ART-PRESENTATION: Platforms Project 2019

Kunsthalle Grazstudio ASYNCHROME, Autopropaganda - or Capital is a bad Mediator, 2018, Photo: Peter Brandstätter, Courtesy The Platforms Project

The Platforms Project returns for its 7th edition and brings together independent art platforms from around the world in an attempt to map artworks and current practices, as well as theoretical questions posed internationally. The platforms are artists groups, which create a project together, action or thematic exhibition, also independent artist run spaces, aiming to showcase art, as well as artists’ actions, suggesting a real or digital space in order to highlight culture from all over the world.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Platforms Project Archive

The Platforms Project 2019, is held in Athens at the Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and brings together 60 art platforms (800 artists) from 17 countries in an attempt to map artworks and current practices, as well as theoretical questions posed internationally. This year’s event continues last year’s tradition, with 56 platforms, also from 17 countries, presenting their work, in front of 16,000 audience. At this year’s event, the parallel program is even more expanded in different areas of ASFA, including 38 performances, parallel exhibitions of Greek and foreign artists, talks with the participation of historians, theorists and art critics, academics, museum directors, artists, curators. In the Open Studios , the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 11th and 12th Painting Art labs and 1st and 2nd Sculpture Art labs of Athens School of Fine Arts present students’ artworks The 6th Painting Studio ASFA at the Theater foyer presents the Delfi continued workshop. The 11th Painting studio ASFA presents  (I)MAGESOUND(S), a program of Artist Film, Sound and Expanded Cinema in partnership with The University of Greenwich. The exhibition “The Text of Appearances”,  at the Old Library, is responding to the workshop that takes place in Athens School of Fine Arts during April and May 2019 in 11th Painting studio of ASFA. AICA Hellas organises a meeting related to “The Role of Public and Private Bodies in Art Today”, while In addition, the educational program “Platforms Project for All 2019” is designed for children between 7 and 16 years old from the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH, and the artist and art teacher Ellen Rodenberg, aiming to introduce children to contemporary art. During the Platforms Project the children will be invited to create a mini space (mini stand-cube) with paper, pencils, colors, staples or glue.

Participating Platgorms: 24hrs Project, A TRANS, AC Institute, Alpineum Produzentengalerie Luzern, ArtCode, Artia Gallery), artflatform | elsewhere / kunstenaarsinitiatief | elders, ASOCIATION THEATER DIONYSOS ET APOLLON, ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL, Autobiographical Systems, Backspace, Bcademie, Binary art group,Bureau d’Art et de recherche, Roubaix, Come alone, CUBE ART EDITIONS, DAILY TEMPORARY, Darling Pearls & Co, DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art +), Ed Video (Canada), EGO (Greece), EN FLO (Greece), EX-MÊKH (The Netherlans), Exit / Exit, flat1_offspace, Fragments of truth, Future Scenarios, Galleri Konstepidemin, H-M-S, ID:I Galleri, In Vivo, IS-projects, ITSONLYARTS, KOΡEKT / CORECT,Kunsthalle Graz, Kunsthallekleinbasel, LaLa Art Group Greece, Library / L’briary Gallery, METAPOLIS, Museum of Forgetting/TILT, Open Y @, ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON, Patara Gallery, Penelope’s webs, POW WOW, Rajatila Galleria / Rajataide, SCOTTY, soft turns, Sub Rosa Space, Hurting Boats, Technopaignion art group, THE M{}ESUM, TIDAL FLOW ART, Topp & Dubio, TRANSFORM ART PLATFORM, Und., Unit 8 Cable Depot, Various Artists, Vita Zita studio and Wil Aballe Art Projects.

Info: Platforms Project 2019, Directors: Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou, Artistic Director: Artemis Potamianou, Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Hall, Athens School of Fine Arts, Piraios 256, Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, Duration: 16-19/5/19, Days & Hours: Thu 19:00-22:30, Fri-Sun 12:00-21:00, https://platformsproject.com

ED VIDEOS-Olia Mishchenko, Untitled, Courtesy Platforms Project
ED VIDEOS-Olia Mishchenko, Untitled, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

ID-I Galleri_Hillside Projects, Again and Again We Ask these Questions, Courtesy Platforms Project
ID-I Galleri-Hillside Projects, Again and Again We Ask these Questions, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Rajatila Galleria-Timo Bredenberg, Without Friction, Courtesy Platforms Project
Rajatila Galleria-Timo Bredenberg, Without Friction, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Future Scenarios, we need elections., !, Courtesy Platforms Project
Future Scenarios, we need elections !, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Various Artists, AllhiheyAll, Courtesy Platforms Project
Various Artists, AllhiheyAll, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

POW WOW-Despina Nisirioi, Vocal, Courtesy Platforms Project
POW WOW-Despina Nisirioi, Vocal, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+, Christoph Mügge, Courtesy Platforms Project
DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+, Christoph Mügge, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Kunsthallekleinbasel-Iasonas Kampanis, 54 (The Funeral of Henri Rousseau), Courtesy Platforms Project
Kunsthallekleinbasel-Iasonas Kampanis, 54 (The Funeral of Henri Rousseau), Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Hurting Boats, Sotiris Bazianas, Courtesy Platforms Project
Hurting Boats, Sotiris Bazianas, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Sibylle Feucht, @home (No.6), 2018, Courtesy Platforms Project
Sibylle Feucht, @home (No.6), 2018, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP)-Evann Siebens, Courtesy Platforms Project
Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP)-Evann Siebens, Courtesy Platforms Project

 

 

Εxit_Art group NIKITATI-Niki Zachari & Tati Douvana, Courtesy Platforms Project
Εxit_Art group NIKITATI-Niki Zachari & Tati Douvana, Courtesy Platforms Project