Athens Independents Art Index is an initiative that highlights and maps independent project spaces and platforms throughout the city. Since the crisis, these spaces have been important motors driving contemporary art in Athens. Independent art initiatives in Athens gathered together to create a network of contemporary art organizations that represent a cross-section of the creative forces in Athens that are flourishing, reflecting and thinking about the city and providing an interface between the Greek cultural community and the international scene. Ranging from non-profit and artist-run spaces, to residencies, community networks and curatorial projects, these independent initiatives offer broad insight into contemporary artistic production in Athens today.
The following initiatives will be active during and beyond documenta 14. A printed map with all spaces will be available at all major cultural institutions in the city.
For further details & opening hours please check websites of the respective spaces below.
3 137, After the Explosion… You Hear the Light: An Archive
A-Dash Project Space, We Think in Squares / We Love in Triangles
ArtWall Project Space, And the Work of Our Hands
Atopos, occupy Atopos Residency Salvatore Lacagnina
Campus Novel Group, Rezeptionsästhetik
Enterprise Projects, Car Service II
Fokidos, Stitching petals to lead
Life Sport Caribic, Closed on the inside, a better view from outside
locus athens, NP or The Possibilities of a Life
Metamatic: taf, Terrains vagues: A multi-disciplinary walking project through urban voids
Open Show Studio, I started thinking with my heart and I feel Smarter than Ever
Radio Athènes, Oscar Tuazon Building Fire & All: Collected Voices
State of Concept, Future Climates ”The School of Redistribution”
TV Control Center, War of Landscapes Performance
We are Bud, Students of Michaela Melian
Athens Independents Art Index is supported by the Schwarz Foundation.
The Schwarz Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary cultural production. While based in Germany, the Foundation operates an exhibition space, Art Space Pythagorion, on the island of Samos, where it also organizes an annual international, transcultural music festival, Samos Young Artists Festival.
In light of the significant transformations that Europe is experiencing, which call for new ways of thinking, the Foundation’s activities aim to contribute to a process of re-evaluation and re-thinking of the continent, and particularly South-East Europe as well as its relation to its surroundings within a global context. The Foundation supports projects that relate to this geo-political space, such as artistic productions, residencies for artists and musicians on Samos, a curatorial fellowship, symposiums, exhibitions and publications.
