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Εκδήλωση-Finissage της κεντρικής έκθεσης της Thessaloniki PhotoΒiennale 2023 «Το φάντασμα του λαού»

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:51:01 +0000

Main exhibition “The Spectre of the People” closing event dimitra.samsaki Tue, 02/06/2024 - 17:33

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Event Exhibition

The Spectre of the People | Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023

Start Date

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 17:00

End Date

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 20:00

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

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Main exhibition “The Spectre of the People” closing event

Saturday 10 February 2024 | 17:00

MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A’, Pier A’, port area)

Presentations by Joan Fontcuberta and Pilar Rosado Rodrigo, artists-photographers participating at the exhibition.

Interventions by Yannis Stavrakakis, Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Julian Stallabrass, art historian and curator of the exhibition.

In detail, Julian Stallbrass will speak in his presentation about the concept behind the main exhibition of this year’s PhotoBiennale, while Yannis Stavrakakis will refer to the current trends and aspects of populism as an international phaenomenon.

Pila Rosado Rodrigo will present her work with a focus on her research on the relationship between art and artificial intelligence and Joan Fontcuberta will do a retrospective of his work.

Participation is free for the public. There will be simultaneous interpretation from English to Greek and vica versa.

The exhibition “The Spectre of the People” ends on 11 February 2024 and is hosted in MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A', port area) and the MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, port area). More information can be found here https://photobiennale-greece.gr/en/ektheseis/main-exhibition/

Short bios

Joan Fontcuberta has developed both an artistic and theoretical activity focused on the conflicts between nature, technology, photography, and truth. Recently, he has explored the new visual culture in the light of the impact of technological tools and artificial intelligence.

Pilar Rosado holds a PhD in Fine Arts and a Master's degree in Biology. She is interested in how new technologies can change our perception of the world, but also in the creative possibilities that are within our reach.

Yannis Stavrakakis is Professor in the School of Political Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he directs the Postgraduate Programme in Political Theory, The Laboratory for the Study of Democracy, and the POPULISMUS observatory: http://www.populismus.gr

Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. His books include Killing for Show: Photography, War and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq, 2020; A Very Short Introduction to Contemporary Art, updated edition, 2020; Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, 2003; Paris Pictured, 2002; and High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999. He curated Art and Money Online for Tate Britain in 2001; the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images; and Failing Leviathan: Magnum Photographers and Civil War at the National Civil War Centre, Newark in 2015. He has made online TV programmes about aspects of modern and contemporary art for Tariq Ali TV in the series ‘Rear Window’.

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Συναυλία «Ζωγραφίζουμε ήχους»

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:13:31 +0000

Music concert “Composing sound paintings” dimitra.samsaki Thu, 02/26/2026 - 11:54

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Start Date

Sun, 03/01/2026 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 03/01/2026 - 14:00

Museum

Museum of Modern Art

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The “Composing sound painting” music workshop concludes with a concert open to the public with lots of music and electronic experimentations, on Sunday, 1 March 2026, at 12:00, at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, at the Moni Lazariston, in Thessaloniki.

The children aged 6-15 who participated in the double workshop since last October, led respectively by Zesses Seglias and Andrey Smirnov and with musical experimentations, electronic music and musical technologies as their main axes, complete their experience with a unique artistic, concert experience.

In detail, Zesses Seglias, composer and educator, will present the musical composition he created together with the children of his workshop, in collaboration with the musicians of the dissonArt ensemble; subsequently, Andrey Smirnov, musician and researcher of electronic music, will present the outcome of his workshop with the children who participated in a programme exploring dialogue between experimental electronic music and images.

The programme “Composing sound paintings” is supported by the 2025 Funding for Youth Projects of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

On the same day, after the concert, at 1:30 p.m., the visual installation by artists Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov will be inaugurated in the courtyard of the Museum. The interactive musical sculpture draws its inspiration from the futuristic opera “Victory over the Sun” (1913) and has been produced with the support of Cyland MediaArt Lab.

Admission Free.

