Video dance & video performance screening 

Video Art Miden collaborates with Kinitiras

Video Art Miden collaborates with Kinitiras in a special video dance & video performance screening event curated by Margarita Stavraki. The presentation, including 4 programs from this year’s edition of Video Art Miden, will take place in Athens, 3 of November 2018, 20.00 pm at Kinitiras. Additionally, all programs will be screened in a special ongoing presentation at the entrance hall of Kinitiras until June 2019.

For fifteen years, Video Art Miden is constantly engaged  by collecting and promoting videodance & video performance works internationally, supporting the diversity of expressive media that artists and groups with different artistic, cultural, aesthetic origins and experiences, they use. Video Art Miden, despite its wide-ranging character in video art, has been recorded on the international cultural scene as one of the most independent and stable videodance & video performance platforms in the world.

Screening Event 3 November 2018 / Non Stop Screenings from November 2018 to June 2019

Studio Screening  3 /11 /18

Move like me _ Video Dance & Video Performance selection

Curated by Margarita Stavraki      Duration: 43 min

A video selection where human bodies narrate as they move, are in love, compete, fight and vibrate.

1. Christina Mertzani / free fall company, Aliki Chiotaki & Dimitris Barnias, 60 pulses, Greece 2016, 3.32
2. Blas Payri, Ce monde inconnu de sensations, Spain & France 2018, 3.25
3. Francesca Leoni & Davide Mastrangelo, Nowhere History, Italy 2017, 3.40
4. Patricia Bentancur, Untitled, (Play), Uruguay 2014, 1.35
5. Francesca Leoni , Ego-Crazia, Italy 2017, 8.25
6. Еlena Artemenko, Soft Power, Russia 2016, 10.00
7. Marta Arjona & Ariadna Llussà, ZOÍ I ζωή, Spain 2017, 3.40
8. APOTROPIA, Φ, Italy 2017, 4.44
9. Yiorgos Drosos, District one, Greece 2014-2015, 1.50

vDance: poses, movements and short narratives_ Video Dance selection

Curated by Margarita Stavraki      Duration: 70 min

A video selection where poses and movements turn to dance and poetry. The dance is sometimes physical and other times a result of the processing of moving image. The surrounding space is sometimes real, defined and it stimulates the dance, and other times it is digital and neutral, in order to make us concentrate absolutely on the motion of the bodies. Dance, movement and pose are a primordial need of man, which is involved in the digital age.

1. Izabella Retkowska, Inertness, Poland 2016, 1.10
2. Marta Arjona & Mei Casabona, X-TREM, Spain 2016, 5.24
3. Aliki Chiotaki, Cipher, Greece 2017, 1.18
4. Daphna Mero, Selfiesism – Dance Duet, Israel & USA 2017, 5.03
5. Fran Orallo, the chaos theory, UK 2018, 3.40
6. Gaetano Maria Mastrocinque, Argille, Italy 2016, 5.47
7. Johannes  Christopher Gérard, Night, Street, Lantern, Pharmacy, Russia 2017, 4.51
8. Dancevacuum dance company-Vicky Vassilopoulou, Handmade, Greece 2018, 8.11
9. Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley & Hilary Brown and Aitor Mendilibar, Odd Jewels: Beauty Under Mask, USA 2018, 8.26
10. Cecilia Seaward, Recollect, USA 2016, 2.40
11. Stefano Croci & Luca Veggetti, SCENARIO, Italy 2017, 22.00

Entrance hall Screening  3 /11 /18

Fragments of a story_ Video Dance & Video Performance selection

Curated by Margarita Stavraki      Duration: 49 min

The program explores the autonomy of narrative elements and their reconnection in a video art selection. In these videos the object, the gesture and the space become art works on their own. Sometimes they deny their narrative role, sometimes they just insinuate it, and at others they serve it poetically.

