Museum of Contemporary Art

65+ Η εφηβεία μιας εικαστικής επιμέλειας

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:40:02 +0000

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

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Thu, 01/08/2026 - 08:00

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Sun, 03/15/2026 - 20:40

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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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MOMusFlux

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:57:20 +0000

MOMusFlux dimitra.samsaki Thu, 12/04/2025 - 17:01

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Up to 30 seated

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info.contemporary@momus.gr

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+30 2310 240 002

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Εκδήλωση απονομής του Βραβείου Inspire 2025 στον Δημήτρη Θεοχάρη

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:40:54 +0000

Inspire Prize 2025 ceremony for Dimitris Theocharis dimitra.samsaki Fri, 11/28/2025 - 14:48

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Thu, 12/18/2025 - 12:00

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Thu, 12/18/2025 - 13:00

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Thursday, 18 December 2025, 12:00

Visual artist Dimitris Theocharis is awarded this year's Inspire Prize, as part of the Inspire Project 2025 by the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, for the artist's participation in the art residency held at the Niels Bohr Institute in the University of Copenhagen in 2024. The prize ceremony will take place on Thursday, 18 December 2025, at 12:00, at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (TIF-Helexpo premises), during which the artist will present his work in an open discussion with the public.

Dimitris Theocharis' nomination was selected as it precisely met the production conditions set out in the Inspire Prize, as well as the fact that both his participation in the Arts and Science Residency and his body of work highlight an artist who is consistently and methodically focused on the complex and critical issues of our time, while his critical dialogue with scientific issues was particularly appreciated.

During his three-month stay at the Niels Bohr Institute, Dimitris Theocharis had the opportunity to learn firsthand about the scientific work carried out there, to learn more about methods for detecting gravitational waves, black holes and their special characteristics, the role of gravity near large mass bodies, and much more. The work Resonance (2024), which he created as part of the residency program, is on permanent display in the Institute's historic building.

The Niels Bohr Institute is one of the world's oldest and most important research centers in the field of theoretical and experimental physics. It was founded in 1921 by the pioneering physicist Niels Bohr, whose work laid the foundations of quantum mechanics. The Art and Science Residency was organised and carried out in collaboration with the theoretical physicists of the Strong Group research team, which focuses on the study of gravity, black holes, and gravitational waves.

The Inspire Prize, which comes with a cash reward of €3,000, is given out every year to a visual artist, regardless of age or nationality, for work that has already been produced during a workshop or residency around the world and is distinguished for its conception, originality, thoughtfulness, and relevance to the space in which it has been presented and with which it potentially interacts.

The Inspire Project is co-funded by the European Union (NSRF - Central Macedonia Programme).

Artist’s Bio

Dimitris Theocharis (born 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works between Greece and Belgium. He studied Mathematics and Fine Arts at Greek institutions and completed his master's degree (MFA) at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (2020). Working with a variety of media, Theocharis explores how forms migrate between art, nature, and science. His work focuses on creating conceptual and material connections between processes, patterns, and forms that originate from different time scales and spheres, revealing the world as a network of interdependent systems. His practice consists of creating encounters between biological morphologies, chemical processes, human and non-human behaviors, mathematical objects, astronomical phenomena, and others. His works have been presented in various venues, museums, and galleries in Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and elsewhere.

Inspire Prize 2025 Nomination Evaluation Committee

Areti Leopoulou, Art Historian – Curator, MOMus, Deputy Artistic Director, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Thodoris Markoglou, Art Historian – Curator, MOMus

Katerina Siroglou, Art Historian – Curator, MOMus

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Resonance, 2024
Coated glass sphere, aluminum profile, wood, acrylic paint, microcomputer, sensors, speaker, cables, electronics.
125 x 35 x 35 cm.
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Εναρκτήρια γιορτή «όλα πρέπει να αλλάξουν | Ριζοσπαστική Νοημοσύνη. Σαλονίκη 9»

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:58:32 +0000

Opening celebrations "everything must change Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9" dimitra.samsaki Tue, 10/21/2025 - 14:05

