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Δημήτρης Παπαϊωάννου. Inside

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:58:34 +0000

Dimitris Papaioannou. Inside dimitra.samsaki Fri, 03/08/2024 - 15:22

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 22:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

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A twelve-hour visual meditation will be presented at MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts, from March 8–17, as part of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival’s tribute to the internationally acclaimed artist (director, choreographer, visual artist and performer) Dimitris Papaioannou, with free admission for the public. INSIDE is a theatrical installation that took place in Athens in the Spring of 2011. A room was set up on stage, inside which thirty performers uniformly repeated simple series of movements showing our daily return home in countless combinations and superimpositions. The stage action began before the theatre opened its doors and continued after the last visitor had left. The theatre was open to the public for six hours each day. This is a six-hour, unedited documentation of the work.

INSIDE invites you to watch the action as if gazing at a landscape. It treats the theatre as an exhibition space and the work as an exhibit. Visitors are free to watch as much as they like, sit wherever they like, and exit and re-enter as often as they like.

Backside, a behind-the-scenes film documenting the secret mechanisms of the marathon six-hour performance and the irresistible charm of its protagonists, is presented alongside the video installation. Backside was filmed and edited by Dimitris Papaioannou.

Opening hours: Monday-Sunday 10:00-22:00
Organized by: 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
Conceived and Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
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Nelly’s

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:10:45 +0000

Nelly’s dimitra.samsaki Mon, 02/19/2024 - 19:25

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Fri, 02/23/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:00

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

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Opening: Friday 23 February 2024, 19:30

Female dancers in front of the Parthenon, musicians and dancers from Crete, peasant women from Ioannina, ladies from New York and Athens, the politician Eleftherios Venizelos and the poet Kostis Palamas are just some of the protagonists of the photographic lens of Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998), well-known as Nelly’s in the exhibition under the same title which will be presented at the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A’, Pier A’, Thessaloniki port) from 23 February to 28 April 2024. Focusing on the three cities in which Nelly’s formed her photographic gaze, the exhibition attempts to present her multidimensional work from the years of her apprenticeship in Dresden in the early 1920s, her arrival in Athens and her dynamic presence in the city’s photographic events until 1966 when she retired after twenty-seven years of tireless work in New York.

The exhibition is part of “Nelly's” retrospective exhibition organized by the Benaki Museum on 2023 in Athens, in commemoration of the twenty-five years after the photographer’s death, with the aim of reintroducing the artist to contemporary audiences.

Nelly’s work was particularly important in the interwar period, exercising many types of photography and having a particular impact on the development of the medium in Greece in the 20th century. After her stay in the United States for almost three decades, her work began to be re-evaluated from the 1970s.

The exhibition consists of 185 vintage prints, produced by the photographer herself and selected from her voluminous archive in order to represent the different aesthetic trends she adopted during her forty-five years of working with the medium and the numerous photographic techniques she experimented with. Fifty-three contemporary digital prints made from her original negatives are added to these works in order to fill in some narrative gaps.

The photographic equipment Nelly used as a student in Dresden but also as a professional photographer in Athens during the interwar period and in New York after the war is also exhibited in order to document her deep knowledge of photographic technology. The exhibition also includes archival material, such as albums, original publications, periodicals and postcards, which altogether help visitors understand the ways in which her photographic works were used at the time. The exhibition also includes Nelly's painting on porcelain, an activity she developed alongside photographic work during her stay in America, as well as original, archival material -costumes, masks- from the Delphic Festival of 1927 and 1930.

Curator: Aliki Tsirgialou

Exhibition designer: Natalia Boura

There will be guided tours in Greek language; the dates will be announced.

Credits: Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly's)
The Russian dancer Elizaveta "Lila" Nikolska in the Parthenon, November 1930
© Benaki Museum / Photographic Archives

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Έκθεση κοστουμιών «Νέα Παραλία - Νέα Πασαρέλα 9: ΜονoΧΡΩΜΙΕΣ» Δημιουργία / Μονοχρωμίες / Ανακύκλωση»

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:56:43 +0000

Costume exhibition “Nea Paralia - Nea Pasarela 9: MonoCHROMES” Creation / Monochromes / Recycling dimitra.samsaki Tue, 02/13/2024 - 17:10

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Sat, 02/17/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 03/03/2024 - 18:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

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Opening: Saturday 17 February 2024 / 19:00

An interesting comment on issues such as recycling, the fight against waste and the clothing industry runs the costume exhibition under the title “Nea Paralia Nea Pasarela 9: MonoCHROMES”, organised by the Association Friends of Nea Paralia.

Imaginative creations-costumes made only from recyclable materials by 21 creators who participated in the special event on 19 September 2023 next to the Sculpture Garden of Nea Paralia in Thessaloniki, find their place in the Experimental Center for the Arts of MOMus in the port area of the city.

The starting point of inspiration for the creations was a color in each garment and of course its shades, plus the conceptual artistic movement of the 20th century, characterised by the use of a single color and the absence of representation, with monochrome becoming a way of expression of radicalism for many artists.

Organised by: “Friends of Nea Paralia” Association

Curated by: Bernard Cuomo

Supported by: MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Under the aegis of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Sponsor: Hellenic Recovery Recycling Coorporation (HERRCO)

Credit: Melissa Selevista

Participants: Bernard Cuomo, Asimina Psyrra, Group «HocusPocus» (Evaggelia Stamati, Theodosia Tourtoglou, Nafsika Katsikea), Eleni Baka, Christina Pastela & Elissavet Koultzioglou, Paula Yianna, Vassiliki Apostolidou & Ioulia Kakoulidou, Lizetta Fotoglou, Nikoletta Tsikoti, Yiota Zografaki, Georgia Meladini, Vassiliki Mikrou, Kristie Argyropoulou, Eirini Lardoutsou-Kourti, Georgia Stavridou, Ekaterini Solomou, Eirinh Mitoudi, Aggeliki Taliadouou, Group «prêt à plier» (Sofia Vizoviti, Nteni Alexandropoulou, Lina Iliadou, Stella Kotsorizou, Efi Lazakidou & Artemis Farmaki), Sophia Georgiadou, Aggeliki Kakouri, Nikos Glavinas, “Artdezen” (Nikos Karagiannidis & Michalis Siapkas)

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Όλοι εδώ. 50 χρόνια Δημοκρατία

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:16:37 +0000

All here! 50 years of Democracy dimitra.samsaki Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:48

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 11:00

End Date

Sun, 04/14/2024 - 19:00

Museum

Museum Alex Mylona

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Exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy”

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (5, Agion Asomaton Square Μουσείο Thissio, Athens)

18 January – 14 April, 2024

Opening: Thursday 18 January 2024, 21:00

Stone, wire, wood, plaster and red carnations frame a slogan from the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in November 1973; the same slogan is also the title of the historical exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy” organised by MOMus to celebrate 50 years since the restoration of Democracy in Greece, which takes place at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, from 18 January to 14 April 2024.

The exhibition is under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

The exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy” brings together four of the most important visual artists from the post war period -Vlassis Caniaris, Dimitris Alithinos Vasso Katraki and A. Tassos- whose works of art were presented in exhibitions during the junta period or immediately after, as symbols of resistance and opposition, hope and democracy. The four visual artists were “present” with their work as an artistic expression, as a “political” position and attitude, consciously and unmediated in one of the darkest periods of Greek history.

A work by contemporary visual artist Yiannis Pappas, who lives and works in Berlin, acts as the “bridge” connecting the past with the present.

The dictatorship of 21 April 1967 was the tragic conclusion of the anomaly and dysfunctionality of Greek politics in the mid-1960s. Following an “informal” agreement most Greek artists choose to abstain from all cultural events, thus expressing their opposition to the junta and denying any legitimisation to the regime. Some artists became active members of anti-dictatorial organisations, some fled the country, others were arrested and exiled, while others still chose silence, isolating themselves in their studios. But very few remained politically indifferent to the grim reality they were experiencing, in a world already shaken by the Vietnam War, the assassination of Che Guevara, and the revolutionary fervour of the Parisian barricades of May ‘68. When abstention seemed to be going nowhere and started losing its momentum, the artists regrouped and reconsidered their stance.

