Documenta 14 at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST)
Adam Szymczyk’s proposal to organize documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel interrogates the position of the institution by reversing the role of host that it has grown so accustomed to, instead shaping an exhibition in a context where it is a guest, and where its calling card is an invitation for a shared Learning from Athens. At the same time the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), with the new series EMST in the World, found within the working title “Learning from Athens” the opportunity to learn from Kassel and create a path for its contact with the world. Thus, the two organizations agreed EMST to become the main venue of documenta in Athens and the Museum to exhibit part of its collection to Fridericianum in Kassel.
The presentation of the artworks of documenta 14 is spread in the whole building of EMST, as well as in the whole city of Athens, in more than 40 different public institutions, squares, cinemas, university spaces and libraries, where most of 160 artists from all over the world will present their new works.
EMST will be the main venue of documenta 14 from April 8 to July 16 2017. documenta 14 will in turn host EMST’s collection at the Fridericianum in Kassel, presenting a curated selection of the museum’s valuable permanent collection of Greek and international contemporary art, from June 10 to September 17 2017.
Opening hours of documenta 14 at EMST:
Tuesday- Wednesday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday: 11.00-21.00
Thursday: 11.00-23.00
Monday: Closed
For more information about the exhibition of documenta 14 at EMST and at the other exhibition venues, please contact documenta at 215 5350303, email: athens@documenta.de
Greece unveils first modern art museum
The Greek capital of Athens, well-known for its ancient monuments, is opening its first National Museum of Contemporary Art.
Artists who have suffered during the country’s economic crisis hope this will be a turning point for them.
Al Jazeera’s John Psaropoulos reports from Athens.
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National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Opening, Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp is the first temporary exhibition in the long overdue public unfolding of the Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST). The project offers a reflective dialogue between the collections of EMST and M HKA, the Flemish Contemporary Art Museum, based in Antwerp. This exhibition commences the program EMST in the World.
The impulse of both Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp and EMST in the World is the necessity of cultural dialogue on a global scale, also within multifaceted Europe. Societies nowadays tend to polarize in 49 % versus 51 % camps, negotiations start from antagonistic positions as a default position, introversion and individualism became entrenched states. There may be loftier aspirations than the capacity of conversation, but its recent fragility often reached critical levels and can be described as an urgent situation.
Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp has been developed bottom up, each time starting from work of a Greek and a Belgian artist, that resonate, searching a notion that arises from this resonance, then adding a third artist from elsewhere in one of the two collections. In this way the exhibition was structured around 22 notions with each time work of three artists in a dialogue around it, the total consisting of more than 70 works from 66 artists.
This exhibition enacts the belief of both museums that works of art may constantly emanate new meanings, open questions and initiate a much desired dialogue, that basic ground for human culture. This project is therefore also a counter-proposal to cultural and curatorial sameness, opting instead for a multitude of convincing constellations of subjects, impossible to exhaust, leading up to discussions concerning both individual and collective realizations, and to actions.
Athens and Antwerp seem to represent two extremes of Europe today, but at the same time Greece and Flanders are both regions of Europe that added many crucial threads to its cultural fabric. Institutions like EMST and M HKA may further cultivate that. EMST in the World will develop in the same vein further dialectical relations between EMST and institutions elsewhere with corresponding aims and practices, geared to the research and curation of contemporary art and other contemporary cultural manifestations.
Bart De Baere & Katerina Koskina
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST)
Kallirrois Ave. & Amvr. Frantzi Street (former FIX factory)
Athens, Greece, 117 43
Tel.: + 30 211 1019000-99
Fax: + 30 211 1019111
e-mail: protocol@emst.gr
FIXed in Flux-National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000, Athens ,Greece.
FIXed in Flux by Aemilia Papaphilippou
This piece was created for the inauguration of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in the year 2000, in Athens, Greece and the exhibition Synopsis 1-Communications.
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Given that the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, was (and still is destined to be) situated within the run down building of a former brewery named FIX, and although a small area inside has been somewhat organized so as to serve as exhibition space, I felt (when called to participate in the inaugural exhibition) that the situation should not be overlooked.
In this light, of a Museum in flux, a Museum in genesis (where the opposite forces of 'chaos' and 'order' were apparent) and having at hand the conceptual tool of the Chess Continuum loop, I decided to tear down the partition wall between the space which served as Museum and the rundown space of the FIX building.
My intention of unifying the two spaces was more than reinforced since I discovered an already existing area which served beautifully to receive my scaffolding, in the form of a platform, that bridged the two spaces and allowed spectators to experience the ruined building in connection and in the context of the museum concept and the Museum to be.
This platform led the spectator to see a video projection, 7 meters below, on the basement floor of the building.
