The double reading of the word ‘perfect’ in the title of the exhibition “Future Perfect” stands at the core of it, along with the question: how will we have lived? The exhibition, coproduced by MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, along with the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Thessaloniki, presents the visual proposals of 19 artists, an equal number of different answers and assumptions about the (realised) future, at the Museum, from 23 January until 30 March 2025.
Films, photographs, sculptures, objects, paintings, and collages by the participating artists comprise their artistic suggestion as speculations on the course of history. Today, the future appears to us as a critical concept, and even the near future, despite all our digital and mobile acceleration, can scarcely be anticipated.
If in the southern Mediterranean region, civil societies are demanding a future and facing massive resistance in the process, at Europe’s center it is as if the future were more a source of concern than of motivation.
However, the ability to speculate, to name intentions, expectations, and fears, and then to make these the basis for action is what holds societies together. The works on show design spaces of imagination, action (and play) for the future and they “translate” important social questions into artistic concepts.
Artistic Director: Thouli Misirloglou
Curated by: Angelika Stepken, curator and former director of Villa Romana-Florence, Philipp Ziegler, research collaborator ZKM | Center for Art and Media-Karlsruhe, Theodore Markoglou, art historian-curator MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art
Participating artists: Nikos Arvanitis, Nairy Baghramian, DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch & Adele Röder), Mariana Castillo Deball, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Armin Linke, Antje Majewski, Henrik Olesen, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Lina Theodorou, Nasan Tur, Danh Vo, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Vangelis Vlahos
Collaborating Organisations
With the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Thessaloniki.
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