Come on Friday, 31 October 2025 and join us for an evening of communal events and art gatherings that suggest the errant path of the Biennale 9 until July 2026

free entrance, all are welcome

where, when, what

MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A Thessaloniki port area)

18:00 exhibition opening Plot Twist (the science fiction change)

with works by Ben Rivers, Errands group, Kostas Sfikas

Organized in collaboration with the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Duration of exhibition: Oct. 31 to Nov. 16

TIF-HELEXPO, Pavilions 2 & 3

19:30–01:30 bombs of seeds, non-hierarchical screenings, canvas bag
do-overs, dance interactions, lively music, party-ing

19:30–22:00 seed bombing lab Organized in collaboration with
Mamagea Environmental Organization

This collaboration also includes the following events:

- 31/10 @ 10:00-14:00 seed bombing lab for schools

- 1/11 @ 17:00-19:00 opening of the exhibition “WONDER CITY: Planting our urban present together” at MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art – duration of exhibition: Nov. 1–7

- 1/11 @ 19:00-21:00 “Tablemates” meal-cum-discussion at MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art (by invitation only)

19:30–22:00 screen-printing workshop Momus sacculos in MOMo non imprimet

Mephisto Me Studio is guiding you in tagging your canvas bags

19:30–01:30 film screenings moving in riot

a deviant mixture of nine film screenings that loop within empty spaces

19:30–22.00 live VELVET BUS goes Salonica Biennale Part 1

DJ performance by the duo Toumpa-Charilaou (Marina Velisioti, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou)

Vassilina live performance

Bipolia live performance

22:00–23:00 dance DETH arthó

Aerites Dance Company in a roaming, glitching dance exploration of what might be

23:00–24:00 live VELVET BUS goes Salonica Biennale Part 2

The Callas with The Callasettes live

24:00–01:30 DJ set Yavash

You can find more material here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1h8KQ07p52m1BkZwG5ke--IqOnBz05ztz

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Ευρωπαϊκές Ημέρες Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς στο MOMus-Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:11:34 +0000

European Heritage Days at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art dimitra.samsaki Thu, 09/11/2025 - 12:45

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Sun, 09/28/2025 - 12:00

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Experiential and Artistic Tour: “A Vessel of Progress, with its Bow Towards the Future!”: Moments and Episodes from the Biography of a Museum Building.

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days (EHD) 2025 and its theme focusing on Architectural Heritage and Built Environment ("Architectural Heritage: Windows to the Past, Doors to the Future"), the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art building reintroduces itself to the audience. Through an experiential and artistic museum tour, along with a screening of archival photographic material, the museum building narrates countless stories derived from its rich biography!

Key milestones in this fascinating narrative thread include the building as the former Public Power Corporation (PPC) pavilion, designed by Iakovos Rizos during the legendary era of architectural experimentation by renowned architects of post-war Greek modernism within the premises of Thessaloniki International Fair (1959–1963); as the studio for the first experimental TV broadcast in Greece during the 25th International Fair of Thessaloniki in September 1960; as a filming location for iconic Greek cinema productions; and, definitely as a museum space with a remarkable history as well.

The above thread actually begins in antiquity, since the only archaeological findings from the ancient city’s eastern cemetery that remain visible in situ, are incorporated into the building’s structure. It’s end though, goes far into the future concerning the decisive – and much discussed these days - issue of managing the Thessaloniki International Fair grounds and especially its architectural heritage.

Both ends of this thread seem to be symbolically contained in the 88th Concealment by visual artist Dimitris Alithinos, which took place in the Museum’s courtyard just before the millennium (1999). This artistic act inscribed the site onto the global international map of the artist’s 232+ Concealments until now, which, among other issues, pose vital questions about the preservation of human culture.

Date & Time: Sunday, September 28, 2025, 12:00–14:00
Venue: MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (within TIF-HELEXPO), Thessaloniki
Audience: Adults
Free admission

Information & Registration:

Email: info.contemporary@momus.gr
Phone: +30 2310 240002 (ext. 16)

Concept & Implementation: Christina Mavini, Curator of Education, MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art

The full EHD 2025 program for Greece is available here. On September 27 & 28, entrance to all archaeological sites and museums across the country will be free of charge.

