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Αφιέρωμα στο έργο της κινηματογραφίστριας Ester Krumbachová στο πλαίσιο του 14ου Φεστιβάλ Πρωτοποριακού Κινηματογράφου της Αθήνας Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:51:46 +0000

A tribute to the work of filmmaker Ester Krumbachová in the frame of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival Greek Film Archive dimitra.samsaki Fri, 12/12/2025 - 12:02

Tuesday, December 16 & Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 21:15

Iera odos 48 & Megalou Alexandrou 134-136, Kerameikos, Athens Hall B

The 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, “everything must change. RIS9,” organized by MOMus, is introducing its tribute to the work and practice of seminal artist and filmmaker Ester Krumbachová through a collaboration with the Ester Krumbachová Archive, the National Film Archive, Prague, and the Greek Film Archive via the screening of Krumbachová’s film Murdering the Devil (Czechoslovakia, 1970, 72’), within the program of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival.

The film will be screened with English and Greek subtitles in Hall B of the Greek Film Archive, on Tuesday, December 16, at 21:15, and on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 21:15.

It will be introduced, along with the Ester Krumbachová Archive, by Nadja Argyropoulou, curator of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, with words by artist Blaise Kirschner, whose initiative was pivotal in making the Krumbachová estate accessible to researchers.

Ester Krumbachová (1923–1996) is best known for her exceptional and prolific work as a costume designer in film and theater, but her artistic legacy encompasses an astonishing range of disciplines, including art direction, scriptwriting, directing, fiction and theoretical essays, drawing, painting, and jewelry design and making. She was deeply respected within the Czech film circles as a powerful creative force and a mentor, affectionately described as the movement’s “spiritual guru” or éminence grise, yet her work remained largely overlooked both at home and abroad until recently.

Ester Krumbachová worked as a theater artist beginning in 1953, first in České Budějovice and later in Prague. She contributed to many important films of the Czechoslovak New Wave such as Diamonds of the Night, Daisies, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, A Carriage Going to Vienna, The Party and the Guests, Witchhammer, Fruit of Paradise, and The Ear, among others. In 1970, she directed her only film, Murdering the Devil. Since 1972, she was banned from contributing to feature films and television. She only worked occasionally on short films with Krátký Film Praha (Short Film Prague), film studios outside Prague, and several international productions. She was able to overcome the ban in 1983, when she and Věra Chytilová made The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun. After 1990 she was able to return to film once more, and her last job included script editing, set and costume design for the film Marian (1996).

The last few years have seen a wide-ranging critical reappraisal of Krumbachová’s work, with her contribution recognized through MUBI’s Notebook (January, 2026), Fashion in Film Festival, London & UK (2025), film program in BFI Southbank, London (2025), Metrograph, New York (2024), international film festivals such as IFF Karlovy Vary and Rotterdam (2024), exhibitions in Prague, Brno and Glasgow, and publications that foreground the artist’s distinctive vision. This renewed attention owes much to the achievements of the Ester Krumbachová Archive, initiated in 2016 and run by the Prague-based curatorial organization ARE. Its mission has been to digitize thousands of surviving objects, writings, scripts, and designs, and to champion new artistic and scholarly engagement with Krumbachová’s legacy. In 2016, twenty years after Ester Krumbachová’s death, her last partner, Ivan Paik, granted the ARE organization, the artist Blaise Kirschner, and a student research group from Prague’s AAAD, access to her estate. Until then, the estate had remained inaccessible, despite repeated efforts by her colleagues, friends and film historians.

The collective work and engaged research that has led to the creation, the life and accessibility of this archive honors and reflects Krumbachová’s own practice of kinship and exchange. It is celebrated, along with the artist’s work, within the Biennale, as an example of a persistent refusal to forget and ignore, of kinship in free thinking & association, of the social poesis that is a condition of possibility. Such approaches of assembling, directed to love for the dispossessed and a radical recovery of alternative grounds of insurgency, are a core concern of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, titled “everything must change. RIS9”.

The 9th Thessaloniki Biennale or Contemporary Art runs between October 2025 and July 2026 through a few manifestations, collaborations and errant paths leading to a main exhibition due to open in late May 2026.

It is curated by independent curator Nadja Argyropoulou and organized by MOMus – Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki.

