Experimental Center for the Arts

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

Image

Start Date

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 22:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

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
Video Installation Production 2WORKS

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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

Image

Start Date

Sat, 02/17/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 03/03/2024 - 18:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

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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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

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

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Event Exhibition

“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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«Natura Naturans: Άνθρωποι, Φύση, Τοπίο» | International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:18:54 +0000

“Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape” | International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17 dimitra.samsaki Wed, 11/19/2025 - 15:29

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Thu, 11/27/2025 - 19:00

End Date

Sun, 01/25/2026 - 20:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Opening: Thursday, 27 November 2025, 19:00

The evolving dialogue between human creativity and the living processes of nature are at the core of the exhibition “Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape” which is being presented in the frame of the International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17, for the first time in Greece, at the MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, in Warehouse B1 at the Port of Thessaloniki, from 27 November 2025 until 25 January 2026.

Tracing the enduring impulse of the Organic Art avant-garde movement, the exhibition considers how its radical visions of form and perception are reimagined through today’s expanded artistic tools—algorithmic systems, kinetic structures, immersive environments, and participatory practices. Bringing together twentieth-century works from the Costakis Collection of the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art and the Frants Family Collection with new projects by over 20 international artists presented by CYLAND MediaArtLab and MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, “Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape” reveals how the avant-garde’s experimental ethos continues to shape our understanding of movement, materiality, and the interconnectedness of all living systems.

The dialogue begins with the artists of the Costakis Collection, whose work marks the birth of the Organic Art movement in Soviet Leningrad in the mid-1920s — a movement represented today in the collection of the MOMus-Museum of Modern Art. Its founders cultivated an extraordinary sensitivity to the living rhythms of the world.

The Frants Family Collection reflects the art of Leningrad-Saint Petersburg from the 20th century up to the present day, and it contains paintings, graphic works and sculpture of both major, universally recognized authors and less known, but highly original artists.

In the contemporary section of Natura Naturans, the organic worldview of the avant-garde finds its technological echo. Artists translate the language of living systems into new media, reimagining perception through data, light, and sound.

The exhibition “Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape” envisions a world where the boundaries between the living and the artificial, the organic and the digital, dissolve into a shared field of generative activity. Here, nature understood as natura naturans — nature that creates — resonates with the logic of computational and networked processes. Both operate as open, self-organizing systems in constant flux. The artists in this exhibition treat data and code not as tools of control but as living materials that evolve, react, and interact — creating an art of collaboration rather than representation, where human and nonhuman forces co-produce aesthetic experience.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a curated programme of performances.

All information about the International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17 is available here: cyland.art

Organised by CYLAND Foundation

In partnership with MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Centre for Studies in Russian, Central Asian and Caucasian Art

General Sponsor: Frants Foundation

Curators: Anna Frants, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Silvia Burini, Giuseppe Barbieri, Elena Gubanova, Eirini Papakonstantinou, Domna Gounari, Lidiia Griaznova, Sergei Komarov, Victoria Ilyushkina, Alexandra Dementieva, Jérôme Nivet-Carzon

Participating artists: Vasileios Agiomyrgianakis - Haruka Hirayama - Jussi Tuohino - Osmo Hakosalo, Dafin Antoniadou & Andrey Smirnov, Liudmila Belova, Max Blotas, Alexandra Dementieva, Maria F Dolores & Paula Pin (Transnoise), Eva Duru & Anthie Kyrkou, φø (Fotis Rovolis), Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Alexey Grachev, Sergei Komarov & Lidiia Griaznova, Valery Koshlyakov, Alexei Kostroma, Linda Loh, Natalia Lyakh, Anastasia Fiori Metallinou & Tilemachos Moussas, Katerina Moschou, Tuula Närhinen, Vito Palumbo - Niki Lada - Francesco Abbrescia, Jaanika Peerna, Mariateresa Sartori, Hugo Solis, Alexander Terebenin, Maria Varela, Eric Vernhes, Mathieu Zurstrassen

Collections represented in the exhibition:

The Costakis Collection: Maria Ender, Ksenia Ender, Yurii Ender, Elena Guro, Mikhail Matyushin, Solomon Nikritin