1. Mircea Bobînă, Dust, Moldova 2017, 1.00
2. Eleonora Roaro, 00:00:01:00, UK 2016, 2.00
3. Hanna Schaich, 400000 times, Germany 2017, 4.36
4. Irini Folerou, Revealing, UK 2016, 1.19
5. Anna Macdonald, After Mrs Mills, UK 2016, 2.37
6. Hamza Kirbas, I, YOU, S/HE, WE, Turkey 2017, 00.47
7. John C. Kelley, Drum Solo, USA 2018, 4.54
8. Cat Del Buono, Pass the Buck, USA 2018, 1.33
9. Mauricio Sanhueza, The House, Peru 2018, 8.15
10. François Roux, The Western Bug, Canada 2014, 1.22
11. Collin Bradford, End Light, USA 2016, 11.07
12. François Roux & Mathieu Bouillod, Phantom’s Ontology, Belgium 2014, 3.45
13. Marcia Beatriz Granero, Minada, Brazil 2015, 2.15

Act… with or without expression_ Video Performance selection

Curated by Margarita Stavraki      Duration: 47 min

A selection of video performances based on body identity, with references to ritual, philosophy & poetry, human disorientation, and the history of family relationships.

1. Gabriel Andreu, My Father’s Tears, UK 2016, 3.52
2. Eduardo Herrera, Liberación, Argentina 2016, 2.30
3. Michele Manzini, In the House of Mantegna, Italy 2017, 6.36
4. Nuno Veiga, Boa Morte, Portugal 2018, 4.05
5. Alexander Isaenko, Memorial, Ukraine, 2016, 12.24
6. Elisabetta Di Sopra, The Care, Italy 2018, 2.34
7. Miloushka Bokma, Thuis, Home, Heimat, Netherlands 2018, 7.57
8. Aleksandra Mlynarczyk-Gemza, KOAN: What did your face looked like before your parents were born?, Poland 2014, 1.18
9. Gray Swartzel, Self-Portrait with Mother (Offering), USA 2018, 3.24

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Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and builded an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. It also provides an alternative meeting point for emerging and established artists and a communication hub between artists, organizations, festivals and art spaces around the world.

Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.

(*Miden means “zero” in Greek)

Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou – Margarita Stavraki

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Video Art Miden- Info: www.festivalmiden.gr

Opening: 3/11/2018 at 20:00

Duration:  3/11/2018 – until June 2019*

*all programs will be screened in a special ongoing presentation at the entrance hall of Kinitiras until June 2019.

 Kinitiras

Adress: Erechtheiou 22, Acropolis
Athens 11742

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« Ideal Lines »

by Ioannis Lassithiotakis

The black line, 2016, emulsion on canvas, 200×180 cm.

In his new exhibition Ioannis Lassithiotakis presents mainly large-scale works, austere in their rendering and focused on the conceptual and aesthetic importance of monochrome surfaces on which a primordial, archetypal element of human expression is often inscribed: the line.

The works on show come in two series. In one the paint is spread on the surface in an abstract manner to produce pious monochromatic rites; the other series seems to be defined by drawing, with the outline sometimes surrounding the entire canvas or elsewhere with large shapes of black and white coexisting in a harmonious yet enigmatic relationship with one another.

This new body of work reflects the quests of Ioannis Lassithiotakis on issues pertaining to human relations, death, absence but also Art itself, presented in a mature way in terms of both content and aesthetic. His compositions, thoroughly researched and conceptually apt, increasingly attract international interest from galleries and the press.

Hate, 2017, emulsion and oil on canvas, 160×120 cm.

As Dr. Haris Hatziioannou points out in his text for the accompanying catalogue:

In the abstract language used by Lassithiotakis the fundamental visual elements (point, line, plane, color) have a power to speak on their own. This language of course comes from a tradition that originates from Suprematism, Constructivism and Bauhaus and passes, closer to our age, through Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Knowledge of this tradition and of the contemporary languages of art helps, but this does not mean that the intake of the works depends exclusively on such knowledge. Non-expert viewers that are both eager and sensitive enough will certainly be able to ‘listen to’ and understand this language, discerning its main characteristics.

The road to freedom, 2017, oil on canvas, 200x150cm.

