“The Costakis Collection” at Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art
“The Costakis Collection” at Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art
The Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art at Greece is set to host “Thessaloniki. The Costakis Collection. Restart”. On view until September 16, 2018, the highly anticipated exhibition is an interesting re-launch of the museum’s famous collection of works by Georgios Costakis. Collected in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century, the George Costakis collection is comprised of Russian avant-garde art of the 1900s-1940s. “The collection encompasses a diverse genre and style...
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THESSALONIKI. COSTAKIS COLLECTION. RESTART
A unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Maria Tsantsanoglou about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director of the State Museum of Contemporary Art, about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Alla Lukanova about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Alla Lukanova, Co-curator of the exhibition, about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Maya Avelicheva about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Maya Avelicheva, AVC Charity Foundation, about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Andrey Cheglakov about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Andrey Cheglakov, Founder of the AVC Charity Foundation, aboutThessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Kristina Krasnyanskaya aboutThessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Kristina Krasnyanskaya, Head of the development committee, founder of the Heritage International Foundation, about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Kirill Ass and Nadia Korbut about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart
Kirill Ass and Nadia Korbut, the exhibition designers, about Thessaloniki. Costakis Collection. Restart, a unique exhibition, bringing together more than 400 Russian avant garde works from the Georga Costakis collection and archive, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Duration: 29.06-16.09.2018
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
ΕΒΡΑΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ - JEWISH MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI (SALONIKA)
Ένα απόσπασμα από μια τηλεοπτική εκπομπή, που προβλήθηκε τον Ιούνιο του 2011, αφιερωμένη στο Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης.
Μια in memoriam αναφορά στην, αφανισμένη από τους Γερμανούς κατακτητές, πολυπληθέστατη και δραστήρια Εβραϊκή Κοινότητα της Θεσσαλονίκης.
Ένα musée insolite της πόλης που αξίζει να το επισκεφθεί κάθε άνθρωπος που ενδιαφέρεται για την πραγματική ιστορία του τόπου.
6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - Opening
Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art. Thessaloniki, 30.09.2017
Museums as Spaces of Intercultural Dialogue: A Case Study from Greece
The increased flow of refugees in Europe, particularly in Greece, last year constituted a challenge for museums and cultural institutions in view of their role as a social agency and their contribution to supporting social cohesion and inclusion of marginalized social groups. In this context two museums, the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Photography, in Thessaloniki, in collaboration with one Self-Help Promotion Program, other initiatives, and NGOs developed innovative activities and educational concepts. The activities were addressed both to refugee as well as to local families, offering thus a space for them to communicate, interact, and share experiences, aiming at a museum as a place of dialogue and inclusion. Group games (table and open air) from all over the world were reclaimed as a motive for visitors to play and interact with each other. The activities were evaluated by qualitative research methods including systematic observation of the implementation, interviews with the people in charge of the project, and questionnaires addressed to the local families. The evaluation provided valuable insights into the nature of program development including particularities, limitations, and restrictions of the implementation, the need of wider institutional partnerships and differentiated strategies for promoting inclusion.
Dr. Niki Nikonanou, Associate Professor, Museum Education and Research Laboratory, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Maria Kokorotskou, Museum Educator, Head of Educational Department, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
Katerina Paraskeva, Museum Educator, Educational Department, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Evi Papavergou, Museum Educator, Educational Department, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Preview of (Un)Foreseen Events installation for the Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece
Installation / 2011
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Commissioned by
Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art
Curated by
Areti Leopoulou & Theodore Markouglou
Opening October 7th at Pavlos Melas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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All structural materials found in Pavlos Melas former military and concentration camp.
Giorgos Tserionis,Lenin became a lonely man (from peasant life to industrial loneliness)
Installation at the State Museum of Contemporary Art ,Thessaloniki,Greece,clay,iron,wood,cloth,2017
Mortality and Beyond x GALLERY 26 - 3 Indian artists exhibiting
“Mortality and Beyond”
The very India comteporary art exhibition in Norway
Openinghours:
Opening Thursday 21st: 19-21
Friday 22nd: 16-19
Saturday 23rd: 13-18
Sunday 24th: 13-18
Monday 25th: 16-19
Tuesday 26th: 16-19
Adresse: Gallery 26: Nils Lauritssøns vei 26, 0854 Oslo,
Ullevål - Berg, Close to T-bane Ullevål Stadion.