The Frants Family Collection: Alexander Baturin, Victoria Belakovskaya, Liudmila Belova, Leon Bogdanov, Konstantin Dydyshko, Tatyana Glebova, Maria Gorokhova, Valentin Gromov, Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Vladimir Grinberg, Anatoly Kaplan, Maria Kazanskaya, Pavel Kondratyev, Alexander Kozhin, Ivan Kudryashov, Nikolai Kulbin, Anna Leporskaya, Valentin Levitin, Xenia Livchak, Vera Matyukh, Evygeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, Valentina Povarova, Richard Vasmi, Vladimir Volkov

Performances programme

27 November 2025 — 24 January 2026

Opening Night: Thursday, 27 November 2025, 19:00
Hugo Solis, Jaanika Peerna

Saturday, 13 December 2025, 20:00*
Vito Palumbo - Niki Lada - Francesco Abbrescia, φø (Fotis Rovolis), Dafin Antoniadou & Andrey Smirnov

Saturday, 20 December 2025, 19:00*
Maria F Dolores & Paula Pin (Transnoise)
Workshop 16:00–20:00*
Performance 20:00*

Saturday, 24 January 2026, 19:00*
Eva Douru & Anthi Kyrkou, Anastasia Fiori Metallinou & Tilemachos Moussas

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

CYLAND MediaArtLab is a nonprofit media laboratory and arts organization founded by independent artists and curators. Bridging art, science, and technology, CYLAND promotes collaboration between artists, engineers, and programmers. It initiates exhibitions, workshops, sound and video programs, and supports the creation, presentation, and archiving of media art worldwide. CYLAND is the founder and organizer of CYFEST, now in its 17th edition.

cyland.org / FB @cyland.mediaartlab / IG @cyland.lab / YT @CylandVideo

CYFEST is a nomadic international media art festival. Since its inception in 2007, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine the dialogue between various visual languages and technology cultures, and thus to explore a way of commoning with both art professionals and scientific communities. As a decentralized global network CYFEST unites artists, curators, educators, engineers, programmers, and media activists all over the world, and creates a platform for mapping, mediation, and documentation of new media art on different regional and international levels. Each year, the festival program includes several exhibition projects, sound art, video and educational programs. / cyfest.art

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«Ανατροπή (η επιστημονική φαντασία σαν αλλαγή)» με έργα των Ben Rivers, Errands group, Κώστα Σφήκα

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:19:46 +0000

“Plot Twist (the science fiction change)” with works by Ben Rivers, Errands group, Kostas Sfikas dimitra.samsaki Thu, 10/30/2025 - 13:22

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Fri, 10/31/2025 - 18:00

End Date

Sun, 11/16/2025 - 20:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Opening: Friday, 31 October 2025, 18:00

The subject of plot twist for the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival as reversal also emerges from the organic dialogue of this year’s edition with the main theme of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art of MOMus under the title “everything must change. RIS9”, curated by the independent curator and art historian Nadja Argyropoulou.

This dialogue is given visual expression in the exhibition “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)”, and is realized with works by Ben Rivers, Errands group and Kostas Sfikas, as a prelude of Biennale 9 and main exhibition of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou and the Festival’s Artistic Director Orestis Andreadakis.

Nadja Argyropoulou, curator of Biennale 9, notes about the exhibition: “The concept of the plot twist, as it lurks in science fiction as premonition, openness and possibility, and as it is presented in this exhibition- preamble to the 9th Biennale, is perceived as revolutionary insight and a trigger of change. It is not a getaway but a necessity; it is resonance with a world of many worlds, hands-on imagination, radical futurism, as it reknits time (the entanglements of already with not yet) with the yarn of a structural understanding of unfreedom and the militantly joyful overturn of its deadlocks. The choice of this evocative exhibition for the soft opening of the 9th Biennale alludes to the importance of critical fabulation—as defined in Saidiya Hartman’s work, which serves as inspiration for the Biennale as a whole—while also presenting artistic practices of the “radical intelligence” that challenges what is established as proper and proposed, attuning to the possibility of a social otherwise, to what we elude and eludes us.

The exhibition “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)” begins with the installation of the triptych Urthworks (Slow Action [2010], Urth [2016], Look Then Below [2019]) by British artist Ben Rivers. In this trilogy, the artist engages both real and fabricated times and places (the real places comprising Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, Mendip Hills, Somerset) as well as an alternating use of 16mm film and digital imaging technology, to present the stages of an environmental collapse that is not merely a possible plot twist but a lived reality that we do not recognize as such.