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Διευρυμένο ωράριο λειτουργίας στο MOMus-Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης κατά την 89η ΔΕΘ

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:18:08 +0000

Extended Opening Hours at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art during the 89th TIF dimitra.samsaki Wed, 09/03/2025 - 11:27

During the 89th Thessaloniki International Fair (6–14.09.2025), the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art will be open Monday to Sunday, 10:00–20:00.

Plus info: The MOMus Art Café will remain open until the end of each concert, according to the TIF's schedule.

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όλα πρέπει να αλλάξουν | Ριζοσπαστική Νοημοσύνη. Σαλονίκη 9

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:17:38 +0000

everything must change | Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9 dimitra.samsaki Fri, 07/11/2025 - 16:53

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Fri, 10/31/2025 - 10:00

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Sun, 07/12/2026 - 20:00

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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, participants will be announced soon) and at Pavilions 2 & 3 (TIF-Helexpo) with a day of events and a party.

Biennale 9 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 (NSFR - “Central Macedonia” Operational Programme).

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9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

everything must change RIS9

The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, with its ninth edition, is embarking on a new approach to the institution, reconfiguring itself both spatially and conceptually. It explores the pervasive demand for an “otherwise” that appears to define life and art both locally and globally, while also delving into the perception, content, necessity, and significance of “change” in general–both in the present moment, but also in connection with key relevant moments of the past.

With its intriguingly ambiguous title, “everything must change. RIS9”, curated by the independent curator and art historian Nadja Argyropoulou, the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art aims to connect life and art in unexpected ways—through humour, ingenuity, and a spirit of joyful militancy that remains non-didactic yet alternatively pedagogical. The Biennale seeks to highlight works that critically engage with the present and help shape the future, all while actively envisioning a world of many worlds.

Biennale 9 opens on October 31, 2025, with the exhibition “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)” in collaboration of Biennale 9 with the Thessaloniki Film Festival with a day of events as hints of un-hierarchical unfolding leading up to its May – June – July 2026 main manifestations.

“everything must change. RIS9”

In exploring the proposition of “everything must change”, the exhibition confronts the excitement, awe, and even the fear caused by the urgent Now shaped by Artificial Intelligence. It attempts, however, a deeper and less banal approach to intelligence by looking into the revolutionary, multi-layered thinking that resides beyond the trite evocation of technological thauma – trauma binary. The “Radical Intelligence” referenced in the “RI” of the title is paired with “S9,” a shorthand evoking a popular, older alternative name of Thessaloniki (Saloniki), thereby inserting in the Biennale’s title a direction and an invocation. This dynamic movement, towards the city and broadcast from it, reflects an ambition to foster a sense of togetherness—however temporarily— with Thessaloniki’s spaces and symbols.

Biennale 9 features works by international artists, with a significant proportion of the exhibits comprising new digital and non-digital works commissioned specifically for this edition by MOMus in keeping with the curator’s rationale and overall plan. Diverse social, artistic, and scientific groups and individuals are participating, while the Biennale’s identity, venues, actions, communications, and collaborations are all designed to reflect and engage with the questions raised by its title and content.

Under this curatorial vision, the venues which have been selected to host the exhibition co-create a crucial symbolic liminal space:

Venues within the Thessaloniki International Fair–Helexpo, specifically Pavilions 2 & 3, and MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art. These sites highlight the Fair’s historical significance and multifaceted function, particularly its ties to Greece’s economic model and broader socio-economic imaginaries and rituals. Moreover, the complex’s ongoing transition makes it currently a focal point for debates and competing visions for the city’s public space, touching on the very future of urban life in Thessaloniki.
The unique Kalochori Lagoon on Thessaloniki’s western outskirts. This is a landscape that has been shaped gradually by refugee communities, industrial growth, and the emergence of a wetland since the mid-1960s – a result of land subsidence, groundwater depletion, and the mixing of river and sea waters. Now part of the Axios Delta National Park, the lagoon is rich in rare biodiversity, hosting both old and new species, human and non-human activity, generating narratives that powerfully demonstrate the value of symbiotic living.
MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A’, Port of Thessaloniki) will host the exhibition“Plot Twist (the science fiction change) and will feature works from this year’s Biennale that engage in dialogue with the central theme of the 66th edition of the Thessaloniki Film Festival – highlighting a curatorial collaboration between Biennale 9 and the Festival.

