it to access the mountain, bridging the invisible and material worlds. Multiple installations in the exhibition are likewise modified by the shadows and the light created by the changing position of the sun, forging a living environment that shifts from day to night and back again.

Taken as a whole, The West at Sunset explores and finally confirms the spiritual and transcendent potential of human behavior within the natural world.

 

 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
Screening
DIEGO GARCIA (2010)
Directed by: Aikaterini Gegisian
Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (project room)
3-12 December 2010
 
Funded by: Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki / Arts Council England / PARTage Residencies, Mauritius
Developed through Picture This Small Wonders Scheme
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki


For further information, please visit the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki site.

 

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
“BREAKING NEWS. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa”
FONDAZIONE Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Duration: 28 November 2010 – 13 March 2011
 
Venue: Ex Ospedale SantAgostino, Modena, Italy

For further information, please visit the FONDAZIONE Cassa di Risparmio di Modena website
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
 
\"The New Cult: Diego Garcia - Aikaterini Gegisian\"
Picture This Atelier, Bristol, U.K.
11 - 13 November 2011
 
For further information, please visit the Picture This Atelier website 
 

Antonis Donef

 
 
“Suspensions of Disbelief” (group show)
Venue: Other Gallery, Shanghai, China

Duration: 24 October 2010 – 28 November 2010
Curator: Raoul Zamudio

Participating artists: Adolfo Doring Antonis Donef, Eric Yahnker, Ferran Martin, Kiki Seror, Matthew Weinstein, Miguel
Rodriguez Sepulveda, Mookie Tenembaum, Stefano Cagol, Stuart Croft, Sun Yao, Teemü Maki, Tomas Ochoa, Wim
Delvoye, Zhou Wendou
 

Marios Spiliopoulos

 
On Monday 25 October 2010, 9.00 p.m.
Presentation of artists book: “Human Trace”
Metaixmio Publications, 2010
Ianos Bookshop, 24 Stadiou Street, Athens, Greece 
 
 
Speakers:

 

Dr. Efthymis Lazongas, Classical Archaeology
Dimitris Nollas, author
Nikos Xydakis, journalist-chief editor of Kathimerini newspaper
Popi Papaggeli, archaeologist-director of the Archaeological Museum of Elefsina
Giorgos Skianis, director of the Art Center of the Municipality of Elefsina
Nikos Terzoglou, Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens.
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 

Residency at ARC Residencies, Cairo (June - July 2010)

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
Residency at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (2010) 
 
Residency at The Delfina Foundation, London (2010)
 
Artists Talk at The Delfina Foundation, London, 10 September 2010
 
 
Talk at TATE Britain (Hrair Sarkissian and Nora Razian) as part of the seminar The lure of the lens in art practice and research methods. Cultural Heritage, Mobility and Visual Practices”, 27 October 2010
 
“Festival Filosofia”, with participation of the artist in book project “Are You a Lucky Artist?”, Modena Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy.
 

Sister Corita

 
POWER UP.  Female Pop Artist (group show)
 
Venue: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
 
Duration : 5 November 2010 - 20 February 2011
Curator: Angela Stief
Works by gallery artist Sister Corita will be featured in a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien focusing on nine outstanding women pop artists and their different approaches to ther times.
 
Participating artists: Evelyne Axell, Sister Corita, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiiki Kogelnik, Marisol, Niki de Saint Phall.
 
The exhibition will aslo be shown at:
Phoenix Art/Stiftung Falckenberg in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg (April 19 – July 10, 2011)
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen (July 23 – October 9, 2011)
 
For further information, please visit the Kunsthalle Wien website
 

Rania Bellou

 
LUCCADigitalPhotoFest, Lucca, Italy
 
Presentation of the mixed media video installation, “Prison Privacy”
in cooperation with Kalfayan Galleries
 
Location: Ex Manifattura Tabacchi / Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Lucca
Duration: 20 November – 12 December 2010
 
 

Vlassis Caniaris

 
 
