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“Kamishibai: Paper Theater”

Educational Program for children aged 4-7 yrs
Every Sunday from January 29th until February 19th 2012, from 11:00 until 12:30, Vasilia Vaxevani will be unfolding stories from all over the world, using the kamishibai* technique, precursor of Japanese comics. Together, the children will create their own “paper theater”.
In each 1,5 hour workshop, Vasilia will be narrating [...]

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Land Ends. Pavlos Fysakis

Pavlos Fyssakis started tracing the four geographical boundaries of Europe in 2006: Gavdos – the southernmost tip (in Greece); Finnmark – the northernmost tip (in Norway), the Urals – the eastern boundary (in Russia) and Sintra – the westernmost tip (in Portugal), seeking answers to these questions: “How do we define a European identity? What [...]

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Αν τα ‘βαζε η δύση με την αυγή – If Dusk tangled with dawn

Η πρώτη resident artist του Κινητήρα για το 2012 είναι η χορογράφος και χορεύτρια τσίρκου Anna Vigeland με το συνεργάτη της, σχεδιαστή ήχου Peter Balov, οι οποίοι, κατά την παραμονή τους στην Ελλάδα θα παρουσιάσουν την παράσταση “If dusk tangled with dawn”(« Αν τα ‘βαζε η δύση με την αυγή»), σε συνεργασία με τους Έλληνες [...]

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Fulbright art Scholarships

The Fulbright Foundation announces its scholarship program for artists for 2012-2013. This scholarship is for practicing/working artists in any field of fine arts, the visual arts, music, theatre, dance,   film making and digital arts who wish to grow a higher level of proficiency, to enhance their career, seek advancement opportunities and familiarize with the US [...]

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Stephen Antonakos-«The Search»

At the Elefsis oil mill, from September 2 to October 30, 2011.
“The Search” is a neon intervention in approximately 30 spots within this old industrial venue. Continuing his work of decades in industrial venues, the artist has united the spaces of the oil mill at a common aesthetic and philosophy. I hope, the artists [...]

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Damien Hirst. New Religion

This is the first solo exhibition in Greece by world-renowned British artist Damien Hirst. Entitled New Religion, the exhibition has moved to Athens after an initial stop at Thessaloniki, where it was shown at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. From September 21 to November 27, 2011 at the Benaki Museum.
The exhibition presents mainly silkscreen [...]

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ReMap3

An international contemporary art program
ReMap is an international contemporary art platform open and free to the public, which is held bi annually in the area of Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio in Athens, in tandem with the Athens Biennial. It is organized by ReMapKM, a not-for-profit organization, from September 12 to October 30, 2011.
ReMapKM’s goal is to create an [...]

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Marilyn Monroe in the Arts

The exhibition approaches the phenomenon Marilyn Monroe through the Arts.  Andy Warhol, Christo, Arnulf Rainer as well as photographers such as Bert Stern or Douglas Kirkland, amongst others, unveil both the individual and the myth in all its facets.
The critical distance that arises through this procedure reveals the balancing act between the two counterparts Norma [...]

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Sol LeWitt, Line and Color

The Herakleidon Museum will present, from October 1st, 2011 to January 29th, 2012, an exhibition of works by the American artist Sol LeWitt. All the works, which were donated by the artist himself, are on loan from the New Britain Museum of American Art (Connecticut, USA).  The exhibition has the support of the U.S. Embassy [...]

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Francesca Granata gives a guided tour of Monsters in Fashion

“It is this grotesque body, defined by hybridity and transgression of borders but also by parody, humor and inversion, that seems to be central to both contemporary experimental fashion designers and people working at the juncture of fashion and performance.”

ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture (ATOPOS CVC) invites prominent personalities from different cultural areas, to analyze [...]

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