Art-Athina 2008
dal 22/5/2008 al 24/5/2008
Segnalato da
22/5/2008
Art-Athina 2008
Helexpo Exhibition Centre, Athens
International art fair. It is organised in 4 sections, the main fair section includes participations from Greek and international galleries. This year's special tribute will focus on emerging, cutting-edge galleries from New York and Berlin; the parallel programme provides a platform for a number of curated projects and events, at Helexpo and offsite in venues around the city, including exhibitions, performances, talks and encounters.
The fair is organised in four sections: Basic Plan, Open Plan, Focus: Berlin - New York and the Parallel Plan.
> Basic Plan
The main fair section includes participations from Greek and international galleries.
- ‘1+9’
In this invitational section within Basic Plan Isabella Bortolozzi (Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin) invites cutting edge international galleries.
> Open Plan
Art Athina’s curatorial section, introduced in 2007, is brought back this year with a stronger exhibitional feel. Curator Bettina Busse (Berlin) invites interesting international art galleries to exhibit sculptures and installations, stretching the limits of the traditional art fair, offering new opportunities to buyers.
> Focus: New York-Berlin - “First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin”
This year’s special tribute will focus on emerging, cutting-edge galleries from New York and Berlin, invited by Sarah Belden (Curators without Borders gallery, Berlin).
> Parallel Plan
The fair’s parallel programme provides a platform for a number of curated projects and events, onsite at Helexpo and offsite in venues around the city, including exhibitions, performances, talks and encounters.
This year’s Garage Project is curated by Marina Fokidis who will focus on local artistic production.
Marina Fokidis will also curate the project “Interventions”, with artistic projects especially created for various spaces around the fair venue.
The Art Athina Art Talks will feature discussions between art professionals on various subjects, such as narcissism, ownership, consumption and criticism. Among the participating speakers are Catherine David and Christian Viveros-Faune.
- The offsite exhibitions include:
The exhibition “Five Seasons of the Russian Avant-Garde. Works from the Costakis Collection”, organized by the Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the State Museum of Contemporary Art and coordinated by ArtBOX.gr | creative arts management. This is the first time that part of the Costakis Collection is presented in Athens, after its acquisition by the State Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition “Lion under the rainbow. Art from Tehran”, curated by Alexandros Georgiou, will present works by 19 artists based in Tehran. The exhibition is a production of D-ART – Non-Profit Organisation.
Finally the exhibition “Elements of Light”, curated by Boris Manner, represents Art Athina’s close collaboration with Stella Art Foundation, that is establishing the first Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow. The exhibition is a co-production of Stella Art Foundation and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, organized in Greece by the Hellenic American Union and coordinated by ArtBOX.gr | creative arts management.
> Vip Programme
After the particularly successful VIP programme in 2007, this year Art Athina concentrates even further in putting up a rich and stimulating VIP programme and in offering warm hospitality. The estimated increase in VIP guests this year is 30%.
VIP programme advisor: Aphrodite Gonou (UK)
VIP programme advisor for Italy: Silvia Geddes da Filicaja (Italy)
> Publications/Institutions
Institutions of contemporary art and publications will be presented in the level C of Helexpo building.
Public Relations
Alexia Korleti press@art- thina.gr
Helexpo Palace
Attica Exhibition and Conference Centre
39 Kifisias, 15123, Marousi, Athens
Open hours: 12:00 - 21:00