Museum Alex Mylona

Όλοι εδώ. 50 χρόνια Δημοκρατία

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

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

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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 11:00

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Sun, 04/14/2024 - 19:00

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Exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy”

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

18 January – 14 April, 2024

Opening: Thursday 18 January 2024, 21:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Niki de Saint Phalle. Από τις σκοποβολές στην ελευθερία

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:46:06 +0000

Niki de Saint Phalle. From Shooting to Freedom dimitra.samsaki Fri, 12/05/2025 - 12:59

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Fri, 12/12/2025 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 05/24/2026 - 20:40

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Museum Alex Mylona

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The first exhibition in Greece dedicated to Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1930 – California, 2002), titled "From Shooting to Freedom", is presented at the MOMus–Museum Alex Mylona in Thiseio, Athens, from 12 December 2025 to 24 May 2026.

Niki de Saint Phalle was one of the most iconic and disarmingly free artists of the 20th century — a creator who transformed anger, pain, and rage into explosions of color, into a lasting celebration of life, imagination, and rebirth. Fearlessly crossing the boundaries of artistic expression, she was a combative woman who found redemption through art and delivered some of the most daring artistic gestures. Through her work—dark and joyful, complex, contradictory, playful, free, creative, “innocent” and “dangerous” at the same time—she challenged institutions and patriarchy. "From the Shooting pieces (Tirs)" to the multicolored "Nanas", and through paintings, collages, books, and sculptures, the world of Niki de Saint Phalle unfolds in the exhibition like a child’s game, with all the immediacy and enthusiasm that art allows to find new paths of expression.

Starting from the emblematic works that belong to the collection of MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki thanks to the donation of the visionary collector and art dealer Alexandros Iolas and Saint Phalle herself, the exhibition seeks to reframe her artistic universe and reveal its parallel facets. The two shared a relationship of trust, artistic faith, and a common pursuit of freedom; and with Iolas’s support, Saint Phalle’s work reached an international audience and was established as one of the most recognizable of the 20th century.

The work of Niki de Saint Phalle remains profoundly relevant amid today’s social struggles, in an era that denounces abuse once again and renews the demand for freedom and equality for women (and beyond), with global interest in her work stronger than ever.

The exhibition is accompanied by guided tours, activities, and educational programs for all levels.

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

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Mother is dead / Maman love, 1968
Silkscreen on offset-super-bütten paper,
part of a series of 6 prints from the stage
play ICH, whereas Niki de Saint Phalle
used the original drawings as visual
narrative element.
60x123 cm.
Donated by Giorgos Kitis
MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art

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Πάνος Προφήτης. La Bocca La Grotta

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:04:19 +0000

Panos Profitis. La Bocca La Grotta dimitra.samsaki Wed, 09/03/2025 - 16:12

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Temporary

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Start Date

Fri, 09/12/2025 - 20:00

End Date

Sun, 11/30/2025 - 20:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Friday 12 September, 2025, 20:00

With the title itself, "La Bocca La Grotta" (The Mouth The Cave), referring Plato’s allegory of the cave or to the divinations of chthonic oracles, the balances between archetypal dualities, such as light and darkness, the upper world and the underworld, comedy and drama, life and death, the worldly and the metaphysical, articulate the solo show by the award-winning artist Panos Profitis at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (5, Agion Asomaton Square, Thissio) in Athens, from12 September to 30 November 2025.

In the exhibition ‘La Bocca La Grotta’, Panos Profitis's sculptures and installations are presented, not by chance, in a museum dedicated to contemporary sculpture, inviting viewers to boldly move their gaze into the shadows, where the promise of certainty is called into question. Speaking in a hybrid and unmistakably postmodern visual language, Profitis returns –morphologically– to the plastic origins of archaic sculptures and –conceptually– to the human body, treating it as both symbol and myth.