From the ethnographic allegory and archipelagic Utopia of Slow Action, to the contemplative introspection stirred by the sealed environment experiment in Arizona’s Biosphere in Urth (which antedated the Covid global lockdown) and to his film, Look Then Below, which recalls the chthonic side of life as it inhabits the un-exotic caves of Somerset, in an almost eerily poetic manner Rivers reveals something crucial in the apocalyptic: the reality that is constantly occurring within imagination and vice versa, the familiar dimension of the epic narrative, the loose boundary between documentary and invention. The exhibition will also present the artist’s book Urthworks, which has been created with the contribution of sci-fi writer Mark von Schlegell and draws from the mythology of the Vikings and Urth, the goddess of fate, as well as from Brian Aldiss’s dystopian novel Earthworks (1965).

In parallel, the official program of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival will feature, in collaboration with the Avant-Garde Film Festival (a Greek Film Archive institution), Rivers’s new film, Mare’s Nest, which draws from Don DeLillo’s work and challenges, as does all of the artist’s work, the classic form of plot-based narratives which is often nothing more than disguised predictability. The film unfolds in an unknown and ambiguous world where the only trace of adults can be seen in the surrounding catastrophe, while the presence of children is central as they gather in community, in a hopeful for the future move.

The exhibition further unfolds through a new work by the Errands, commissioned by Biennale 9 and titled U.F.O. Lost in HEAVEN (2025) – The Journey of a Forgotten Future. The work deals with the visionary work of Nikolaos Xasteros, the peculiar idea of retrospective futurism and the coming together of the two coeval Greek Biennales (Thessaloniki - Athens) in the dynamic field of science fiction, as a memory of the future.

Here, the Errands return to their work TRANSPORTING UTOPIA, which was presented at the 2nd Athens Biennale (2009), “AB2: ΗEAVEN.” In 2009, the Errands came upon a “UFO-house,” abandoned among trees in a coastal area of Loutraki; they bought it for 1 euro and transported it, piece by piece, to Flisvos beach. The UFO-house is one of the few surviving exemplars of the futuristic prefabricated dwellings made of fiberglass that were designed by Nikolaos Xasteros in the 1970s.

The Errands group re-displayed this peculiar residence that was left to abandonment and obscurity for decades – along with the name of Xasteros. Yet, one day, the UFO-house mysteriously disappeared from Flisvos, this time for good. No one knows or saw anything. Its whereabouts are still unknown, adding a new level of mystery and meaning to the work itself, but also to the wider history of prefabs, mobility, and the shuttering of the dream of mass portable habitation.

Now, at Biennale 9, the Errands return to their work, shedding light on its multi-layered trajectory: from Xasteros’s utopian vision to the collapse, artistic rescue, disappearance and, ultimately, the current fetishization of the architectural relic—how the unwanted became “exotic,” a collector's item, selling the future as memory.

Historic works by the great artist Kostas Sfikas (1927–2009) complement this brief exhibition tour of the concept of the plot twist through a different path. The cinematography precociously and prophetically introduced by Sfikas is an unconventional viewing experience, as the director grapples persistently and aggressively with “the snare of the eye” that holds the order of the world together, raising “a nightmarish mirror” in front of it, in the words of Christos Vakalopoulos. Sfikas grapples with the pitfalls of representation as an orchestrated cultural constant and authoritative imperative.

More relevant than ever, Sfikas’s films dissect the iconoclastic vampirism of dominant culture, the scenographic perception of the world, the shackles of narrative ritual, the time of the gaze, and all sorts of constructions including that of the “moving image” itself, the representation of time.

The critical reflection on eternal fiction and the ever-coming end of worlds, the leap into the depth of history and the dive into the New Times, are the connecting thread in Sfikas’s three famous allegories (Allegory I [1986]; The Enigmatic Mr. Jules Verne – Allegory II [1993]; The Woman of... and the Collector – Allegory III [2002]) that are featured in the exhibition. As Savvas Michail notes about Sfikas’s work, “the creation of such a space presupposes a simultaneous critique of the illusory representation of the epiphenomena and an Opening to the World / Opening of the World: a Denial of the Denial of Denial.” The works Prometheus Retrogressing (1998) and Paul Klee’s Prophetic Bird of Sorrows (1995) complete this installation in the building of the MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts. In the universe of Sfikas, the beginning and the end of the world are the groundbreaking adventure, the vortices of images, and the search for truth in the spiral of the perpetual dialectic of power and rebellion.

Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, in collaboration with Orestis Andreadakis

Coordination: Alexandros Diakosavvas

Production: Danis Kokkinos

Curator’s Assistant: Evelyn Zempou

Opening days & hours:

31 October – 9 November 2025 / daily: 10:00-22:00

10-16 November 2025 / Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:00-18:00 and Thursday: 12:00–20:00

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Αλέξανδρος Πλωμαρίτης. Becoming a Ghost

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:50:59 +0000

Alexandros Plomaritis. Becoming a Ghost dimitra.samsaki Thu, 08/28/2025 - 13:34

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Thu, 09/11/2025 - 10:00

End Date

Sat, 10/25/2025 - 18:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Opening: Thursday 11 September 2025 | 20:00

The body is in all ways and dimensions present in the artworks of Alexandros Plomaritis and as such it "stars" in the exhibition entitled "Becoming a Ghost", at MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A’, Port of Thessaloniki) from 11 September to 25 October, 2025. Through his performances for the camera, Plomaritis' body wanders through public and private spaces, appearing sometimes exposed, sometimes integrated and sometimes out of place. His body is imprinted on the architectural ruins of Brussels – abandoned monasteries, churches and mansions, bearers of a lost aristocratic and religious identity, his body narrates stories from other places, his body returns to its familiar place - Thassos and Mount Pangaeos - and finally his body stands in the middle of the sea on an old machine gun, holding an open black umbrella as a silent poetic reference to René Magritte.

Through the performativity of his body, Plomaritis poses timeless questions about identity, homeland, loss, and otherness, while simultaneously focusing on the activation of the body as an archive, as a place of registration and carrier of memory, historical continuity, and political conflict.

In the exhibition “Becoming a Ghost”, through photographs, videos and installations, Alexandros Plomaritis explores the performativity of the body as a ghostly entity – a body that exists but is not recognised, that is inhabited but not visible, a body that is silent but performs its presence, a body that does not fit in but survives.

Curated by: Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art Historian, Curator MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Alexandros Plomaritis CV

Alexandros Plomaritiswas bornin ArgosOrestiko andraised inThassos. He studied (BA) English Literature and Theatre at London Metropolitan University and specialised in performance (MFA) Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University, London. His performances have been presented at the Milan Biennale of Young Artists, the Venice International Performance Art Week, the Thessaloniki Performance Festival, the CIPAF of Nicosia, the NRLA festival of Glasgow, the Re-culture festival of Patras, the MEK Museum of Berlin, the Contemporary Art Museum of Skopje, the MOMus, the SMCA, and esewhere. He has also held solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions, workshops and projects in independent venues, while he has collaborated with artists such as Ulay, Manuel Vason, Bobby Baker, as well as with groups of artists such as Nekri Fysi, etc. He has curated two performance projects/festivals, the 1st Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival and Platformance. His works are in public and private collections. He lives and works between Brussels and Thessaloniki.

Parallel events & guided tours

Saturday 11 October 2025, 11:00

Experiential workshop for adults “In motion: Art and displacement”

An experiential - visual workshop for adults that focuses on personal experiences of movement, transition, intentional or unintentional, displacement and their consequent imprint on the body's memory.Participants will trace key borderline moments of their own journey, they will explore moments of "floating" in time and the spaces of their own displacements and will attempt to capture visually what may still "haunt" the images that the mind and body recall.

The workshop will take place in Greek language.

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3456

Sunday 21 September & 19 October 2025, 12:00

Guided tours by the exhibition curator Eirini Papakonstantinou in dialogue with the artist Alexandros Plomaritis.

The tours will take place in Greek language.

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3451

Saturday 27 September 2025, 21:00

Performance by Alexandros Plomaritis and Maria Kremeti

Alexandros Plomaritis' performance is a living study on the search for roots, homeland, "home" — not as a geographical location, but as an existential necessity. It focuses on the perpetual journey of the individual, and especially the immigrant and refugee, to establish himself where he is a stranger; to "attach", like a graft, with the uncertainty of whether it will take root or be rejected.

