Maria-Thalia Carras
Maria-Thalia Carras’ curatorial work In 2004 Carras co-founded the nomadic non-profit arts organization locus athens, which has been curating exhibitions, talks, screenings and educational programs, with an emphasis on the production of new artworks for Athens’s public space. In 2018 she co-curated Geometries, a large-scale exhibition with a parallel public program hosted at the Agricultural University of […]
Phoebe Giannisi
Phoebe Giannisi is a poet and an architect whose work lies at the intersection between poetry-performance and theory, often resulting in visual arts-installations that explore the connections between language, voice, place, and memory. For the Thessaloniki biennial, Giannisi was commissioned to produce a sound walk for the city’s Archaeological Museum’s permanent display. Field, House, Garden, […]
Panos Sklavenitis
What do a mascot, a bell-wearing carnival koudounoforos, an activist, and a visual artist have in common? Which worlds are connected through masquerading and what transcendences or transgressions does this practice allow? What becomes of us when we hide our face or change our age, gender, species? Who are we when we put on ‘another’ […]
Paky Vlassopoulou
Paky Vlassopoulou is taking part in this year’s edition of the Thessaloniki Biennale with the installation I Have Seen the Moon Rise on Both the Left and Right Side of the Sky, at the Eptapyrgio Fortress, mostly known by its Ottoman name, Yedi Kule. Situated at the north-eastern corner of Thessaloniki, within the city’s Acropolis, […]
Kostas Roussakis
Kostas Roussakis’ artistic practice is slow burning. His process of making is meticulous, takes time, and is responsive to place. His sculptural positionings register softly, their impression an elliptic but indelible imprint on space. His tripartite work, commissioned for the Thessaloniki Biennale was born from a long research-walk across Thessaloniki, studying three key sites of […]
Thanasis Chondros & Alexandra Katsiani
Happiness belongs to those that suspect its existence Research Centre for the Identification of Happiness (KEPE) Press Release, 26 September 1999 Chondros and Katsiani have been working as partners since 1974, using the city of Thessaloniki as their base. In their artistic and non-artistic practices (first as an artistic partnership and later as […]
Yiannis Papadopoulos
Yannis Papadopoulos’ new work is the culmination of a dialogue between the artist and printmaker Vasso Katraki (1914-1988). Papadopoulos dedicated several months to studying Katraki’s life and work: he visited her birthplace Aitoliko whilst during the gestation of his project he was in constant communication with Katraki’s daughter, researching into her personal archive. Like a […]
Vasso Katraki
Print-maker and painter Vasso Leonardou Katraki (1914-1988) has a two-pronged participation in Being as Communion. Her work is presented across two different spaces: on its own and in a new commission, in dialogue with a contemporary Greek artist. Her hometown, the town of Aitoliko, in Aitoloakarnania, with its lagoon, as well as the local and […]
Angelo Plessas
Angelo Plessas looks into the ways in which internet technology affects and redefines human existence and interaction. His work (ranging from performance art to interactive websites, hybrid videos, textile sculptures, and neon public artworks) is inspired by the World Wide Web’s evolution into today’s colossal cyber network. The idea that technology has the potential for […]
Zheng Bo
Zheng Bo lives and works in a village neighboring a lush green hill, on the south side of Lantau Island, one of the least populated areas of Hong Kong. Having started as a daily practice throughout the pandemic lockdown, he strolls each morning up the hill and when he notices plants that interest him, he […]