The historical depth of his practice, and even more so the vivid continuity his work achieves as an integral part of the evolving field of Greek sculpture, are ultimately presented in thoroughly modern artistic form. His sculptures/installations, expressing an innovative and personal narrative, reveal an artistic idiom that demonstrates its solid historical and aesthetic background; they converse with the past while revisiting it through fully modern materials and perspectives.

Any well-structured artistic body of work is typically articulated in the form of units that allow for experimentation and inquiry to develop in depth. This is also a hallmark of Profitis’ work, which demonstrates the consistency and prowess of his artistic inquiry. Comoedia, Mythologies/New Terrains, From Callas to Medea, Epistemologies of the Sun–these are all series and concepts of thematic and conceptual cohesion, technical rigor, and steady evolution. In the exhibition at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, his works emerge as hybrid events that initiate lively conversations with space, light and darkness. Monochromatic, metallic, austere, and well-defined, these sculptures fuse anthropomorphic, zoomorphic or mechanomorphic characteristics.

This exhibition is part of the established collaboration between the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) with the Hellenic Art Galleries Association and the Art Athina institution for the Young Artist Award, seeking to support and promote the work of emerging young contemporary artists. The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, with the supp ort of Art Athina.

Exhibition curator: Areti Leopoulou, Art Historian-Curator, MOMus

The Art Athina 2024 Award for Young Artist

The Young Artist Award, first introduced to the Art Athina program in 2022, is evolving into a prestigious institution with very promising potential. The award was launched by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association in partnership with the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus). The strong response from art galleries and the exceptional quality of nominees at Art Athina 2024 are testament to the institution’s rising prestige and dynamic growth. For the third consecutive year, the award recipient will have the opportunity to showcase their work at the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona. This year’s solo exhibition by Panos Profitis, represented by The Breeder gallery, will gain added prominence as it coincides with and is part of the parallel programme of Art Athina 2025, scheduled for September 18 to 22 at Zappeion Megaron. Discovering and promoting the work of young artists is central to the mission of art galleries and a primary objective of the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, the founding institution of Art Athina.

The Art Athina 2025 Young Artist Award will be presented during in a special Art Athina event on Friday 19 September at 18:00 at Zappeion Megaron.

Artist’s bio

Panos Profitis lives and works in Athens and is represented by The Breeder gallery. He grew up in a small town in the foothills of Mountain Parnassus. Profitis holds a Master in Visuals Arts (2016) from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp with a focus on site-specific arts/installation art, as well as a Bachelor degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2013). He also holds a degree in Graphic Design from Akto Art & Design College (2008).

His work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Solo exhibitions (selected): Fluttering of the line / a dialogue with Alekos Fassianos, Alekos Fassianos Museum, Athens, Greece, 2025· ΚΩΜΩΔΙΑ/COMOEDIA, The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2023· From Callas to Medea – An Installation in Three Acts, Greek National Opera, Athens, Greece, 2023· Primitive Future, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2017. Group exhibitions (selected): Augmented bodies, 4th edition of Artocène – Contemporary Art Biennale, Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, France, 2025· The Posterity of the Sun, curated by Ludovic Delalande, VIMA, Cyprus, 2025· Weird Double, curated by Jerome Nicod, 10N Gallery, Menorca, Spain, 2024.

He has received numerous awards and scholarships: for his postgraduate studies, he received a scholarship from the NEON Organization (Master’s in Fine Arts, 2015–2016), and his master’s thesis earned him the Hugo Roelandt Prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Hugo Roelandt Prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Hugo Roelandt Estate & Objectif Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016). He was also awarded in the “Artworks” Artist Fellowship Program by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF Artist Fellowship Program, 2018) and represented Greece in the exhibition Errors Allowed at the Biennale of Young Artists, Ancona, Italy (2013).

