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Platforms Project 2019 – The Fair
17 mei 2019
KOPEKT (Corect) is a group that shows an attitude sooner than artworks. I could find myself right away in this referential amalgam.
Drawings from the taverna where they meet
And the drawings are not bad at all!
At Daily Temporary from Sweden I was asked to participate in a performance by Leticia Maria from Palma.
I was the surface for a projection of the art-cake that was made by visitors
The visitors got an apron and started to get creative on the cake which was projected on my belly…
Political art by studio Asynchrome at Kunsthalle Graz
Nice work by the Greek-Rotterdam artist Maria Ikonomopoulou at Vita Zita Studio
Various Artists from Bruxelles (B) showed a fantastic project in which they have the audience make their own artwork
The result is always minimalistic and beautiful. This is “Pocketwork” -Carbon on paper worn in the pocket for two or three months.
Orphaned Images: Video-cakes by The museum of Forgetting
Topp and Dubio from Den Haag participated with an intricate installation about a sign in a shop they encountered.
The details are pretty hilarious as often
Another platform from Den Haag is Elders with Paintings by Lucius Pax and Liesbeth Bos, ceramics by Corine Barendregt and photographic work by Liesbeth van Woerden.
Corine Barendregt shows abstract Ceramics, created by pressing clay in the structures she finds on the street.
Liesbeth van Woerden adds 3D elements to her minimalistic photographs
Lucius Pax shows a series of Paintings with urban portraits
From the UK: H-M-S with numerous artists
Ed’s video from Guelph in Canada shows an installation by Jérôme Havre based on Plato’s cave
A Hero from my youth: The Silver Surfer in mosaïc- technique in Transform Art Platform from Beograd by Milan Cuk
The Bureau d’art et de recherche Roubaix with works on paper by Guilaume Krick and sculpture by Clara Juliane Glauert
A-Trans from Berlin shows beautiful works by Concha Argüeso from Spain
Which is clear when you get closer, the artist writes and paints on the back of the paper with wax
Other minimalistic works like this ensemble also look strong
Lucia Bricco showed the stage for her performances at Sub Rosa Space from Athens
Kunsthalle Kleinbasel shows vulva’s by Nina Herrmann under the name Where are you from?
I think I prefer these
Galleria Rajatila from Tampere in Finland shows these little pieces that I like.
Heidi Lincke’s work at Scotty from Berlin is great, but making pictures in this light is difficult. The rapper worked with Kendrick Lamar
These drawings at Scotty are also great: Magnetfelder by Zuzanna Skiba
ID:I Gallery from Stockholm uses textwork, though Alexander Mood seems to be sleeping on the side it is an interesting installation
I Always like the beautiful small collages by Sandra Gea. Here she seems to broaden her perspective
Very subtle works!
This light and airy installation was a nice surprise from Backspace in Athens, done by artists group Bo.Ba (Katarina Botsari and Eleanna Balesi)
Great Urban Photography from the AC-Institute in New york
The Bcademie, a post academic course in Rotterdam, was also present with the old Dutch game of pulling strings and win an Artwork
Amongst which this SD-card on which the whereabouts of a buried artwork is indicated, by Lucas van Eeden
This is done by Kimon Kirligitsis and it has soon disappeared
This is by the same artist, it did not take long for this one to be chosen by a winner.
The Alpineum Produzentegalerie shows great painting by Reto Leuthold
This drawing was shown at Pow Wow: Coming in Waves by Katerina Papazissi
The beautiful presentation of IS-Projects shows American abstractionists from NewYork
Like Jacob Cartwright
And Patricia Zarate
At Und. the work of Vasilis Bótoulas stood out. It was an interesting stand of a cultural site that issues maps of cultural spaces in Athens and has an interesting blog. Check und-athens.com
It’s al about La Divina Comedia with beautifully ingraved metal circles,by Niki Zachari
Left Sub Rosa Space with Lucia Bricco’s installation and on the right EX-MÊKH’s installation
And back at Und. this nice textpiece by Kiriakos Spirou
In the evening Lucia Bricco continued her performance “The morning, The morning, the morning by entering with a blanket with technical toys in a blanket that she carried like a baby. She then let it all fall on teh ground, wound the toys around her head as you can see here
Ant sat down, waiting.
A bigger machine came at her, trying to get pieces of the ground
She put toys under her shirt, let them fall again and then had another coffee
And EX-MÊKH was talking again, with colleagues, with student, with visitors…
Border Lines
Platform Project & Art Athina 2016
May 27, 2016
In spite of the crisis atmosphere in Athens and the refugee-problems that haunt the country the Athens artfair took place again this year. The Taekwondo Stadium had been occupied with refugees in winter during heavy rains which resulted in a lot of problems. Nevertheless, the fair continued but the big galleries in Greece didn’t show up and the galleries that did show up were very conservative in their choice of artists. The Platform Project on the other hand was very interesting this year. It is always worth to visit but now the side show for non-commercial art platforms showed great art and awareness of the human and the political situation which in some cases led to moving art works.