General Info:

Opening: 23/11/2018 at 20:00

Duration: 23/11/2018 – 26/01/2019

Opening hours:

Thursday: 12:00 – 20:00

Friday: 12:00 – 20:00

Saturday: 12:00 – 17:00

Admission: Free

DL Gallery

Address: 55A Mesologgiou str, 18545, Piraeus

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«Back to basics: Space»

Group Exhibition

Rena Papaspyrou

The exhibition Back to Basics: Space, as part of the Back to Basics series that explores key issues and elements of art making, looks into the aims as well as the approaches of artists of the concept of space.
Space constitutes a standard point of reference in artistic creation, whether the latter is confined within the boundaries of the canvas, is a three-dimensional sculpture-installation which incorporates and transforms its surroundings or unfolds in the intangible space of a performance which interacts with the viewer.

At the same time, in an age when the ‘a-topian’ culture of globalisation raises questions about identity, character and history, the positioning of artistic creation in space and time may signify a play with memory, a political comment or a query about the waning boundaries between public and private.

Architectural elements, which pervade the language of art with increasing frequency, delineate the creative work using common features which are familiar to the viewer. The constantly changing social conditions and the cultural osmoses that affect the cityscape are standard components in the discourse between space-place and collective memory.

Lina Theodorou

In the exhibition‘’Back to Basics: Space’’, the exhibition venue provides an opportunity for a dialogue through which to define and explore the notion of space from different visual approaches of the ten visual artists, both morphologically and conceptually.

Architectural space, space as defined in relation to the body, geo-cultural identity, the urban space and the presentation/description of a utopian or dystopian space are the thematic areas to be explored in this exhibition.

Participating artists:

Manolis Baboussis, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, George Harvalias, Michel Lamoller, Iavor Lubomirov, Rena Papaspyrou, Yiannis Theodoropoulos, Lina Theodorou, Ino Varvariti, Kostis Velonis

Curator: Artemis Potamianou

George Harvalias

General Info:

Opening: 23/11/2018

Duration: 23/11/2018 – 19/01/2018

Exhibition opening hours:

Thursday 12:00-20:00

Friday 12:00-20:00

Saturday 12:00-17:00

ENIA GALLERY

Address: 55 Mesologgiou str, Piraeus 18545

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“The Ruralists”

Group exhibition

The group show The Ruralists will open at a.antonopoulou.art on Tuesday December 4^th, 2018. The exhibition presents 13 artists who live and work outside the major urban centers. The title The Ruralists does not imply a movement nor trend, and certainly not a coherent artistic movement, as in the case of the group Brotherhood of Ruralists, founded in 1975 around the pop artist Peter Blake, which suggested the restoration of a bucolic English landscape as central subject theme in paintings.

The artists of this show barely deal with landscape paintings, although the theme of open landscape runs the exhibition as a fact; however it is not present in every artwork. Away from the urban life and the suffocating dimension of the city, the horizon of the work and the artist are expanding in order to incorporate naturally the everyday practices, imagination, craftsmanship, inventiveness.

Paintings and sculptures, photographs and installations are created by a plethora of materials and techniques that are related to the environment. All the projects generally avoid the drama without lacking the drama. Time arises as the key question and as a primary value in this group exhibition of artists in Athens, aiming to resemble a sunny rural courtyard during a December day.

The group show is co-curated by Angeliki Antonopoulou and Alexios Papazacharias.

Participating artists:

Petros Efstathiadis, Manolis Zacharioudakis, Katerina Kana, Ioannis Kolliopoulos, Zissis Kotionis, Margarita Myrogianni, Apostolos Ntelakos, Paola Palavidi, Alexios Papazacharias, Leda Papaconstantinou, Thanassis Totsikas, George Tsakiris, Alexandros Psychoulis.

General Info:

Opening:  04/12/2018 at 19:00

Duration: 04/12/2018 – 19/01/2019

Exhibition Opening hours: 

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 14:00 – 20:00

Saturday: 12:00 – 16:00

Monday, Tuesday & Sunday: Closed 

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Admission: Free Event

a.antonopoulou.art

Address: 20 Aristofanous street, Psyrri, 105 54

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Mark Hadjipateras’

“solo exhibition”

Mark Hadjipateras’ solo exhibition opens at a.antonopoulou.art on Thursday 24th of January. The new paintings and sculptures that comprise this exhibition contain many of the features recognizable in Mark Hadjipateras’ practice: biosynthetic creatures, enigmatic objects and symbols, indeterminate topographies, and, of course, his characteristic playfulness. Here, however, it is as though a mist has lifted on the scenery revealing a brighter, fresher palette of clear blues and greys offset by acid yellows, greens, earth tones, accented with an occasional flash of red. Hadjipateras now presents a simpler world of more precisely executed forms that then transmigrate from their two-dimensional communities into discrete three-dimensional figures.

