Athens Intersection is a Cultural Program focused on bringing contemporary societies close to the values of the arts and culture. Rooted on APART's experience in creating international cultural events of extensive participation and engagement, Athens-Intersection creates actual opportunities for international artists to bond with the local art community and create meaningful connections with the urban environment, it's architecture.
Fuelling longstanding bonds between the Arts, Culture and Contemporary societies during times of tension and disruption.
Athens Intersection 2020 presented •
14 Exhibitions •
4 Performances in •
3 Areas in Athens •
3 Buildings with the participation of •
116 International Artists and •
16 International Curators.
Although the majority of APART's 2020 Athens Intersection agenda had been carefully scheduled, the worldwide epidemic unexpectedly disrupted the “normality” of everyday life, forcing new concerns and priorities. As societies entered into rapid changes, so did the art world respond to the new living and working conditions. Consequently, the 2020 program was deeply influenced by the evolving situation which introduced changes and new practices in materialising the events. As a result, the exhibitions were enriched by many new and emerging art concepts that became part of a large tank expressing the voices of the artists and the public.
Enhanced with new artwork and international participations, with the valuable Support / Auspices of the
Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports,
the Austrian Embassy in Athens and the
Ministry of Culture of Austria, the Auspices of the
City of Athens and other collaborating bodies, APART utilised a highly demanding program for Athens Intersection 2020.
Athens Intersection 2020 completed its artistic exploration having engaged with three of the most vibrant and emblematic neighborhoods of Athens, from Exarchia to the Commercial Triangle, ending in Plaka.
The program was showcased in three entities:
☱ Back to Athens 7 | 2020 μetaΑθήνα - pόστΑθενς ☱ Resides and works in Athens ☱ In The Name
☱ Back to Athens 7 | 2020 μetaΑθήνα / pόστΑθενς
48-50 Aiolou str., 105 60 Athens
Athens Commercial Triangle
July 1 - 4 2020
Overcoming crises, Athens on the verge of its new identity. A unique post-lockdown meeting, Greek and International artists reconnect in physical presence, in the face and the circumstances of a new reality. Back to Athens 2020 under the title "μetaΑθήνα / pόστΑθενς" presents 12 curatorial exhibitions and individual artistic proposals with the participation of 100 artists and curators from Greece and abroad.
Back to Athens 2020 is curated by Georg Georgakopoulos, Fotini Kapiris, Christian Rupp, organized by
APART Art Research and Applications, collaborating organisation
CHEAPART, as a part of the Cultural Program "Αθήνα-Σημεία Τομής 2020/Athens-Intersection 2020" supported by and under the auspices of the
Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. Back to Athens 2020 is under the auspices of the
City of Athens, supported by the
Austrian Embassy in Athens and the
Ministry of Culture of Austria, F.O.T.A. (Friends of Trigono Athens). The building of Aiolou 48-50 is courtesy of
Zoia. Communication partner,
Ta Nea tis Technis (The Greek Art Newspaper).
Exhibitions
"Sausaging on / Weiterwurschteln" Curated by Christian Rupp
co-curated by Georg Georgakopoulos
Artists: Pablo Chiereghin, Julius Deutschbauer, Aldo Giannotti, Christian Rupp, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Anna Khodorkovskaya, Babis Karalis.
"New ritual society" Curated by Katerina Nikolaou
Artists: Maria Varela, Eirini Vlavianou, Myrto Vratsanou, Yiannis Vogdanis, George Petsikopoulos, Lily Hassioti, Alexia Psaradeli
"RAUMSTATION" Curated by: Pablo Chiereghin
Artists: Andrea Heyer, Peter Kraus, Miriam Laussegger, Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva.
"Always Forever | Phoenix Athens" Curated by Dimitri Yin, Christina Makri
Artists: Ileana Arnaoutou, Anna Fafaliou, Dimitri Yin, Lee Wells
"IF IT SOUNDS LIKE BACON YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT | A-DASH" Curated by: Noemi Niederhauser (A-Dash member)
Artists: Campus Novel, Theo Prodromidis, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson and Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson, Chrysanthi Koumianaki & Fanis Kafantaris, Talc Design Studio, Benjamin Cohen, Kristin Rúnarsdóttir, Ben Callaghan & Mica Warren, Jennifer Niederhauser-Schlup.