Furthermore, he has participated in numerous residencies (selected): Studio Volante Residency, Rome, Italy, 2018· Initiator Residency, Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture, Elefsina, Greece, 2018· Saline Residency, Public Sculpture Residency supported by the Peloponnese Municipality, Porto Heli, Greece, 2018· Residency in Moita Serra, coordinated by Kris Vant Hoff, Porto Muchela, Portugal, 2015·Bronze Casting Foundry Introduction, one-week workshop organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Alts, Belgium, 2015· Survival-kit, coordinated by Stephan Dillemuth, residency in collaboration with the Akademie der Kunst München, Germany, 2014· Everything Flows Residency, coordinated by Norbert W. Hinterberger in collaboration with the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Hydra Art Station, Greece, 2012· Animation and Moving Image Residency, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012

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Panos Profitis

Seed that took root and blossomed, 2023

Casted aluminium, aluminium pipes, natural pearls

165 x 80 x 7 cm

Courtesy: Panos Profitis, The Breeder Gallery

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Παράλληλη Δράση: Συλλογικά Έργα & Ανταλλακτική Δημοπρασία

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:51:43 +0000

Parallel Action: Collective Works & Exchange Auction dimitra.samsaki Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:25

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Rania Emmanouilidou. Underneath the radar

Start Date

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 20:00

End Date

Thu, 12/19/2024 - 22:00

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The value of art is redefined through the actions that will take place on Thursday 19 December 2024, at 8:00 PM, at MOMus-Alex Mylonas Museum, as part of the exhibition “Rania Emmanouilidou. Under the Radar”. The actions include the presentation of a collective work by Rania Emmanouilidou in collaboration with the artist Lia Psoma, as well as the holding of an exchange auction in collaboration with the artists Eugenia Grammenou and Virginia Mastrogiannaki, upon the invitation of the artist.

At the auction, Emmanouilidou’s artworks that will be made available will not be exchanged for money, but for objects or services offered by the participants. Their value is determined by the creativity and cooperation of the public. If two people desire the same artwork, the audience decides with a live vote who will acquire which. This particular experiment challenges conventional notions of value, raising questions about the affordability of art, the economic well-being of artists and the potential for economies based on solidarity. In the barter auction, participants have the opportunity to reconsider the concept of value and engage in a process that promotes collectivity, creativity and solidarity, beyond conventional economic structures.

The action is part of the exhibition “Rania Emmanouilidou.

Under the Radar”, which highlights issues of gender, identity and politics through the artist’s dynamic and multidimensional creations. The exhibition will remain open until January 26, 2025. Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art.

Participation in the event is through an entrance ticket to the venue. Tickets can be purchased online via the ComeTogether platform here or in person at the Museum Reception, half an hour before the start of the event, subject to availability. For information, call 210 3215717.

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«Στάση στην πράξη» / Παρουσίαση έργων βραβευθέντων 8ης Μπιενάλε Φοιτητών Σχολών Καλών Τεχνών Ελλάδος

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“Attitude in Practice” / Presentation of works awarded at the 8th Biennial of Students of Fine Arts Schools of Greece dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/19/2025 - 13:10

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 13:00

End Date

Sun, 02/16/2020 - 18:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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In 2017, from 28 April to 22 July, at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki of the State Museum of Contemporary Art (now MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts), selections from the visual production born in the workshops of Schools and Departments of Fine Arts throughout the country were presented, within the framework of the 8th Biennial of Students of Fine Arts Schools of Greece.

This organization was completely relevant to the goals of the organization that hosted it: for "research and promotion of experimental artistic expression centered on interdisciplinarity, hybridity and the relationship of art with social reality, as well as for the establishment of networks for the exchange of cultural products and the support of artists in their first professional steps." 95 student-emerging artists from the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia and the Department of Visual Arts & Art Sciences of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina, presented works of painting, engraving, microsculpture, mixed media, video and installations, practically moving from the protected space of education, to direct exhibition in the public space and to open critical reception.

In the 2017 event, Margarita Tsouloucha (First Prize), Markellos Kolofotias and Dimitra Marini (Second Prize) were distinguished, whose works are presented within the framework of the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, all fruitful material from a thoroughly professional collaboration between the organization and the three young artists and a dialogue that lasted approximately two years.

