18th September - 18th December, Thessaloniki

 

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Exhibition

A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE MMCA

The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the Macedonian Centre of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Industrial Design are a citizens’ initiative, unique in the history of the Greek contemporary arts field. The Museum is supported by its Friends and cooperates with several of the country’s educational, cultural and financial institutions. Thanks to its unique history, owed to personal relations that have evolved through voluntary action, the Museum is supported by the State, through funding for special projects and operating costs.

Since the Museum was founded, its Collection, now including more than 1800 works -paintings, sculptures, video art works, assemblages, installations, engravings and photographs by Greek and international artists, and is constantly enriched through new donations by artists and significant collectors, such as Alexandros Iolas, Franz Geierhaas, Magda Kotzia, Alexandros Xydis and Dimitris Meimaroglou. Among others, the Collection includes works by artists such as A. Akrithakis, A. Apergis, K. Varotsos, G. Zogolopoulos, O. Zouni, V. Caniaris, C. Tsoklis, N. Kessanlis, Y. Moralis, D. Mytaras, Pavlos, D. Oppenheim, Niki de St. Phalle, Τakis, V. Velickovic, A. Warhol, as well as by sculptor Alex Mylonas, who donated her collection to the Museum and also to the Museum Alex Mylona, which she established in Athens.

Among the most significant exhibitions that have taken place in the Museum are the solo presentations of works by Warhol, Skolimowski, Beckamnn, Abbas Kiarostami, Perdikidis, Antonakos, Tornatore, Dean Tavoularis,

Defraoui, Bouteas, Moralis and most recently Damien Hirst; also, the group exhibition Europe Exists, curated by Harald Szeeman and Rosa Martinez.

The Museum’s specially designed educational programs make a significant contribution to initiating children into the world of contemporary art. In the Museum’s specially equipped spaces, take place workshops for children aged 3,5-13 years old, through which children get acquainted with art, its practices and techniques, as well as with artists whose work is presented in the Museum’s temporary shows. In addition to this, programs for school groups with emphasis on interactivity take place, as well as guided tours for various groups and adults.

The Museum’s Library numbers 3.000 titles (books on art history, catalogues of solo and group shows) and its Amphitheater is fully equipped for events such as talks, seminars, conferences, theater performances, music events, matinees etc. The Museum’s recently refurbished shop sells art works, decorative and utilitarian contemporary design objects, jewelry, and of course the Museum’s publications and other publications

dedicated to art.

The Museum has received awards on numerous occasions, from institutions such as the Municipality of Thessaloniki (1993), the “Friends of the Melina Merkouri Foundation” (2007), the Benaki Museum (2008) and the Thessaloniki Rotary Club (2010). Most recently, the Museum received an award from the EU Operational Program “Information Society” (2009).

Artists:

• Alexandra Bachzetsis
  Alexandra Bachzetsis (born 1974 in Zurich) is an artist, performer and choreographer based in Zurich. She studied at the Dimitrischule in Verscio, Switzerland (1995-97), and the Performance Education Program at the STUK Arts Centre in Leuven, Belgium (1997-99). She then continued to post-graduate level at Das Arts, the Advanced Research in...
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• Keren Cytter
  Born (1977) in Israel. She lives in Berlin. She studied at the Avni Institute, Tel-Aviv (1997-1999) and at de Ateliers, Amsterdam (2002-2004). Keren Cytter is best known for her experimental video works that illuminate the interpersonal and the private, works that are often based on templates of literary or cinematic classics, simultaneously...
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• Kostas Tsioukas
  Kostas Tsioukas is a dancer and choreographer, interested in the idea of animate and inanimate movement. He believes that he learned how to dance by observing nature and recording it on tape. As a dancer, he has collaborated with many Greek and foreign choreographers, but it was inevitable that his creativity and restless spirit would...
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• Mounir Fatmi
  Born (1970) in Tangier, Morocco. He lives and works in Paris and Tangier. He constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewer from their preconceptions. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and...
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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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• Pantelis Pantelopoulos
  Born (1957) in Athens where he lives and works. He studied graphic arts, engraving and screen printing. Ηis artistic activity explores fields beyond the established contemporary art system. These fields include installations with visual action, projections, screen printing and painting. Recent group exhibitions: ANATHENA , DESTE...
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• Yehudit Sasportas
  Born (1969) in Ashdod, Israel. She lives and works in Germany. She studied at the College for Visual Art, Beersheva, Israel (1988-89), the  Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (B.F.A., 1989-93), the Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Academy of Art, New York (1993), the Fine Art Department,...
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