FOLLOW US   

EXHIBITION

CURRENT/

ARCHIVE

7th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | STASIS

Grant 2019

12/10/2019 - 16/02/2020

Athina Ioannou, Hanging Garden (Jardin Suspendu), 2018, Courtesy the artist and Irène Laub Gallery
Yiorgos Depollas, From the series “The Outsider” (2010-today), Courtesy of the artist
Stelarc, Handswriting, Writing One Word Simultaneously with Three Hands, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, 1982, Photographer - Keisuke Oki, Courtesy of the artist

Jonathas de Andrade, The fish, 2016, Courtesy by: Galeria Vermelho
Vassilis Salpistis, Malraux, his sons and his Kachina dolls, 2019, Courtesy of the artist and Kappatos Gallery

DETAILS

7th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | STASIS

12/10/2019 - 16/02/2020

MOMus

MORE INFO

thessalonikibiennale.gr

 


Add to calendar  

 Press Release

Would it be possible for a biennale to become both a point of stasis, and the starting point for reflection on the crucial issues that contemporary societies are facing in the current conditions of acceleration and increasing inequality? To examine, from a critical distance, people’s standpoint towards the world and the planet? To bridge the gap between the viewer and contemporary art and to overcome curatorial and institutional complacency in order to get to the core of politics and daily life, also by reconsidering artistic practice as a condition of labor both within and outside institutions and norms? Arguably these questions are too many, but none of them is superfluous.

The 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art aspires to act as a field for the redefinition of values and priorities, a process which is more likely to happen when things are seen from a critical distance. This detachment aims to shape our positions, stimulate our vision and make us act. The vehicle in this effort is history. The concept of the contemporary in art -which is largely defined by the biennales- is often correlated to that of urgency. But if this sense of urgency could be perceived as a driving force, history could identify the paths that by-pass dead-ends.

The four month program comprises the main exhibition, hosted in all five MOMus venues in Thessaloniki and Athens and other venues in Thessaloniki, as well as the Performance Festival (17-24.10.2019) and a series of artists’ talks, conferences, masterclasses and special projects exploring aspects of the core theme of the Biennale. With the support of ΝΕΟΝ.

Director: Syrago Tsiara
Curatorial Team: Louisa Avgita, Domna Gounari, Panagis Koutsokostas, Areti Leopoulou, Theodore Markoglou, Thouli Misirloglou, Hercules Papaioannou, Eirini Papakonstantinou, Katerina Syroglou, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Syrago Tsiara

MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection
MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art
MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts
MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona
Aladja Imaret
Thessaloniki Concert Hall


Museum of Modern Art-Costakis collection

Μουσείο Μοντέρνας Τέχνης-Συλλογή Κωστάκη

Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art collections

Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης-Συλλογές Μακεδονικού Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης και Κρατικού Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Μουσείο Φωτογραφίας Θεσσαλονίκης, Thessaloniki, Greece

Experimental Center for the Arts

ΜΟΜus-Experimental Center for the Arts/Πειραματικό Κέντρο Τεχνών, Thessaloniki, Greece

Museum Alex Mylona

MOMus - Μουσείο Άλεξ Μυλωνά | MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona, Athens, Greece

Aladja Imaret

Αλατζά Ιμαρέτ, Kassandrou, Thessaloniki, Greece

Thessaloniki Concert Hall

Μέγαρο Μουσικής Θεσσαλονίκης, 25is Martiou, Thessaloniki, Greece

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE