Exhibitions

I am happy to announce forthcoming international group exhibition Retrato del Artista Cuando Hoy (Portrait of the artist as a today) which will be held in Mérida, México this winter.

The exhibition consists of about 60 pieces in the form of postcards created by artists from more than 20 countries, who present their creations in the Mail Art system, with free interpretations of the universal theme of self-portraits. The exhibition opens in February 2023 in Mérida, Mexico and curated by Tchello d’Barros. The exact day of the opening will be announced later. Keep an eye out for new posts.

A few months ago I took part in Fluxus, International Mail Art Exhibition in the frame of 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS (I wrote about the catalogue in one of my previous posts.). This meeting is a collaboration of the Photography Center of Thessaloniki and the 3rd Workshop of School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, AUTh (Director: Giorgos Tsakiris) with Fluxus Zone Atelier by Giannis Stamenitis.

Born as an idea of confrontation between “academic” and “commercial” art, Fluxus* acquired its own identity and concept, becoming a certain form of creative work. The purpose of Fluxus is to merge in one “stream” various ways of artistic expression and communication means of concrete and electronic music, visual poetry, movement, symbolic gestures. The main principle is absolute spontaneity, arbitrariness, rejection of any restrictions, which was achieved by such forms as an event, happening, performance, decollage, installation, various street actions and performances, anti-theatre.

The meeting included different events:

1. poetry and other texts reading
2. music collaboratons mainly with the use of traditional instruments
3. musical-theatrical performances
4. theme happenings about art, gender relationships, gastronomy etc
5. mail art. Theme: ‘FLUXUS’:

But COVID-19 had his “own plan”.

Due to the deterioration of the pandemic situation in Greece and the strict conditions imposed on public gatherings, we decided to postpone the event that was scheduled for September 2020, in the context of the 1st International Meeting of the Greek FLUXUS for the autumn of 2021.

– Photography Center of Thessaloniki

At the preparatory stage of the event, electronic catalogues were issued and my works were published there:

1) ‘FLUXUS envelopes’, 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS – 2021, Photography Center of Thessaloniki, publication date: 9 February 2021. p.12.
Link: https://issuu.com/photographycenterthessaloniki/docs/fluxus_envelops

2) ‘2020-21 FLUXUS KAI STA MOYTRA SOU’, catalog of the International Mail Art Exhibition, 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS, publication date: 14 April 2021. pp.74-75
Link: https://issuu.com/photographycenterthessaloniki/docs/fluxus_kai_sta_moytra_sou_mail_art

Another event was on Saturday, October 16, 2021:

In celebration of the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys at the MOMus Experimental Arts Center in Porto, some 400 works will be mailed. FLUXUS clothespins with public participation. Then they will “walk” along the beach, meet their spectators and chat with pedestrians on the beach. This event takes place in the context of the “1st International Meeting of the Greek FLUXUS 2020-21” organized by the Photographic Center of Thessaloniki and the 3rd Laboratory of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the AUTh School of Fine Arts, together with the Fluxus Zone Atelier of Yannis Stamenitis and is the continuation of a series of performances, took place in Livadi tou Ephemeros last August, where onions and garlic were planted along with the FLUXUS mailbox folders and symbolically associated with the planting of 7000 acorns in Kassel.

– Photography Center of Thessaloniki

The final event in the frame of the 1st International Meeting of greek FLUXUS was on Saturday, December 18, 2021. Mail Art met once again with the public of Thessaloniki, on Papamarkou street.
This exhibition was organized in the frame of the exhibition hosted by the art space “ΆΘΩΝΟΣ ART SPACE” (Papamarkou 25, Athonos Square) by Vasilis Karkatselis, with archive works entitled “Works that were posted (mail art)”.

*Read more about Fluxus on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
Read more about the Photography Center of Thessaloniki:
https://www.fkth.gr/en
And check out their Facebook for updates:
https://www.facebook.com/fkthgr2013

I am currently taking part in the GLITCH.ART.BR 2021, Glitch Art International Online Exhibition, Second Edition.

The Glitch.art.br International Online Exhibition – glitch.art.br – is an online platform designed to promote, exhibit, and provide a dedicated space for interacting with and discussing Glitch Art.
An exhibition organized in Brazil but is intended for a global audience.

The exhibition is free and open to everyone, as it allows for a wider worldwide audience to access an online program that brings together artworks and texts by current artists and researchers.
The goal is to create a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing experimental and subversive arts from old and new media that are based on analog and digital technologies, also to wide-ranging creative new media-art practices. The exhibition is particularly interested in featuring artworks that explore the critical, artistic and free use of technology.

Opening: 01 December 2021
Curator: Cleber Gazana

Check out their website for more updates: https://www.glitch.art.br/
And take a look at my previous work entitled “Awareness 8” for the First Edition of the Glitch.art.br. Now it is minted as an NFT and for sale at mintable.app.

Here are some photographs and video of the POMO III (POSTMODERN) International Mail Art Exhibition opening ceremony that my artwork is being exhibited.

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The exhibition will run through November 30, 2021.
Exhibition Place: Selcuk University, Faculty of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Konya, Türkiye
Curator: Doç.Dr./Assoc.Prof. Hikmet Şahin
Learn more: https://www.mailartexhibition.org/po-mo-iii-2021/

I am currently taking part in the International Mail Art Exhibition called “POMO III” (Postmodern). The exhibition will run from November 02 to November 30, 2021.

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Opening: 02 November 2021 / 15:00
Exhibition Date: 02-30 November 2021
Exhibition Place: Selcuk University, Faculty of Fine Arts Art Gallery, Konya, Türkiye
Curator: Doç.Dr./Assoc.Prof. Hikmet Şahin

Check out POMO III on Instagram & Facebook.
Learn more: https://www.mailartexhibition.org/po-mo-iii-2021/

P.S. Take a look at my previous artworks for the “PO-MO II”: https://kroshilova.art/journal/po-mo-ii-exhibition/