Artissima17 - Back to the Future 2010:
Kalfayan Galleries will be presenting the historically important installation of
Vlassis Caniaris titled Arrivederci - Willkommen - 1976
 

Rania Bellou

Rania Bellou

 
Ex Kodra Camp
Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
3 -12 September 2010

Opening day : Friday, September 3rd, 20:00
Visiting hours: Sun-Thu: 20:00 - 23:00, Fri-Sat: 20:00 - 24:00

 
 

Anna Boghiguian

 
Anna Boghiguian:
“Istanbul a Catania – What happens to the hole when the cheese is 
gone?”
(selected works from the 11th International Istanbul Biennale)
Project: “OTHERS, Mediterranean views in contemporary art. The 
Biennials of Marrakech, Istanbul, Athens”
9 July – 7 November 2010
Venue: Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Pallazo Valle.
For further information:
http://www.palazzoriso.it/en/node/301
http://www.fondazionepuglisicosentino.it
 
 

Alexis Akrithakis

 
Alexis Akrithakis:
“Atene a Catania - Away and Boil your Head”
(selected works from the 1st /2nd Athens biennale)
Project: “OTHERS, Mediterranean views in contemporary art”.  The 
Biennials of Marrakech, Istanbul, Athens”
9 July – 7 November 2010
Venue: Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Pallazo Valle.
For further information:
http://www.palazzoriso.it/en/node/301
http://www.fondazionepuglisicosentino.it
 

Rania Bellou

 
 
Rania Bellou is participating in the group show “Oasis en Aoasel”
10 July - 8 August 2010 
Skironio Museum Polychrnopoulos 

For further information: www.oasis-en-aoasei.com 
 

Marios Spiliopoulos

 
The Landscape of Being
Curated by: Tina Pandi
 
EMST  National Museum of Contemporary Art
Athens Conservatory Building:
Vassileos Georgiou 17 -19 & Rigillis Street
Athens 10675
 
 

Vlassis Caniaris

 
Vlassis Caniaris at Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
“as it was before the day before yesterday
so it will be the day after the day after tomorrow”

 

 

Anna Boghiguian

 
Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
A collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries
 
“A Voyage through Cavafys Alexandria
Watercolours by Anna Boghiguian”
 
For further information, please visit the Benaki Museum website.
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
 
Falling in Place
Elefsina Cultural Center L. KANELLOPOULOS
Private View: Saturday, 8th May 2010 11.00-21.00
Duration: 8 May - 5 June 2010
 
Dragoumi 37, Elefsina Seaside / T: 210 55 44 32
 
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00-14.00 and 18.00-22.00. Monday closed
 

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 
PhotoBiennale 2010 - 21st  International Photography Meeting
Hrair Sarkissian
“Execution Squares”
25.04 ‐ 28.06 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Opening: Friday 30 April 2010, 20:30
Venue: Genti Koule
 
Opening Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday 8:00‐19:00, Saturday and Sunday 8:00‐17:00, Monday closed
Duration: Monday 28 June 2010

The exhibition is being held in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries, Athens ‐ Thessaloniki
 

Tarek Al-Ghoussein

 
 
PhotoBiennale 2010 - 21st  International Photography Meeting
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
“E-Series”
16.04 — 09.05 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Opening: Thursday, 29 April 2010, 20.30
Venue: Yeni Tzami
 
The exhibition is being held in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries, Athens ‐ Thessaloniki
 

Aikaterini Gegisian

 
Artist Talks: Aikaterini Gegisian and Loukia Alavanou at Spike Island on Tuesday 13 April 2010, 6pm, Associates Space, Bristol.
 
 

Antonis Donef

 
 

“The Art House Shanghai Award”, Arte Fiera Bologna 2010 (Ailing Foundation and Arte Fiera, Bologna). The artists work was presented by Kalfayan Galleries.  As part of the award, he did a one-month residency in Shanghai (mid August-mid September 2010).

