18th September - 18th December, Thessaloniki

 

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A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE CACT

The Contemporary Art Centre supports all forms and kinds of innovative artistic activity. It does not function merely as an intermediary along the linear progression of artist – work of art – public, but serves as an active enabler, facilitating and encouraging communication between the artist and the public.
The staff of the Centre pay close attention to social realities and stay abreast of international trends in contemporary art. We share the hopes and concerns of the artist; we participate in networks exchanging cultural products and experience; we seek to support young artists in their first professional endeavours, offering a platform to showcase their work and back it up with theoretical documentation. We plan and implement our own in-house productions, undertaken in a generous, open-minded spirit without a priori exclusions or exclusivities; we seek productive collaborations which will serve the shared objective of a multi-faceted support for, and promotion of, the arts.
The central philosophy behind the planning of our exhibitions reflects a desire to expand the range of systems of arts education, to present themed exhibitions which will reflect the spirit of the time, along with special tributes to established artists.
Among the key priorities of the Centre are to enlarge the public audience for the arts, to support conventional exhibitions with a variety of parallel actions and educational programmes, to network and collaborate with our counterparts in other countries, to enhance communication through use of the internet, and to stage artistic actions in the public space.

Artists:

• Ahlam Shibli
  Born (1970) in Palestine, where she lives and works. Since 1996 she has been active in the field of photography, realizing research projects that initially focused on the living conditions of the Palestinian population under Israeli rule, e.g. Unrecognised (1999–2000), Goter (2002–03), Trackers (2005), Arab...
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• Angelo Plessas
  Born (1974) in Athens, where he lives and works. He studied Computer Design. Plessas’ main body of work consists of websites. Usually focusing on the theme of identity, he fuses ancient and modernist iconography. These pieces become characters and portraits, while some other times they become experiments of colour and form. In 2007 he founded...
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• Christoph Büchel
  Christoph Büchel was born (1966) in Basel, Switzerland. He lives and works in Iceland.
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• Francis Alys
  Born (1959) in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied at the Institut d’Architecture de Tournai, Belgium (1978-1983), and at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice (1983-1986). He lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. Recent solo exhibitions: Francis Alÿs: Politics of Rehearsal , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,...
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• Olaf Nicolai
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  Born (1962) in Haale/Saale, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. He studied German Literature and Philology in Leipzig (Germany), Budapest (Hungary) and Vienna (Austria). In 1992 he completed his PhD on "The Vienna Group" (‘Die Wiener Gruppe"). Olaf Nicolai’s work is conceptual in nature and often characterized by (socio) political...
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• Rasheed Araeen
  Born (1935) in Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated in civil engineering from the University of Karachi in 1962 and moved to London in 1964. His main interests concern painting, sculpture, photography, performance, mix media works and installations, textual and conceptual works, issuing manifestos. Recent exhibitions: Ikon Gallery (retrospective)...
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