In the paintings, crisp bands of gradated or flat colour fields evoke curiously furnished rooms or horizon lines separating skies from uncharted seas and lands that support unidentifiable life forms. Unlike the populous stretches of Hadjipateras’ earlier Habitats, these places are sparsely settled. Each element plays a distinct role, albeit mystifying, in the environment. When the colour bands are vertical, they set up amicable if incongruent conversations between interior and exterior, among arabesques, swirls and static totems that could be of the natural world or of human production for domestic use, or some hybrid of both. Hadjipateras has removed illusory perspective but retained allusions to nature.

The cast aluminium sculptures take their forms from the paintings, in some cases directly and elsewhere less so. At 50cm tall, they are the comforting height of family pets. Like the shapes and creatures in the paintings, they conjure up plants, trees, lighting fixtures, furniture, marine life, birds, small predators, hieroglyphs, and obscure sacred objects. As autonomous and free-standing, unlike their two-dimensional counterparts, their presence and provenance is even more ambiguous.

Of the sculptures, some are given a shiny metallic finish; some are painted black and some are white. The metallic sculptures take mostly curvilinear and spiroid forms, whereas their black and white companions are generally more static. Although the modernist element has always been present in Hadjipateras’ practice, these graceful organic shapes are particularly informed by the 20^thcentury sensibility shared with artists such as Arthur Dove, Joan Miró, Hans Arp, Henri Matisse, and others.

Andrea Gilbert, 2018

General Info

Opening: 24/01/2019 at 19:00

Duration: 25/01/2019 – 04/03/ 2019

Exhibition opening hours:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 14:00 – 20.00
Saturday: 12.00 – 16.00
Sunday, Monday & Tuesday: Closed

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Re-thinking Environment

Group show

DL Gallery presents the group exhibition of photography titled «Re-thinking Environment», curated by Nina Kassianou.

Life takes place in many different environments: in natural or urban landscapes, in recreational sites, industrial premises, and in travel explorations.
How does the character and appearance of our environment, influence our experience of space we live and move? And how that space and that experience are interpreted and presented by photographers? These are the questions which form the starting point for the exhibition, Re-thinking Environment, a trip through the human nature.

This exhibition is about the experience of the environment, in all its manifestations, which reveals the emotions and thoughts that the photographers has projected on it. The diverse and multi-faceted ways which photographers perceive this experience echoes the breadth of this exhibition.
By examining issues related to nature and humanity Re-thinking Environment contributes also to the ongoing debate around the world on environmental awareness. The scope of the photographers, involved in this show, explores the changing nature and points out the need for a dynamic interference to prevent environmental deterioration.

The exhibition is a journey followed by 14 artists which spans a wide range of photographic genres including all the kinds of contemporary photography.
Like nature itself, this is an exhibition not just to be seen, but to be experienced.

Participating photographers:

Julia Braun,
Panos Charalampidis & Mary Chairetaki,
Christoforos Doulgeris,
Anargyros Drolapas,
Efi Haliori,
Magda Hueckel,
Lisa Hoffmann,
Katrin Koenning,
Diana Lelonek,
Costas Ordolis,
Beba Stoppani,
Giannis Tzortzis,
Yorgos Yatromanolakis

General Info:

Opening: 08/02/2019 at 20:00

Duration: 08/02/2019 – 04/05/2019

Opening hours:

Wednesday – Saturday 12:00 – 17:00

Thursday – Friday 12:00 – 19:00

Admission: Free

DL Gallery

Address: 55A Mesologgiou str, 18545, Piraeus

Tel.: +30 21 0463 1933

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