CV’s
Zesses Seglias is a composer of sonic bodies and lingual structures. His compositional output focuses on the relationship between the sound of voice and its semantic, as defined by language. Much of this repertoire is staged, although concert pieces also share the same principle. Latest compositional activity focuses on unifying musical and spoken language in a hybrid of sound and meaning described as spoken sound theatre. Opera and music theatre have been on the spotlight of his creation: To the Lighthouse (2017) in Bregenzer Festspiele received rave reviews by magazines and newspapers such as Opernwelt, Süddeutsche and Frankfurter Allgemeine. In 2023, he was commissioned by the Greek National Opera to compose a new music theatre piece based on Samuel Beckett's Not I. Other accomplishments include hystéra (2014) at the GrazOpera, while he has been a finalist in opera composition competitions (Joseph Fux – Graz, Mannheim National Theatre). In 2023 he was awarded with the Staatsstipendium from the Austrian state. In 2026 a new, semi-staged vocal theatre piece commissioned by Konzerthaus and supported by EVS foundation will receive its premiere. Seglias has taught Composition and Music Education subjects in various universities and academies. Since 2026, he has been an Assistant Professor at the DECE of the University of Thessaly, specialising in Music Pedagogy.
zesseseglias.com

Andrey Smirnov is a musical artist and researcher, internationally known for his teaching and research in the field of electronic music and the history of avant-garde music along visual arts. He established the Theremin Centre and he was the head of the Sound – Laboratory at the Rodchenko School of Arts in Moscow. He teaches history and aesthetics of electroacoustic music, sound design and composition, new musical interfaces and physical computing courses. He has implemented a variety of workshops and seminars, not only specialized but also for the general public, in the USA, Europe and Russia and has participated in worth-mentioning festivals and conferences. He is the author of the books “Sound In Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia” (Walther Koenig & Sound and Music, London, 2013) and “In Search of Lost Sound. Experimental Sound Culture in Russia and USSR in the first half of the 20th century” (Moscow, GARAGE, 2020) (The Book of the Year Award, Innovation 2021). Since September 2023, Andrey Smirnov has collaborated on experimental music projects at MOMUS.

dissonArt ensemble
One of the top new music ensembles in Greece the ensemble dissonArt was founded in 2005 around a core of eight soloists and associated partners, with a flexible internal structure. The ensemble’s programs aim to promote works of recognized as well as emerging composers that deserve to be heard. Music-theatre works and collaborations with groups of other artistic disciplines, that result in the creation of original works, are among the main objectives of dissonArt. To that end the ensemble has closely collaborated with composers of international prestige such as Beat Furrer, Manos Tsangaris, Augustino di Scipio, George Koumendakis. dissonArt ensemble is performing frequently in Greece and abroad in prominent halls and festivals such as the Salzburg Biennale, Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, Klang Festival (Copenhagen), Berlin Deutsche Oper. It has recorded for Godrecords, Phasma Music and Dissonance Records and has received the Ernst von Siemens Funding for the creation of new music theatre works twice. Guest conductors of the ensemble include Johannes Kalitzke, Vladimiros Symeonidis, and Cordula Bürgi. Since September 2021 has started a longterm collaboration with the Berlin- based independent opera company NOVOFLOT. dissonart ensemble is supported for its tour concerts by the Onassis Outward Turn Program (www.sgt.gr).
https://www.dissonartensemble.com

2025 Funding for Youth Projects / Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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Club Nights & Performances «Wait…How did we get here?»

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:32:28 +0000

Club Nights & Performances «Wait…How did we get here?» dimitra.samsaki Tue, 02/10/2026 - 13:39

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Event Exhibition

Wait…How did we get here?

Start Date

Sat, 03/14/2026 - 20:40

End Date

Sat, 03/28/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

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Club Nights & Performances

14 & 28 March 2026

The Club Nights -DJ sets, live sets, and hybrid audiovisual performances- are a series of sound-based gatherings that are organically embedded within the broader framework of the project. They focus on post-electronic sonic practices that give rise to post-club environments and listening experiences, drawing references from ambient, noise, and experimental music.

Club Metanoia

14 March 2026, 20:30

MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse Β1, Pier Α’, Port of Thessaloniki)

DJ and live sets by Ionoss, Apunanu, and Angel’s Corpse, alongside the performance Desbridar: Abrirse camino hacia una nueva boca, a new work by Post-Organic Bauplan (Josefina Maro × Salvador Marino), in collaboration with Oliver Torr and Tasya. The piece explores the co-evolution of human bodies and robotic organisms through dance, live music, and lighting.