The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is co-financed by the European Union (NSRF – “Central Macedonia” Operational Programme).

About the film:

Murdering the Devil (Czechoslovakia, dir. Ester Krumbachová, 1970)

“She is in her forties—or near them—and life isn’t at all what she expected. Maybe a trip down memory lane could help? In her younger days there had been a splendid young man, Bohouš Čert, whom she fancied and who had also seemed interested in her. And so, she looks for and finds Bohouš Čert, who is now Engineer Čert. He has become pretentious, arrogant, self-involved—a nightmare. And still, she thinks it has to be this cretinous creature who will lead her to the altar.

Murdering the Devil remains the sole directorial effort of art director and costume designer Ester Krumbachová, who also co-wrote some of the key Czech ’60s films, like Věra Chytilová’s seminal monument of pop feminism Daisies (1966), Otakar Vávra’s vivisection of authoritarian structures Witchhammer (1968), or Jaromil Jireš’s perverse female fairy tale Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1969). Murdering the Devil had the bad luck of timing; it reached the cinemas at the extremely frosty beginning of the so-called Normalization period. Even among like-minded souls, a work so anarchic and subversive barely stood a chance. After decades in the shadows of film history, the time to rediscover this eccentric gem has come!”

—Olaf Möller, IFFR

“A subversive anti-rom-com that cooly cuts male chauvinism down to size and luxuriates in female pleasure”

—Film at Lincoln Center

“The 1960s saw a remarkable cinematic renaissance in what was then called Czechoslovakia, and Ester Krumbachová was its renaissance woman”

—Jonathan Owen, The Criterion Collection

🌐 More materials related to Murdering the Devil, found in Ester Krumbachová’s estate, are available at esterkrumachova.org under “Murdering the Devil.”

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Murdering the Devil (Czechoslovakia, dir. Ester Krumbachová, 1970). Film still. © National Film Archive, Prague.

In collaboration with the Ester Krumbachová Archive and the National Film Archive, Prague, and the Greek Film Archive within the program of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival.

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Roger Ballen. Shadows of the min

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:49:35 +0000

Roger Ballen. Shadows of the min dimitra.samsaki Wed, 11/05/2025 - 16:55

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Benaki Museum Μπενάκη, 138 Peiraios, Athens

Opening & artist’s talk; Wednesday 5 November 2025, 19:00

The retrospective exhibition of the photographer Roger Ballen brings together various photographic series; Dorps (1986), Platteland (1994), Outland (2001), Shadow Chamber (2004), Boarding House (2009), Asylum of Birds (2013), Theatre of Apparitions (2016) and Spirits and Spaces (2025). The presentation moves through the documentation of the earlier works into the psychological theatre that became the stage for his works during the early 2000s, finally arriving at a new era of the Ballenesque in color, with the release of his latest publication, Spirits and Spaces. This exhibition provides an opportunity to survey the extent of Ballen’s ability to transform an image beyond the confines of narrative or medium, as well as his interest in forefronting what lies on the fringes of our consciousness. Ballen’s work breaks down the boundaries between photography and other arts.

Although Ballen is noted as a photographer, his photographic practice integrates photography, painting, drawing, installation and video - transforming it into a medium that considers all formal visual elements, expanding photography far beyond simply capturing what is in front of the camera. This kind of layered image making provokes and challenges viewers to look inwards at the worlds of their own thoughts and feelings, rather than simply recognizing an iteration of reality - this is the power of the Ballenesque.

The exhibition is co-organised by the Benaki Museum, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and Studio Roger Ballen, with the support of EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Arts Athens.

Curated by: Hercules Papaioannou

Roger Ballen (NYC, USA, 1950) is considered one of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st centur. He has published over 25 books and created more than 10 videos and short films while his works are in the most important international museum collections. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Art and Design by Kingston University, UK (2018), and has been honored with important awards, such as: Artist of the Year by Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (2014), Photographer of the Year at Rencontres d’Arles (2002), Best Photo Book PHotoESPAÑA (Madrid, 2001), Artist of the Year at Photosynkyria (Thessaloniki 2000). In 2022 he was one of the artists that represented South African at the Venice Biennale Arte 2022 and one year later he founded the Inside Our Centre for the Arts and the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography in Johannesburg aiming promote an awareness of International and African related issues through art and educational programmes.

