DESTE Prize 2015
The DESTE Foundation is happy to announce that the exhibition of the DESTE Prize 2015 will take place between May 28, 2015 and September 30, 2015 at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. The DESTE Prize was established in 1999 as part of the DESTE Foundation’s policy of supporting and promoting contemporary art in Greece. Awarded […]
JUST PUBLISHED! 2000 Words: Paul Chan
2000 Words: Paul Chan just published! Paul Chan’s varied practice includes paintings, drawings, video animations, and font design, as well as critical writing. The characters in his works are animated beings, jerking and stuttering as they are violently thrust into the clumsy reel—or “real”—of history. Chan explores the intellectual and sexual animus that courses through […]
UPCOMING BOOKS IN THE “2000 WORDS” SERIES
New books in the 2000 Words series to be published in the Summer of 2015! Stay tuned for the books on the work of Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Tim Nobe & Sue Webster, Chris Ofili and Aleksandra Waliszewska!
ΦIRMA GYPSY GLOBALES – WORKSHOP
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 18:00 Benaki Museum, Pireos St., Athens Through her work Φirma Gypsy Globales, Greek artist Maria Papadimitriou creates a story around the fashion of Gypsies using objects and clothes from Roma camps. More specifically, the work revolves around the life and customs of the Gypsies and develops a hybrid narrative that […]
“everybody’s contemporary”: An Online Collective Project
“everybody’s contemporary” is an online collective project (www.destefashioncollection1to8.gr/) that runs parallel to the DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8 exhibition. Encountering the destefashioncollection items and questioning “the tensions, affinities, and distance” between art and fashion that the exhibition curatorial has noted, this DIY sartorial project is an open-format, unscripted, collectively authored experimentation. Each participating member – everyday people with […]