*Issue your ticket here or at the Museum Reception

Admission to the event is free for accredited guests of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival upon presentation of their accreditation at the Reception of MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts.

Club Akryliko

28 March 2026, 20:00

Kotetsi (19, Valaoritou Str., Thessaloniki)

Pink.wav (DJ set), KOKETAMC (Dj set), Chivari (live set), Eleni Thiresia (live set), and Foteini Korre (live set with instruments and vocals) move the sonic field between heavy bass, hypnotic vocals, and experimental modes of sound production.

Free Admission.

Credit

Babak Ahteshamipour, Unborn in the Sugar-Coated Caffeine Induced Heat of the Moment, 2025, video installation

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Πρόγραμμα performances | CYFEST 17: International Media Art Festival

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:31:24 +0000

Performance programme | CYFEST 17: International Media Art Festival dimitra.samsaki Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:39

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“Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape” | International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17

Start Date

Thu, 11/27/2025 - 20:40

End Date

Sat, 01/24/2026 - 20:40

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Thursday, 27 November 2025, 19:00

Hugo Solís
Bridge GR–MX

sound performance, ambisonics soundscape, 2025
50 min

This performance constructs a sonic bridge between Mexico City and Thessaloniki by braiding together their distinct field recordings. Using immersive Ambisonics audio, the piece manipulates these soundscapes in real time, dynamically playing with perceptions of space and environment. This foundation is then layered with rich synthetic textures and sequenced patterns, generated through a synthesizer and processed with loopers and digital effects.

Hugo Solís is an electronic artist focused on the creative and aesthetic possibilities arising from the intersection of sound, digital technologies, and interactivity. He has exhibited works and given concerts in Mexico and abroad. He regularly participates in specialized events in the fields of art, science, and technology. He has received support, scholarships, and recognition from FONCA, UNAM, TELMEX, MIT, the University of Washington, DXARTS, IMEB-Bourges, Centro Multimedia, Transitio_MX, and Leonardo, among others. He is currently a member of the National System of Researchers. In 2013 and 2019, he was recognized as a member of the National System of Art Creators. He is a full-time professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University.

Jaanika Peerna

Warm Offering of Cold

performance, 2025
20 min

For the performance, Jaanika Peerna uses a sculpted piece of ice as the central element of the choreography. Channeling a deeply felt engagement with the climate crisis, particularly the loss of glaciers, Peerna employs ice as a totemic representation of strength, beauty, and environmental fragility in her performances, as well as a medium of erasure, flow, and transformation. The participatory performance connects her installation Cold Love with the body of water just outside the museum.

Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist based in New York and Lisbon. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. For her performances she often involves the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life.

She has exhibited her work and performed in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as internationally. Her work is held in numerous private collections in the USA and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France) and the Glyn Vivian Museum (UK). Her work is represented by JHB Gallery, Artrovert and IdeelART. In 2022, her monograph Glacier Elegies was published by Terra Nova Press/MIT Press.

Saturday, 13 December 2025, 20:00*

Vito Palumbo - Niki Lada - Francesco Abbrescia, φø (Fotis Rovolis), Dafin Antoniadou & Andrey Smirnov

*Issue your ticket here or at the Museum Reception

Vito Palumbo - Niki Lada - Francesco Abbrescia

Skin V

sound performance, for solo voice with amplification, 2024

14 min

Skin V, for solo voice and electronics, is part of a series of pieces, each dedicated to a different instrument. The piece slowly develops, starting with simple breathing that transforms into song, and then develops in the central section through a frenetic and rhythmic phase based on a combination of gestures, sound, and body percussion. In the final section, the spoken language coalesces into a simple and lyrical chant, delicately accompanied by the sound of two crotales (played by the singer) that accompany the voice. The instrumental sounds blend seamlessly with the voice, providing continuity.

Βios

Niki Lada, mezzo-soprano, performs both 19th-century and contemporary classical repertoire. She appears as the leading female role, Femme, in Nicolas Tzortzis’s opera Le mort et la résurrection, staged by the Greek National Opera in March 2025, and performs Skin V by Vito Palumbo at the MTR Festival in Naples in December 2024.

