Event Category: Visual Arts / Performance

Model Collapse

In the exhibition Model Collapse, Maria Mavropoulou explores parallels between the human brain and artificial intelligence in terms of their decay process. The gradual loss of memories, as it manifests in cases of dementia or Alzheimer’s, is compared to the phenomenon of model collapse in artificial intelligence, where models are fed back with the data they’ve produced, leading to errors.

Following research on patients in the early stages of dementia, the artist documents personal stories and objects associated with their memories while conversing with artificial intelligence applications to comment on the distance between an individual’s contradictory subjectivity and the supposed objectivity of AI models’ data.

The exhibition is enriched by the dialectical relationship between the works and the archaeological findings showcased at the Archaeological Museum of Eretria, a par excellence repository of collective memory.

The work invites audiences to reflect on the significance of human memory and the role of technology in shaping our collective and individual identities.

Iconography 2.0: Cultural Project of Tradition and Innovation NextGenerationTradition

Iconography 2.0 is a groundbreaking cultural project that aims to redefine the dialogue between traditional iconography methods, technological innovation, art, faith, and aesthetics.

The event culminates in an original visual art installation at the Holy Monastery of Our Lady of Akrotiriani and Saint John the Theologian in Toplou, Sitia, where light, image, and sound create a hybrid phygital setting that unfolds throughout the spaces of the Monastery and transforms the visitor’s experience into a multi-sensory journey between the past and present.

Byzantine music and the natural soundscapes of Crete engage in conversation with modern musical compositions and poetic texts, supporting the visual works that will be created as part of the three-day educational and artistic programme preceding the event. This polyphonic dialogue among sound, image, and speech allows for the co-existence of tradition and innovation, creating a new, vibrant space for cultural expression, where art becomes the language of faith, memory, aesthetics, and collectiveness.

* As part of the event’s agenda, workshops will be held in Crete (20-22/8), alongside tours, experiential research, and educational tourism (25-27/8).

Mother Spider

The work Spider Mother is a visual, theatrical, and musical event, featuring twelve contemporary pieces of textile art selected and curated by distinguished art historian and curator Iris Kritikou.

These twelve wefts are crafted by the prominent textile artists Irini Gonou, Maria Grigoriou, Stathis Katsarelis, Eleni Krikki, Maria Kotsou, Anastasis Madamopoulos, Pandora Mouriki, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Ismini Samanidou, Hermione Syrogiannopoulou, Ioanna Terlidou, and Argyris Chatzimallis. Fixed on unevenly-sized frames, these pieces serve not only as representative samples of contemporary textile art, but also as a standalone, total work of art, which constitutes the performance’s setting.

The texts, selected and dramatized by Giorgos Giannarakos, who also directs the show, span the last three millennia and reference Greek textile art through epic poems, mythology, theatre, literature, legends, and poetry. The songs, including both adapted traditional tunes and modern creations, all tied together by the thematic “thread” of the performance, highlight the continuity of music and the importance of textile artistry across time.

Along Their Path… 127 Years Later

The Tinos Virtual Museum (TVM), as part of the Ministry of Culture’s programme “All of Greece, One Culture 2025”, presents a multifaceted initiative dedicated to the weaving art of Tinos and its revival in the present day. Through a programme of exhibitions, talks, screenings, artistic and educational activities, weaving is approached as a living cultural practice and a means of creative expression, viewed through a historical lens and recontextualised in contemporary terms.

The events will take place at emblematic landmarks of the island — the Ursuline School in Loutra, the Zarifeios School of Weaving and Handicrafts in Chora, the historic Weaving Workshop in Pyrgos village — as well as at the TVM space in Chora. The programme includes visual art exhibitions, children’s workshops, presentations by distinguished historians and folklorists, and screenings of research-based videos curated by the TVM.

Is It Written? Maktoub

This performance serves as a multisensory ritual of awakening, a manifesto of emancipation that connects the past to the present through the female voice, as an act of resistance and survival.