The two artists, themselves strangers in other places, encapsulate with their bodies the ambiguity of integration, the trauma of transition, the precariousness of belonging. The performance evolves as a ritual of embodied confrontation with the European narrative of immigration, law and acceptance.

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3454

Saturday 4 October 2025, 20:00

Pop up event

Students from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts in AUTh, present with a collective performance the result of a series of laboratory meetings with Alexandros Plomaritis, around the themes of the exhibition.

Curated by: Alexandros Plomaritis

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3455

Saturday 18 October 2025, 20:00

Music performance by Kareem Samara

Kareem Samara’s work (Palestinian-London based musician) combines traditional Arab and Western acoustic instruments with electronic systems, creating unique soundscapes and performances. His work addresses concepts of diasporic identity and post-colonial approaches and possibilities of sound and music.

Coproduction: International Workshop in Theory and Sound, University of Thessaly and Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa (King’s College London, ERC/UKRI)

Curated by: Daphne Tragaki – Associate Professor, University of Thessaly, , Martin Stokes - Professor of Music, King’s College London

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3457

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Finissage | «Είμαστε Όλοι Φτιαγμένοι από Αστέρια»

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:26:24 +0000

Finissage | “We Are All Made of Stars” dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:11

Event Type

Εκδηλώσεις Β

Image

Event Exhibition

We Are All Made of Stars: Digital media and new technologies in contemporary art practice

Start Date

Sat, 02/22/2025 - 16:00

End Date

Sun, 02/23/2025 - 21:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

A two-day program of activities with a special presentation of works by students, a workshop with targeted presentations by invited artists, curators, theorists and researchers on the relationship between contemporary art, science and technology and a final guided tour will take place at MOMus-Experimental Arts Center (Warehouse B1, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port), Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 February 2025, on the occasion of the last days of operation of the current exhibition “We Are All Made of Stars”.

Details

Saturday 22 February 2025

16:00-17:30

Pop-up action: “Stories of the Future. The creation of audiovisual experiences through virtual reality and artificial intelligence"

Students from the Department of Cinema of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the subject "Cinema and Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Reality", present in a pop-up manner digital audiovisual works, immersive virtual reality experiences and games that integrate virtual characters (Non Player Characters NPCs) with Artificial Intelligence.

Participating with their works are: Antonios Alexopoulos, Dimitris Vafeiadis, Marios Leokratis, Defkalion Nikolaou Papadopoulos, Damianos Papatsikourakis, Natasa Hasakiolis

Lecturer in charge: Nefeli Dimitriadi. Associate Professor, Department of Cinema, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Participation is by issuing a ticket either online via the ComeTogether platform https://cometogether.live/event/2160 or in person at the Museum Reception.

17:30-20:30

Workshop: “Digital Art-Digital Media and New Technologies in Contemporary Visual Practice”

The aim of the workshop is to approach, through targeted presentations by invited visual artists, curators, theorists and researchers, the relationship between contemporary art, science and technology, and to provoke discussion and exchange of views, starting with an investigation of the historical path and evolution of digital art, with references to electronic and video art, as well as the stages of evolution in new and digital media, but also in every form of contemporary art that involves technology in its completion.

The conference will mainly present the historical path of the artistic expressive medium, which is identified with the evolution of technology, and will discuss its present and future through important artistic cases. Furthermore, artistic projects and processes that connect art and science will be highlighted, and finally questions that concern contemporary art will be explored, such as the role of the work of art in the digital age, the evolution of artistic creation through modern digital tools and their interactive applications, the conditions and prerequisites for organizing exhibitions and projects for digital art.

Schedule of lectures

*“From electronic art to virtual reality and the narratives of the future”, Nefeli Dimitriadi, visual artist (virtual, extended and mixed reality), associate professor at the Department of Cinematography of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

*“The artist in the era of euphoria and anguish. The diary of a journey”, Manthos Santorinios, artist, researcher in digital media, professor emeritus of the Athens School of Fine Arts

*“From the programming of the machine to its education. Issues of integrating data-centric approaches in art education”, Stavroula Zoi, member of the Academic Council of the Athens School of Fine Arts, postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean (augmented reality, interactive multimedia)

*“Futures Cones, Futures Studies and Art”, Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, chairman of MOMus

*“Interdisciplinarity in art”, Δiμiiτρiii, transmedia installations, transmedia artist

*“Curiosity as a driving force”, Marisa Satsia, bioartist, transmedia installations, transmedia artist.