+47 908 12 992
SANGEETA GUPTA
is an extremely well connected artist in the Indian culture life, both as
Poet, Film Maker and Artist. She was newly highlighted in the Elite Magazine India as Elite Woman of the year 2019. She has her own gallery in Delhi, Safdurjung: Prithvi fine Art & Cultural Centre.
She has lived in Himalaya and has a deep spiritual background from Himalayan journeys and inspirations. Beside exhibiting at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, which was inaugurated by Mother Theresa 1995, she has held 32 solo shows and 200 group shows all over India and overseas in London, Berlin, Munich, Lahore, Belfast, Thessaloniki Greece, Jerusalem and China. Her 26th solo exhibition was inaugurated by the former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam in 2013.
Her works have been represented at the India Art Fair, New Delhi, in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019.
She has also received many awards, honoured as an Artist, and also especially literary awards, awards for Hindi poetry, Poet of the Year, Film Festival Awards, The Great Women Achievers Award and Women Entrepreneurship Award, etc. Her artworks are often abstract visions of colours floating in a spiritual space, Metaphysics meeting nature.
SASTRY SANYASAYYA
from Hyderabad, has exhibited in many galleries in India, New Delhi, All India Annual Art Exhibition, Hyderabad, Art Society , State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, Lucknow, New York, Eskeshire Turkey,
Participated in Art Camp at Shantiniketan, West Bengal , etc.
First International Kala-Mela of Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi 2018.
His artworks are landscapes in an almost abstract and dense colourful expression.
NEETU SINGHAL
Her art work is best known as geometric abstraction with intense texture impression of the three dimensional space and a sense of kinetic energy.
Because of its visual attractiveness and flawless color application, her paintings become wide known part of the popular culture and spiritual organizations, also because they have a Tantric vision. Her subtle, emotive and expressive canvases held the very logic of hindu ancient philosophy within the contemporary abstract art.
She has participated in more than fifty art exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow, Greater Noida, International Kala Mela, Lalit Kala, New Delhi 2018, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad 2016,
Indian Habitat Center, Indian Art Fair, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Austin Texas, USA.
Painting works for Art of Living supported by Sri Sri Ravisankar, guiding art for Spiritual organizations like Brahma Kumaris, Yogada Sansthan, Art of Living, and Isha Foundation.
Session #1: Pedro Reyes - Art & Disarmament
International Conference Work as Invention - Art for Social Change
Streamed live on 31 March 31 and 1 April, 2017
Session #1: Art for Social Change - Theory & Practices
Pedro Reyes, Artist - Art & Disarmament
ORGANIZED BY
Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design – Academy of Art and Design – University of Applied Sciences & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel
CO-ORGANIZED BY
Municipality of Thessaloniki - project LABattoir
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Artecitya by TIF – Helexpo, Thessaloniki
Museum der Kulturen, Basel
Artecitya by KUNSTrePUBLIK, Berlin
DATES
Conference: 31 March - 1 April 2017
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki (GR)
Preparatory workshop: 4 March 2017
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Media Lab workshop: 18-22 March 2017
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
VENUES
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
66 Vasilissis Olgas Str., 546 42, Thessaloniki, Greece
Language: English and Greek with simultaneous translation
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Münsterplatz 20, 4051, Basel, Switzerland
Language: German
More info on the Conference and its programme:
Thessaloniki Museum
The story of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is similar to the city's recent history. The Ephorate of Antiquities by the General Directorate of Macedonia was the first service to be founded, on November 1912, only a fortnight after the city was incorporated into the Greek State.
Until 1925, all antiquities found in Macedonia were gathered at the Residency (Dioikitirion- the modern-day building of the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace) as well as the Ottoman Idadie School, which housed the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University. During World War I, the French Army (Armee Francaise d’ Orient) was gathering antiquities initially at Karabournaki and later on at Rotonda, while the British Army would gather the antiquities they uncovered at the White Tower.