She has collaborated with Franck Bedrossian, Rosalba Quindici, Divertimento Ensemble, Suono Giallo Ensemble, and Opificio Sonoro, and has performed in venues such as Teatro Litta di Milano and the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto.

In 2024–2025, she served as the leading female voice of the Greek National Opera’s annual composition workshop.

Vito Palumbo is an Italian composer whose works have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and the Athenäum-Quartett Berliner Philharmoniker. A graduate of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, he previously attended the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and received a personal scholarship from Luciano Berio.

In 2005, he was awarded the G. Petrassi Prize by the President of the Italian Republic. A winner of several international competitions, including the Prokofiev Competition, Palumbo has received commissions from major institutions and festivals worldwide, among them Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, Academie de France, and Teatro Petruzzelli. His music has been broadcast by RAI Radiotre, Radio France, and Arté France.

Francesco Abbrescia is an Italian composer and performer of electroacoustic music. He studied piano, singing, and choral conducting, and graduated in Composition and Electronic Music from the “Niccolò Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari, where he now teaches Performance and Interpretation of Electroacoustic Music. His work centers on live electroacoustic performance and computer-based compositional modeling through algorithmic methods. As a sound director and live electronics performer, he has collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele, Michele Dall’Ongaro, and Vito Palumbo, as well as with musicians including Francesco D’Orazio and Filippo Lattanzi. His performances have been presented at the Venice Biennale, IRCAM – Visions, and Milano Musica. Winner of the National Arts Award (2008/09), he authored In Human Memories (Ex Chordis, 2024).

φø (Fotis Rovolis)

Cyborgutt 2.0

sound performance, 2023
18 min

Cyborgutt is an electroacoustic interactive composition for a performer and biosensors, creating a soundspace/narration of a genderfluid body. The performer, through biosensors, controls in real-time, a pre-recorded soundscape based on all of the sounds the body can produce, as well as their live breathing and heartbeat. The works, thus, create an environment, where the vital rhythms of the oneself, give flow to the sounds they produce and merge them together in patterns. Three main rhythms are used as the basic structure, the conscious determined breathing, the unconscious determined heartbeat and the unconscious undetermined gutt.

As the result of a research bridging queer theory, cyborg politics and the field of music, the work observes the gendered boundaries of the body, voice and sounds, which are trapped in stereotypical binary perceptions. Bringing together Butler, Harraway and Massumi, the different rigid trajectories are deconstructed under a common notion of fluidity and boundarylessness. The voice has no gender. Listening is the process that assigns gender to it.

Βio

φø (Fotis Rovolis) is the sound artist behind Invisible Soma. Having studied Architecture (Thessaly), Electroacoustic music composition (Sonology/Artscience, Hague; NKUA, Athens), φø explores the boundaries between sound, body and space through installations, soundscapes, performances, digital collages and videos. A central part of their process is finding a certain sound bank and creating everything out of it. In their works they express political, imaginary and queer narrations, using alternative identities and alias (Zirlar Mord Ω', norcimo ii). They have collaborated on short films, theatrical pieces and performances and have presented papers at international conferences including ICMC (Seoul) and SMC (Porto). Recently they took part in the 6th Festival of Contemporary Dance Compartments dance project (To treno sto Rouf) and in Worlds within worlds program by NCSR "Demokritos" and Fluxus Laboratory.

Dafin Antoniadou & Andrey Smirnov
Ηχόσωμα (Echo-soma)
performance for a dancer, terpsitone, and computer, 2025
30 min

Ηχόσωμα (Echo-soma) presents the collaborative work of artist-researcher Andrey Smirnov and choreographer Dafin Antoniadou. The performance is structured around a unique historical instrument: the terpsitone. Originally invented by Leon Theremin in 1931 as the first instrument to convert a dancer’s full-body movements into sound, it was never mass-produced and remains a rarity. This performance features Smirnov's 2025 reconstruction.

Within an active bio-feedback loop, Antoniadou’s choreography engages the instrument as a partner. Her movements, from subtle gestures to expansive leaps, directly influence the sound’s pitch and texture. This dialogue makes the dancer’s body the central agent of a live-composed sonic universe, exploring the eternal theme of creation and destruction in real time.