Nadja Argyropoulou, curator of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, notes:

“What are the things that “must change”? How, when, by whom, and with whom? Might the “sustainable dismantling” of institutions, practices, and rituals that confine and alienate us be just as vital as the sustainable growth of everything that heals and unites us? Why is it easier to envision the end of the world rather than imagine the emergence of a world of many worlds, the possibility of differentiation without separation, as invoked by poets and quantum physicists alike? What is the rebellious ground of response-ability, engagement, and witnessing that might give rise to genuine change? How does art participate in this change if not by powerfully drawing us towards the animating force of communal life?

Biennale 9 echoes a common(place) yet recurrent, urgent, and fragile, plural and widely co-opted demand / slogan. It simultaneously subjects this slogan to the rigours of critique or better stated, to the practice of attending to what is emerging, to the care of witnessing, interpretation, accountability to the precision required in order for a change fair for all to be imagined and realized.

Through its works and overall character the exhibition points at the ways that the same phrase can be wielded by social revolutionaries and techno-fascists alike, by persecuted activists and authoritarian demagogues, by rival social classes and diametrically opposed collective forms of expression. In other words, it asks: amidst a world that often feels suffocatingly predetermined, compliant, entrenched, un-free, possessed, how can we reclaim the right to wander into complexity, the right to refuse, the joy of resistance, the choice of life over mere survival? What is the radical intelligence that ever, persistently creates everyday routes of escape to the insurgent ground of love?

A central inspiration is the rather untranslatable concept of “waywardness”, articulated by theorist and writer Saidiya Hartman in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, where Hartman reconstructs the “terrible beauty” of oppressed and marginalized black lives in early 20th-century New York. As she writes, “A revolution in a minor key unfolded in the city and young black women were the vehicle”, while forms of solidarity and love emerged outside conventions and the law. [1]

As writer and academic Fred Moten remarks today, ‘We have to recognize that our struggle for liberation is given in the language of liberalism.’ How can a language, so brutally co-opted by genocidal, colonial capitalism, by an economy built on distraction and spectacle, remain vital and vibrant, active and transformative, accurate in its references and origins, yet not authoritarian and exclusionary? How can it still articulate the para—the alongside and beyond—that we inhabit and connect us with the alternative politics of pleasure, the mourning of loss, earlier and current struggles for social equality and justice, degrowth and environmentally engaged cosmopolitics, queer practices of care, Indigenous traditions and anti-colonial movements, eco-social alliances, and their solidarity-based agendas?

How might it empower the proverbial canary in the coal mine? How can it inspire (without manipulating) desire to Not settle for the proper and the proposed of thanatopolitics?

Through the visual frequency of the works displayed, the dialogues, the contradictions and entanglements, the exhibition is above all committed to explore kinships within the practice of thinking and highlight the possibility of radical change and emancipatory pluralism. It champions forms of collective action, vigilance and radical sympoietics that avoid the homogenizing silencing of contradictions and paradoxes, while emphasizing the realisation of free thought, the importance of small-scale stories of everyday disobedience, resistance, love, escape, and poetry that change the world from below and within.

Embracing “the aesthetics of bewilderment”, which fuses pleasure and questioning, frictions and fictions, clarity and blur, sensory participation and distancing – Saidiya Hartman’s notion of “critical fabulation”- the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art breathes an air alive with the possibility of undeterred assembly, unruly gathering, aesthetic sociality.”