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Α Cabinet of Curiosities

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:06:14 +0000

Α Cabinet of Curiosities dimitra.samsaki Fri, 02/07/2025 - 16:29

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 02/13/2025 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 08/31/2025 - 20:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Thursday 13 February 2025, 19:00

The unexpected, the ambiguous and the enigmatic, the imaginary and the grotesque act as a conceptual and spatial grid for the exhibition entitled "a Cabinet of Curiosities" presented at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylonas, from 13 February to 31 August 2025. The periodical exhibitions’ space of the Museum in Thissio, Athens, is “conquered” by paintings, prints, sculptures, constructions and videos ‒works remarkably diverse in style, materials, qualities, sensitivities, visual values and aesthetic preferences‒ created by 78 artists.

Emerging in Europe during the Renaissance, cabinets of curiosities came to be identified with a collecting frenzy, aesthetic pleasure and amazement through their wondrous and rare exhibits: these ranged from works of art andrelics to strange and “exotic” artifacts from distant cultures, alongside scientific tools and instruments, objects from the natural world, and items related to medicine, zoology, botany, gemology, mineralogy, and astrology, as well as to the realms of the occult, alchemy, and magic. These cabinets, which can be considered precursors to modern museums, played a pivotal role in shaping Western perceptions of the "other", while also offering an aesthetic, social, anthropological and political space wirh numerous benefits of research.

In the modern, extended Cabinet of Curiosities at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, in a multiple connection of images and realities, the exhibits cover a broad thematic spectrum, opening portals to different worlds, times, and regions. The stories they tell, inventive and original, explore concepts such as life and death, nature and technology, vanity and paradox, violence and threat, myth and dream, erotic desire and libido.

The exhibition "a Cabinet of Curiosities" functions as a proposal-challenge for a modern, new "cabinet" which, although apparently creates the fear of emptiness (horror vacui), can nevertheless function as a starting point for a new consideration of the present we live in.

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

Artists: Giorgos Alexandridis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Mairy Antonopoulou, Annita Argiroiliopoulou, Michalis Arfaras, Lena Athanasopoulou, Manolis Baboussis, Theo Bargiotas, Lina Bebi, Mania Benissi, Emmanouil Bitsakis, Margarita Bofiliou, Fani Boudouroglou, Alkis Boutlis, Pantelis Chandris, Panos Charalambous, Giorgos Chatzispyrou (Looper), Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Elli Chrysidou, Lydia Dambassina, Martha Dimitropoulou, Chris Doulgeris, Tzeni Doupi, Rania Emmanouilidou, Panos Famelis, Marios Fournaris, Marina Genadieva, Takis Germenis, Leonidas Giannakopoulos, Nikos Giavropoulos, Giorgos Gyparakis, Marion Inglessi, Nikos Kachrimanis, Antonis Kapnisis, Aris Katsilakis, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Antigoni Kavvatha, Daphne Klagkou, Yannis Kondaratos, Alexandros Maganiotis, Thanos Makris, Dimitra Marouda, Panos Mattheou, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi, Dimitris Merantzas, Christina Mitrentse, Eva Mourtzi, Nourako (Fanouris Moraitis), Nikos Papadimitriou, Antonis Papadopoulos, Xenia Papadopoulou, Aliki Pappa, Konstantinos Patsios, Natassa Poulantza, Vasilis Poulios, Periklis Pravitas, Lia Psoma, Ifigeneia Sdoukou, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Dimitra Siaterli, Zoe Sklepa, Miltos Skouras, Marios Spiliopoulos, Andreas Spiliotopoulos, Nikos Tranos, Giorgos Tsakiris, Giorgos Tserionis, Maritasa Tsimplaki, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Kostas Tsolis, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Andreas Vais, Vasilis Vasilakakis, Babis Venetopoulos, Andriana Verveti, Andreas Voussouras, Maria Xinopoulou, Katerina Zacharopoulou