In 1925, the Yeni Cami, the new mosque, the centre of worship for the Donmeh population of the Ottoman-occupied Thessaloniki, was given to the Archaeological Service. The Yeni Cami would become the city's first Museum, as the inscription still in place on its facade indicates. In 1940 many antiquities, mainly sculptures, were buried in trenches in order to be protected from war raids. They were unearthed in 1951 and displayed for the first time in the main hall of the Archaeological Museum (Yeni Cami) in 1953.
In 1950 a large plot was designated for the erection of a new Museum, in the heart of the city, on Y.M.C.A. Square, next to the grounds of the International Fair. The project was assigned to Patroklos Karantinos, an notable Greek modernist architect.
The new Museum was inaugurated in 1962 in a grand ceremony, as part of the celebrations for the completion of 50 years since Thessaloniki's liberation, exhibiting the impressive finds from the Derveni tombs, which had been found in the same year. An exhibition of sculptures from the Archaic to the Roman era followed, designed by Giorgos Despinis, professor of Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The impressive finds of the Royal Tombs at Vergina revealed by professor Manolis Andronikos, which were transferred to the Museum for storage and conservation as soon as they were found, necessitated a new display pattern and required the construction of a building extension. In 1982 a new exhibition was designed to display the finds from the cemetery of Sindos. The ephor of antiquities, Aikaterini Despini was responsible for both the excavation and the exhibition. In 1985, with the completion of 2300 years since the foundation of Thessaloniki by Cassander in 315 BC, the then director of the Museum, Julia Vokotopoulou organised the first major exhibition dedicated to the city's history and archaeology.
In 1996 the first large-scale exhibition on Prehistoric Macedonia took place at the Museum, below the Vergina Hall, at the new building extension (by Vogiatzis) completed in 1980. This exhibition was organised by the then director Dimitrios Grammenos and the archaeologist Maria Pappa. In 1998, when the Vergina finds were transferred back to their place of discovery to be displayed in a new museum that simulated the large burial mound of the Royal Tombs, a new exhibition was organised at the Museum of Thessaloniki, entitled The Gold of Macedon by Dimitrios Grammenos and the archaeologists Betina Tsigarida and Despina Ignatiadou, in order to fill the gap of the remarkable royal burial assemblages.
In 2002, through a Presidential Decree (164/2002), the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki became a separate Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture. At the dawn of the 21st century, modern museological needs led to an extensive renovation of the building. The Museum became accessible to the public again in 2004 with new permanent exhibitions. On September, 2006, the renovated Archaeological Museum was officially reopened with five new thematic exhibitions, under D.Grammenos and a large team of specialists. The new exhibitions, completely anthropocentric, bypassing the thread of time, has acquired a strong didactic character.
After a long period of work for the renovation of the exhibition, storage, preservation and management spaces, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki opened for the public on September 2006. In the time before the opening, apart from the expansion of the building, the most important and vital part of our efforts was completed: the exhibitions of the museum were redesigned in a way that responds to the needs of the modern visitor.
Tuning the Ruins SOR O+A mp4
SYMPHONY OF RESONANCES
BY O+A (Bruce Odland / Sam Auinger)
A documenta 14th project in Thessaloniki, Greece
Curated by:
Elena Sorokina (documenta 14th)
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (documenta 14th)
Organization:
documenta 14
City of Thessaloniki – Department of Culture and Tourism
State Museum of Contemporary Art
rtecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Artecitya by Helexpo
ArtBOX Creative Arts Management
Museum of Modern Greek Art - Rhodes
It was founded as a Municipal Art Gallery in 1964, after a significant project implemented by Andreas Ioannou, the then prefect of the Dodecanese.
Its collections of paintings and engravings fully represent the 20th century Greek art and its distinguished artists, with works classified among the most important works of their time.
Among the objectives of the Museum of Modern Greek Art is to obtain, study, preserve, exhibit and promote the works of visual arts which have been created in the Greek cultural space, especially after the foundation of the modern Greek state in 1832.
It organizes exhibitions, tours, lecture cycles, educational programs, it issues art catalogs and educational books and cd-roms for children.
It initially housed its collections in a preservable historical building, at Symis Square, in the Medieval city. Today this building - Municipal Art Gallery Andreas Ioannou - houses the permanent exhibition of engravings and hosts exhibitions of renowned Greek artists.