MOMus is the organizing institution of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is co-organized with TIF-Helexpo in partnership with the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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

Co-organizer: TIF-Helexpo

Partners: Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Film Festival

Nadja Argyropoulou short Bio

Nadja Argyropoulou is an independent curator, art historian and writer based in Athens and working internationally. She is a researcher on ecocritical practices and networks, forms of de-growth, engagements of art with science, technology and alternative fields of knowledge and action. She has written texts on contemporary art in books, art catalogues and the press.She is a founding member of the artistic/research-scientific collective Saprofyta, of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).

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[1]In Hartman’s own words: “The acts of the wayward — the wild thoughts, reckless dreams, interminable protests, spontaneous strikes, riotous behavior, nonparticipation, willfulness and bold-faced refusal — redistributed the balance of need and want and sought a line of escape from debt and duty in the attempt to create a path elsewhere”, Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), p. 237

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Performance χορού: μέσα από το αρχείο της sinequanon

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:11:06 +0000

Dance performance: from the sinequanon archive dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:36

Stories of the body for a future tomorrow

Thursday 20 & Wednesday 26 June 2024 | 20:00

Life appears in the world in the form of a body. The body experiences and at the same time records its history. It leaves its imprint on space and time.

History is told or written in many ways and in many tones and ultimately the stories are infinite. But how many stories can fit in a museum? And how is a dance group invited to converse with the 100 stories of the artists of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in the current exhibition entitled “From now on. Stories for a next tomorrow”? The works themselves emit signals, which we are called upon to capture and transform through our own bodies.

The performance of the dance group sinequanon will begin with the mannequin of Vlasis Kaniaris, as the central figure of a paradoxical Last Supper. Perhaps, sharing some of our stories at the end of the evening would be the goal for a future tomorrow.

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Conception / Choreography: sinequanon

Music: Alexandros Ioannou

Costume: Richard Antony

Photography: Lila Sotiriou, Giannis Goutman

Video: Irini Hatzikyriakidou

Coordination: Ioannis Dalakas

Interpretation: Sofia Papanikandrou, Alexis Tsiamoglou, Elias Karamitros, Sofia Hatzivasiliou, Alexandros Ioannou, Dimitris Sotiriou

The performance “through the archive of sinequanon” is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

Artistic identity of the sinequanon group

The contemporary dance group sinequanon was founded in Athens in 1992 by five students of the State School of Dance with a vision of artistic collectivity. It continued its education in New York, where it came into contact with modern dance techniques, based on the anatomy and physiology of the human body.

In 1995, the group returned and began its own dance productions, receiving its first grant from the Ministry of Culture and Sports. To date, it has received commissions for works from the OMMA, the Hellenic Festival, the National Theater, the Center Culturel Aragon, the Biennale of Young Artists, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, the National Theater, etc. In 2008, it was the official representation of Greece for dance in the Year of Olympic Culture in China. In 2010, the group moved to Thessaloniki, where it took over the Dance Theater of the State Theater of Northern Greece from 2010 to 2013. From 2021 to 2023, it took over the presentation of dance within the framework of the action “Summer Oracle of Ioannina DIKEPETHE” at the archaeological site of Dodona.

Participation in the event is with the entrance ticket to the site. The ticket can be purchased online through the ComeTogether platform here and/or in person at the Museum Reception.

Reduced prices apply for specific categories.

Information on tel. 2310 240002 (ext.1)

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Performance χορού: μέσα από το αρχείο της sinequanon

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:01:47 +0000

Dance performance: from the sinequanon archive dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:35

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From now on. Stories for a next tomorrow

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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 20:00

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Wed, 06/26/2024 - 22:00

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Stories of the body for a future tomorrow

Thursday 20 & Wednesday 26 June 2024 | 20:00

Life appears in the world in the form of a body. The body experiences and at the same time records its history. It leaves its imprint on space and time.

Credits

Conception / Choreography: sinequanon

Music: Alexandros Ioannou

Costume: Richard Antony

Photography: Lila Sotiriou, Giannis Goutman

Video: Irini Hatzikyriakidou

Coordination: Ioannis Dalakas

Interpretation: Sofia Papanikandrou, Alexis Tsiamoglou, Elias Karamitros, Sofia Hatzivasiliou, Alexandros Ioannou, Dimitris Sotiriou

The performance “through the archive of sinequanon” is held under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

Artistic identity of the sinequanon group

Participation in the event is with the entrance ticket to the site. The ticket can be purchased online through the ComeTogether platform here and/or in person at the Museum Reception.