The solo exhibition (1969) of Vlassis Caniaris at the New Gallery was one of the first shows that symbolically broke the artists’ “silence”. His compositions with plaster, barbed wire and red carnations –symbolizing the hopeful struggle for victory– lend themselves to an essentially political reading, alluding to the illiberal nature, the tortures, brutality and cruelty of the Colonel’s junta.

Dimitris Alithinos held two, now considered “historic” exhibitions in 1972 and 1973 at the small Studio 47 Theatre (organized by Desmos Art Gallery) and at the Ora Cultural Centre respectively. The works presented –such as the interrogation room, the cage with the skull and the living canary, the “crucified” red figure, as well as the “happening” with the white boxes and the living human parts– were not just breaking new ground for Greek art, but also raised critical questions about the role of artists and artworks especially during savage and illiberal times, seeking the direct involvement, participation and reaction of the viewer.

Vasso Katraki was one of the first to be arrested by the military regime, exiled to the small island of Gyaros. In the black ink of the works she created after her return from exile, she illustrates, with unparalleled expressive intensity and sensitivity, individual and collective emotions and experiences. Her exhibition at the Ora Cultural Centre (1972) brings together her compositions featuring maimed bodies, religious female figures (Platyteres) and her tragic image of Antigone preparing to fulfil her duty.

The exhibitions of Caniaris, Alithinos and Katraki, held amidst informers and policemen and under the looming threat of bans and persecution, attracted an astonishingly large number of visitors, whose mere presence substituted, in a way, for forbidden political activity.

The A. Tassos’ woodcuts from 1967-1974, exhibited after the restoration of democracy at the National Gallery (1975), capture pain and heroism, resistance and opposition, serving as powerful allegories, imposing in their epic, monumental style. The slaves, the bodies warped by barbed wire and the Tyrannicides converse with Che Guevara, contemporary fighters and the armed archangels at the gate of the Polytechnic.

EVERY ONE WAS there then, and EVERY ONE IS HERE still.

Curated by: Yannis Bolis, Art Historian, Head of Department of Contemporary Sculpture, MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona

Artworks’ loans by: A. Tassos Foundation, Alpha Bank Art Collection, Dimitris Alithinos, Christina Moustakli, Yiannis Pappas, Marianna Katraki’s family, Caniaris’ family

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue with texts by historians, art historians and visual artists: Manos Avgeridis, Yannis Bolis, Kostas Christopoulos, Domna Gounari, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Elena Kechagia, Kostas Kostis, Thouli Misirloglou, Spyros Moschonas, Irene Orati, Yiannis Pappas

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Τρεις δρόμοι: Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Enri Canaj

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:07:39 +0000

Three Paths: Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Enri Canaj dimitra.samsaki Wed, 02/11/2026 - 16:16

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 02/19/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 05/24/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

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Opening: Thursday, 19 February 2026, 19:30

The exhibition “Three Paths: Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Enri Canaj” presented in MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and coorganised with Benaki Museum, from 19 February until 24 May 2026, is an original proposal as well as a tribute. With street photography as its backbone, a dominant artistic trend of the photographic medium in the second half of the 20th century, it bridges three generations of artists with common point of reference their relationship with Greece and their membership in the famous Magnum Photos agency, which has written since its foundation in 1947 and until today, to a large degree, modern world’s history in images.

Greek-American Constantine Manos walks around the country in the sixties as a contemporary Ulysses, looking to heal the latent wound of migration. Nikos Economopoulos crosses Greece and the Balkans in the last two decades of the 20th century focusing mainly in fragile minorities and turbulent communities. Greek-Albanian Enri Canaj, respectively, visits in the second decade of the 21st century a homeland he never got to know properly, imprinted though deeply in the memories of his childhood and dwelling still in the everyday family stories.

