Now in its ninth consecutive year, Platforms Project is the international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by young artists on the international scene as they join forces to seek answers to contemporary artistic questions. The project is managed by Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou. The Artistic Director of Platforms Project 2021 is Artemis Potamianou.

The Platforms Project Net 2021 will enable a wider audience of art lovers to access the works and the artists of the groups through a digital show, and viewers can live a new experience by visiting the Platforms Project site for 15 days, from May 27th to June 10th, 2021.

A virtual plan view of the 'Nikos Kessanlis" exhibition space of the Athens School of Fine Arts shows the platforms installed in their digital stands. Viewers can click on a platform's number and title and see the works presented by each artist in the group (video-art, painting, photography, installations, etc).   Visitors to the new Platforms Project NET may engage in direct, real-time dialogue with the artists over the internet as part of the overall interactive experience. 

The Platforms Project NET will be featuring 68 platforms from 28 countries (Greece, UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, France, Panama, Finland, Indonesia, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, Cyprus, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, China, Ukraine, Chile, Slovenia, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela) and over 900 artists.

The main program of Platforms Project NET 2021 will comprise 68 platforms – artists' groups:

A Very Very Happy Gallery (Canada, Hong Kong), ABC Gallery (Russia), ACEY Europe (Greece, Cyprus),  AKA artist-run (Canada), AMV (Canada), ArtCode (Greece), ARTIA GALLERY( Greece), artplatform |elsewhere (Netherlands), ASSOCIATION THÈÂTRE DIONYSOS ET APOLLON (Greece, France, Canada, Chile, Russia, Slovenia, Argentine, Brazil, Venezuela, USA), ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL (Greece), Autobiographical Systems (Greece), Bcademie (Netherlands), BEASTON Projects (UK), BIG - Biennale Inannulable des espaces d'art de Genève (Switzerland), Binary art group (Cyprus), Bureau d'art et de recherche, Roubaix (France), Cable Depot (UK), Chicago Artists Platforms (USA), Come alone (Greece,  France), Cube Art Editions (Greece), CYBORG/ASMA (Greece),  DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ (Germany), D.E.U.S  (Greece & Belgium), DIPOLA(Greece), Ed Video (Canada), Embryo LLC (USA), EN FLO (Greece), EULENGASSE  (Germany), EX-MÊKH (Netherlands), Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co (UK), Fragments of truth + LaLa Art Group (Greece), Future Scenarios ( Netherlands,  Greece), GREYLIGHT PROJECTS ( Netherlands  & Belgium), ID:I GALLERI (Sweden), IFAC Arts ( USA), IN VIVO (Greece), ITSONLYARTS (Greece), JAW  (UK), JuJe (Canada), Κ4+1 project (Greece), Kaktos Project (Greece), ΚΟΙΝΩΝΩ Τhe Tinos Gathering (Greece),  CultivationCultivation (Greece)), Kunsthalle Graz - association for contemporary art (Austria), Kunsthallekleinbasel  (Switzerland), Lab for Arts (Greece)),  METAPOLIS (Greece),  ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΤΕΣ | META-FRASTES  (Greece), Mnky Bizz Group (USA), mp43 - project space for the peripheral (Germany), Museum of Forgetting/TILT platform (Sweden , Greece), MUU Galleria (Finland), ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON (Greece), Penelope's webs (Greece), personal identity (Greece), Pow Wow (Greece), Project 2 (Greece), Rhythm Section (Australia, China, Germany, Great Britain, Italy , Netherlands, Ukraine), rosalux (Germany), Sans Titre, Tourcoing (France), Sepersepuluh (Indonesia), SHELTER Artists Run Space (Turkey), THE M{}ESUM (Germany),TIDAL FLOW ART (Greece), Topp & Dubio (Netherlands), Tranformart Gallery (Serbia), Y@oldnursery (Greece)