*"Sounding of astronomical data and uses of the 'sounds of space'", Fiori Anastasia Metallinou, astrophysicist, National Observatory of Athens, national coordinator for astronomy dissemination of the International Astronomical Union.

*"Do electric sheep dream? A curatorial practice", Dimitris Trikas, journalist, museologist, exhibition curator.

Conference coordination: Domna Gounari, curator MOMus

The talks will be held in Greek, without interpretation in English.

Duration of talks: 20’

Participation is by issuing a ticket either online via the ComeTogether platform https://cometogether.live/event/2160 or in person at the Museum Reception.

Sunday 23 February, 2025

12:00-13:00

Last guided tour of the exhibition “We Are All Made of Stars” with the participation of artist Fani Boudouroglou, the lecturer at the Multimedia Laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Stavroula Zoi, and the curator Domna Gounari.

Participation in the guided tour is with the entrance ticket to the venue. The ticket is issued online through the ComeTogether platform (here https://cometogether.live/event/1878/) or in person at the Museum Reception, subject to availability.

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Η Συλλογή της Alpha Bank. Ελληνική τέχνη από το 1960 έως σήμερα

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:03:46 +0000

The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1960 to the Present dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 13:16

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Tue, 12/11/2018 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 03/10/2019 - 20:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Important paintings and engravings from the Alpha Bank Art Collection are included in the exhibition entitled "The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1960 to the Present", which is organized by Alpha Bank and the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), from 11 December 2018 to 3 February 2019, at Warehouse B1 of the Thessaloniki Port Authority. The curators of the exhibition are Irene Orati, Art Historian - Curator of the Alpha Bank Art Collection and Yiannis Bolis, Art Historian - Curator of the MOMus.

The exhibition presents 41 works that outline the evolution of artistic creation over the last 60 years or so and were created by distinguished Greek artists, specifically: Nikos Alexiou, Dimitris Alitheinos, Steven Antonakos, Michalis Arfaras, Yannis Gaitis, Apostolos Georgiou, Maria Giannakaki, Nella Golanta, George Golfinos, Irene Gonou, Maria Ziaka, Irene Iliopoulou, Theodoros, Vlassis Kaniaris, Christos Karas, Marigo Kassi, Nikos Kessanlis, Kostas Koulentianos, Yannis Kounellis, George Lazoga, George Lappas, Tasos Mantzavinou, Jason Molfesis, Yannis Bouteas, Pavlos, Leda Papakonstantinou, Rena Papaspyrou, Dimitris Perdikidis, Giorgos Rorris, Chrysa Romanou, Loukas Samaras, Vasilis Skylakos, Theodoros Stamos, Aspa Stasinopoulou, Takis, Thanasis Totsikas, Kostas Tsoklis, Giorgos Hadoulis, Manolis Charos, Alexandros Psychoulis

The exhibition complements, in a way, the older exhibition, entitled "The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1920 to the Present", which was hosted in 2006 at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Today's exhibition is taking place at a particularly positive juncture, as the merger of the museums that make up the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) was recently completed.
The main objective of this exhibition is to highlight the new image of the Alpha Bank Collection, which has been enriched with significant acquisitions over the last decade. These works, which are presented for the first time in Thessaloniki as works from the Bank's Collection, strengthen the unity of contemporary works and highlight Greek creation from 1960 to the present. The search for works within the Collection that will provide the most complete possible picture, in the future, of these decades is ongoing.

The Alpha Bank Art Collection consists of 5,500 works of modern Greek art: paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, constructions, illustrated books, posters, as well as documentation material. The artworks come from the Collections of the Pisteos, Ionian, Emporiki and Citibank Banks, which were gradually consolidated from 2000 to 2014 and now constitute Alpha Bank, and are regularly presented in traveling exhibitions throughout Greece.