The expressiveness of the snapshot, the dedication on the everyday, underprivileged man, the Balkan place as a womb of common experiences and wounds, the occasionally melancholic austereness of the black and white tones in a contemporary world dressed now with vivid, saturated colors, act as common elements of the three artistic generations, that maintained among them a relationship of support and/or apprenticeship. Walking through the exhibition one may also spontaneously trace the historical, aesthetic and social relevance in the work of the three photographers, as they distill from the world the substance of life and photography.
The works of Constantine Manos and Nikos Economopoulos belong to the collection of the Benaki Museum Photographic Archives, Athens.

Curated by: Hercules Papaioannou, Curator of MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Artists’ Talks
MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse Α’, Pier Α’, Port of Thessaloniki)
Friday, 20 February 2026, 19:00-21:00

The photographers Nikos Economopoulos and Enri Canaj talk with the exhibition’s curator, Hercules Papaioannou, and the audience about their work and the dimensions of street photography nowadays.
The discussion will be held in Greek. No translation provided.
Participation with the exhibition’s ticket.

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Constantine Manos (1934-2025) was born in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A., of Greek immigrant parents. At the age of nineteen he was hired as the official photographer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He studied English Literature at the University of South Carolina. Moving to New York, he worked for Esquire, Life, and Look magazines. From 1961 through 1963 Manos lived in Greece, where he made the photographs for his book A Greek Portfolio - first published in 1972. The book won awards at Arles and at the Leipzig Book Fair and opened the door for Manos in becoming in 1963 a member of Magnum Photos. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House in Rochester and the Benaki Museum in Athens. In 1982 Manos switched his personal work from black and white to color. Work from Manos' ongoing color project first appeared in his book American Color, published in 1995. In 2000 his book American Color 2 followed. In 2003 Manos was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence.

Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece, in 1953. He studied law and worked as a journalist in Parma, Italy, before dedicating himself to photography. He joined Magnum Photos in 1990 after a proposal by Constantine Manos, and his photographs began appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. This work won him the Mother Jones Award for work in progress. Upon completion of his Balkans project in 1994, Economopoulos became a full member of Magnum Photos. His book, In the Balkans, was published in 1995 in New York and Athens. In the 1990s, Economopoulos started working on borders and crossings, photographing the inhabitants of the “Green Line” in Cyprus, the irregular migrants on the Greek-Albanian borderline, and the mass migration of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. In the mid-1990s, he started photographing the Roma and other minorities. A retrospective of his work, titled Economopoulos, Photographer, was published in 2002 and later exhibited at the Benaki Museum in Athens in 2005. Economopoulos has turned to the use of color and is currently spending most of his time away from Greece, travelling, teaching, and photographing around the world.

Enri Canaj was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. He moved with his family to Greece in 1991. He studied photography in Athens and in 2007 he took part in a British Council project on migration, attending a year-long workshop with photographer Nikos Economopoulos. Since 2008, he has been a freelance photographer for major national and international publications and is now is a member of Magnum Photos. Based in Athens, he has exhibited his work widely in Greece as well as Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, while he presented a personal show at the Rencontres d’ Arles photography festival. His work has been honored with grants and awards, and has been published in media such as Times Magazine, CNN, The Guardian, New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal, Arte TV. He has collaborated with institutions such as Princeton University, UNICEF, Melissa - Network of Migrant Women in Greece, MSF, Solidarity Now, European Parliament, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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Wait…How did we get here?

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:48:28 +0000

Wait…How did we get here? dimitra.samsaki Tue, 02/10/2026 - 13:23

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Sat, 02/14/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 06/14/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

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Opening: Saturday, 14 February 2026, 20:00

“Wait…How did we get here?”; this is the question and the title of the project under which an innovative and multidisciplinary programme -including an exhibition, club nights, artistic workshops, an artistic residency, educational programmes and guided tours- takes place in MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, in collaboration with XenoVisual Studies Collective (XVS), from 20 February until 14 June 2026.

The MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, an institution dedicated to the exploration, presentation, and promotion of experimental artistic practices, collaborates for the first time with the fluid collective XenoVisual Studies (XVS), which operates as a network for artistic experimentation and critical inquiry, investigating how emerging technologies reshape aesthetics, reality, identity and society. The shared aim of this collaboration is to create a space for experimentation, reflection, and connection, where artists engaged in interdisciplinary research explore diverse artistic forms as tools for critical and creative engagement with new technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital systems, while at the same time, the project foregrounds decolonial, queer, trans/feminist, and crip (+) approaches to perception, knowledge production, and ways of relating to the world (+).

The artistic residency rpogramme, the artistic workshops, the educational programmes and guided tours will be announced during the exhibition.

Curated by: Domna Gounari / MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, Nensi Brama, Δiμiiτρiii, Mar Osés, Pilar del Puerto, Esther Rizo-Casado / XenoVisual Studies Collective (XVS)

The exhibition under the title “Wait…How did we get here?” presents works by 20 Greek and international artists and artistic teams who promote critical issues such as technological dissonance, systemic inequality, and the ways digital infrastructures entangle with histories of exploitation, surveillance, and violence. Through interdisciplinary and expanded artistic practices, the works in the exhibition, including installations, screenings, sculptures, wearables, and digital prints, examine how artificial intelligence, networked technologies, and rhetorics of innovation shape contemporary existence, often extending colonial legacies masked as Western progress.

The parallel world which is being mapped in the exhibition creates the best possible framework in order to explore and imagine emerging alternative futures.

Αrtists: Babak Ahteshamipour, Margarita Athanasiou, Amanda Bennetts, Captain Stavros, Vera Chotzoglou, DREAMFacta, Nas Drimousi, Iro Drossos, Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung, Katerina Giannopoulou, Puneet Jain, Foteini Korre, Iro Kraija Karavia, Julie-Michèle Morin, Afroditi Psarra, Eliana Ranti, Nana Sachini, Marisa Satsia, Eleni Thiresia.

The artist Aikaterini Gegisian also participates in the exhibition with the installation THIRD PERSON (PLURAL), which I being presented in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival. The cinema version of this work will be screened during the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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Ευρωπαϊκή Pop. Η μάχη των Ρεαλισμών και των Αφηγήσεων

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:19:42 +0000

European Pop. The battle of Realisms and Narratives dimitra.samsaki Thu, 02/05/2026 - 17:21

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Wed, 02/11/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art

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Opening: Wednesday 18 February 2026, 19:30

How do we understand the human form, society, and the role of art in social change?

After the abstract trends that dominated art up until the 1950s, the recognizable image and form returned in the 1960s and 1970s, offering alternative narratives. At the heart of the need for a renewal of realism and the expressiveness of the image, in a world moving away from the fundamental need of art to represent human existence, many artists challenged traditional values of society and the art world.

New narratives portrayed moments of everyday life, commented on social or political issues, recognized the influence of advertising, mass culture, and the media, and reflected the speed, contradictions, and complexities of contemporary life. New forms of realism emerged, not as copies of reality, but as representations of the internal psychological conflicts of the individual and social failures.

The exhibition attempts a journey through works and artists from the European sphere, highlighting the struggle of representational narratives and shedding new light on the world of reality and objects. All of them were either connected to movements such as Nouvelle Figuration or the New Realists group of France, or their work exists in the echo of these movements.

Their works, in the way they recall social alienation, political upheaval, and the contradictions of human nature, retain their power not only as a historical artistic phenomenon but also as a compass for contemporary art and life.

The works of art presented in the exhibition come from the MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art collections and private collections of
Stelios and Anastassis Garipis.

Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art

Assistant curator: Katerina Syroglou

Artists: Arman, Eduardo Arroyo, Danil (Panagopoulos), Erik Dietman, Erró, Hervé Fischer, Raymond Hains, Nikos Kessanlis, Peter Klasen, Jacques Monory, Pavlos (Dionysopoulos), Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Chryssa Romanos, Antonio Segui, Vassilis Skylakos, Yvon Taillandier, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé.