Look at the fair from the platforms
Derek Liddington at 8Eleven, a very interesting sculptor. these are studies after an Elsworth Kelly drawing
This video was shot by Liddington, having four actors making a pillar of clay and creating a tension between disciplines
This was an ongoing performance in 8eleven in which a dancer would reenact the choreography “Ode” which was executed by les Ballets Russes in 1913. The floor on which the dancer moved was a square meter of clay
I found this work very moving: in an inter-active work, Navine Khan Dossos tries to paint the 2000 people that have sought refuge in the Taekwondo Stadium last winter. Visitors and colleagues are invited to contribute as the artist will continue to paint until the end of the fair.
This beautiful Painting has been made by an icon-painter for Kallio Kunsthalle (FI), following the text that Petri Saariko had prepared.
Andreas Martí installed this drawing installation at Dienstgebäude
It is continuing to draw during the fair
This wall sculpture of Bettina Diel could also be seen at Diensgebäude
From Nantes (FR) came Extra Muros in which these wall sculptures by Romain Rimbaud were shown
Interesting painting at Foss (GR)
A short visit to the real fair: here a photograph by Sarah Lucas
Nice political drawings by Tasos Pavlopoulos
Collage by Maria Ikonomoupoulou
who also made beautiful embroideries on newspaper, shown at Mulier Mulier
Where also work of the painter Guy van Bossche was shown
I rather liked these collages because of the use of material. made by Nikos Varitymiadis
Taubert Contemporary showed an artist with over-all design: Lars Arrhenius
Curator of Platform Projects, the wonderful Artemis Potamianou, an artist also, showed at the floor of the fair
Kallio Kunsthalle showed performance “about the self-determination of women”
At MUU (F) the performance artist Helinä Hukkataival showed a very sensitive performance
resulting in a beautiful series of personae
From the Netherlands came Bcademie, a post-graduate training for artists (after A you have to say B). Here initiators Alex Jacobs and Daan den Houter talk with their students, of which six were doïng performances durig the fair. One for a Euro!
The students found props in Athens and used those to arrange their space
They proved quite popular, here Elsemarijn Bruijs working on chewing gum
The shift was together with Philippa Driest
Who showed pictures of urban places accompanied by sounds of airplanes
AKA artist run from Saskatchewanm, Canada with sculpture of Svea Ferguson
Super 8 video by Leslie Supnet
and Lori Blondeau who researches diverse persona’s
The Lo and Behold (GR) wants to fertilise the soil in “Bureau of Soil making” by Yiannis Hiridoglou
From Boston (USA) the Museum of Contemporary Cuts with heavy conceptual work with a direct approach
Which works rather good I think
Then an installation of Amiraly from Parking Gallery/New media Society from Iran, a presentation which is well worked out
Cut the Fence, a project of Copa & Sordes: the 657 meter long fence of a Swiss refugee camp is transformed in to the same length of African damask fabric with fence pattern: everybody who cuts a piece of it contributes to the destruction of the fence
Groupshow at SCI (UK) with very nice works, some fresh from the boats coming to Greece
Ed video: always interesting video-stuff, here by Iris Fraser and David Hanes
Foreign Affairs, A beautiful collaboration by Bella Easton, Tiny Dominguez and Julia Riddlough of resp. Beaston projects, Rosa Lux and A Brooks Art
The beauty of statistics, by Tiny Dominguez
In the mean while the Capacity-project of Navine Khan Dossos is a large succes
The refugee-camp is turning in a large field of flowers!
At A-Trans beautiful work on paper by Marian Wijnvoord
Who also burns down the Netherlands in her Photo-collages
The line in Andreas Martí’s installation is lengthening
Bcademy’s students don’t stop performing, here Maud van den Beuken moves sand
from stage to visitor
and Casper Braat plans a make-over for your humble reporter
Various Artists from Belgium, a research in shit which Belgians find interesting in general
Trying to find the pearls which are being digested by test-persons
And also the deterioration of Bonsai-trees under water is a process that results in esthetic pleasures under the name Agua con Gaz
The very big collective EN-FLO (GR) installed suit-cases with fillings
And then there is the very interesting Milena Principle, showing projects that relate to our own activities. Action in public space about silence and slowness.
In Venice
And Athens, we will hear more from them!