"Habitat" Curated by: Ioli Katsarou
Artists: Ioli Katsarou, Vasiliki Koukou, Alexandros Douras, Elpida Frageskidou, Christiana Vardakou.
"Beast on a diet" Curated by Nina Kotamanidou, Eleftheria Alexandri
Artists: Vangelis Agnantopoulos, Eleftheria Alexandri, Stavros Valkanis, Andromachi Giannopoulou, Patricia-Eugenia Deliyannis, Tati Douvana, Eleni Glinou, Nina Kotamanidou, Chryssa Lambracopoulou, Dorina Malliou, Fryni Mouzakitou, Michail Parlamas, Christos Ponis, Gm Touliatou, Vassilis Fiorentzakis.
"Sandbox House" Curated by Galini Lazani
Assistant curator Aias Christofis
Artists: Manolis Baboussis, Pythagoras Chatziandreou, Petros Efstathiadis, Anna Fafaliou, Ismene King, Nikolaos Komiotis, Alexios Papazacharias, Dimitris Polychroniadis, Zoe Sklepa, Giorgos Tserionis, Katerina Zacharopoulou.
"Man: Between Power and Fragility" Curated by Stratis Pantazis
Artists Paolo Incarnato, Thalia Kerouli, Dimitris Skourogiannis, Evangelia Topa
"Living in Tutorian times | Back Space" Artwork by: Eleanna Balesi
Curator Katerina Botsari
"Breaths Independent artists" Curated by Fotini Kapiris
Artists: Dimosthenis Bogiatzis, Pirro Caridha, Thomas Diotis, Nicole Economides, Marion Fischer, Sotiris Fokeas, Vasilis Galanis, Dimitris Kontodimos, Marilena Kranioti, Kostas Lales, Natalia Manta, Kleopatra Tsali, Panagiotis Voulgaris
"Volume" Sound installation by: Robert Mathy
Curated by: Johannes Rips
Performances
"Champagne in the bedroom" Julius Deutschbauer (part of Sausaging on / Weiterwurschteln)
"Asoziale naehe/ Asocial closeness" Julius Deutschbauer (part of Sausaging on / Weiterwurschteln)
"BACK TO BASICS: The Alphabet" Fragment of an ongoing performance project
Concept, research, dramaturgy & choreography: Antonis Liveropoulos
Assistant: Adonis Vais
Costumes: Magda Kaloriti
Curated by: Ingo Starz
"Demeter returning" Elisabeth von Samsonow
☱ Resides and works in Athens
40 Eressou Str., 10681, Exarchia
28.2 - 13.3.2020
A three-storey house in the heart of Exarcheia in Athens, becomes the field of action for a group of artists who explore and transmute their environments as sites of psychic-mental processes and states of affectedness (disorders, traumas, oscillations, modes of recovering and rebalancing), through the use of photography, video and sound.
The artists involved in the project all reside and work in Athens. In their fragmented everyday life, they inexorably yield to “multitasking”, in full accord with the dominant socio-economic and behavioral model of their era. Their daily activity is split into diverse forms of production. They live as internal "nomads" moving amidst a closed existential landscape of multiple ever-changing speeds and imploded time. Every once in a while they slow down unexpectedly. They pause, set up their equipment to "document". They abandon the prey for the shade. The selection and arrangement of their works as a unity did not result from topic-based criteria (such as: the city, art in public space, urban culture etc.), but from a purely ergo-centric approach, emerging from the specificity of each individual work of art. All works involve projections on two-dimensional surfaces, forming a mosaic-like overall composition, rich in morphological and contextual qualities, textures, sensitivities, tonal values, degrees of introvertedness/extrovertedness, varying significantly in each project.
Participating artists: Vicky Betsou, Vera Chotzoglou, Taxiarchis Diamantopoulos, Christina Dimakogianni, Gabriella Gerolemou, Yannis Karpouzis, Marietta Kavvadia, Vladimir Necakov, Alfredo Pechuan, Michaelangelo Vlassis-Ziakas.