From 2000 onwards the Museum has been using the building of Palaio Syssitio, situated in Socratous Street, in the Medieval city, as its exhibition hall for temporary exhibitions of new artists.
In 2002 the Museum acquired the Nestoridio Melathro, a donation of Ioannis and Paola Nestoridis, which houses permanent exhibitions.
Since 2010, temporary exhibitions, scientific events and talks have been hosted at the New Wing, on the eastern side of Nestoridio Melathro.
A Passage Encountering Greeks of the Diaspora in Miami
Following the approval of the ‘Greek Diaspora and Immigration’ research program by the Institute of International Education, USA and the FULBRIGHT Foundation, DRIMMI (‘Diaspora Research and Immigration Initiative’), a body of independent scholars and researchers was founded at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It was January 2017 when Matoula Scaltsa, founding member of DRIMMI and professor of art history and museology, asked me to contribute to the initiative by conducting a series of interviews with Greek immigrants living in Miami. Drawing on their relationship with homeland, one of the questions posed by DRIMMI was: Which object that signifies Greece to you would you take with you if you had to leave your home in the USA? Interviewees were then photographed with that favorite object. This, eventually, led to an exhibition of photographs at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, titled “A Passage”. The exhibition constitutes the first public presentation of DRIMMI and has introduced the first International Greek Diaspora Symposium in the city. It entails the video I am uploading, where you may find excerpts of the original interviews. It is open from May through July. Enjoy.
GREECE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER ARISTOTLE'S SCHOOL THE LYCEUM
English/Nat
It's being called one of the most amazing archaeological discoveries of modern times.
Excavators in Greece have stumbled upon the Lyceum -- the school where Aristotle taught his pupils a greater understanding of science and philosophy.
Greeks have been searching for the area since their independence from the Turks 170 years ago.
Greek archaeologists are going back to school.
Way back.
Crews were routinely excavating this spot in Athens -- to prepare for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art -- when they unexpectedly tripped upon what has been a Holy Grail to Greek archaeologists: the Lyceum.
It was here, some 2,500 years ago, that Aristotle exhalted the virtues of a sound mind and body to his pupils.
In essence, it's the birthplace of Western modern science and philosophy.
The discovery of the West's first university has ended Greece's search to locate the three gymnasia of the Lyceum.
For 170 years, since their independence from Turkish rule, Greeks have scoured the landscape to find the place Aristotle compared notes with Socrates and young men pitted against each other in physical and intellectual battles.
In addition to causing national euphoria, the find enables archaeologists and historians to understand the entire layout of ancient Athens.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We are very very happy. This is a very very important discovery. We have now, here, in Athens, the main proof about the historical continuity of the Hellenic cultural heritage. We have now the public duty to do it, to finance all the research about this matter...and about all the archaeological research.
SUPERCAPTION: Venizelos Evangelos, Greek Cultural Minister
Yannis Tzedakis, Director of Antiquities and Archaeological Sites, says the area that has been uncovered, the palaestra, is the part of the Lyceum where young men would exercise their bodies.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Sanctuaries, other buildings, for the body. Because it's a combination of the body and the mind, and what we found is the body. It was the palaestra, for the body. (It was for) wrestling, but not exactly like the wrestling we do today.
SUPERCAPTION: Yannis Tzedakis, Director of Antiquities and Archeological Sites
The discovery has caused excitement around the world.
This is the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London - famed for its priceless collection of Greek statues.
They don't have room to display them all - so dozens of statues, many dating back to the time of Aristotle himself, lie stacked in a basement.
Dr Jeremy Tanner says the Lyceum find is a major step towards understanding the glory that was ancient Greece:
SOUNDBITE:
First of all, Aristotle stands at the foundation of modern European science and a great deal of European philosophical thought, and so it's extremely exciting just to know where Aristotle would have been walking, when he was teaching, what kind of rooms he would have been teaching in.
SUPERCAPTION: Dr. Jeremy Tanner, London Institute of Archaeology
Archaeologists are breathless at the prospect of uncovering the site, but the project will have some pretty big hurdles to clear.
The area sits on a dilapidated industrial area nestled between two crowded suburban neighbourhoods.
The challenge will be to unearth the Lyceum without causing too much disruption to Greece's capital.
For now anyway, modern Greeks have made no gripe about making room for their glorious past.
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