For more information: https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=event&type=&id=1050750&Itemid=559&lang=en

Photo caption: Roger Ballen, Take Off, 2012

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Όλα πρέπει να αλλάξουν – συμπεριλαμβανομένων των ημερομηνιών και της μορφής της Μπιενάλε!

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:54:35 +0000

Everything must change—Biennale dates and form included! dimitra.samsaki Fri, 09/19/2025 - 11:04

Faithful to the spirit of waywardness, the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art shape-shifts, diffracts, and expands its time limits.

It is opening on October 31, 2025, with the exhibition “Plot Twist (the science fiction change),” in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival, and a day of events as hints of an un-hierarchical unfolding leading up to its May–June–July 2026 main manifestation.

Taking errant paths within institutional confines and seeking its alternative ways from Autumn 2025 to Summer 2026, the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is reconfigurated in many ways (team, partnerships, expression), engaging with the obstacles presented by the structures of the art world in its broader entanglements, refusing to be intimidated or suppressed by them, tending to the processes of aesthetic sociality and the practice of differentiation without separation.

If waywardness can be understood as “a short entry to the possible,” an experimentation with the social otherwise, Biennale 9 is placing itself in the cramped paradox that this presents, which concerns us all. It welcomes the challenge of engaging with this life-affirming concept in respectful acknowledgment of its specific sociopolitical and historical roots within the Black radical tradition and scholarship.

Biennale 9 thus becomes the first testing ground of the ways of radical intelligence, solidarity, defiance, escape and adaptability that it wishes to examine and propose.

The Biennale changes.

Dates and places to remember:

Biennale 9 opening on October 31, 2025
At: MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, with the exhibition “Plot Twist (the science fiction change),” in collaboration of Biennale 9 with the Thessaloniki Film Festival (show will run until November 16, 2025) AND at Pavilions 2 & 3 (TIF-Helexpo) with a day of events and a party.
Biennale in full manifestation from mid-May to –mid July 2026 (exact dates to be announced soon)
At: Pavilions 2 & 3 (TIF-Helexpo) and Kalochori Delta
Interim, unfolding Biennale events and spaces to be announced. Stay tuned!

The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is co-financed by the European Union (NSRF – “Central Macedonia” Operational Programme).

Curator: Nadja Argyropoulou

Director: Yannis Bolis

Project Management: Eftyhia Petridou, Silia Fasianou

Visual Identity: studio precarity

Architectural Design: Y2K Architects

Curator’s Assistant: Evelyn Zempou

Organizer: MOMus – Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki

Implementation: MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections

Co-organizer: TIF-Helexpo

Partners: Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Film Festival

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Δημήτρης Λέτσιος: Ένα πορτρέτο του Βόλου

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:03:43 +0000

Dimitris Letsios: A Portrait of Volos dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 13:02

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Sat, 09/12/2020 - 20:03

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Wed, 09/30/2020 - 20:03

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Municipal Gallery of Ioannina, 1st floor, (Korai 1)

In the context of the Photometria international photography festival

“A Portrait of Volos”
Dimitris Letsios’ body of work now enjoys a well-deserved position in the story of Greek photography. This exhibition presents an anthology of photographs from his native city, Volos, spanning the broader postwar period. Continuing his interests in the Thessalian rural farmer, here he focuses on the simple subsistence workers, children, the folk market, the landscapes that the Pagasitic Gulf generously offers. Letsios traversed the body of the city in a quest to discover unseen aspects, moments and scenes that were clearly distanced from the official ideological facade, revealing an elliptical yet profoundly human face of Volos.
Hercules Papaioannou

Opening hours: Mon. – Thu.: 08:00 – 15:00, Fri.: 08:00 – 21:00, Sun. 10:00 – 13:00 & 18:00 – 21:00

Co-organizer: MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Volos City Museum

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Ιστορίες του κάμπου | Βασίλης Νεμπεγλεριώτης

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:08:55 +0000

Stories from the Plain | Vassilis Nempegleriotis dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:14

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Fri, 11/15/2024 - 11:00

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Sun, 01/05/2025 - 20:00

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Municipal Art Gallery of Nikaia–Ag. I. Rentis “Dinos Katsafanas”
Opening: Friday 15 November 2024 | 19:00

There are arguably few landscapes that lend themselves so aptly to the study of the relationship between human civilization and nature like the flatland, where the use of increasingly intensive agricultural methods has profoundly changed human civilization.

