Art Athina 2015-VII

6 juni 2015

This is an oversight of the to my taste most interesting initiatives at the Platforms Project of Art Athína:

8eleven from Toronto Canada with collective work by Laurie kang, Nadia Bellerique, Rosa Aiello and Lili Huston/Herterich

Lamprini Markou on virtue and attitude at Lustspiel from Greece

Mirka Minnula @ Rajatila Gallery from Finland

Mirka Minnula @ Rajatila Gallery from Finland

Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency

Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency

Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency

Le vide dans le vide ou la disillusion

 

Then, lots of activities at B’Printmaking Studio A.S.F.A. – TCA

With a very engaging project

Resulting in occupancy of the total surroundings of the booth with beautiful works

With 3D sketches of Istanbul

Near this we find a paradoxical booth of Provo Principles from Greece, clearly engaged in the present situation

With a heap of débris from the artists studios

and art in small match boxes

which work out nicely

Atrans from Berlin shows Marian Wijnvoord again with romantic landscapes

The artist has created. work in new techniques, oilpaint on photopaper

and she is clearly satisfied with the result. We are happy that Atrans will coöperate with EX-MÊKH in Berlin in september. Here you see Marian Wijnvoord and Isolde Nagel, the initiator of Atrans in front of their booth.

Another detail from the EX-MÊKH booth with a drawing of Ellen Rodenberg and a selfportrait of Kees Koomen

The crowd at EX-MÊKH’s booth with Maarten Schepers explaining

A view at Grauzone from Austria

And the Dada Academy from Austria

Which shows also the right couch for underneath your painting

I liked the booth of the Wiener Art Foundation from Wien (I guess) where painterly action was applied

and nice sculptures were to be found

IS-Projects from Leiden (the Netherlands) was one of my favourites

With an exhibit of abstract art curated by John Tallman

an esthetic oasis in this context.

With the work of initiators Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk next to eachother

Lo and Behold is a very interesting initiative witrh actions in public space

with a great number of artists participating, amongst whom a favourite of last year: Maria Lianou

and others whom I don’t know

Incart from Mallorca made a very lively impression

From Rotterdam came our friends of the Tupajumi Foundation with the TFHMF-award

This dynamic work was selected from the USA and came in just before the opening of the fair due to delay at customs.

I personally voted for this piece by Maarten Bel

The Tupajumi members took the votes from visitors

Dienstgebäude had a nice booth too with a.o. the work of initiator Andreas Marti (bottom)

Dutch artist Bob Gramsma

and Ingo Giezendammer with psychedelic wallpaper.

VHS-Blues by Julian Boily @ AMV from Canada

VHS-Blues by Julian Boily @ AMV from Canada

The French Extra Muros from Nantes (FR)

With an inventive 5 € lampshade

En Flo from Greece had an impressive socially engaged installation: Micro History

With jobless women sowing printed cloth together and handing it out to the public

empty solidarity….

@ Skouze “Errare ergo sum” the wine was bitter-sweet

and the floor contemporary in traditional technique

Campus Novel showed a very interesting project about the ever-changing sign of a restaurant in Athens

Kunstenaarsinintiatief Elders from Den Haag (N) was present with strong work by Liesbeth van Woerden, like this sound piece

And Architectural studies by Liesbeth Bos

This piece by Liesbeth van Woerden was particularly popular, you took some time for it by stamping a ticket

A Greek fan from last year came by to see our new installation

And documentation was dutifully taken care of by Maarten Schepers

Platforms Project

EX-MÊKH@ Platforms Project – Art Athina day 5: Platforms Project

15 mei 2014

In the course of this opening day I took a look at our fellow Platforms-exhibitors to see what might be interesting, these are some of the spaces/initiatives/collectives that I liked:

Marian Wijnvoord @ ATRANS from Berlin

Marian Wijnvoord @ ATRANS from Berlin

REM Brand Name project/Vehicle team a very active and succesful group of beautiful Greek girls doïng lottery

Totaldobze is our neighbour from Latvia, it is an art-centre that wants to be a platform for a number of disciplines to meet and expand borders

I loved this drawing for their Black Holes project

Explosion of Speech is a growing project for everybody to participate in a poem with burning questions

Les YperYper have a very effective way of using material

Parabola from Stockholm

Cowgirls in video and pictures at Microwesten from Germany

Jeroen Geel and Christian Herter at Alpineum Produzentengallery from Luzern

Christian Herter closeby

 

The muy sympatico booth had been covered with psychedelic wallpaper and this artist was great: Steph Yates at ED Video from Guelph, Canada

SUDLAB from the south of Italy, a great wall, I am sorry i didn’t speak with these guys

A great installation from a great artist, Maria Lianou, who collaborated with somebody whose name I didn’t get in this installation. The neonsign says breathe.

ABC-gallery from Russia with a groupshow

ABC-gallery from Russia also

Mind on matters is an interactive project by Andrea Hvistendahl from Stockholm who lets the public in diferent countries exchange sticks and stones with messages on them

And the sticks tend to look like this

I thought Dienstgebäude from Zürich was an interesting space with artists like this Andreas Marti

And Dutch artist Wink Witholt

Photo gallery Wien shows worm castings by Lea Titz

And a Roumanian Berserik at Lateral Artspace from Roumania

Orizontas Gegonoton uit Griekenland maakte mooi gebruik van de ruimte met veel kunstenaars

VSVSVS from Canada had a beautiful interactive project in which they kept peoples stuff for some time in exchange for a 3D-print designed by them. The booth eventually filled itself with a social sculpture.

A number of organiziations presented themselves in the Platforms-section among which Fulbright Greece. The Fulbright fundingpossibilities are well known and nowadays they try to raise their budget by asking artist who were funded to make an artists edition of a work.

The editions are presented on the fair, a very nice and appropriate initiative which makes a win win situation for artists and the Fulbrightorganization.

A kids corner is also organized with the help of artists who created examples of what one can doe with a shopping bag, later lots of kids would be cutting, gluing and painting bags.

 

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