In the video the interaction of chaos and order is witnessed in the similarity of two images:
- the image of 'white noise', 'TV snow' (which is a chaotic phenomenon of the technology itself),
- And the image of sunlight glittering on the sea.
My aim: to allude to the quantum nature of Light; being fixed (as a particle) and yet in constant flux (as a pulse), bearing, designing and weaving Being in Time, Being in its Becoming.
The title therefore FIXed in Flux refers both to the Museum and the nature of light.
Aemilia Papaphilippou
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Did you know that Athens didn't have a Museum of Modern Art until recently? This is the brand new museum of our city and we are so excited about it!
Its doors have not opened officially yet but we are waiting for it anxiously. This is a preview of the building and of the current exhibition.
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Athens | National Historical Museum
The Permanent Exhibition of the National Historical Museum covers the history of Modern Greece since the fall of Constantinople (1453) to the War of 1940. It is in the Center of Athens on Stadiou Street, a short stroll from the Syndagma Metro Station.Through relics, artifacts, weapons, personal items, clothing, and maps, visitors can follow the progress of the Greek nation during the Turkish and Venetian rule of Greece, the Greek revolution of 1821, the independence and the formation of the new Greek state, the expansion of the frontiers during the Balkan Wars, the adventure of the Asia Minor campaign, up through the Second World War. These are complemented by aspects of daily life and Greek society in the Museum's rich folklore collection.The Old Parliament Building was founded in 1858 by Queen Amalia and designed by Francois Boulanger. It was the first permanent home of the Greek Parliament. It was modified by the Greek architect Panagiotis Kalkos and completed in 1875. It was used by Parliament until 1935 and has since been the Museum of Modern History.
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documenta 14 - learning from Athens | DW Documentary
documenta 14’s exhibit in Athens has opened its doors for its fourteenth season. Germany’s renowned modern art exhibition is running in two cities for the first time in its history: Athens and Kassel.
Learning from Athens is the tagline given by artistic director Adam Szymczyk to documenta 14. The modern art exhibition is one of the largest in the world and has been held in Kassel, Germany, since 1955. But this year, the exhibit is split between two cities in two different countries: it’s a controversial move.
Athens is currently struggling with economic problems and is also on the frontline of the refugee crisis. While curators and artists hope it will reinvigorate the Greek capital’s art scene, the plan’s detractors complain that it smacks of cultural imperialism.
One of the critics, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, called it ‘a gimmick’ to exploit the tragedy in Greece. Will the troubled city end up little more than a striking backdrop for the international art élite? What can wealthy northern Europe really learn from a city that’s struggling to stay afloat?
What happens when the event is over? And what purpose does art serve in times of crisis? A look behind the scenes of documenta 14, which kicks off in the Greek capital on April 8 and moves on to Kassel in June.
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ART ATHINA 2015, Greek contemporary art
Art-Athina – International Art Fair, which this year has a celebratory character, has been established in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association.
Galleries from Greece and abroad are the main part of the fair, which, with their continuous
presence at the organization, give with the best way the character and the trends of the visual arts world. In the overview of the world of contemporary art at this year's anniversary Art-Athina
contribute with a rich parallel program, which outlines the visual footprint of our time. The participation of influential cultural institutions (museums and institutions, artistic
publications and media) in the organization, contribute to the overall evaluation of the picture of the visual arts scene.
Face Forward ...into my home
Part of the documentation of the project
22 November 2017 – 31 January 2018
EMST Temporary exhibition space
Opening: Wednesday, 22 November at 19.30
Face Forward …into my home is an interactive art project focused on the stories of people who have been forced to leave their homelands and are rebuilding their life in Greece. It includes storytelling workshops inspired by a selection of contemporary artworks from the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), the photo shooting of portraits, and a photography exhibition about and with refugees and asylum-seekers, now living in the greater Athens area, benefitting from ESTIA, the Emergency Support To Integration and Accommodation programme implemented by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and funded by the European Commission.
Face Forward …into my home was designed and implemented by EMST’s Education Department, in collaboration with UNHCR, and is funded by the European Commission's department for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), in the framework of the ESTIA programme, providing urban accommodation and cash assistance to thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Greece.(
Part of documentation / Directed by Thekla Malamou & Kosmas Stathopoulos
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Face Forward…into my home
Ένα απόσπασμα από την καταγραφή του προγράμματος
22 Νοεμβρίου 2017 – 31 Ιανουαρίου 2018
Αίθουσα περιοδικών εκθέσεων ΕΜΣΤ
Εγκαίνια: Τετάρτη, 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017 στις 19:30
Το Face Forward …into my home αποτελεί διαδραστικό πρόγραμμα, το οποίο εστιάζει σε ιστορίες ανθρώπων που αναγκάστηκαν να αφήσουν την πατρίδα τους και προσπαθούν να ξαναχτίσουν τη ζωή τους στην Ελλάδα. Περιλαμβάνει βιωματικά εργαστήρια αφήγησης στα οποία πρόσφυγες, με έναυσμα την παρουσίαση έργων από τη συλλογή του ΕΜΣΤ, αφηγούνται προσωπικές τους ιστορίες, φωτογράφιση των συμμετεχόντων και έκθεση με τα φωτογραφικά πορτρέτα των συμμετεχόντων και ηχητικά κείμενα των προσωπικών ιστοριών τους. Στο Face Forward …into my home συμμετέχουν πρόσφυγες και αιτούντες άσυλο που ζουν στην Αθήνα και υποστηρίζονται μέσω του προγράμματος ESTIA (στήριξη έκτακτης ανάγκης για τη στέγαση και την ένταξη), που υλοποιείται από την Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες (UNHCR) με χρηματοδότηση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής.