Work group: Georg Georgakopoulos, Vicky Betsou, George Harvalias, Dimitris Ginosatis
The exhibition
"Resides and works in Athens" is organized by
APART Art Research and Applications , collaborating organisation
CHEAPART Athens, as a part of the Cultural Program "Αθήνα-Σημεία Τομής 2020/Athens-Intersection 2020" supported by and under the auspices of the
Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
☱ In The Name..
25 Apollonos Str., Plaka – Mitrópoli, 105 56 Athens
Athens Commercial Triangle
9 - 18.10.2020
A Modular exhibition on faith, disbelief and other miracles
We are set within the hub of ecclesiastical requisites in Athens, surrounded by church supplies and other ceremonial items used in rituals. Shop fronts with a variety of vestments and liturgical objects and other products of purpose, some of which have not yet assumed a ritualistic functionality, subject the visitor to an atmosphere of impressions and associations.
Faith or trust, Devotion or Obsession. We must express this thought in an earthly and ordinary sense: Can we act upon distinguished situations of great importance, before they develop as such? Can we embrace, that which is potentially "Grand" and "Majestic"? Do we reject it in feeling of empathy, out of fear of losing oneself to a state of inferiority? Do we mistakenly turn to defend ourselves by performing exorcisms with protection charms, gemstones, amulets and other types of applied magic? Do we "spit behind us" as a custom tradition to protect against the evil eye, or do we "throw a black stone behind us”, so as never to see it again?
Unanswered questions with an infinity of interpretations. 22 stories, 22 artists develop their artwork and installations in the rooms and spaces of a 3-storey residential building, that later housed local workshops and businesses with church supplies and utilities.
Participating artists: Nikos Artemis, Eleanna Balesi, Kostas Bassanos, Dimosthenis Bogiatzis, Katerina Botsari, Sotiris Fokeas, Vasilis Galanis, Vangelis Gokas, Babis Karalis, Markela Kontaratou, Dimitris Kontodimos, Kostas Lales, Natalia Manta, Despoina Pantazi, Nina Papaconstantinou, Nikos Papadimitriou, Amo Soy, Kleopatra Tsali, Kostas Tsolis, Andreas Vousouras, Dimitri Yin.
Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos
Coordinated by: Fotini Kapiris
"εἰς τὸ ὄνομα.../ in the name..." is part of the Cultural Program "Αθήνα-Σημεία Τομής/ Athens-Intersection". The exhibition is held under the Auspices/ Support of the
Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, organised by
APART Art Research & Applications, coordinated by
CHEAPART Athens, collaborating organization FOTA/ Friends of Trigono Athens. The exhibition takes part in AAvirtual / Art-Athina.
☱ Athens Intersection 2017 - 2019
Contemporary art in revival and appreciation of historical locations in Athens.
Athens Intersection Cultural Program was initiated in April 2017 in collaboration with Athens Trigono and the City of Athens. The program aimed to establish the importance of artistic events, as a vital tool for the social re-development of the historical city center of Athens and the empowerment of community participation in the arts. Over a period of 2 years, Athens Intersection implemented • 20 exhibitions • 28 visual and sound performances • 20 art installations in store fronts and shops, guided tours and screenings at • 39 locations and 8 buildings within the Athens Commercial Triangle. • 193 local and international artists and • 20 curators participated in the realisation of Athens Intersection's ambitious agenda. Exhibitions and events were developed and hosted within the setting of important historical landmarks of modern Greek architecture ranging from 1860 through the 1930s to the 70s.
In June 2018, Athens Intersection co-organises the 6th International Back to Athens Festival hosting 9 curatorial exhibitions, events and performances with the participation of 75 international artists for 10 days. In June 2019, Athens Intersection provides a 1950's 5-storey building as exhibition space for the 1st Art Athina Summer Popup exhibition. In July 2019, Athens Intersection coordinates Falling Triangles outdoor light installation by Beforelight as a part of This is Athens-Polis, City of Athens pilot programme.
Athens Intersection
by APART Art Research and Applications
Curator: Georg Georgakopoulos, Athens Intersection
Coordinator: Fotini Kapiris, Athens Intersection
Athens Intersection Performances Curator: Thanos Vovolis [2017]
Athens Intersection: Kyriakos Spirou [April - May 2017]
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