Venue: MOMus_Experimental Center for the Arts
11.12.2018-3.02.2019-extension until March 10, 2019

Tours: every Saturday, at 12:00
Information about the educational program of the exhibition here

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Τεχνοφετιχισμός: Whip it into Shape

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:16:08 +0000

Technofetishism: Whip it into Shape dimitra.samsaki Thu, 03/13/2025 - 15:21

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 08/31/2025 - 18:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Opening: Friday 21 March 2025, 20:00

A track from the 80’s (Whip it, Devo), inspired by a novel from the 70’s (Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon) examines the collapse of a society, that stupefied by a delirium of overconsumption and information overload, worships the almost religious submission to technology —through which power is manifested, expanded, and normalized. And while these may have once seemed like strange signs of the times, nowadays we are discussing the consequences of this interaction and seeking ways to coexist, if not to reconsider our relationship with technology.

The exhibition “Technofetishism: Whip it into Shape”, hosted in MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A’, Port) in Thessaloniki, from 21 March until 31 August 2025, explores the fetishisation of technology by our contemporary techno-capitalist society, which has transformed technological objects into sources of sexual arousal, substitutes for desire, and venerated fetishes. The works presented offer a critical reflection on how technology mediates—and sometimes distorts—our notions of intimacy, eroticism, desire, and communication, our own identity, blurring the boundaries between freedom, compulsion, and constraint.

The exhibition highlights the emerging power and dependency relationships between ourselves and technological media, which have now become extensions of our bodies. These relationships are both evident and inextricably linked to consumption and control.

The modern exaltation of technology has also exposed contemporary practices of self- and gender-representation, imposing warped ideals and standards of beauty. Through their works, the artists ask: Could we be experiencing the ultimate fulfillment of a technofetishistic society?

And while these may have once seemed like mere peculiar signs of the times, today we are discussing the consequences of this enslavement and seeking ways to coexist with technology—if not to liberate ourselves from it.

Curated by: Eirini Papakostantinou, Art Historian, Curator MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Artists: Maria Antelman, Zisis Bliatkas, Thomas Diafas, Carla Gannis, Maria Glyka, Faith Holland, Kalos&Klio, Casey Kauffmann, Echo Can Luo, Rosa Menkman, Eva Papamargariti, Moises Sanabria in collaboration with Tom Galle and John Yuyi, Super G (George Ouzounis), Theo Triantafyllidis, Anna Vasof, Emilio Vavarella, Vassilis Vlastaras, Maria Vozali

As part of the exhibition’s parallel programme, there is also a collaboration with the Pure Identities 2 – HERizonsFestival in an event organized by the group In contACT org, featuring a photography exhibition and a series of live actions (21-23 March 2025) in MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts.

*A section in the exhibition contains content that may not be suitable for underage audience.

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LAUREN: Anyone Home?

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:11:03 +0000

LAUREN: Anyone Home? dimitra.samsaki Fri, 03/07/2025 - 14:14

Exhibition Type

Temporary

Image

Start Date

Sat, 03/08/2025 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 03/16/2025 - 22:00

Museum

Experimental Center for the Arts

Body

Opening: Saturday 8 March 2025, 18:00

In LAUREN: Anyone Home? the artist, as if a human version of Alexa, watches over and controls the house of the visual installation’s visitors. The experience kicks off with the installation of smart devices, such as cameras, microphones and other home appliances, which transform the space into a fully connected smart home. Unlike ordinary smart home technologies, LAUREN: Anyone Home? focuses on human presence, enhancing the simple algorithms with perception and intuition. It functions as a human-centered digital assistant, balancing between intimacy and privacy, convenience and agency, while also foregrounding the role of human labor amidst an increasingly automatized world. Through this experience LAUREN: Anyone Home? invites the audience to contemplate on their relationship with technology and the control it exercises upon their personal space, offering a different glance at what “smart” technology could truly be. The work demonstrates the ways through which Artificial Intelligence could trigger a meaningful dialogue. The work was bestowed with the Human AI Art Award, a joint initiative by TELEKOM and the Bonn Kunstmuseum. The award highlights how Artificial Intelligence could reshape our understanding of creativity and technology, by supporting works that intertwine art with AI aiming to influence or change the way technology is being used and perceived today. Mc Carthy’s work epitomizes the award’s mission, as it adopts a critical approach over Artificial Intelligence, while reimagining how humanity, nature and technology could co-exist.

Supported by: 27th International Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Curated by: Christiana Kazakou

Installation design: Ben Evans James

Studio assistant: Wylie Kasai

Exhibition production: Foss Productions

Free admission. Working Hours: 10:00-22:00

Performances’ programme: Monday-Friday 18:00-21:00, Saturday-Sunday 11:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00

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