5TH THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

5TH THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

June 23 – September 30, 2015

General title: “Old Intersections-Make it New III”

Opening: Tuesday June 23, 2015, 20:00, Pavilion 6 (Leof Stratou Av. & 3rd Septemvriou St, TIF-HELEXPO premises)

The Mediterranean region lies at the core of the main and parallel programme of the forthcoming 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, which will be held from June 23 until September 30, 2015, in Thessaloniki, as the last segment of a three part program which began in 2011, under the general title “Old Intersections-Make it New”.

The 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is funded by the Operational Program Macedonia-Thrace 2007-2013, co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and Greece, it is administered and organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. General Director of the Biennale is Katerina Koskina.

MAIN PROGRAMME

Α) MAIN EXHIBITION

“Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will”

44 artists and one artists’ collective group from 25 countries all around the world, will exhibit their artworks, including existing works as well as several new productions commissioned for the occasion by the Biennale.

Duration: 23.06 - 30.09.2015 

Venue: Pavilion 6 (Leof. Stratou Ave. & 3 Septemvriou St, TIF-HELEXPO premises) Curator: Katerina Gregos, Art Historian - Independent Curator

Participating artists: Carlos Aires (ES), Can Altay & Jeremiah Day (TR/US), Ivan Argote (CO), Marwa Arsanios (US), Bertille Bak (FR), Taysir Batniji (PS), James Beckett (ZA/NL), Adelita Husni Bey (IT), David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin (BE/LU), Marianna Christofides (CY), Depression Era (GR), Ninar Esber (LB), Mounir Fatmi (MA), Peter Friedl (AT), Mekhitar Garabedian (SY/BE), Ganzeer (EG), Marina Gioti (GR), Piero Gilardi (IT), Hamza Halloubi (MA), Nick Hannes (BE), Sven Johne (DE), Annika Kahrs (DE), Eleni Kamma (GR), Hayv Kahraman (IQ), Mikhail Karikis (GR), Chrysanthi Koumianaki (GR), Erik Van Lieshout (NL), Thomas Locher (DE), Angela Melitopoulos & Angela Anderson (DE/US), Tom Molloy (IE), Nikos Navridis (GR), Qiu Zhijie (CN), Pavel Pepperstein (RU), Antonis Pittas (GR), Theo Prodromidis (GR), Meriç Algün Ringborg (TR), Anila Rubiku (AL), Marinella Senatore (IT), Nedko Solakov (BG), Nikos Tranos (GR), Thomas Weinberger (DE), Olav Westphalen (DE)

© Nedko Solakov, Courtesy Sariev Contemporary

B) EXHIBITIONS (in chronological order)

“Earth’s enduring gifts”

The exhibition examines the timeless gifts of the Greek biodiversity from ancient times until today. The connection between man and nature throughout Greece are presented through the artistic creations and the eating habits of the people, who lived on the Greek mainland and the Aegean, and are displayed by historical examples deriving from ancient Macedonia and prehistoric Thera, in order to reach the modern scientific research on Greek biodiversity and its prospects.

Duration: 18.05 - 30.09.2015

Location: Teloglion Foundation of Art, AUTH

Curators: Panagiotis Kourniakos, Christina Tsagkalia

Collaborating Institutions: Teloglion Foundation of Art, AUTH, Museum of Royal Tombs of Aigai, Archaeological Museum of Veria, Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) of the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Archaeological Museum of Pella, Museum of Casts and Antiquities, AUTH, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Wine Museum Gerovassiliou, Loulis Museum, Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of CERTH

“Kazimir Malevich and his students. 100 years after the Black Square. Russian avant garde works from the Costakis collection of the SMCA” 

Taking as its point of departure the 100th anniversary of the creation of Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square”, the most emblematic artwork in the history of the Russian avant garde movement, and the appearance of Suprematism, the State Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits artworks and archival material from the Costakis collection, which refer to the historic "Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10", Suprematism itself, Malevich’s students and the educational role of the artist.

Duration: 19.05 - 10.10.2015

Venue: State Museum of Contemporary Art 

Curator: Maria Tsantsanoglou, Art Historian, Director of the State Museum of Contemporary Art

“Ident-alter-ity”

Exhibition on the issue of gender and self-determination.

Participating artists: Lynda Benglis (USA), Ursula Biemann (CH), Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (CH-DE / DE), Marianne Darlen Solhaugstrand (NO), Yevgeniy Fiks (RU / USA), Kostis Fokas (GR / UK, Hector de Gregorio (UK), Igor Grubic (HR), David Hockney (UK), Deborah Kelly & Tina Fiveash (AU), Majida Khattari (MA/FR), Carlos Motta (CO / USA), Slava Mogutin (RU/USA), Natasha Papadopoulou (GR), Antonis Protopatsis (GR), Wolfgang Tillmans (DE/UK), Boryana Rossa - Oleg Mavromatti (BG / USA-RU), Milica Tomic (RS)

Duration: 17.06 - 31.07.2015 

Venue: Thessaloniki City Hall 

Curators “Ident-alter-ity”: Theodore Markoglou, Art Historian - Curator at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Syrago Tsiara, Art Historian - Director of the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki

“HEL(L)AS! Everywhere!”

Exhibition of works by Konstantinos Xenakis in a “silent dialogue” with the antiquities in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

Duration: 23.06 - 30.09.2015

Place: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

General Coordination: Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Archaeologist-Theatrologist, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. 

Curators: Evangelia Tsangaraki, Archaeologist, Head of the Department of the Collections of Metalwork, Sculpture & Minor Artifacts at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Styliana Galiniki, Archaeologist at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

"Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean through the Digital Archive of Greek Culture of Th. Korres (A.U.TH.)"

This temporary -and travelling- photographic exhibition aims to show to the public a series of more or less known places (archaeological sites, settlements, landscapes e.a.) with a strong Greek presence over time. Common characteristic of all these places is their position along the littoral zone of Eastern Mediterranean (Asia Minor, Jordan, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt).

Duration: 23.06 - 13.09.2015 

Venue: Museum of Byzantine Culture, wing of temporary exhibitions "Kyriakos Krokos" 

Curator: Agathoniki Tsilipakou, Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Archaeologist

Scientific Advisor: Theodoros Korres, Professor Emeritus A.U.TH.

Partners: Museum of Byzantine Culture, Digital Archive of Greek Culture of the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy A.U.TH.

“Relative Motions / Evangelia Kranioti - Julien Prévieux”

This exhibition explores the living aspects of tradition and their redevelopment into modern art. Such distinctive approaches, like the ones in the works of E.Kranioti (GR) and J.Previeux (FR), do face the challenges and the reality of the modern era, using contemporary mediums. Yet, they manage not to be cut off from the Mediterranean tradition, giving it special emotions and dynamics.

Duration: 23.06-30.09.2015

Venue: Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki porta)

Curator: Katerina Koskina, Art Historian- Director of the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 

Collaborating Institutions: Ambassade de France en Grèce / Institut Français de Thessalonique, Consul Général de France / Institut Français de Grèce.

C) OTHER PROJECTS - information is here.