This year, the Platforms Project Net hosts more platforms and artists than ever before, and if the pandemic conditions and the safety of artists and visitors allow it, the physical presentation of Platforms Project 2020-21 will be held from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 October 2021 at the "Nikos Kessanlis" exhibition hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Platforms Project aims to serve as a hub of creation, a register of the avant-garde trends in art and a forum for promoting interaction among platforms. Over its ninth years of operation, it has established a world network of independent art groups and spaces in direct communication with one another. In its nine years of operation, the Platforms Project has established a global network of independent art groups and spaces in direct communication with one another. As proof of this, several platforms have invited other groups/platforms and integrated them into their presentation. In this way, the program of Platforms Project ΝΕΤ 2021 ultimately includes 91 artists' groups-platforms. Some notable examples of this are the En Flo platform from Greece which has invited the groups-platforms of Poetry Well, Poetry Perfo U.W.M., Surrealistic Team of Thessaloniki, Echoes in the well (collective poem), Karyothrafstis literary journal poets group, Women’s thirty ways of entrapment (poetry in two acts), SIATERLI & CO, Brothers Group, COM.ODD.OR., Buffalo Fire Women Project–The Howl, Poetry Well ΙΙ, Coo Action Playback Theater, Ephemeral sculptures, hanging in balance, Poetry Well ΙΙΙ, Pictorial synergy recitation of haikou and works of art, TRIBUTE TO KASOMOULIS, Deterritorialized, Sonorous Wishing Well -Florina Conservatory, Attempt Number One, Walter Benjamin, The philosophy of art history, XA-OIKOY, Fragments of truth who has joined forces with LaLa Art Group and the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH which features also works by the German platforms KRAATZ and A Trans. 

A key parallel program in the context of the Platforms Project NET is OPEN STUDIOS, where teaching studios of the Athens School of Fine Arts present the students' actions and works. For Platforms Project ΝΕΤ 2021, the participants are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th Painting Studios, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Sculpture Studios, the Elective Studios 3d modelling and printing studio, the Videoart Studio and the Master in Fine Arts (MFA) of the ASFA.

This year's KIDS LAB educational program is designed for 4-16-year-olds. Developed by the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH and the artist and art educator Ellen Rodenberg, the program invites children to set up their own mini space ( a small stand/cube) with paper, pencils and colors during the Platforms Project NET, for which they can draw inspiration from the exhibition.

In addition, the program designed by the Greek platform Lab for Arts aims to introduce children to the visual arts and help them find inspiration in the works of major artists.

Viewers will also be able to watch online, in Greek, English, French and German, a rich and varied program of lectures on matters of contemporary art, online performances and videos by the participating platforms. 

PROGRAM OF TALKS AND PERFORMANCES PLATFORMS PROJECT NET 2021

27th OF MAY 2021

18:30, Rhythm Section, “THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE”, Oleksiy Koval, Serena Semeraro, Mirco Tarsi, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright, (performance)

Live Painting Video,  compositions:  “Schar” 2021,  as a part of RHYTHM SECTION AMBIGUOUS UNAMBIGUOUS, Curated by Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck

28th OF MAY 2021

17:00, Chicago Artists Platforms, “Refuge”, Rose Camastro Pritchett, Claudia Bucher, Anni Holm, (performance)

Performance art video, created online in three countries, video editor: Stephen Guenther, USA

19:00, BIG - Biennale Inannulable des espaces d'art de Genève, “What does it mean to organise an art biennial during a period of pandemic? 

Coordinator:
Jill Gasparina,  Αrt critic, art theorist, curator and teacher

Speakers:
Remi Dufay, Coordinator of the BIG, artist

Charlotte Magnin, Coordinator of the BIG, art historian and art researcher

The speech will be in French with english subtitles

29th OF MAY 2021

17:00, Topp & Dubio, “Unstable Matter Situations Live”

Speakers::
Topp & Dubio

The speech will be in English

19:00, dreamideamachine, “Dialogues with Art & Artists Part II’”

Speaker:
Efi Michalarou, Journalist, Art Critic, Independent Curator

Efi Michalaroupresents her book ‘’in first singular & second plural, part ii’’  with 25 interviews by art people.

The speech will be in Greek

30th OF MAY 2021

12:00, “The First and Last and Always Psiloritis Biennale”

Speaker:
Stamatis Schizakis, Curator and Art historian

Curator Stamatis Schizakis presents The First and Last and Always Psiloritis Biennale, a curatorial project for which he realizes temporary artistic interventions and installations in open spaces in the area of Psiloritis in Crete, according to the directions given by collaborating artists.