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Ράνια Εμμανουηλίδου. Κάτω από το ραντάρ

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:46:37 +0000

Rania Emmanouilidou. Underneath the radar dimitra.samsaki Wed, 11/06/2024 - 12:53

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:00

End Date

Sun, 01/26/2025 - 20:00

Museum

Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Thursday 14 November 2024, 20:00

Hybrid creatures and femininities that inhabit special worlds and claim freedom of existence, representatives of successive generations that make up the modern world "conquer" MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, in the exhibition of Rania Emmanouilidou and... are moving "Underneath the radar".

Rania Emmanouilidou, as Generation X, watches the cultural reality and social identity as it takes shape every day. The exhibition "Underneath the Radar" highlights a series of themes that have run through the artist's work for more than twenty years: issues of gender and identity, politics and ecology, always centered on the body; the body, historically, socially and culturally signified, as a signed, differentiated, hybrid, transformed and performative body.

Drawing material from the internet, pop culture, music, fashion and art history, Rania Emmanouilidou creates in her work images of a personal mythology, with enigmatic figures, where traditional gender roles are deconstructed and the linear view of time is overturned.

Emmanouilidou explores the politics of the body, dissects and breaks down the structures of identity and power, while at the same time her hybrid iconography, in which phantasmagoric transformations of the human and the animal alternate, records the present and looks towards the (imaginary) future. Social consciousness, moral and political attitude, artistic imagination and skill coexist in her varied work - mainly sculpture and painting - which is rich in visual and conceptual stimuli.

The exhibition is the fourth and last stop in the Museum’s tribute-exhibition series, entitled "Four Artists, Four Attitudes", which features women artists and curators.

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

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Collective artworks & exchange auction

Thursday 19 December 2024, 20:00

Collective artworks by Rania Emmanouilidou, Fani Boudouroglou and Lia Psoma will be under an alternative auction, organised by Eugenia Grammenou and Virginia Mastrogiannaki.

Rania Emmanouilidou CV

Rania Emmanouilidou studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she works intermittently as a commissioned professor. Her artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, video and installation. Part of her artistic research is the creation of sustainable materials for the production of works of art, as well as the wider dialogue with the public and the activation of small local communities for the co-production of cultural actions, through workshops, lectures and interdisciplinary, educational programmes. Emmanouilidou has presented six solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions and projects in Greece and abroad. With Apostolos Rizos, they are the co-founders of Les Yper Yper, a hybrid platform for research and connecting the dynamics between the arts, visual communication and design. She herself has organised and curated exhibitions, projects and residencies in collaboration with private and public bodies (TISF, ICTVC, Goethe-Institut, Municipality of Torino-Italy, Municipality of Alberta-Canada etc.) and has presented seminars and workshops. In addition, she has dealt with scenography, costumes and the visual environment in theater plays and performances.

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Primary Tide

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:51:23 +0000

Primary Tide dimitra.samsaki Fri, 09/06/2024 - 15:01

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 09/12/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 11/03/2024 - 22:00

Museum

Museum Alex Mylona

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In the frame of the Art Athina Young Artist Award 2023

Opening: Thursday 12 September 2024, 20:00

A primary, cosmogenic, overwhelming tide of materials, meanings, signs and experiences is about to happen on the occasion of Stefania Strouza's new exhibition entitled "Primary Tide" at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (Agioi Asomaton Square 5, Thissio) in Athens, from 12 September to 3 November 3, 2024.

The exhibition takes place within the frame of the programmatic collaboration of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art with the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries and Art Athina fair for the Young Artist Award, seeking to support and promote the work of young contemporary artists.

In the "Primary Tide" exhibition, which could be described as a retrospective of Strouza’s work over the last 10 years, the starting points of her inspiration and her working framework are captured. Consistent in her work, she herself combines and captures elements of geography, culture, art, history, mythology, science and philosophy, with her sculptural compositions, her in situ installations, the mix of natural and synthetic materials in the production process of her works.