Βios

Dafin Antoniadou is a choreographer and performer whose work explores the body as a vessel for the technological and narrative dimensions of sound. Her practice treats movement as an essential extension of sonic material, creating powerful, cinematic stories that investigate the limits of human consciousness. This methodology translates to a collaborative spectrum. Through her ongoing collaboration with composer Constantine Skourlis, she has created works like the audio-visual installation DEEP HORIZON, as well as the choreography and film Vanishing Point, that explore the body as a place of information and memory, all productions of Onassis Stegi (2021). With composer Filippos Sakagian, she presented Dionysian Skin at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou (2022). Their continued work, KTVC [hypnos] – collective hypnosis experience at NFM (2025), further explores this territory. Her newest work, Darkest White, premiered at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (GRAPE, 2025) continues to delve deeper into the multidimensional use of sound as a performative tool for storytelling. Antoniadou is a recipient of the ARTWORKS award (2021) and an Aerowaves artist (2022).

Andrey Smirnov is an artist and researcher based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a special scientific associate at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection in Thessaloniki, the founder of the Theremin Center in Moscow (1992), Rodchenko Sound Lab at the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow (2017) and Zerkalo Art Space in Thessaloniki (2025). His collection of the historical documents and instruments has been combined with extensive research into the history of music technology with broad experience in composition, interactive performance and curatorial activities. He is the author of the monographs 'Sound In Z: Experiments in “Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia” (London, 2013) and “In Search of Lost Sound. Experimental Sound Culture in Russia and the USSR in the First Half of the Twentieth Century’s” (Moscow, 2020) (The Book of the Year Award at Innovation 2021 Competition, Moscow).

Saturday, 20 December 2025, 16:00 & 20:00

Maria F. Dolores & Paula Pin (Transnoise)
Transnoise Meet Inside the BioArtLab/ bioTranslab
workshop and performance, 2025
workshop 16:00–20:00*

performance 20:00*

4 hours

BioArtLab/ bioTranslab is a space of experimentation dedicated to the study of nature, feminist ecology, and the promotion of open science. By deactivating capitalist logic, its purpose is to use and produce free software and open source tools. It creates spaces for sharing and co-production of knowledge that start from the experiences of the body and extend towards collective interventions. During the workshop we will collectively build a microscope by hacking a web cam. Through our microvision we will try to imagine a holistic transfeminist approach to health and care. The workshop will end with a collective performance consisting of modular synth sounds, visuals by the microscopes, enhanced with recorded interventions from people working at public hospitals in Greece.

Transnoise (Maria F. Dolores & Paula Pin) was formed around 2010 coming out of the trans hack feminist postporn community of Barcelona. Experimenting on recycling and hacking low-cost technologies, used free code to build DIY circuits, explored collectively the notion of witchcraft performing cyborg hybrid identities and offered workshops of body post-gender instruments. At present, Maria F. Dolores is co-founder of Athens Museum Of Queer Arts and part of the collective NIONIA, fostering transfeminist culture in Greece. Paola Pin based in Galicia, researches open source autonomous practices, designs and fabricates devices, runs BioArtLab/ bioTranslab, located always in the intersection where biology, science and queer art collide.

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

Saturday, 24 January 2026, 19:00*

Eva Douru & Anthi Kyrkou, Anastasia Fiori Metallinou & Tilemachos Moussas

*Issue your ticket here or at the Museum Reception

Eva Duru & Anthie Kyrkou

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theremin-voice-synth

sound performance with the theremin and electronics, 2025

35 min

In this project Eva Douru and Anthi Kyrkou, two musicians who share a common love for the liminal spaces between sound and voice, will present a sonic landscape that balances between atmosphere and music. The two artists will combine theremin with live voice loops, piano, synths and electronics to create dreamy soundscapes. They will reimagine beloved previous century's orchestral themes, improvise upon them and blend them with their own compositions.