Το Face Forward …into my home σχεδιάστηκε και υλοποιήθηκε από το ΕΜΣΤ και, ειδικότερα, από το τμήμα Εκπαιδευτικών Προγραμμάτων, σε συνεργασία με την Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του OHE για τους Πρόσφυγες και με τη χρηματοδότηση του τμήματος Πολιτικής Προστασίας και Ανθρωπιστικής Βοήθειας της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής (ECHO), στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος ESTIA. Το ESTIA παρέχει αξιοπρεπείς συνθήκες διαβίωσης και οικονομική στήριξη σε χιλιάδες πρόσφυγες και αιτούντες άσυλο στην Ελλάδα. (
Βίντεο: Θέκλα Μαλάμου & Κοσμάς Σταθόπουλος
Face Forward ...into my home
Face Forward …into my home
Πορτρέτα και Ιστορίες Προσφύγων
Εγκαίνια: Τετάρτη, 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017 στις 19.30
22 Νοεμβρίου 2017 – 31 Ιανουαρίου 2018
Αίθουσα περιοδικών εκθέσεων ΕΜΣΤ
Το Face Forward …into my home αποτελεί διαδραστικό πρόγραμμα, το οποίο εστιάζει σε ιστορίες ανθρώπων που αναγκάστηκαν να αφήσουν την πατρίδα τους και προσπαθούν να ξαναχτίσουν τη ζωή τους στην Ελλάδα. Περιλαμβάνει βιωματικά εργαστήρια αφήγησης στα οποία πρόσφυγες, με έναυσμα την παρουσίαση έργων από τη συλλογή του ΕΜΣΤ, αφηγούνται προσωπικές τους ιστορίες, φωτογράφιση των συμμετεχόντων και έκθεση με τα φωτογραφικά πορτρέτα των συμμετεχόντων και ηχητικά κείμενα των προσωπικών ιστοριών τους. Στο Face Forward …into my home συμμετέχουν πρόσφυγες και αιτούντες άσυλο που ζουν στην Αθήνα και υποστηρίζονται μέσω του προγράμματος ESTIA (στήριξη έκτακτης ανάγκης για τη στέγαση και την ένταξη), που υλοποιείται από την Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες (UNHCR) με χρηματοδότηση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής.
UNHCR GREECE European Commission - Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid Operations - ECHO
#FaceForward #ESTIA #emst #unhcrgreece
Βίντεο: Θέκλα Μαλάμου & Κοσμάς Σταθόπουλος
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Face Forward …into my home
Portraits and stories of refugees
Opening: Wednesday, 22 November at 19.30
22 November 2017 – 31 January 2018
EMST Temporary Exhibition Space
“Face Forward …into my home” is an interactive art project focused on the stories of people who have been forced to leave their homelands and are rebuilding their life in Greece. It includes storytelling workshops inspired by a selection of contemporary artworks from the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), the photo shooting of portraits, and a photography exhibition about and with refugees and asylum-seekers, now living in the greater Athens area, benefitting from ESTIA, the Emergency Support To Integration and Accommodation programme implemented by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and funded by the European Commission.
#FaceForward #ESTIA #emst #unhcrgreece
Created by Thekla Malamou & Kosmas Stathopoulos
A short visit to the Acropolis Museum
Directed by Konstantinos Arvanitakis
Music: Yiannis Drenogiannis
Post Production: digimojo Production House
Copyright: Acropolis Museum
National Pinakothek Athens 2011
Walking in the national art gallery Alexandrou Soutsou in Athens Greece
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.
Netherlands: Groningen, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Groninger Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art.
The Groninger Museum was founded in 1894. The opening of its new building in 1994 caused a sensation and it has since established a reputation of being among the finest museums in the nation.]
The radically modernist structures forming the Groninger Museum stand in a canal opposite a railway station consist of three main pavilions: a silver cylindrical building designed by Philippe Starck, a yellow tower by Alessandro Mendini, and a pale blue deconstructivist space by Coop Himmelb(l)au. A bridge that connects the museum to the train station is part of a cycling and walking path to the central city.
