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🍝 Last chance to visit DESMOS: A Dinner Study (8, Polytechneiou str, Athens).
Join us for a festive finissage this coming Saturday 11.1 and a curator's tour at 19:00 🥂
⏰ Visiting hours: Thursday-Friday-Saturday 18:00-21:00.

With the support and under the auspices of .

Participating:
Nadja Aryropoulou, Eloise Fornieles, Ioanna Gerakidi, Panos Giannikopoulos, Marina Velisioti, Nikolas Ventourakis, Olga Vlassi, Sylvia Sachini, Christina Kotsilelou, Dimitra Kondylatou, Konstantinos Kotsis, Kosmas Nikolaou, Rena Papaspyrou, Phantom Investigations (Ino Varvariti, Giannis Delagrammatikas), Theo Prodromidis, Nana Seferli, Stefania Strouza, Mare Spanoudaki, Marianna Stefanitsi, Stamatis Schizakis, Christoforos Marinos, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Konstantinos Hatzinikolaou, Vera Chotzoglou, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas, Kostas Tzimoulis)
📸 details from photos by
1. Archival material installation on view (source: ISET Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum
2. Detail from Rena Papaspyrou, Episodes in matter, 1976
3. Detail from Phantom Investigations, Past(a) Conflicts, 2024
4. Detail from Marina Velisioti, Strange Physical Phenomena, 2024
5. Kosmas Nikolaou, Film shot from processed archival material from the Meetings and Telekinesos Experiments on the Tanagra Psychic Research Society (Athens), 00:19, 2024
6. Detail from Nadja Aryropoulou, Ta Desma tou Desmou, 2024

Curated by Christina Petkopoulou

💫 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from A-DASH! ☃️
🌟 This week, DESMOS: A Dinner Study (8, Polytechniou str, Athens) will be open Friday, 27.12 from 18:00-21:00 🍾 Come and say hi! 🥂

🥫DESMOS: A Dinner Study group show on 7.12 Saturday at is getting closer and closer (!🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️), so here are a few photos by Zoe Hatziyannaki of the final dinner episode at Work In Progress Studios last week. ❤
🎉 Opening: Saturday, 7.12.2024, 18:00

📍EIGHT / ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ, critical institute for arts and politics, 8 Polytechniou str., Athens

⏰ Visiting Hours: 7.12.2024-11.01.2025, Thursday-Saturday 18:00-21:00 and by appointment

✒Curated by: Christine Petko

💫Participating:

Nadja Aryropoulou, Eloise Fornieles, Ioanna Gerakidi, Panos Giannikopoulos, Marina Velisioti, Nikolas Ventourakis, Olga Vlassi, Sylvia Sachini, Christina Kotsilelou, Dimitra Kondylatou, Konstantinos Kotsis, Kosmas Nikolaou, Rena Papaspyrou, Phantom Investigations (Ino Varvariti, Giannis Delagrammatikas), Theo Prodromidis, Nana Seferli, Stefania Strouza, Mare Spanoudaki, Marianna Stefanitsi, Stamatis Schizakis, Christoforos Marinos, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Konstantinos Hatzinikolaou, Vera Chotzoglou, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas, Kostas Tzimoulis)
With the financial support and under the auspices of the Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού Ministry of Culture.
Special thanks to Κάβα Οινότυπο for providing wine for the dinners and opening event, and to Kopria for their floral decorations.💐

💥The time has come! DESMOS: A Dinner Study is coming out as a public group show on December the 7th at from 18:00 and until 11.01.25 🎉
🍝 After a series of 5 thematic dinners, with 28 different guests, artists and curators at , a long research in archival material, interviews and fruitful conversations over stained tablecloths, the project will conclude on a celebratory group show including artworks, valuable documents and performances. DESMOS: A Dinner Study is a project that focused on the empowerment of the artistic community, the valuable bonds we build among us and the precious time we can spend reflecting together, away from production stress, deadlines, openings and the art market. The show instigated from the historical events "Mondays of Desmos", that founders of Desmos Gallery held during the 1970s, inviting artists in casual pasta dinners at the exhibition space.

Curated by Christina Petkopoulou
Participating:
.gerakidi Nikolas Ventourakis, .ps .k Rena Papaspyrou, Stamatis Schizakis

Graphic design: Dimitris Mitropoulos
Photos: Zoe Hatziyannaki

The group show is supported by and organized under the auspices of

A-DASH thanks especially and -ISET for their valuable collaboration during the archival research

🍷Thanks to .gr for offering their delicious house wines
💐 and for their gorgeous flowers

🍝 DESMOS: A Dinner Study Ep.:4 took place at and we are reaching the season finale of the project. Stay tuned for the upcoming public aspect of our collective work in the beginning of December 🥳
DESMOS: A Dinner Study is a collective research project in the form of a pasta dinner series, inspired by the “Mondays of DESMOS Gallery”, artist gatherings that were organized at the historical gallery that operated in Athens from the 1970' to 1990's, by its curator Epi Protonotariou and director Manos Pavlidis.
Within this context, and along with archival research in personal collections and ISET (Greek Contemporary Art Institute), A-DASH hosts curated creative encounters at Athens, inviting artists and other creatives to indulge into historical pioneering practices that shaped the Greek contemporary art community and reflect on the relations that bring us together within the current cultural, political and economic conjunction. We are interested in what art professionals bring to the table, both literally and metaphorically, in a personal condition of care and sharing, where antagonism, exposure and production stress are absent.

❤ *A-DASH thanks for her valuable collaboration, Greek Institute of Contemporary Art-ISET for the precious archival material.
💐 for providing inspired flower compositions
🍷 .gr  for offering its high quality house wines
Curated by Christina Petkopoulou
Photos:

🍂 Looking back to the most heart-warming inauguration of the season, when took place, a collaboration between and , but also a come-together of an extended family of artist-run initiatives from Athens and Reykjavik. This time, three days of show openings, performances and events were hosted by .gallery
Photos by Eva Schram
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For the H2H project we invited curators as well as artists to participate in the festival. Christina co-curated the show that is currently on view at as part of H2H.

Christina Petkopoulou (Athens, 1992) is a curator, writer and educator based in Athens. She has studied History and Archeology in the Department of Archeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne and completed an MA on Cultural Management at Panteion University. She is a member and the curator of A-DASH artist-run platform. Over the past years she has published texts and contributed to contemporary art editions as a writer and a copy editor. She is the curator of the online projects a time of her own by artist Zoe Hatziyannaki, rattling frames, and the digital crowdsourcing archive project Athens Report of artist Anna Lascari. She has curated several exhibition projects and public programs, such as Lipiu project, A-DASH and online (2021–2022), Vera Chotzoglou – BONA-FIDE program (2021), Playing Ground (2019–2020), Automatic Transmission (2019–2020). She has collaborated with several contemporary art organizations, such as the Greek Institute of Contemporary Art (ISET) – where she started her career researching and managing its archives. In 2019, she received the ARTWORKS Curatorial Award from the SNF Artist Fellowship Program. In 2016, has been chosen by the NEON Foundation to take part in the ΝΕΟΝ Curatorial Exchange Program in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery in London.

1. Christina Petkopoulou photo credit Alek Alexiadis
2. DESMOS: A Dinner Study, Work In Progress Studios, 2024, (in progress), photographer Zoe Hatziyannaki
3. Lipiu, A-DASH, Athens, 2020, (on view: Nana Sachini), photographer: Zoe Hatziyannaki