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Our loosely curated display of some of our favourite things may catch your attention. Following our commitment to showcase and support the exceptional creativity of our community, we host exhibitions of works by local artists and artisans.

Ioannis Fetanis

winter 2024

In Waving Through Folklore, artist loannis Fetanis invites viewers on a journey through a “calendar” of handwoven flags-each a vibrant emblem of Greek folklore, inspired by the colors and customs of his childhood. With one flag for each month, Fetanis captures the rhythm of Greek life and tradition, from winter’s rituals to the summer’s lively festivals and autumn’s abundant harvests.

These flags are more than symbols; they’re infused with Fetanis’ personal memories and a deep reverence for shared heritage. Through colors, forms, and motifs, each piece connects the viewer to the spirit of each season, evoking nostalgia and celebrating the continuity of tradition.

Waving Through Folklore is both a tribute and an invitation to see Greek culture anew-alive, evolving, and woven into the fabric of everyday life.

fei alexeli

summer 2024

Fei Alexeli is a contemporary digital artist. Her unique style and aesthetics are deeply rooted in her background in Architecture, which she gained from Oxford Brookes university, University of East London and a half-completed Master on Design at Wille de Kooning Academy of Rotterdam.

Driving in the core of the desert, one is leaving dense civilised pieces of the world behind. Narrative changes. Landscape gets simpler. The silence of the desert becomes a visual thing. A product of the gaze that stares and finds nothing to reflect upon. The desert is no longer a landscape, but rather an abstraction. All that remains of a violent, latent and lethal landscape are these signs of civilisation, facing out the rocks and the sand. They no longer calling upon masses, but speaking to the sky and the open space. Hyperreality takes over. Everything is real, without a true sense of origin or reality.

And things appear and disappear in the same way, abruptly. In the heart of the desert, the absolute fascination lies, the disappearance of all aesthetics and most critical form of life. And if someone’s wishes, even the disappearance of one self. Coming from nowhere and going nowhere, this is ‘Somewhere To Disappear’.

 

DIMITRIS MOUGOS

WINTER 2023

Dimitris presents part of his work in observing Thessaloniki’s cityscape.
A photographic mosaic of the urban landscape and the individual’s attempt to find its place within it.
He has been taking part in numerous exhibitions across the country and abroad for the better part of the past decade.

Coming from a family background related with the graphic arts, culture and the city of Thessaloniki, he studied Photography at the School of Applied Arts & Culture (Photography & Audiovisual Arts) in Athens (2004-2008) and had his postgraduate degree at Goldsmiths College (Media & Communication) in London (2011).

Since 2012 he lives and works in Thessaloniki. He is co-owner of mougos.eu , a family business providing services on photography, visual communication and graphic arts.

Akis Giousmis

fall 2022

Akis Giousmis was born in 1987, in Thessaloniki.
He studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Athens).
In 2017 he received a scholarship and attended courses at UAP University Of Arts Poznan, in Poznan, Poland.
He has been taking part in numerous exhibitions across the country and abroad for the better part of the past decade.

Stefanos Tsakiris

winter 2022

Drawing inspiration from different urbanite playgrounds around the world, Greek photographer Stefanos Tsakiris presents a contemporary series of black-and-white photographs, capturing an atmosphere divided into motion and stillness. Opening a conversation between carefully directed, yet casual snapshots, moments of everyday life and hidden messages, the photographer invites viewers in a journey of visual rhyme across the notion of urban city living. Using his camera to capture common daily stories, he transforms an eye’s glimpse into a physical artwork, giving viewers the chance to take a minute, stare and think: This is how worlds are moving. Being at the beating heart of the photography industry since 2004, Stefanos Tsakiris is a gradute of the School of Graphic Applied Arts and Artistic Studies and has been awarded with his team with the Guinness World Record in 2017. Picturing in private museum collections, underwater photography, fashion collaborations, advertising and teaching has led him to open his own studio named FotoGrapheion in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the cocreator of the Janus Studio creative team and the bimonthly Anethiko Magazzino.

Atelier De Metry

spring 2021

Thessaloniki-born textile designer and printmaker De Metry founded his namesake atelier in 2019 embodying the intrinsic principles of natural materials, geometry and simplicity. 2018 heralded a pivotal moment in his path; over the course of a workshop on Screen Printing on Fabric at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, De Metry experimented with fabrics and studied the preparation of screens for exposure, the mixing of pigments along with inks, as well as printmaking. These techniques enabled him to gain a much deeper understanding of his work. Throughout this process, De Metry mastered his way of conduct and he found his artistic fingerprint. This internal journey of creative maturity led him to design a series of limited edition prints to depict the balance generated by the proportional symmetry and a respectively violating asymmetry. De Metry has made printmaking his main key of expression, in order to transform this unorthodox contrast into an unprecedented, yet harmonious, piece of art that explores the dimensions of line and space.

Emilia Xanthopoulou

fall 2020

Born in Thessaloniki, Emilia Xanthopoulou graduated with honors from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts in 2008 and continued her studies at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.
She then completed her postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins College in London (2010) where she was awarded the Mishcon De Reya Art Prize.

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EXHIBITIONS

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