Vassilis Nempegleriotis' Stories from the Plain (2017-2022) is a collection of photographs focusing on the Thessalian plain, Greece’s second largest granary. The plain has been a source of both prosperity and inequality. Born in a farming family, Nempegleriotis examines here the current state of the Thessalian Plain. Nempegleriotis' photographs tap into the expanse of the land and the absence of pronounced natural features, in order to subtly depict the disturbance of the land, and reveal elements from its modern and social history.

Vasilis Nempegleriotis is a self-taught photographer based in Larissa, Central Greece, using the medium of photography since 2015. He has participated in photography seminars and is a member of Fplus photography group since 2018. His photographs have been featured in group exhibitions (Anthropause 2020 - Momus), international photography festivals (Photometria International Festival 2020, New Borders, Belfast Photo Festival 2021, Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2023) and at the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 2023.

Curated by: Hercules Papaioannou
Coorganisation: MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Municipality of Nikaia–Ag. I. Rentis
Exhibition days and hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 10:00-14:00, Friday 17:00-20:00

Caption: Girtoni Area, 2020

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η κατσίκα

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:02:51 +0000

the goat – i katsika dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:09

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Mon, 07/01/2024 - 10:00

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Sat, 10/12/2024 - 20:00

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Opening: Monday 1 July 2024, 7:30 PM

In the broad context of MOMus's strategy for climate change, but also of the open conversation with people who are multiplely connected to the organization and especially MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art, a special meeting/exhibition, with one of the most timeless beloved animals of the Greek countryside and essentially Nature itself as the "protagonist", will take place at the "MALI VENI" estate, in Markopoulo, Attica, from July 1 to September 30, 2024.

The exhibition is held with the support of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art.

The estate “MALI VENI” - a place name that in Arvanitika means “mountain of beech trees” -, in Markopoulo, Attica, was started in 1984 by Manos Karakostas and is one of the first estates in Greece to turn to organic farming and then to regenerative organic farming.

In the unique environment of this estate, the exhibition “the goat” is taking place, which according to Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, Chairman, Board of Administration of the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), “started as an imaginative idea, a way to do something different and emphasize the importance of a more ethical attitude towards the environment”.
The exhibition is based on an initiative by Maro Lagia, who in 1984 pioneered the acquisition of the Alexandros Iolas donation to the Macedonian Center for Contemporary Art, laying the foundation for the establishment of the first Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, in the city of Thessaloniki.

The exhibition entitled "The Goat" aspires, through a series of visual works from different generations, to combine, in an original, inventive and imaginative way, references and symbolisms associated with this specific animal and covering a wide range, in a single visual environment, in an unexpected space, such as that of a warehouse on a large estate in Markopoulo.

The works presented - paintings, sculptures and ceramics, photographs and installations - approach the subject with special sensitivity, are works that are distinguished for their visual qualities, but, at the same time, indirectly raise issues about the "soul" of animals, within the broader context of reexamining their relationship and coexistence with humans.

The curator of the exhibition, Yannis Bolis, notes: "In ancient Greek myth, a goat will nourish the little Zeus with her milk, while the tragic Pan and the Satyrs will dwell in forests and next to riverbanks in a joyful and orgiastic atmosphere of dance, music and unrestrained erotic lust. The goat is one of those animals found all over the planet, an animal that claims a special place in myths and traditions, beliefs and religious rituals, in direct relation to the beginnings of human civilization, the permanent settlements of the Neolithic period, the occupation with agriculture and animal husbandry, survival and food. No other animal has managed to provoke such diametrically opposed attitudes. A symbol of fertility and prosperity, strength, endurance and sexual vitality. And on the other hand, the gloomy dimension, the magic and the diabolical presence, the figure of Satan which, several times, in the Christian world has many of the morphological characteristics of the goat.

