Curator | Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos

Chez Eux: Unseen Collections maps a network that has not yet been historically recorded. It uncovers an unseen and intimate contemporary art circuit and depicts the real and substantial presence of people intersecting in each other’s lives, revealing influences on their artistic practices through a reality that is reliant on memory.

The art collections of 25 Greek artists covering a spectrum from the 70’s until today, are exhibited in Chez Eux: Unseen Collections. The project displays works that have been gifted or acquired through exchange between artists. Adopting the installation model of the 90’s relational aesthetics, the basement of Project Space is being recast into a referential simulation of the actual domestic environment where the project has been conceived, formed and developed until the moment of its final execution and transformation into a group exhibition.

In this room, the curator creates her own collection of collections. Her bedroom functions as a spatial metaphor of a digital mood-board, referring to the postmodern construction of “pastness” in contemporary youth microblogs (tumblr, etc). In Chez Eux: Unseen Collections, the researcher becomes the architect, inhabitant, curator and narrator of the artists’ personal stories.

Participating artists

Loukia Alavanou, Andreas Angelidakis, Antonakis, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Manolis Daskalakis Lemos, Panos Haralabous, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Konstantin Kakanias, Katerina Kana, Stelios Karamanolis and Toula Ploumi, Miltos Manetas, Theo Michael, Maria Papadimitriou, Panos Papadopoulos, Rena Papaspyrou, Angelo Plessas, Mima Razelou, Kostas Sahpazis, Panos Tsagaris, Alexandros Tzannis, Jannis Varelas, Kostas Varotsos, Kostis Velonis, Poka Yio