Revolving around poems by women from South Asia and the Middle East who dared to speak out in regimes of silence, this piece brings together poetry, the body, and image. Each verse turns into a gesture, each pause into a shadow, and each breath into a whisper that requests space and light.

Through the blend of performance art, original music, scenography, and technology, the production Is It Written? Maktoub highlights the female experience as a universal narrative – timeless, bold, lyrical. The female performer’s body becomes a field of memory and metamorphosis: it challenges itself against the past, questions tradition, and creates space for freedom. Through marginalization and repression, a new figure is born – not a victim; a storyteller, a flame. Is it written? Or is it perhaps time we rewrote it?

Konstantinos Bhta: Space and Memory

Renowned musician and artist Konstantinos Bhta presents his new visual art exhibition and musical performance, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, the artistic director of Polygreen Culture and Art Initiative (PCAI), at “Pi”, Pikionis’ landmark pavilion in Delphi.

This new visual venture by Konstantinos Bhta in collaboration with PCAI engages in direct dialogue with the critical past of Pikionis’ architectural monument, the historical significance of the Delphi area, and the broader natural landscape and environment. The programme’s title is inspired by the first poetry anthology of postwar poet Nikos-Alexis Aslanoglou, Dyskolos Thanatos [Difficult Death, 1954].

The current exhibition by Konstantinos Bhta and PCAI, along with the live music performance accompanying it, inspired by poet Andreas Embiricos’ quote “Today as tomorrow and as yesterday,” converses with Nikos-Alexis Aslanoglou’s work and his artistic relationship with the past, memory, and the present.

RAST Diversion

The site-specific installation and sonic happening take the myth of the Achelous River as their point of departure. Here, geomythology serves as a living memory and a transformative force. The notion of diversion refers not only to the rerouting of the river itself but also to a shift in historical and cultural narratives.

Panos Charalambous draws on familiar motifs from his practice—irrigation pipes, metal basins, a boat from Lake Amvrakia—reimagined as vessels of animate ecologies. The tsamiko, deconstructed and elongated, becomes a gesture of embodied and environmental reflection—a choreography of memory inscribed in both body and landscape.

Angelos Krallis constructs a sonic palimpsest, layering rast tonalities, micro-environments, and live processing into a form of acoustic excavation.

Diversion emerges as a practice of reconfiguring our relations with water, land, and time—toward a present of coexistence.

Before Now After

Before Now After is an interdisciplinary project bringing together contemporary dance, traditional live music, oral history, documentary film and photography.

Through a contemporary journey on the island of Leros, the project creates movement while focusing on the meeting with ‘the other’ body (that of the local population, the co-creator, the place, the object) and a dialogue across the collective past, present and future.

The project explores the excavation of the past as an opportunity to listen through the body and to meet with opinions and events of another era. A chance to converse through art with the local community, to set in motion different ways of relating to our history and exploring the collective undertaking of shaping our future.

IN PRESENTIA

IN PRESENTIA deals with the Asia Minor Catastrophe through the notion of mourning and the encounter with the sea. The work highlights the complexity of the trauma’s longevity, combining light, the sea’s movement, and sound. A visual and sound installation – it functions as a score for the performance.

A silent ‘in-memoriam’ tribute to all refugees who experienced the trauma of displacement, who lost their lives in this very sea or moved on to a new life. We attempt a dialogue inside the silence of loss, recollecting memories from our past, like invaluable flashes of insight that shed light to the darkness of mourning.

We bring the dead to life within our memory, with tenderness towards what remains in presence, as a part of our lives, invaluable.

Ammophila vol.3: There Was Land Here Before

Ammophila Vol.3: There Was Land Here Before is an exhibition that renegotiates the way in which we perceive and experience places and the dominant narratives projected onto them.

We are concerned with places, which we regard as our subsoil, rituals of coming together and coexisting, and stories that have shaped these relationships. The exhibition is inviting us to give new interpretations and stories to places that can be real or made up through our collective phantasies: phantasies of a non-existent land, a land that is different, a land that is differently inhabited.

A land that can shake us, a land in decomposition, a land in bloom, a land that trembles, a limitless land.