Reduced prices apply for specific categories.

Information on tel. 2310 240002 (ext.1)

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Αλέξανδρος Ιόλας: Η Κληρονομία

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:03:46 +0000

Alexandros Iolas: The Legacy dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 12:38

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Sat, 10/06/2018 - 13:00

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Sun, 03/31/2019 - 23:00

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A new major production by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Co-organized with the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Dimitria Festival 2018.

Alexandros Iolas: has been characterized as one of the most influential people in art from the 1950s to the late 1970s, who, however, has not been duly honored in Greece, in contrast to what is increasingly happening abroad. This paradox is related to the unfortunate recording of Iolas in the memory of the Greek public in particular, as the intention of donating his collections to the Greek state ultimately did not succeed and very few archives have been saved within Greek territory.

Alexandros Iolas: unconventional, cosmopolitan man of the Greek diaspora, contradictory, passionate, lover of world cultures from Antiquity and the Renaissance to contemporary art, from China to America, from Byzantine art to modernity, lover of eccentric clothes and unique objects.

Alexandros Iolas: the man who united dance with the visual arts, painting with the performing arts, lived great moments in metropolitan artistic centers, came face to face with the Greek "society of the spectacle" and part of the yellow press, in his attempt to transform the aesthetic values of Greek society.

Alexandros Iolas: perhaps the only important link connecting Greek participation in the global events of the visual arts of the 20th century, who was surrounded by the mist and prestige of myth and whose current existence is formed more by secondary individual narratives than primary evidence.

Alexandros Iolas: His collective memory is preserved by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art.

Thirty years after his death, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art organizes the exhibition-tribute to Alexandros Iolas entitled “Alexandros Iolas: The Legacy”. Part of the program of the Dimitria Festival 2018 of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, the exhibition will highlight the networking of Alexandros Iolas on an artistic and social level, his activity and personality, through rich visual, research and archival material, some of which is presented for the first time. However, it mainly focuses on his involvement with contemporary art and especially on his revealing relationship with a multitude of artists, very different from each other. From de Chirico to Man Ray, from Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas to Victor Brauner and Takis, from Calder to Jean Tinguely, from Magritte to Pino Pascali and Martial Raysse, from Modigliani to Warhol, the path that Iolas took within the artistic world, reflects not only subjective preferences, but also a sharp gaze, constantly open to artistic expression. With a steadfast love for the work of art as an object, Iolas maintained his reflexes towards artistic pursuits after the war, when the overall goal was the creation of a new visual and cultural reality, in order to transform the climate of disappointment with the development of life. Especially in the 1960s and 1970s, the countless exhibitions he presented demonstrate his decisive action in the international artistic environment, as well as his support for new artistic expression.

The exhibition also presents the rich publishing activity of Alexandros Iolas through a rich archive of catalogs that accompanied his exhibitions, the special design of which documents part of the typographic history, but at the same time highlights his special interest in specific printed materials as autonomous works of art.

In this context, in addition to catalogues, posters, visual, research and archival material, the exhibition includes both the works donated by Iolas to the MCCA (Macedonian Center for Contemporary Art - later MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art), as well as works by important artists from public and private collections, several of which are being presented publicly for the first time.

As the director of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thouli Misirloglou, notes, "the man who showed a unique interest in all aspects of culture, ancient, but especially modern, the man who knew no boundaries, not only artistically, but also nationally, a multilingual man, with innumerable identities, will be the honored person of the new exhibition of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Thessaloniki for the fall of 2018. Especially when the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Thessaloniki owe him a lot: the donation of works from his collection is what allowed the establishment of the Macedonian Center for Contemporary Art, which evolved into the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Iolas' donation was the cornerstone that allowed the first museum of contemporary art in Greece to be 'built' and at the same time the first collective renewal effort and contribution to the revision of cultural and artistic contemporary history.