Presentation will be in English subtitles with Greek voiceover 

17:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co,  “Unicorn vs Medusa / Art vs Porn: the same old story”

Coordinator: Alessandra Falbo, Art gallery director, curator, artist

Speakers:
Holly Crawford, Artist and art historian
Misha Mayfair, Artist, porn actress and activist
Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, Artist, pornographer and activist
Stewart Home, Artist, art historian and activist

The speeches will be  English

31th OF MAY 2021

17:00, POW WOW,  “Kafka is a Punk Rocker”,  Grigoria Vryttia, (performance)

“Kafka is a punk rocker”, the latest performance of Grigoria Vryttia along a soundscape by the artistic duo “Quasar” (Frida Kavlo & DJ Marble), explores an idea of historicity through a web of references.

18:00, EULENGASSE, »No artist – no run« - Artist-run spaces with or without Corona –the recognition of a crisis?
Coordinator: Andrea Blumör, member of the board of EULENGASSE e.V.

Speaker:
Andrea Blumör, Visual artist

The speech will be in English

1st OF JUNE 2021

17:00, MEETING:  “The city’s memory during the pandemic”

Introduction:
Eleni Tzirtzilaki, architect, community artist

Speakers:
Bia Papadopoulou, Art Historian, Curator
Eleni Tzirtzilaki, architect, community artist
Giorgos Tserionis, artist
Faye Tzanetoulakou, Art Historian, Curator

The pandemic has mostly affected women and the non-wealthy, creating new poverty and feelings of precariousness.  It has brought about prohibitions, restrictions and has transformed the urban territory. How is history written today? Have new artistic practices emerged in the city in relation to the past?

The speeches will be  Greek

19:00, ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΤΕΣ | META-FRASTES, “Τhis will hurt”

Speaker: Alexander Voutsas, photographer-visual artist 

The speech will be in Greek and in English

2nd OF JUNE 2021

17:00, Rhythm Section, “A public video screen is not only a digital surface for advertising or moving images, but also a surface for digital painting ” 

Speakers:
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck
Dr. Ezgi Bakçay
Oleksiy Koval

In the context of: RHYTHM SECTION AMBIGUOUS UNAMBIGUOUS.

Curated by Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck

The talk will be in English

19:00, DAS ESSZIMMER - space for art+, “And Now?  

Speakers:

SEA Foundation Tlburg/NL | represented by Riet van Gerven
ID:I Galleri Stockholm/SE |   represented by Alexander Mood,  Artist,  and Annelie Wallin, Artist
Bureau d’Art et de Recherche (BAR), Roubaix/F |  represented by Guillaume Krick, Artist,
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm  | represented by Andreas Ribbung, artist and co-founder of candyland

After more than one year of the pandemic, after mourning of what we have lost in our lives due to contact restrictions, after very reduced exchange and exposure possibilities particular in art, maybe we should now start to think about if there is anything we can learn from the past months beyond setting up zoom meetings and live streams.

The talk will be in English

3srd OF JUNE 2021

17:00, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΩ | Tinos Art Gathering, “Experiments in inductive landscaping or Kinono as an act”

Speaker: Christos Artemis, Founder and art director of Kinono

The speech will be in Greek with English subtitles

18:00, EULENGASSE, “Refugee stories” - Afghan artists and non-artists in diaspora

Coordinator: Andrea Blumör, member of the board of EULENGASSE e.V.

Speaker: Andrea Blumör, Visual artist

The speech will be in English

4th OF JUNE 2021

17:00, CultureNow, “Theory/Curating/Pandemic ”

Coordinator: Faye Tzanetoulakou, Art Historian and Curator

Speakers: Faye Tzanetoulakou, Art Historian and Curator
Introduction. Immersing to art, physically, digitally, phygitally: How can art survive the sudden vanishing of synaesthesia
Vassiliki Vayenou, Art Historian 
Confronting pauses and gaps: Greek artists in the times of the pandemic
Stratis Pantazis, Art Historian and Curator
Site-specific τέχνη την εποχή του κωρονοϊού

A series of talks on the issue of survival and the presence of visual arts during the pandemic, by the art critics of the cultural website / online art magazine culturenow.gr

The speeches will be in English

19:00, DAS ESSZIMMER - space for art+, “Only Art is Work  | Nur Kunst ist Arbeit  ”

Speakers: stöckerselig

DAS ESSZIMMER invited the artist couple stöckerselig from Basel/CH to talk about their concept and approach that only art is work. They will invite a further guest to this conversation.