Nature and man's altered relationship with it now runs through the broad and interdisciplinary and theoretical background of Strouza’s work, in an attempt to indicate the depth of the inconsistency and the need to restore this destructive disorder.The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, supported by Art Athina. The exhibition is also part of the Museum’s tribute exhibition series, entitled “Four Women Artists-Four Attitudes” series, which features women artists and curators.

Exhibition curator: Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator

The Young Artist Award Art Athina 2023

Stefania Strouza who is represented by the a.antonopoulou.art gallery is the holder of the Art Athina Young Artist Award 2023. The Award, established by the fair in 2022, aims to strengthen artistic creation; artists up to 45 years of age, who live and work in Greece and are recommended by the gallery that represents them, where they have made at least one individual exhibition, can be nominated for the award.

After evaluating the 18 nominated works submitted by the artists and the galleries representing them, the jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Stefania Strouza. The jury recognized the consistency, coherence, research depth, and diversity of the artistic pursuits in Stefania Strouza’s work, which spans a wide range of media. The jury also took note of the multidimensional nature of her work and career so far, as well as the relevance and importance of the themes she addresses and the theoretical-research framework underpinning her artistic approach.

The Young Artist Award Art Athina 2024 will be announced on Friday 20 September 2024 at 18:00, during a special event, at Zappeion Megaron, in Athens.

Parallel events

Public talk «Primary Tide: Stefania Strouza’s dynamic practice in the frame of the Art Athina Talks

Friday 20 September 2024, 17:30-18:00

Zappeion Megaron, Athens

Speakers: Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator / Christian Oxenius, Independent Curator and Head of Research for the International Biennial Association / Stefania Strouza, Visual Artist / Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Entrance with the Art Athina ticket. Please find all Information, here https://art-athina.gr/en/

Stefania Strouza CV

Stefania Strouza is a visual artist currently living and working in Athens. Her practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materialises these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, corporeality, and geography.

Her work has been featured nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions (selection): Water abandons itself. Gold takes life over., a.antonopoulou.art, 2024· I my Sea Journey, I my Land Claim, Old Oil Mill Factory, Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe, Elefsina, 2023· 212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle), AnnexM, Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, 2021· Currents and Currencies, a.antonopoulou.art, Athens, 2017· Shore, Wiener Art Foundation, Wien, 2016· To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act V, Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 2015· To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act III, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2014. Group exhibitions (selection): Plasmata II: Ioannina, organized by the Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, 2023· The Mediterranean: A Round Sea, ARCO Madrid, with a.antonopoulou.art, Madrid, 2023· Mr. Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2021· Ride into the Sun, 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Istria, 2020· The Palace at 4 a.m. –collaboration of NEON with the Whitechapel Gallery–, Archaeological.

Museum of Mykonos, 2019· Ad Astra, Pinta Miami, Miami, 2018· Imagined Homes, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017· Desk in Exile, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, 2016· No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, BOZAR, Brussels, 2014· Afresh: A New Generation of Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art-EMST, Athens, 2013.

Strouza has received numerous accolades such as the Art Athina Award 2023, the Inspire Prize of MOMus- Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), the ARTWORKS Award (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program) (2018), the Emerging Artists Award of the National Bank of Greece (2017), and the Diploma

Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015). She has been an artist-inresidence at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Princeton University, US (2016), the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, DE (2016), at Studio Residency in Mexico City, MX (2018) with the support of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, at MANA

Contemporary New Jersey, US (2019), at CCA Andratx in Mallorca, ES (2020), and at ISCP, US (2021).

