3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
"Old Intersections-Make it New"
Thessaloniki, Greece
18 September-18 December 2011
Opening:
September 18, SMCA, Moni Lazariston, 19:30
State Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr
www.greekstatemuseum.com
The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, under the general title "Old Intersections-Make it New", is focused on the Mediterranean region, the culture and its people, viewed through a contemporary visual outlook. This year's Biennale comprises a main and a parallel programme including exhibitions, an international young artists' workshop, a performance festival, a symposium and a variety of artistic events, building up in every part of the city.
Director: Katerina Koskina, SMCA President
This Biennale is the first joint venture of the "5 Museums' Movement in Thessaloniki"(5M) consisted of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Museum of Byzantine Culture, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTh and the leader of the project, the State Museum of Contemporary Art-Costakis Collection. It is also part of the "Thessaloniki: Cultural Crossroads" programme of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, focussing this year on the Middle East, and running under the City of Thessaloniki, Department of Culture, Education and Tourism, 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, and other cultural and educational partners jointly.
MAIN PROGRAMME
"A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE"
Curators: Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Marina Fokidis
Assistant Curators: Domna Gounari, Anna Mykoniati (SMCA)
Architect: Andreas Angelidakis
The programme derives its inspiration from the city, as a metaphor of the powerful multicultural character of its past history. Each and every one of the biennale venues (5 historical monuments and 5 museums) constitutes an episode of the all-embracing narrative. These episodes are inspired both by the former and the current use of these buildings, by the past and contemporary contribution to the social life and political game of the city, and the artists and the works hosted have been chosen within this particular framework.
Venues: Alatza Imaret, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Bey Hamam, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Casa Bianca, Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Eptapyrgio, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Teloglion Foundation of Art-AUTh.
Artists: 98 Weeks, Mounira Al Solh, Archive (Francesca Boenzi, Paolo Caffoni, Chiara Figone, Ignas Petronis), Francis Alÿs, Arab Image Foundation, Rasheed Araeen, Athanasios Argianas, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Manfredi Beninati, Christoph Büchel, Pierpaolo Campanini, Vlassis Caniaris, Spartacus Chetwynd, Cinemathèque de Tanger, Keren Cytter, Christina Dimitriadis, Thomas Dworzak, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (in collaboration with Arab Image Foundation), e-flux projects (Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle), Andreas Embirikos, Mounir Fatmi, Emmanuel Finkiel, Penelope Georgiou, Yannoulis Halepas, Steven C.Harvey, IKONOTV, Mahmoud Kaabour, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Ali Kazma, William Kentridge, Alexander Kluge, Panos Koutroubousis, Nikolaj B.S. Larsen, Solon Lekkas, Sifis Likakis, Katariina Lillqvist, Zeina Maasri, Margherita Manzelli, Irini Miga, Moataz Nasr, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nikolai, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Jockum Nordström, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Alessandro Pessoli, Michail Pirgelis, Angelo Plessas, PRISM TV (Nikos Katsaounis & Nina Paschalidou), Imran Qureshi, Jean-Marc Rochette, Marwan Sahmarani, Yiorgos Sapountzis, Hrair Sarkissian, Yehudit Sasportas, Alberto Savinio, Tayfun Serttas, Ahlam Shibli, Slavs and Tatars, Socratis Socratous, Christiana Soulou, Naoko Takahashi, Ryan Trecartin, Kostas Tsioukas, Andreas Vais, Nanos Valaoritis, Kostis Velonis, Pae White, Constantinos Xenakis.
The archive of George Lykidis and selected archives of "The Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive" will also be shown.
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
o Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki / 18.09. 2011-30.09.2012
"The Jews in Thessaloniki. Indelible marks in space"
o Museum of Byzantine Culture / September-December 2011
"Byzantium and the Arabs"
o Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art / 18.09.2011-8.01.2012
"Roaming Images. Crossroads of Greek and Arab Culture Through the Eyes of Contemporary Artists"
o State Museum of Contemporary Art 18.09-18.12. 2011
"Selections from the SMCA Costakis collection"
Accrochage: "Jan Fabre, PIETÀS"
o Teloglion Foundation of Arts - AUTh / November 2011-January 2012
"Pieces and Fragments from Fustat"
o International Young Artists' Workshop / "Domino"
18.09-7.10. 2011: workshop
7.10-7.11. 2011: exhibition
Artists: Dimitris Ameladiotis, Nadia Ayari, Sirine Fattouh, The Fleetgroup, Andre Gonçalves, Elina Ioannou, Nader Sadek
o Thessaloniki Performance Festival
19-25.09.2011
Guest of honour: ORLAN
Artists: Nisrine Boukhari, Efi Birba & Aris Servetalis, Nezaket Ekici, Regina José Galindo, Evi Georgi, Christina Georgiou, Silvio De Gracia, HOPE, Mikhail Karikis, Alastair MacLennan, Mohammad [Nikos Veliotis, Coti K. ILIOS], Liza Morozova, Kira O' Reilly, Luigi Presicce (Italy), Georgia Sagri, Wafaa Yasin
Special tribute to: Theodoros
o Symposium / Mediterranean Cultural Parliament / November 2011 (venue and dates will be announced)