Thuli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art, notes: “the exhibition “the goat” is not an exhibition, nor an action. In my eyes, it is an “exhibition-event”, an exhibition and social performance together, which brings the creative spontaneity of Maros – always so constructive, from the very beginning of the Museum – alongside the creative reflexes of MOMus. The actors are also their people. And in them there are always those who come from the past to the present, who contribute positively, whose thinking is in an open line with their soul, through the prism of art and its freedom, who create emotions and not just rules… an exhibition-meeting in a new and unexpected common place, the place of the meeting of art, nature and joy.”

Artists of the exhibition: George Alexandridis, Annita Argyroeliopoulou, Andriana Verveti, Stratis Vogiatzis, Andreas Vousouras, Apostolos Georgiou, Nikos Giavropoulos, Kornelios Grammenos, Lydia Dambasina, Christoforos Doulgeris, Antigone Kavvatha, Yannis Kastritsis, Diane Katsiaficas, Yannis Kontaratos, Kyriakos Krokos, Tania Latarjet, Alexandros Maganiotis, Thanos Makris, Manolis Babousis, Mania Benisi, Nikolas Bliatkas, Natalia Mela, Alex Mylona, Eleni Mylona, Nurako (Fanouris Moraitis), Kosmas Xenakis, Maria Panagiotou, Antonis Papadopoulos, Ifigenia Sdoukou, Miltos Skouras, George Stathopoulos, Danae Stamatiou, Nikos Tranos, George Tsakiris, George Tserionis, Kostas Tsolis, Alekos Fassianos, Dionysis Christofilogiannis.

Curator: Yannis Bolis
Exhibition opening hours and days:
JULY: every Wednesday and Thursday, 19:00-21:00
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER: every Thursday and Friday, 18:00-21:00
To find the place, follow the following geographical coordinates based on google maps: "MALI VENI" ESTATE, MARKOPOULO, ATTICA
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zohpoknCbtnNvPRF8?g_st=iw

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Έκθεση εικαστικών: «Αστικό Τοπίο. Ο χώρος όπου κινείται και δραστηριοποιείται ο σύγχρονος άνθρωπος - μια διαρκής πρόκληση ανθρώπου - φύσης»

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:03:43 +0000

Urban Landscape. The space where modern man moves and is active - a constant challenge between man and nature dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:06

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Wed, 09/09/2020 - 20:47

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Aristotle Museum of Natural History, Pier A’, Port of Thessaloniki
Start: Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 18:00-22:00

The urban landscape, the man-made environment that is constantly expanding and where the impacts of human activity are increasing, its human geography, the material and immaterial elements that compose it, the ways in which modern man experiences it and determines-co-shapes it, are at the center of the exhibition entitled “Urban Landscape. The space where modern man moves and acts - a constant challenge of man and nature” which will be hosted at the Aristotle Museum of Natural History of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at Pier A’ in the port of Thessaloniki from September 9 to October 11, 2020.

The exhibition is a co-organization of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EETE), MOMus and the Aristotle Museum of Natural History and is under the auspices of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The participations come after an open invitation by the Board of Directors of the EETE to its members of all specialties who live or work in Northern Greece, giving the opportunity to 90 contemporary visual artists to present their perspective and way of approaching and negotiating the urban landscape. The exhibition also hosts photographs by Anna Zervopoulou, with texts by Vasilis Melfos.

“As urban areas are striking examples of landscapes of the human environment, some indicative concerns that can arise from the exhibition are the urban landscape and its contribution to climate resilience and the importance of healthy urban planning in the well-being of urban space and in the improvement of psychology, environmental and social. Even the recent issue of the pandemic due to the coronavirus, which has suddenly and violently changed the relationship of people both with each other and with their living and working environment, can be a substantial issue of concern regarding the dystopian conditions we experience in urban space”, notes Maria Tsantsanoglou, Deputy General Director of MOMus, in her introductory text.

“Today, life in the urban space is plagued by a multitude of problems such as unemployment, the economic situation of workers, poverty, the devaluation of the arts and education, the commercialization of universal goods such as Education, Health, Welfare, Energy, Water, Culture, the impoverishment of immigrants and refugees, the rise of state repression, the commercialization - shrinkage of natural wealth and the disasters caused by military competitions and military interventions, all of this makes us worried as a collective space and makes us want to speak in the way we can: with our art,” the Board of Directors of the Chamber Of Fine Arts Of Greece states in its announcement regarding the exhibition.