In their artist initiative Weltraum, they foster the exchange between people of all generations interested in and active in the promotion of culture.

The speech will be in German

5th OF JUNE 2021 

13:00, The Art Newspaper Greece,  Αrchive in the Digital Age: A Different Approach

Speakers:
Charis Kanellopoulou, Art Historian, member of the editorial board of The Art Newspaper Greece
Antonia Pilarinos, Curator,Communications and Cultural Liaison at the Danish Institute at Athens
Stamatis Schizakis, Curator, New Media and Photography, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

The speech will be in Greek

6th OF JUNE 2021

12:00, dreamideamachine, MEETING: “The Position of Women in Contemporary Art”

Coordinator:
Efi Michalarou, Journalist, Art Critic, Independent Curator, Director of the online magazine www.dreamideamachine.com 

Speakers:
Dimitriadis Christina, Visual Artist
Sdoukou Ifigeneia, Visual Artist, Member in the Board of Directors of Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras
Dimitropoulou Martha, Visual Artsist
Tsiatsiou Theodora, Visual Artist, Secretary of Association of Visual Arts of Larissa- 8, member of the Artistic Committee of Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa G.I. Katsigras

Basdekis Evangelia,  Visual Artist-Performer

The speech will be in Greek

17:00, SHELTER Artists Run Space, “Pandemic Diary”

Speaker:
Serife Aslan

The speech will be in English

7th OF JUNE 2021

18:00, EULENGASSE, »Beuys 100.« - Hats off - heads on! – The Centenary of Joseph Beuys

Coordinator : Harald Etzemüller, member of the board of EULENGASSE e.V.

Speakers:
Harald Etzemüller, Architect
Petra Kammann, Journalist
Vládmir Combre de Sena, Curator

The speech will be in English

19:30, Fragments of truth + LaLa Art Group, “PATMOS 12”

Speakers:
Louisa Karapidaki,  Αrt historian
Ilias Papailiakis, Artist

Discussion between art historian Louisa Karapidaki and the artist Ilias Papailiakis.

The speech will be in Greek 

8th OF JUNE 2021 
18:00, D.E.U.S., “How to D.E.U.S. ?”

Speakers:
Apostolia Papadamaki, Director, Chorographer
Georgia Kotretsos, Visual Artist, Professional Spectator
Poka Yio, Founding Director of the Athens Biennale
Alexis Kaniaris, Project Manager
Christina Negrepontis, D.E.U.S. artist member
Stinne Van Espen, D.E.U.S. artist member
Panolabrou, D.E.U.S. founder, Visual Artist

The speeches will be in English

19:00, ABC Gallery, “Synaesthetics. Poetry and/as audiovisual medium”

Coordinator:
Maxim Ilyukhin,  Ivan Kurbakov

Speakers:
Maxim Ilyukhin
Ivan Kurbakov
Pavel Zarutskiy
Ivan Masteropoulοs

The speech will be in English 

9th OF JUNE 2021
17:00, Penelope’s web, “The photographic self-portrait - From the intimate to the universal ”

Speaker:
Maria Xypolopoulou, PhD Candidate in History (University of Paris 1, Sorbonne-Panthéon), Independent Curator and art critic

The presentation aims to highlight the creative and theoretical context of the penelope’s web group's works and to suggest through brief references to the evolution of woman self-portrait, as recorded in the history of the photographic medium, the key points for their understanding and approach.

The speech will be in Greek

18:00, EULENGASSE, “(Greek) Art Film” (Provisional title)
Coordinator: Sabine Imhof, film scientist

Speakers:
Sabine Imhof, film scientist

In collaboration with Filmforum Höchst Arthouse Cinema, Frankfurt am Main (the chosen film will be available on https://www.filmforum-höchst.com)

The speech will be in English

10th t OF JUNE 2021
17:00,  What Theorems are and what they want

Speaker:
Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Emeritus Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, President  AICA Hellas 

Τhe speech will be in greek

Duration: 27th of May – 10th of June 2021

Website: www.platformsproject.com

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