Bios

Eva Duru is a keyboardist, thereminist, and vocalist from Larissa, based in Thessaloniki. She studied classical piano and Music, Art and Science at the University of Macedonia. She has performed as both musician and dancer in theatrical and performance projects at major Greek festivals, including the Thessaloniki Biennale and Athens Epidaurus Festival. Since beginning her exploration of synthesizers and the theremin in 2012, she has toured and recorded with numerous indie-alternative groups and renowned Greek solo artists. A devoted vinyl collector, she also works as a DJ.

Anthie Kyrkou was born in Ioannina and currently based in Thessaloniki. She studied piano, music theory, singing and vocal improvisation. Over the past decade, she has taken part in numerous interdisciplinary and musical projects, performing and recording with various bands. Her first solo project was 7 Songs I Will Tell You (2012) — an original musical collage built on parallels and correlations between well-known musical themes, performed entirely with toy instruments and children’s musical devices. In November 2018, she released her debut album, Goodnight Little Moon — thirteen pop-infused tracks blending electronic elements, psychedelic moods, and avant-garde timbres.

Anastasia Fiori Metallinou & Tilemachos Moussas

Interdisciplinary Sonic Exploration: Astronomical Data Sonification in Contemporary Jazz-Baroque Fusion

music performance, 2025

45 min

This experimental artistic project explores the intersection of astronomy and music by sonifying astronomical phenomena — ranging from magnetic storms to pulsar emissions — and integrating them into contemporary musical compositions. The framework fuses early Baroque vocal traditions with modern jazz harmonic language, creating a dialogue between historical and contemporary musical vocabularies.

Instrumentation — including electric guitar, loops, and musical saw — establishes a distinctive timbral landscape that interacts seamlessly with the soprano voice of Anastasia Metallinou. By translating astrophysical data into sound, the project investigates how celestial phenomena can serve as generative material for composition, transforming scientific observation into artistic expression.

The result is an innovative exploration of sonic outer space, where data-driven sonification and musical creativity converge, opening new avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry and expanding the boundaries of auditory perception.

Bios

Anastasia Fiori Μetallinou is a Public Outreach Officer at Thissio Visitor Center of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and a National Outreach Coordinator of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). She received her diploma in Physics, and her M.Sc. degree in Atmospheric and Environmental Physics from the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and her Ph.D in “Development and Recovery of Magnetic Storms in Geospace”. Her research background is on simulating ion acceleration in the Earth’s magnetosphere during magnetic storms.

She has received a diploma in classical singing. As an astronomer and musician she has been involved in sonification projects in order to engage the general public to astronomy through sound. She collaborates with composers of electronic music, sound engineers and musicologists from the Department of Music of the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University in Greece, for sonifying scientific data. She contributes to the dissemination of astronomy and space physics concepts with public lectures, articles in the media and TV shows.

Tilemachos Moussas is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Music Studies, NKUA, on augmented vocal expression and improvisation with digital media. He holds a Master’s in Jazz Guitar and degrees in Education and Agricultural Studies. He has studied at major conservatories and plays theremin, musical saw, berimbau, didgeridoo, and lavta.

His work combines composition, improvisation, and AI technologies using Python and Max/MSP.

He has written music for over 70 theatre and dance productions, collaborating with institutions such as BAM, CCRMA, IRCAM, Tanztheater Wuppertal, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece, and the Greek National Opera.

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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

Event Type

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Start Date

Thu, 12/18/2025 - 12:00

End Date

Thu, 12/18/2025 - 13:00

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art

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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

Caption

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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Παρουσίαση λευκώματος «Δημήτρης Μουγκός. Κάνα δυο φωτογραφίες»

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:49:41 +0000

Album presentation “Dimitris Mougos. A couple of photos” dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:45

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

Image

Start Date

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 19:00

End Date

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 21:00

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Body

Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023

Album presentation “Dimitris Mougos. A couple of photos”

Dimitris Mougos has been recording moments of his friends for years, allowing us to take a look at the complex mosaic of his friendship and artistic creation. This special mosaic will unfold at the presentation of the album “A couple of photos”, Petites-Maisons editions, which will take place at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Pier A’, Warehouse A’, Thessaloniki Port area), on Thursday 01 February 2024 at 19:00.