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Martial Raysse. Sinéma

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:16:15 +0000

Martial Raysse. Sinéma dimitra.samsaki Thu, 02/05/2026 - 17:18

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Wed, 02/11/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art

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Opening: Wednesday 18 February 2026, 19:30

The world of Martial Raysse (Golfe-Juan, France, 1936), one of the most inventive artists of postwar European art, flows between dream and reality.

From the fluorescent objects and the pop aesthetic of the 1960s, when European and American art were searching for new forms and languages, to the outdoor works and masked portraits, his journey to this day is a continuous search between pop aesthetics, social observation, and personal immersion in art, with clear phases and transformations. Raysse's art speaks of life and imagination, a constant play between extroversion and introversion, societal critique and the personal magic of art.

Unwaveringly dedicated to art and the renewal of his mediums, materials, and practices, he is constantly experimenting. Behind his paintings, he often hides altered photography; he jumps from painting to cinema, and from cinema to painting.

At the core of the exhibition Martial Raysse. Sinéma is his lesser-known work, focusing on films and videos: it is where his art intersects with experimental cinema through the use of color, materiality, and everyday life as fields of experimentation. A brilliant self-taught craftsman himself, always alert to the new technologies of the time, he fully utilizes the vast possibilities offered by the groundbreaking audiovisual medium, starting from the early days of color television.

The human form, landscapes, mythology, humor, and the social and consumer realities of the 1960s —shaped by advertising, pop culture, and mass production— are consistently present, alongside multiple technical effects and his personal chromatic language, "Martialcolor," which reflects the intensity of pop art and the spectacular excess of cinematic Technicolor. Film and video, which transcend traditional production techniques, become a new form of painting. The exhibition, which invites the visitor to discover how the artist extends, through the moving image, his plastic and conceptual research, features films and videos created from 1966 to 2008. Between poetry, provocation, and formal freedom, his films reveal a coherent and deeply current work, in which each image — fixed or animated—participates in a global reflection on representation and our relationship to reality.

“For me, cinema is like a seismological record of all the images that pass through my mind”, he stated.

For the first time in Greece, the groundbreaking moving image works of Martial Raysse reveal an unknown side of a pioneering artist, where video and cinema intersect with painting, becoming material, gesture, and a tool for rethinking contemporary visual culture.

The exhibition is coorganised by Fonds Martial Raysse.

Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Musuem of Contemporary Art Collections

Assistant Curator: Theodore Markoglou

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Pete Marifoglou. Τα χρόνια του Warhol ΧΧΧ

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:26:48 +0000

Pete Marifoglou. The Warhol years XXΧ dimitra.samsaki Fri, 01/23/2026 - 18:31

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 01/29/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art

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Opening: Thursday 29 January 2026, 19:00

Erotic scenes from adult films, which today may appear more or less culturally faded. Individual faces, which today may appear more or less sad or happy. Harsh snapshots of cold executions of men and women, young and old, for minor differences or gender issues. All these are connected through the gaze of Pete Marifoglou, an extraordinarily sensitive receiver of human presence, in the exhibition under the title “Pete Marifoglou. The Warhol years XXX” presented in MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, from 29 January until 12 April 2026.

After seven decades in New York and European territories, having worked in photography, direction, and film production, having written poetry, music, and theater, and having showcased his work in photography exhibitions in France, Greece, the Netherlands, and Germany, Pete Marifoglou returns to his hometown, Thessaloniki, to inaugurate the Case Studio at MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art for 2026.

The solo exhibition at the Case Studio gallery in MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art presents for the first time in Greece his largely unpublished work, where he captures photographic views of particular pockets of New York’s social margins during the 1960s-1970s.