The judging committee included Colin Chinnery, Director of ShContemporary; Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and Gianfranco Maraniello, Director of MAMBo, the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna.
 
http://www.shcontemporary.info/English/press/Photos-Videos/

 

 

Time Within Us

Stratos Kalafatis

 

Stratos Kalafatis is participating in the group show \\\"Time Within Us\\\", curated by Engin Ozendes, Olga Sviblova and Vangelis Ioakimidis at The Istanbul Modern, Turkey. Co-organization Istanbul Modern, Museum Moscow House of Photography and Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.

Istanbul Modern
Meclis-i Mebusan Ave., Liman Isletmeleri, Istanbul, Turkey, from 19 January - 16 May, 2010

Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10.00-13.00, 18.00-21.00, Sat 10.00-14.00

The Exhibition is presented as part of \\\"Istanbul 2010 - European Capital of Culture\\\" 

 

 

The First Image

Apostolos Georgiou

 
Apostolos Georgiou is participating in the group show \"The First Image\", curated by Denys Zacharopoulos at The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki with the collaboration of the 50th International Film Festival and The Régional Centre for Contemporary Art (CRAC), Languedoc - Roussillon, from 14 November, 2009 - 31 January, 2010.  
 
 

The Look of the Artist - Edouard Sacaillan

 
Works by Edouard Sacaillan are being exhibited in a solo show at the Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece.  In this exhibition will be presented 150-200 of the artists works while, at the same time, the exhibition also hosts works of the following artists: Peter Blake, Leonard Cremonini, Jean Rustin, Chronis Botsoglou, Diamantis Diamantopoulos, Vladimir Velickovic, Pat Andrea, Tassos Mantzavinos, Panos Fidakis, Thanasis Makris, Anna Maria Tsakali, Christos Markidis, Bernardi Rolg, DADO, Suzan Hay and George Lappas.
 
Duration: 18 October 2009 till 31 March 2010
 

The Perspective of Time Pictorial Histories: Paintings from the Sotiris Felios Collection

Edouard Sacaillan

 
The exhibition presents works by six contemporary Greek painters from the Sotiris Felios Collection. These are characteristic works by Christos Bokoros, Stefanos Daskalakis, Tassos Mantzavinos, Kostas Papanikolaou, Giorgos Rorris and Edouard Sacaillan, created after 1990.
 
At The Benaki Museum, Pireos Annex, Athens from 11 November - 13 December, 2009
 

 

 

 

 

Disorientation II

Tarek Al-Ghoussain Hrair Sarkissian

 
Tarek Al-Ghoussain and Hrair Sarkissian are participating in a group show, Disorientation II, curated by Jack Persekian, Artistic Director of the Sharjah Biennial.  The exhibition presents works by artists from Middle Eastern countries, which explore Arab cities from the perspective where both unity and division co-exist.
 
Disorientation II will be open at Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi until 20 February 2010
 
 

Tassos Pavlopoulos

Tassos Pavlopoulos

 
Tassos Pavlopoulos is participating at the “1001+1 Praxis”, curated by Dorothea Konteletzidou, French Institute,
2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,
2 - 27 September 2009
 

Action Field Kodra 09

Andonis Donef, Marianna Gioka, Lambros Psyrrakis and Panos Tsagaris

 
Lambros Psyrrakis is participating at a group show “Hindterland, Dialogue A”, curated by Maria Kenanidou
Andonis Donef, Marianna Gioka and Panos Tsagaris at “Gallery Young”
 
Venue: Former military barracks KODRA, Thessaloniki
Organised by: The Cultural Organisation of Kalamaria
Opening: 4 September 2009, 20.00 to 23.00
Duration of exhibition: 4 - 9 September 2009
Opening hours: 12.00 - 21.00
 

11th International Istanbul Biennial

Hrair Sarkissian

 
 
Hrair Sarkissian is participating at the 11th International İstanbul Biennial,  \'What Keeps Mankind Alive?\', curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW
12 September - 8 November, 2009
 
11B
 
 

Konstantin Kakanias

 
 
Museum of Cylcladic Art
As time goes by ..... so slowly (after Madonna)
21 February - 22 April, 2006