As Spyros Pavlidis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aristotle Museum of Natural History, emphasizes, “the Aristotle Museum of Natural History of Thessaloniki today constitutes a bridge of the valid scientific knowledge of the AUTH with the wider public of our city, Macedonia and the country in general on the important issue of the Relationship between Man and Nature. The collaboration of the Aristotle Museum with MOMus and the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece with the exhibition on the Urban Landscape as a permanent challenge in the relationship between man and nature constitutes another essential step in this direction, especially in the sensitive area of the anthropogenic environment.”

Exhibition duration: September 9 – October 27, 2020
Start: Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 18:00-22:00
All instructions of the National Public Health Organization will be followed when entering the exhibition
Opening days & hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00-18:00, Thursday: 12:00-20:00, Monday closed
Free admission

Participating artists: Adamantidis Konstantinos, Alevras Christos, Altini Tatiana, Amperidou Sofia, Anastasiou Katerina, Antoniadou Marianna, Velliou Katerina, Vertsoni Stavroula, Voila-Klona Eleni, Voutyri-Tsoumatidou Stella, Gerothanasiou Synthia, Gerontidis Leonidas, Georgitseli Borislava, Gialouraki Maria, Giannadakis Manolis, Galkin Evgenios, Gioura Tania, Golitsi Stergiani (Stella), Gosiopoulos Petros, Gousidis Christos, Delliou Domna, Demertzi Athena, Dimitriadou Emorfili, Eleftheriadi Lia, Zachariadou Eleftheria, Zisi Maria, Kanavou Panagiota, Kapetanou Christina, Karamanli Afroditi, Karambelas Nasos, Karastergiou Evangelia, Kastori Kalli, Katopi Lia, Kafetzopoulou Magdalene, Kerefiadis Panagiotis, Kikotis Georgios, Kitsoukis Georgios, Klimatzdas Stylianos, Klogkieri Fotis, Kompatsiari Maria, Kontaktsiou Anna, Koula Dimitra, Kountouri Paraskevi, Kourbeti Ekaterini, Kofina Chrysa

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Υφάνσεις εκ νέου | Μουσείο της Πόλης του Βόλου

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:03:38 +0000

Weaving Anew | Volos Museum of the City dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 11:59

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Fri, 04/15/2022 - 22:30

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Sun, 08/28/2022 - 16:30

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Volos Museum of the City

Opening: Friday 15 April 2022, 19:30

The art of weaving unrolls its thread outside Thessaloniki and “knits the tapestry” of the exhibition “Weaving Anew”, following MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, at the Volos Museum of the City.

The exhibition presents the flourishing and history of Greek tapestry along with paintings and sculptures that either formed the basis of the weaving designs or are in stylistic sequence with them. It also includes a selection of works from the major exhibition “Weavings. Painting and tapestry in Greece from 1960 to the present”, which took place in 2019 at the Benaki Museum (138 Pireos st., Athens) and includes creations using the traditional tapestry technique, displayed alongside original works by great artists.

The woven paintings in the exhibition highlight the timeless dimension of weaving art in Greece and its evolution in techniques and ideas, which transformed a product of domestic decorative use into a work of cultural heritage.

Curated by: Aigli Dimoglou

Artists: Evridiki Arkoudogianni, Spyros Vasiliou, Niki Kanagini, Kostas Koulentianos, Yannis Moralis, Alex Mylona, Nikos Nikolaou, Sotiris Sorogas, Jannis Spyropoulos, Yannis Tsarouchis, Ioannis Faitakis, Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Gikas, Loch Textiles

Collectors and institutions that lent works for this exhibition include: Alpha Bank, Benaki Museum/ Ghika Gallery, National Center for Social Solidarity (EKKA), The Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation, Julia Dimakopoulou, Maria Tsantsanoglou, The Kanagini family, MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art collections

Co-organizer: Directorate of Archives, Museums and Libraries of DOEPAP – DIPETHE, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art collections

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Graceland Paradox: Navigating Uncertainty

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:51:19 +0000

Graceland Paradox: Navigating Uncertainty dimitra.samsaki Tue, 06/17/2025 - 16:56