The Groninger Museum is the home to various expositions of local, national, and international works of art, most of them modern and abstract.
Μ.Ε.Σ.Α. Μουσείο Ελεύθερης Σκέψης Ανθρώπων / Museum of People’s Free thinking
Πρόγραμμα ΠΡΟΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΑ
Μ.Ε.Σ.Α. Μουσείο Ελεύθερης Σκέψης Ανθρώπων
Διάρκεια: 28 Ιουνίου – 3 Ιουλίου
Ώρες λειτουργίας 15.00- 20.00 /
Program PROLOGUES (PROLEGOMENA)
M.E.Σ.Α. Museum of People’s Free thinking
Duration: 28 June – 3 July
Opening Hours 15.00- 20.00
Το Εθνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης (ΕΜΣΤ) στο πλαίσιο των δράσεων ΠΡΟΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΑ και της ανάδειξης του κοινωνικού ρόλου της τέχνης και των θεσμών, παρουσιάζει το Μουσείο Ελεύθερης Σκέψης Ανθρώπων (Μ.Ε.Σ.Α.). Πρόκειται για ένα συνεργατικό και διεπιστημονικό πρόγραμμα προσέγγισης και ενδυνάμωσης ευάλωτων κοινωνικά ομάδων διαμέσου της τέχνης και της δημιουργικής δραστηριότητας, με στόχο την ένταξή τους στην κοινωνία.
Τα εγκαίνια του Μ.Ε.Σ.Α. πραγματοποιήθηκαν τη Δευτέρα 27 Ιουνίου στις 20:00. Από τις 28 Ιουνίου έως τις 3 Ιουλίου η είσοδος είναι ελεύθερη για το κοινό από τις 15:00 έως τις 20:00.
Πρόγραμμα ΠΡΟΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΑ
Το ΕΜΣΤ αξιοποιώντας την περίοδο των υποχρεωτικών δοκιμών που προηγούνται της οριστικής λειτουργίας του και εν αναμονή της ολοκλήρωσης των διαδικασιών που θα το οδηγήσουν στα εγκαίνιά του, επέλεξε την πραγματοποίηση σειράς περιοδικών καλλιτεχνικών δράσεων, που στοχεύουν αφενός στην ανάπτυξη συνεργειών με ελληνικά και διεθνή ιδρύματα συναφούς σκοπού και αφετέρου στη γνωριμία του κοινού με το νέο του κτήριο.
Επιμελήτρια προγράμματος: Νιόβη Ζαραμπούκα-Χατζημάνου, Αρχιτέκτονας, ΜΑ Πολιτιστικής Διαχείρισης
Επιμελήτρια εκπαίδευσης: Μαρίνα Τσέκου, Επιμελήτρια Εκπαίδευσης στο Εθνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης (ΕΜΣΤ)
Βίντεο: MIMO
Το Μ.Ε.Σ.Α. υποστηρίζεται από το “START CreateCulturalChange”, ένα πρόγραμμα της Robert Bosch Stiftung (Ίδρυμα Robert Bosch) που υλοποιείται σε συνεργασία με το Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki και την Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentrene.V. (Ομοσπονδιακή Ένωση Κοινωνικοπολιτιστικών Κέντρων)
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Program PROLOGUES (PROLEGOMENA)
M.E.Σ.Α. (Museum of People’s Free thinking)
Duration: 28 June – 3 July
Opening Hours 15.00- 20.00
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) in the framework of the events PROLOGUES (PROLEGOMENA) and the promotion of the social role of art and institutions, presents the Museum of People’s Free Thinking (M.E.Σ.Α.). It is a collaborative and interdisciplinary program that empowers vulnerable social groups through the arts and creative activity, aiming at their integration into society.
The opening of Μ.Ε.Σ.Α. was realized on Monday, June 27 at 20:00, From the 28th of June until the 3rd of July entry is free to the public from 15:00 until 20:00.
Program PROLOGUES (PROLEGOMENA)
EMST utilizing the period of mandatory testing prior to its final operation and pending the completion of the procedures that will lead to its inauguration, chose to realize a series of artistic events, which aim firstly at the development of synergies with Greek and international institutions of related purpose and secondly at the acquaintance of the public with its new building.
Curator of the program: Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou, Architect, M.A. in Cultural Administration
Education Curator: Marina Tsekou, Education Curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)
Video: MIMO
M.E.Σ.A. is supported by “START – Create Cultural Change”, a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung conducted in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V.
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Performance by Puamiria Parata-Goodall and Iaean Cranwell at EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Documenta 14 Athens
Athens (Greece), April 7, 2017.
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