 

Panos Tsagaris

Panos Tsagaris

 
 
Panos Tsagaris is participating in a group show “Down Below It\\\'s Chaos” at 50 Eldridge Street, New York from 9 July - 31 July, 2009
 

LA PREMIERE IMAGE

Apostolos Georgiou

 
Apostolos Georgiou is participating in a group show “La Premiere Image”, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos at The Régional Centre for  Contempory Art (CRAC), Languedoc - Roussillon, Sète from 10 July - 27 September, 2009
 
For further information, please visit : http://crac.lr.free.fr
 

Edouard Sacaillan

 
Spaces with People
Foundation of Thracian Art and Tradition
22 December, 2005 - 21 January, 2006
 

Dialogoi 2005

Edouard Sacaillan

 
Edouard Sacaillan
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
7 October - 6 November, 2005

 

Hrair Sarkissian

 

BlueCoat - OpenEyeGallery
(Liverpool European Capital of Culture)

\"New Ends, Old Beginnings\"
Curated by November Paynter

12 July  - 3 September 2008

Review at Camera Austria, International 102/2008

 

 

Stephen Antonakos and Ronald Bladen: Drawings of the 60s & 70s

 
Drawings of the 60s & 70s
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Platanenstrasse 7,  Dusseldorf
Organized by Daniel Marzona

October 24 - November 22, 2008
 

Stephen Antonakos Retrospective

 
Allentown Art Museum, 31 North Fifth Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Dr. Robert Mattison, Guest Curator

September 27, 2008 - January 11, 2009

This is the only American venue of the Antonakos retrospective organized by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, curated by Katerina Koskina, at the Benaki Museum Pireos Avenue, Athens, December 2007 - March 2008
 

Anna Maria Tsakali

 

Dialogoi 2007

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
(31 October - 11 November, 2007) 

 

 

Lambros Psyrrakis

 
 
ActionField Kodra 2007
7th Visual Arts Festival
Thessaloniki
 

Evangelia Pitsou

 

Dialogoi 2006

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2 October - 29 October, 2006

 

 

ReMap2

Antonis Donef Aikaterini Gegisian Hrair Sarkissian Panos Tsagaris

 
 
An off-site group exhibition “Treasures of Wisdom” at ReMap 2, a contemporary art program running parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennale in Athens,
from June 16 - 4 October, 2009

For further information, please visit http://www.remapkm.com

 

Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light

 

Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A.
Marshall N. Price, Guest Curator

August 21 - October 31, 2008

The exhibition will travel to SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia
as from December 11, 2008 - February 15, 2009

 

 

Stratos Kalafatis - 10 Aspects of Hellenic Photography

 

Recent Trends of Creation    
Théâtre de la Photographie et de L\'Image, Nice, France
Curated by Jean-Pierre Giusto, Vangelis Ioakimidis
Participating artists:  Christina Dimitriadis, Stratos Kalafatis, Panos Kokkinias, Georgos Kordakis, Evangelia Kranioti, Dimitra Lazaridou, Nikos Markou, Paris Petridis, Yiannis Theodoropoulos, Yiorgis Yerolympos

18 September - 9 November, 2008

 

 

Stratos Kalafatis

 
Journal 1998-2002
at Villa Audi, Beirut, Lebanon
Curated by Vangelis Ioakimidis
10 October - 5 November 2008

 

 

Stratos Kalafatis

 
FotoGrafia
Festival Internationale di Roma - VIII edizione
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Via Nazionale, 194 Piano alto)
 

Biennale: 2, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Marios Spiliopoulos Panos Tsagaris

 
 
Marios Spiliopoulos
“The Record of Emotion”
Thessaloniki Port Area, Pier A
Pumping Station
Warehouse C
Outdoor Areas of the Port
 
Panos Tsagaris
Performance Festival (24 - 30 May 2009)
Performance: “The Mystic Death of The Kiss”
Thursday 28 May, 19:00
Thessaloniki Port Area,  Warehouse C
Duration: 30 minutes