LAB 11: LULEA ART BIENNIAL 2011
MARY COX
Athens-based artist Mary Cox has been selected to participate this summer in a unique international art exhibition in the north of Sweden: the Lulea Art Biennial 2011. Mary will show ten pieces from her series, “From Another Place”, multi-media works that explore the theme of immigration in Greece. Mary has resided in Athens since [...]
Against All Odds: Ethics / Aesthetics
Following on the first international conference Against All Odds: Ethics / Aesthetics, held successfully at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the six academic workshops currently under way, the AAO project continues with a second international conference and three exhibitions—one main and two parallel shows—at the Benaki Museum / Pireos St Annex.
In the [...]
Monsters in Fashion
ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture (ATOPOS CVC) presents ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion at the Benaki Museum, Athens – the fi rst exhibition about Character design in fashion, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis. The exhibition is participating in the Athens Festival 2011. Characters are abstract and reduced fi gures with a strong anthropomorphic appeal and bold graphical silhouette. [...]
Art-Athina 2011
ART-ATHINA continues its exemplary mission of promoting art, and in particular contemporary artistic creation, making a keenly-anticipated return with its 17th edition. ART-ATHINA 2011 will take place on May 12-15, 2011 at the Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo), widely regarded as the perfect venue for the event.
This year, a similar number of galleries and cultural institutions will [...]
The Visual Arts and Music: a mystical dialogue
On the occasion of the celebration of the “European Night of Museums 2011″, the HERAKLEIDON MUSEUM in Athens, Greece and the NATIONAL CONSERVATORY invite you, on Saturday, May 14th, 2011, from sunset to midnight, to an evening with the theme The Visual Arts and Music: a mystical dialogue.
During this event, the exhibition halls of the [...]
The Last Grand Tour
The exhibition will bring together for the first time work by many of the internationally renowned artists who have lived and worked in Greece during the twentieth century. Looking at Greece as a site of inspiration over the past sixty years, works to be included reflect the various ways in which the country, its long [...]
Evliya Çelebi: The Book of Travels
As part of the program ‘Our Shared Europe’ this exhibition aims to foster dialogue for mutual respect and understanding with the Islamic communities of Europe.
Evliya Çelebi, a 17th century traveler, is the hero of this exhibition. Inspired by a dream, he set out on a real life journey that simultaneously became a spiritual quest through the [...]
EGRAVING EXHIBITION
Christophoros Katsadiotis presents engravings and more specifically etchings at his exhibition, in the art gallery Choros Tehnis 24, at 38 Speusipou Street, Kolonaki, on Tuesday April 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Even though Christophoros Katsadiotis was a child of Journalism, he abandoned that path soon enough to follow his inner desire, since along with his work [...]
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
On Tuesday, 29 March 2011, Kalfayan Galleries, will present the second solo exhibition of Kuwaiti photographer Tarek Al-Ghoussein with photographs from his “E-series”. The exhibition will run till May 7, 2011.
The photographer captures roundabouts in different regions. Familiar to all of us, roundabouts serve to impose order on the landscape and at the same [...]
Polyglossia
‘Polyglossia‘ is a Greek word meaning both (1) the existence, use and knowledge of many languages, and (2) the expression of multiple views simultaneously or sequentially. This is its dictionary definition. For their part, social linguists define polyglossia as a condition in which more than two codes are used for clearly distinct reasons, or in [...]
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