In the exhibition “A Few Photos” presented at The Eye Altering gallery, curated by Eleni Giannakoulis, as part of the Thessaloniki Photobiennale in the fall of 2023, Dimitris Mougos did not simply share with the audience photographs from his group’s shared and creative journey, but created an in situ photographic environment from objects left behind by Lex concertgoers, things found along the way over the years, thousands of photo prints and typographic sheets from the album’s production.

Speakers

Aris Stylianou, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Eos Paschou, Assistant Professor of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, University of West Attica

Orestis Pangalos, Visual Artist, Lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Thessaly

Dimitris Mougos, Photographer

Coordinator

Stergios Stefanou, Publisher, Petites-Maisons Publications

Artist Bio

Dimitris Mougos was born in Thessaloniki in 1984. Coming from an environment identified with the graphic arts, he studied photography at the School of Applied Arts and Culture in Athens and did postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths College in London. Since 2012 he has been living and working in Thessaloniki. He is a member of MOUGOS Image & Communication, whose focus is photography, visual communication and graphic arts.

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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

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

Image

Event Exhibition

From now on. Stories for a next tomorrow

Start Date

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 20:00

End Date

Wed, 06/26/2024 - 22:00

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Art

Body

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.

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

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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Οι EVITANDRYBREADS στο MOMus-Μουσείο Μοντέρνας Τέχνης!

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:01:28 +0000

EVITANDRYBREADS at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art! dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:32

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

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Event Exhibition

Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory

Start Date

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 19:00

End Date

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 21:00

Museum

Museum of Modern Art

Body

A special live performance by the all-female band EVITANDRYBREADS musically "closes" the exhibition "Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the 'Red Rose' Silk Factory" at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, at Lazariston Monastery in Thessaloniki, on Friday, May 9th, 2025, at 7:00 PM!

EVITANDRYBREADS is an all-female band from Thessaloniki, consisting of four musicians - Evita Nalbantidou, vocals, Stefania Douliaka, piano, Sofia Katseniou, double bass and Lia Ambrikidou, drums - with shows on various stages and events internationally. Their performances include covers of well-known musical works from the 30s, 60s, 70s, 90s, in the genres of soul, jazz, blues, funky. Some of the artists they have chosen for their line up are Etta James, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Cher, Sade.

Duration: 19:00-21:00 (with intermission)

Tickets are available from the cometogether.live platform here and at the Museum Reception, subject to availability.

Ticket price: 6€ (there will be a bar, with an additional charge)

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«Ζωντανές φωτογραφίες». Προσβάσιμες δράσεις στο πλαίσιο της έκθεσης «ΙστορίεςΤης. Φωτογραφικές πρακτικές, 1974-2024»

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:36:50 +0000

“Living Photos”. Accessible actions in the context of the exhibition “Her Stories. Photographic Practices, 1974-2024” dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:31

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

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Event Exhibition

HerStories. Photographic Practices, 1974-2024

Start Date

Wed, 09/11/2024 - 18:00

End Date

Sun, 09/15/2024 - 13:00

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Body

Two participatory actions entitled “Living Photos” will take place in the context of the exhibition “Her Stories. Photographic Practices, 1974-2024” on Wednesday, September 11 at 18:00 and Sunday, September 15 at 11:30 at MOMus-Experimental Arts Center (Warehouse B1, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port area). The actions are organized by MOMus- Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the AccessibleLimitlessLiving NGO, with free participation for the general public.

Works from the exhibition will “come to life” in front of the public through a group of people with visual impairment. Escaping the narrow limits of vision, the art of photography is intertwined with other senses such as hearing, touch, smell. In this way, it is redefined through a new perspective and opens up new paths of creation and perception.

The actions are part of the Art CHAIN - Art, Cultural Heritage, Accessibility and Inclusion project, which is implemented within the framework of the BUILD - Building a robust and democratic civic space program, with the implementing body being the Accessible Limitless Living NGO. BUILD is co-financed by the European Union, through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program, the Bodossaki Foundation and the NGO Support Centre - Cyprus.

The action is implemented by Nikos Argyros, Christina Blavaki, Nikos Brantis, Roudtina Debrova.