With prior graduate studies at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2007), Strouza also holds an MFA in Environmental Art from the Edinburgh College of Art (2010) along with a Magister in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly.

www.stefaniastrouza.com

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Ira Waldron. Κύκλοι που δεν κλείνουν ποτέ

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:15:55 +0000

Ira Waldron. Circles that never close dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/13/2024 - 16:10

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 09/01/2024 - 20:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Thursday 20 May 2024, 20:00

The MOMus, as a custodian of the work of the internationally renowned artist Ira Waldron, presents the first posthumous exhibition of her oeuvre at the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens. Paintings, porcelain sculptures, textile compositions, prints based on graphic design, artworks on the whole and in their essence profoundly political make up Ira Waldron's life's body of work, in the exhibition entitled "Circles that never close", which will be presented from 20 June to 30 August 2024 at the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (Thissio, Athens).

Ira Walrdron (1957-2023) is one of the foremost examples of a truly international artist who never settled for any artistic or stylistic stereotype. An artist who explored many different means of expression, choices, and perspectives, Waldron viewed history, society, and the art market, as well as all other aspects of art, through a very sensitive perspective.

Since the mid-1980s she had worked professionally in London, Moscow and Paris. With exhibitions in Western Europe and Russia and participation in numerous international projects, her works are included in public museum and private collections. Using a variety of media, including painting, installations, photographs, silkscreens, anthropomorphic porcelain and embroidery, she addresses social, political, religious and sexual issues that transcend conventions and prejudices in a radical way and with dark humour. Humour, playfulness and boldness are characteristics that structurally run through her oeuvre.

As a creator and as a member of a wider international artistic community in more than one countries (Russia, UK, France as an artist belonging to the larger international art community (in Russia, Great Britain, France), felt effortlessly and fearlessly at home everywhere, moving with her quirky sense of humour seamlessly between expressive media, techniques, materials, and styles, ultimately being a purely conceptual artist.

The exhibition honours this important artist and reintroduces her to the Greek and international public, while at the same time it attempts to assess and present her unique artistic personality through works from her early, middle and late creative life.

At the same time, it highlights her major donation of some 300 works to MOMus, which was completed shortly before her death in 2023. Many of these works are presented in this exhibition, with the unstinting assistance and ever-creative spirit of Ira Waldron's husband, Simon Waldron.

Her artworks are included in public and private collections, including the French Centre Pompidou, the Tretyakov State Gallery and the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, the State Museum of Russia in St. Petersburg, and the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki. Ira Waldron had participated in exhibitions in Thessaloniki, including the 2018 solo exhibition "Interstices" at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (now MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts).

The exhibition is the second production by MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in 2024 under the “Four Women Artists-Four Attitudes” series, which features women artists and curators.

Curated by: Areti Leopoulou, art historian-MOMus curator

Ira Waldron donation, © MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art

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To MOMus-Μουσείο Άλεξ Μυλωνά στο This is Athens City Festival!

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:08:31 +0000

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona at This is Athens City Festival! dimitra.samsaki Wed, 05/08/2024 - 14:18

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Guided Tours

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Education Exhibition

Alex Mylona –By Hand

Start Date

Thu, 05/16/2024 - 11:00

End Date

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 19:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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For the second year, the This is Athens City Festival brings together and proposes to the residents and visitors of Athens special events of culture, gastronomy and more during May!

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona participates in this year's This is Athens City Festival with two special guided tours of the current exhibition "Alex Mylona: By Hand" on May 16 and 23 2024 (in Greek and English respectively) with free admission for the public. Registrations at +30 210 3215717, Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-19:00. Maximum number of participants: 25 people.

The exhibition “Alex Mylona –By Hand” is the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing female sculptors and organised by the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in 2024, in the frame of the “Four Women Artists, Four Attitudes” series.

Over 100 works by Alex Mylonas make up the universe of the sculptor who made innovation an absolute priority in her work. The artist channeled her energy, strength and vitality into her creative career from 1950 to 2000.

The museum that bears the name of its founder belongs to the family of the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, MOMus, and is housed in two listed buildings in the area of Thissio where visitors have a wonderful view of the Acropolis.

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