Exhibition
Evrovizion.Crossing Stories and Spaces
The touring exhibition is now in Athens
Opening of the Exhibition and Performance: Friday, April 28, 2023, 19:00
Duration of the Exhibition: Saturday, April 29 – Friday, June 16, 2023
Guided tour by the local curator Ioli Tzanetaki:
Date: June 7, 2023
Hours: 18:00
Languages: English, Greek
Duration: 30'
Reservation is required. Sign up at prog-athen@goethe.de
(Please include the date you wish to attend, the number of persons who wish to join, and your contact information.)
Curated by Sabina Klemm and Sanja Kojić Mladenov, the co-creative exhibition EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES explores the current social and political situation in Europe and the idea of a European identity. A project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), it is being presented in Athens in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Athen, and EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
After the presentations at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Serbia, the exhibition is coming to Goethe-Institut Athen in Greece. A smaller selection of the artworks will be shown in Athens; yet, at the same time, the project has been expanded to include a new work by Greek artist Maria Tsagkari – curated by Ioli Tzanetaki. Further local expansion of the exhibition is also planned: the artists Johanna Diehl and Adnan Softić will develop new works in close cooperation with local actors.
Both the residency-mentorship program and the Pickle Bar installation by the artists’ collective Slavs and Tatars are part of the EVROVIZION project. The integration of the Pickle Bar installation into the exhibition creates an open space for local dialogues. Before each exhibition opens, a young local professional (an artist, curator and/or researcher) is chosen to participate in the Pickle Bar mentorship program in Berlin. For two months, they are integrated into the artists’ studio and mentored in their personal projects – some of which may eventually be presented as part of EVROVIZION. Slavs and Tatars and ifa selected the young Greek curator and researcher Dora Vasilakou as a fellow of the 2022 Pickle Bar residency-mentorship program. Vasilakou will co-curate the Pickle Bar performance, to be presented in Athens on June 7, 2023 at 19:00. Further public events and guided tours will be announced soon.
Following the exhibition in Athens, a new issue of the EVROVIZION magazine will be published, thus enriching the “archive of the journey.” Co-edited by Danai Giannoglou, EVROVIZION.CROSSING ATHENS will be dedicated to the presentation of the ever-growing project in Athens and its impact on the city’s cultural identity.
Cities of the travelling exhibition
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021), Novi Sad (Serbia, 2021–22), Athens (Greece, 2023), Nicosia (Cyprus, 2023), Tbilisi (Georgia, 2024), Chișinău (Republic of Moldova, 2024), Varna (Bulgaria, 2025), Brussels (Belgium, 2025), Kraków (Poland, 2026), Vilnius (Republic of Lithuania, 2026), Kaliningrad (Russian Federation, 2027), Berlin (Germany, 2027)
Artists participating in the EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES project
Nevin Aladağ, Igor Bošnjak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lana Čmajčanin, Johanna Diehl, Petrit Halilaj, Ivana Ivković, Janine Jembere, Vladimir Miladinović, Henrike Naumann, Selma Selman, Emilija Škarnulytė, Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Softić, Maria Tsagkari
Artists participating in the exhibition in Athens
Lana Čmajčanin, Johanna Diehl, Ivana Ivković, Henrike Naumann, Selma Selman, Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Softić, Maria Tsagkari
Curators
Sabina Klemm, Sanja Kojić Mladenov
Local curator
Ioli Tzanetaki
Local co-editor of the
EVROVIZION.CROSSING ATHENS magazine
Danai Giannoglou
Fellow of the Pickle Bar residency,
Local co-curator of the Pickle Bar performance
Dora Vasilakou
Local artists of the Pickle Bar performance
VASKOS
(multidisciplinary artistic duo by Vassilis Noulas and Kostas Tzimoulis)
Organization, production
Goethe-Institut Athen
(In charge of the project: Dr. Stefanie Peter,
General coordination: Eleanna Papathanasiadi)
Visiting days and hours
Monday–Thursday: 08:00–22:00
Friday: 08:00–17:00
Saturday: 08:00–14:00
Closed: June 10th, 2023
Duration
Saturday, April 29 – Friday, June 16, 2023
press
Pari Spinou, “An exhibition, a journey through traumatized Europe,” EFSYN, 22.4.2023
Irini Nikolakaki, “Evrovizion: What constitutes the contemporary European identity?,” athinorama.gr, 27.4.2023
Spyros Kakouriotis, “Evrovizion: an exhibition at the extremes of Europe,” monopoli.gr, 28.04.2023
Manolis Polentas, “When Art meets social concerns,” avgi.gr, 9.5.2023
The performance of Ivana Ivković was realized with the support of Athens Culture Net.
PRESS RELEASE
Details
Goethe-Institut Athen
Omirou 14-16
106 72 Athens
Price: Free admission
+30 210 366 1014 eleanna.papathanasiadi@goethe.de