The following collaborated to organize the action:

Antonis Vlachos, photographer

Paschalina Kalle, mobility, orientation and daily living skills trainer for people with visual impairment

Maria Kechagioglou, political scientist - museologist

Nicoleta Pappa, Greek Sign Language interpreter

Eleni Pnevmatikou, director - editor

Panagiotis Tsalis, accessibility expert

Pnevma Productions, video production

The actions are part of the Art CHAIN project, which is implemented within the framework of the BUILD - Building a robust and democratic civic space program, with the implementing body being the Accessible Limitless Living NGO. BUILD is co-financed by the European Union, through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program, the Bodossaki Foundation and the NGO Support Centre - Cyprus.

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Merry CLICKmas 2024! | Χριστούγεννα στο MOMus-Μουσείο Φωτογραφίας Θεσσαλονίκης

dimitra.samsaki — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:22:12 +0000

Merry CLICKmas 2024! | Christmas at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:28

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

Image

Start Date

Sun, 12/15/2024 - 11:00

End Date

Sun, 12/15/2024 - 14:00

Museum

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Body

Personal stories and favorite songs in the performance “Memories in Frames”, handmade sweets with Mammy’s Caravan, ornaments and many photographic clicks on Facebooth, “coming” on Sunday, December 15, 2024, 11:00-14:00, at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Warehouse A, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port area) at our established pre-Christmas meeting “Merry CLICKmas”, with free participation for everyone, young and old!

The protagonists of the special performance “Memories in Frames” are the participants in the workshop of the same name, which was implemented within the framework of the program “Utilization of Art as a Prescribed Therapy for the Promotion of Social Cohesion and Activation of the ‘Silver Economy’ (Greece 2.0)”.

During the 12 two-hour workshop meetings, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography served as a safe space for sharing personal experiences and memories. The participants, using photos from their family albums as an opportunity, presented personal stories, recalling memories and emotions. Under the guidance of narrator Anthi Thanou, these stories, framed by music and songs, constitute the content of the performance. Some of the personal narratives will soon be made into videos or podcasts, which will be published on social media and on the MOMus website.

The new cycle of the program will begin in January 2025. All adults over 65 years of age are eligible to participate. Participation in the program is free of charge (information & registration: reception.photography@momus.gr, 2310 566716).

Workshop contributors:

Idea conception: Maria Kokorotskou, MOMus Education curator

Project coordination: Maria Kechagioglou, MOMus Education curator

Narrative training: Anthi Thanou, storyteller

Music teaching: Alexandros Makris, musician

Graphic editing & podcast creation: Antonis Vlachos, photographer

Stories (in the order they are presented)

The chronicle of a random success (Dimitris Tsoukas)

The sign (Rita Douka)

Carnival party (Sofia Fakiri)

The journey (Maria Siopidou)

A piece of life (Chrysanthi Emmanouilidou)

The bicycle (Thomai Christidou)

As if it were yesterday (Adamantios Amanitis)

Gymnastic demonstrations (Evangelia Angelidou)

The flower (Dimitra Michaelidou)

Hamam Paradise (Sonia Papaggelou)

Songs (in the order they are heard)

Omorfi Thessaloniki (Beautiful Thessaloniki) (lyrics-music: Vasilis Tsitsanis)

Ela vre Charalambi (Come on Charalambi) (lyrics-music: traditional)

Pote tha kanei xasteria (When will the sun rise) (lyrics-music: traditional)

To podilato (The bicycle) (lyrics: Aris Davarakis, music: Christos Nikolopoulos)

Manoula mou (My mother) (lyrics: Iakovos Kambanelis, music: Manos Hadjidakis)

Menexedes and Zoumboulia (lyrics-music: urban Politiko)

Christmas Carols of Ikaria (lyrics-music: traditional)

Participants (in alphabetical order):

Evangelia Angelidou, Adamantios Amanitis, Maria Arvanitidou, Despina Giannousi, Rita Douka Chrysanthi, Emmanouilidou, Tania Zarkali, Vicky Kalafati, Sonia Karapanagiotidou, Dimitra Michailidou, Sonia Papaggelou, Maria Siopidou, Maria Tourtsaki, Smaro Tsintou, Dimitrios Tsoukas, Mary Tougiannidou, Sofia Fakiri, Thomai Christidou.

Warm thanks to the Directorate of Elderly Protection of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the 12th branch of the K.A.P.I. for their cooperation and support.

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