Thus, Iolas' legacy is clearly not only the material part of his donations, but also his cosmopolitan culture, the renewal of experiences of adventure, boldness, the unpredictable, but also emotion through contemporary art.

The exhibition organized by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in the fall of 2018 is the first international extensive exhibition dedicated to this maestro of art and is also the harbinger of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first museum of contemporary art in Greece, which will be celebrated in 2019. At the same time, the exhibition is also a tribute to a multitude of artists who collaborated with Iolas and continue to enrich the contemporary cultural heritage of Greece to this day.

Press kit material (Press release, Program, Photos): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4zby05cv9tujvrc/AACS4Hgn3cOTQVN6UY2ELkJLa?dl=0

The exhibition presents almost 100 works by:
Alexis Akrithakis (GR, 1939-1994) / Dimitris Alitheinos (GR, 1945) / Andreas Vousouras (GR, 1957) / Victor Brauner (FR/RO, 1903 –1966) / Alexander Calder (US, 1898-1976) / Giorgio de Chirico (IT, 1888-1978) / Roberto Crippa (IT, 1921-1972) / DAS (Epaminondas Daskalopoulos) (GR, 1952) / Nikos Zoumboulis_Titsa Graikou (GR, 1953_1951) / Opi Zouni (GR, 1941-2008) / Novello Finnotti (IT, 1939) / Lucio Fontana (IT, 1899-1968) / Marina Karella (GR, 1940) / Mara Karetsos (GR, 1944) / Tom Keogh (USA, 1922-1980) / George Lazogas (GR, 1945) / Herbert List (GE, 1903-1975) / René Magritte (FR, 1898 - 1967) / Katerina Marouda (GR, 1958) / Eliseo Mattiacci (IT, 1940) / Richard de Menocal (USA, 1919-1995) / Amedeo Modigliani (IT, 1884-1920) / Giannis Bouteas (GR, 1941) / Dennis Oppenheim (US, 1938-2011) / Kostas Paniaras (GR, 1934-2014) / Pino Pascali (IT, 1935-1968) / Pavlos (GR, 1930) / Petros (GR, 1928) / Robert Rauschenberg (USA, 1925-2008) / Jean-Pierre Raynaud (FR, 1939) / Man Ray (US, 1890-1976) / Martial Raysse (FR, 1936) / Niki de Saint Phalle (FR, 1930-2002) / Lisa Sotilis (GR/IT) / Harold Stevenson (US, 1929) / Takis (GR, 1925) / Jean Tinguely (SE, 1925-1991) / Christos Tzivelos (GR, 1949-1995) / Stergios Tsioumas (GR, 1954) / Kostas Tsoklis (GR, 1930) / Andy Warhol (US 1928-1987) / Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (GR, 1906-1994)

Exhibition contributors

Curator: Thouli Misirloglou, Director of MMST
Assistant curator, Communications manager: Katerina Syroglou

Advisors:
Nikos Stathoulis, Biographer of Alexandros Iolas
Eva Photiadi, Dr. History and Theory of Contemporary Art, St Joost Academy of Fine and Applied Arts

Texts:
Christina Mavini, Archaeologist
Thouli Misirloglou, Dr. Art History
Miguel Fernandez Belmonte, Dr. History of Art
Translations: Maria Koufou
Architectural Elements Design: Yiannis Katranitsas
Visual Communication: Dimitris Papazoglou / Dimitris Papazoglou Studio
Constructions: Constructivist.gr
Posting of Works: Periklis Galanos
Technical Manager: Stelios Theodoridis

Secretariat: Yianna Mantzarli

Museum Educational Programs: Christina Mavini / Villy Polyzouli

Accounting: Haris Theodoridis / Eftychia Petridou

Reception: Katerina Keleki

Supervision: Anastasia Keltsou, Pantelis Ramatanais

Cleanliness: Yianna Stamatiadou

Audiovisual Support: M-SPIRIT

Transportation of Works of Art: MOVE ART LTD

Insurance of Works of Art: DALIANI LLC-KARAVIAS UNDERWRITING AGENCY

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