Current Exhibition
Beneath the Surface: Material Stories of Displacement
Visiting hours:
Fri-Sun 17-20:00
Until February 1st
Beneath the Surface
- Material Stories of Displacement brings together nineteen artists whose works confront displacement not only as a political reality, but as an intimate, lived condition. Displacement settles into the grain of everyday survival ~ into the textures we touch, the gaps in language, the things we carry with us and the things we are forced to leave behind.
The artists in this exhibition hold space for these contradictions: presence and absence, belonging and estrangement, memory and forgetting. Their works do not seek closure. Instead, they offer a material reckoning ~ an unfolding conversation shaped by objects, gestures, and the silent testimonies of matter.
This narrative is incomplete by design. It forms slowly, like a shoreline rewritten by each tide. We build, unbuild, and build again. Each piece asks:
What remains when home is gone?
What does the body remember when memory dissolves?
What we know is this: materials remember. They fray, resist, absorb, endure. In their quiet language, they reveal traces of who we are and who we are becoming.
This exhibition listens to that language ~ one of resilience, rupture, and the fragile architectures of belonging.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, January 17th
Curated by
Spyridwn [@sppsath]Auðunn Kvaran [@audunnaudunnaudunnaudunnaudunn]
and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou [@nikolettageorgakopoulou]
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Marlene Heidinger’s work unfolds bonding moments of people coming together in a complete abstractness of a space, in a collective attempt to connect and empathize. In this effort of doing so, they need to face each other, within all the claustrophobic feelings of what meeting each other's individuality may bring. A red thread sarcastically commenting on the scenes with a feeling of celebration, is simultaneously pointing out the emergency of better defined boundaries while also resembling the ways the path to find one another unfolds: it twists, it loops, it gets tangled and untangled.
So, where is the red line in all of this between us?
Marlene Heidinger (1996, Vienna) is a painter, curator, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She pursued studies in painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. In June 2024, she earned her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (“/ecm”) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her master’s thesis, “When Artists Curate: From the Studio to the Exhibition Space,” explored curatorial strategies employed by artists, focusing on the use of the studio as an exhibition space. This work reflects her broader interest in curating as an extension of artistic practice.
So, where is the red line in all of this between us?
Marlene Heidinger (1996, Vienna) is a painter, curator, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She pursued studies in painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. In June 2024, she earned her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (“/ecm”) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her master’s thesis, “When Artists Curate: From the Studio to the Exhibition Space,” explored curatorial strategies employed by artists, focusing on the use of the studio as an exhibition space. This work reflects her broader interest in curating as an extension of artistic practice.
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17.05 – 17.06.25
Having recently relocated to a larger space, Living Room now functions not only as an exhibition venue, but also as a home for artists’ studios ~~ a shared environment where works develop side by side and dialogue is built.
Our first group exhibition celebrates that spirit of proximity and exchange. Bringing together the approaches of Eirini Tiniakou, Nadja Geer, Maisie Maris, Daphnis Monastiriotis, Riccardo Vitali, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Nikos Katsampanis, Auðunn Kvaran, and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou, the exhibition presents a variety of voices shaped within and beyond the studio walls.
Various processes meet in a shared space that equally emphasises process and outcome, and connection as much as individuality.
Our first group exhibition celebrates that spirit of proximity and exchange. Bringing together the approaches of Eirini Tiniakou, Nadja Geer, Maisie Maris, Daphnis Monastiriotis, Riccardo Vitali, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Nikos Katsampanis, Auðunn Kvaran, and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou, the exhibition presents a variety of voices shaped within and beyond the studio walls.
Various processes meet in a shared space that equally emphasises process and outcome, and connection as much as individuality.
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Terhi Ekebom (b. 1971) is an Helsinki-based artist and illustrator. She holds a MA-degree in arts from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and BA-degree in design from the Metropolia (EVTEK) Institute of Art and Design. As an artist, Ekebom is an open-minded experimenter who is at home in the field of illustration, comics, wall painting and installations. She has held several solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in Finland, Brazil, Japan, China and Europe.
Sebastian Boulter (b. 1974) is a painter and musician from Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds a MA-degree in painting from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels and secondary education diplomas of music and props making.
Since 2000, he has had several solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in Finland, Russia, Baltic countries, Caucasus, Greece and Central Europe.
He has worked as an independent curator in collaboration with Tampere City Cultural Affairs, Finland, Artist’s Union of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Finnish Institute in Athens. As a musician, Boulter has made soundscapes for exhibitions and composed music for movies, independent theaters, contemporary dance groups and different ensembles.
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Yoshi Kametani is an American visual artist working across photography, video, print, and sculpture, currently living and working in Athens. His practice largely reflects on time, destruction, chaos and mortality. At the core of his work is an exploration of entropy, a natural force lending itself to nihilism while embracing the inevitable cycle of rise and decay.
Curated by
Nikoletta Georgakopoulou (@nikolettageorgakopoulou)
and Auðunn Kvaran (@audunnaudunnaudunnaudunnaudunn)
Text by Nikoletta Georgakopoulou