Last but certainly not least Kunstenaarsinitiatief Elders from Den Haag (NL), here an expanding painting by Lucius Pax
Painting by Liesbeth Bosch
And surprising ceramics by Corine Barendregt
Greece, Land of Honey
Art Athína 2015- The Fair
7 juni 2015
The last day of the fair, lines in front of the Taekwondo hall all day and an unending stream of visitors visiting our booth. Our work has been received well, lots of flags of Maarten have been taken along and reactions were great! We have to thank Artemis Potamianou and her Platforms crew for a great week and EX-MÊKH hopes to be back next time. In this post you will find some interesting art from the main floor to finish the report on Art Athena 2015.
There is some very accomplished painting to be found in Greece, I like these canvases by Kostis Georgiou.
Martin Creed has been very active in Greece during his residency. The portraits of wll known Greeks make me think of Dutch painter Emo Verkerk @ Kappatos Gallery
Marina Abramovic wants you to put your head against the Quartz @ Kappatos Gallery
Pericles Goulakos, work on paper @ Ekfrasi Yianna Grammatopoulou
Dimitris Tataris
A collection of Photographs @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Guy van Bossche @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Maria Ikonomopoulou @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Maria Ikonomopoulou @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Tadashi Kawamata @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Art & Language @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Klitsa Antonionou @ The Collection Gallery
Klitsa Antonionou @ The Collection Gallery
Lieke Snellen @ Joey Ramone
Lieke Snellen @ Joey Ramone
Tudor Matu @ Joey Ramone
Wietse Eeken @ Joey Ramone
Gerwin Luijendijk @ Joey Ramone
Jan van der Ploeg and Adrian Esparza @ Taubert Contemprorary
Nana Sachini @ A. Antonopoulou. art
Alexis Psychoulis @ A. Antonopoulou. art
Naomi Middelman @ UFO-Fabrik
At 18.00 h. the winner of the THMHF- Award at The Tupajumi Foundation will be announced. Internet votes are beïng counted
and the votes from the fair have to be checked once more!
One last vote is added
And the winner is: Alicia Eggert with “Now”
And this, of course, calls for drinks
A last walk along the beach at night and we’re off to Holland again
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EX-MÊKH@ Platforms Project – Art Athina day 8: the galleries
18 mei 2014
On our last day in the Platform Projects I tried to get an impression of the galleries on the floor of the stadium. Not many of the succesful international art-army are shown here which to me is a relief. You get a nice impression of art in the Levant, the eastern part of the Mediterranian. I noticed a number of interesting Photographers and some interesting galleries. I understand that not all the large galleries in Greece are represented here which is a pity, it would complete the image for people who are not aware of this region. Artemis Potamianou really made a relevant selection of highlights for her exhibition “Statement made” I think. All in all Art Athína has been a very interesting and rewarding view on an area that I was not really aware of. I would really like to take part again and I hope that I will get a chance to do so.
? at Mirko Maier Gallery/M-Projects
Wim Delvoye at Kaune Poshnik, Spohr Gallery
Roxanne Lowitt at Kaune , Poshnik, Spohr Gallery
Antonakis Christodoulou
Katsipanos Theofilos
I. Lassithiotakis
Kara Walker at Mulier Mulier
Pauline Otowska at Mulier Mulier
Maria Ikonomopoulou at Mulier Mulier
Tadashi Kawamata at Mulier Mulier
Daniele Alonge at UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art Gallery
Jacopo Prina at UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art Gallery
Another Italian Gallery: Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea
Maybe a bit outdated, but an intriguing picture by Apostolos Giorgiou at Zina Atthanassiadou
And also at Zina Atthanassiadou Nikos Navridis who had beautiful work at the Gennadius Library
Andrea Angelidakis whose opening we attended at the National Museum of Contemporary Art also shows at Zina Atthanassiadou
From Australia the painter Jarek Wojcik at Anna Pappas gallery from Melbourne
Diomitris Tataris uses Dante’s Divina Comedia
A Dutch gallery from Rotterdam: Joey Ramone Gallery featuring Harm Weistra
Gallery owners Hans Bakker and Kiki Petratou in front of the work of Christina Calbari
The Greek Elika Gallery was surprisingly up to date with very interesting Greek artists, this work is done by Vangelis Gokas
And this piece by Nikos Sepetzoglou
This could even be vintage EX-MÊKH, done by Zoe Giabouldaki
The booth of Elika Gallery was seperated from the aisle by this Oriental screen, my favourite gallery!
Artemis Potamianou showed with EKFRASI Yianna Gallery
deconstructed Art classics
On a beautiful wallpaper
which formed a suitable backdrop for her work
The Turkish artist Havva Marta at Galeri Binyil,
Greek Modern Classic master
Avramidis at the same gallery
And the kids are doing their thing in the workshop which was very much alive every day!
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