Marifoglou, a young student and later graduate of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, worked, among other things, on the low-budget film production sets for adult films produced by Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory production company. The mass production of low-budget pornographic films was one of Warhol’s ventures, as he experimented with raw cinematic ideas, radically diverging from mainstream cinema.

He focuses on analog black-and-white photography. At the same time, however, he focuses on the people, on the faces beyond their roles in the films. He knows their personal stories. His photographs, documents of both the films and the harsh social and cultural reality of New York, reveal the sensitivity of his artistic gaze, without pretension or shine.

Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art

Assistant Curator: Katerina Syroglou

Pete Marifoglou (Panagiotis Marifoglou) was born in 1944 in Thessaloniki. His family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York in 1950. Marifoglou lived in Manhattan and graduated from the Art and Design High School, with a major in Architecture.

In the early 1970s, Marifoglou began studying Film Directing and Screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts, under the guidance of Professor Jud Yalkut, a pioneering creator of experimental films. At the same university, he took photography courses with renowned photographers such as Duane Michals, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Diane Arbus. At the same time, he attended lectures by major figures in the arts and public life, such as Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Nam June Paik, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, James Stanley Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Elias Kazan, and Alfred Hitchcock. He continued his studies at the private university NYU, where he took courses in Film History and Anthropology.

Alongside photography, Marifoglou worked on creating short films, where he took on the roles of screenwriter, director, composer, and actor. He co-starred with the legendary underground film star Taylor Mead and also worked as a cinematographer on The Art Student, a production of Andy Warhol and directed by Alfonso Ciancarelli.

*Part of the exhibition contains material that may not be suitable for minors.

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65+ Η εφηβεία μιας εικαστικής επιμέλειας

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65+ The Adolescence of a Visual Curatorship dimitra.samsaki Tue, 12/23/2025 - 13:39

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 08:00

End Date

Sun, 03/15/2026 - 20:40

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Museum of Contemporary Art

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Opening: Thursday 8 January 2026, 18:00

A white, empty space at MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art and its collections were the literal and metaphorical meeting and starting points for the participants of the workshop "Together We Curate!”, the fruit of which is the exhibition entitled "65+ The Adolescence of a Visual Curatorship" which is presented from 8 January to 15 March, 2026.

People coming from different backgrounds, professional fields, studies, and life paths, with a cohesive element of love for art, aesthetics, and creation and sharing the common feature of being 65+, began their journey into the unknown and fascinating world of visual art curation with the museum's people as companions, in the museum space that was given to them as blank slate to speak about what touches them most.

The team came into direct contact with the museum's collections, discovered less expected dimensions of the artworks, explored theoretical and practical issues of collection management and contemporary exhibition approaches, provided practical answers to visitors' persistent questions, and ultimately experienced group curatorial practice and the co-creation of a real exhibition that narrates the stories that the team felt inspired by.

The workshop “Together We Curate!” consists one of the first bold attempts at participatory exhibition curation with the museum audience in the field of culture in Greece. Through this specific project MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates the diversity and openness, as well as the experience and perspective of the public, implementing co-decision processes that actively promote the democratization of culture. The first implementation took place at the MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts in 2021.

Scientific Supervision – Coordination: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMUS-Museum of Contemporary Art

Curatorial team / Members of the workshop: Dimitris Alexandrou, Fenia Anyfantaki, Aspa Charisi, Christina Darda, Glyka Fista-Rasoglou, Dimitris Georgiou, Tasoula Ignataki, Maria Kampouridou, Dimitris Kanonidis, Angela Kolokotroni, Alexandros Kolokotronis, Nikoleta Lazaridou, Tina Mpertzeletou, Metaxenia Nikolaidou, Georgia Papachristou, Christos Papachristou, Kaiti Papadimitriou, Giorgos Panagiotopoulos, Efi Petrou, Dimitra Polychronidou, Kallirroi Sarantiadou, Kyriaki Sidiropoulou, Charoula Syllaiou-Misirloglou, Tia Vanidi

Architectural & Graphic Design study: Stergios Galikas, Post-Spectacular Office

The project is implemented under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” with funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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