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Wed, 06/25/2025 - 08:00

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Sun, 08/17/2025 - 20:00

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Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
Opening: Wednesday 25 June, 20:00

The creative, artistic dialogue between four visual artists, Fani Boudouroglou, Rania Emmanouilidou, Lia Psoma, and Bilal Yilmaz, is presented in the exhibition “Graceland Paradox: Navigating Uncertainty” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, from 25 June to 17 August 2025. Through uncertainty, experimentation and mobilisation, the exhibition urges viewers to reflect on causes, consequences and possibilities. The works draw from science fiction, urban protests and historical revolts to encourage the audience’s reflection on what comes next. The process of searching for possibilities becomes a process of becoming aware of the capitalist impasse and, above all, an exercise in imagination regarding our own contribution and existence in possible dystopian or utopian futures.

The exhibition is organised by the independent art and culture organisation Kontrapunkt as part of the KRIK Festival for Critical Culture, and is supported by MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts and the Embassy of Greece in North Macedonia.

The three women artists, Boudouroglou, Emmanouilidou and Psoma, began working together during the pandemic, when they decided to use the time of imposed isolation to jointly reflect, experiment and create. A series of works that respond to key contemporary issues such as environmental collapse, forced population movements and the onslaught of technology were presented in 2022-23 in the exhibition “Graceland: The Triumph of an Uncertain Path” as part of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art of MOMus. At MoCA Skopje, this collaborative project is renewed and expanded with new works by the three artists and the participation of guest artist Bilal Yilmaz from Türkiye.

At the heart of this new exhibition “Graceland Paradox: Navigating Uncertainty” lies the research conducted by the three artists around sustainable techniques and materials —bioplastics, crystals, handmade paper, rhizomes, materials in the phase of transition from raw material to ephemeral artistic medium— as a process of production and reflection. In dialogue with their works, Bilal Yilmaz expands the political and imaginative dimension of the exhibition. Inspired by contemporary protest movements —including recent mobilisations in Greece, North Macedonia and the wider region— the artist focuses on the erosion of democracy and the power of collective action. Through his work, he recalls the spirit of protest and criticises the mechanism of manipulated information. He calls on us to choose the images and actions that motivate us, and to bring them into our daily lives as acts of quiet, radical resistance.

Curated by: Lydia Chatziiakovou

Parallel events

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 20:00
Short discussion-introduction to the main concepts and practices of the exhibition with the artists.

Speakers: Tihomir Topuzovski (Director, MoCA Skopje), Anna Mykoniati (curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens), Thouli Misirloglou (Artistic Director, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art). Moderators: Lydia Chatziiakovou (curator), Vladimir Janchevski (curator, MoCA).

Thursday, 26 June 2025, 16:00-18:00
Workshop “Material experimentations in Graceland” with the artists Rania Emmanouilidou, Fani Boudouroglou, Lia Psoma.

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Κάμπος

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:39:41 +0000

Kampos dimitra.samsaki Wed, 08/28/2024 - 15:42

Exhibition Type

MOMus abroad

Image

Start Date

Mon, 07/22/2024 - 20:40

End Date

Tue, 07/23/2024 - 20:40

Museum

Other venues

Body

Photography exhibition / Audio walk / Theatre performance

Cross-disciplinary project, based on Stratis Vogiatzis' book of the same title, in the frame of the programme "All Greece One Culture" organised by the Ministry of Culture.

Chios

There is a life that silently unfolds underneath the ground; a life that has reconciled with the chaos and the co-existence of the diverse elements that compose the world. This life unfolds in a place that knows – without however being able to prove it – that the Individual is actually the Collective, that the Other complements the One, that the Imaginary is the Real waiting to be confirmed, and that the Real, in return, is the Imaginary experienced through the senses. What is this land, this open space, in which, when heterogeneous elements come together, the possibility of a world hitherto "patiently waiting for the right conditions to emerge" is fertilized? What is this land that can withstand to serve as both a background for a picture that will be revealed, and as the picture itself? What is this Camp (Kampos)?

Stratis Vogiatzis's photography exhibition is made possible with the support of MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and Chios Music Festival.

More information on the project, here https://allofgreeceone.culture.gov.gr/en/event/kampos/ .

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