Current exhibition


“…In the exhibition ‘Finding Balance’, Captain Stavros places objects as compasses - hints that one after the other guide to the unfolding of a mystery. Animal bones await osteomancers to read them, much like at a feast before a big battle, in an attempt to foresee its outcome. He created the stage for the visualization of that shifting moment from someone's child point of view to their adult point of view.”
Quote from the exhibition text. Written by Nikoletta Georgakopoulou.

STAVROS KAPETANIOS - Captain Stavros (he/him, 1993) is a visual artist, curator and architect. He is the founder of the non-profit project-space OKAY initiative space, a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, board member at EAXO residency and co-founder of bff architecture.

Duration:
 12.06-05/07
Opening hours:
 Thursday to Sunday
17:00-21:00


Production team
Lead by:
 Stavros Kapetanios @okay__captain
Members:
 Christos Fousekis @chris_fous
Amy Mpenekou @amy_mp
Giorgos Ouzounis @super__g_
Evangelia Alexandropoulou @evngl_archive
Kostas Kalapotharakos

Curated by Living Room

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The Minimal Effort project began to take shape, both conceptually and aesthetically, in the summer of 2024, initiated by curator Elli Leventaki and visual artist Dimitris Kontodimos, with the aim of organizing a group exhibition centered on artworks-gestures as alternative methods of artistic production and expression. Starting from Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, but also taking into account more recent examples, such as Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the exhibition draws on the logic of ready-mades and conceptual interventions, not as artworks that are “easy” to create, conceive, or select, but rather as pieces that can convey a wide range of meanings in a concise manner.
This endeavor aims to take a critical stance toward practices such as intensification, flexibilization, and overwork, which are often promoted as healthy in contemporary Western societies. By contrast, concepts such as “pause” or “standstill” tend to carry negative connotations or are even perceived as a kind of luxury today. This social condition significantly influences artistic production at all levels, because there is no art without so-called “laziness”, as creative people always need time to reflect, experiment, fail, and start over from the beginning…

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You go through the day collecting your Freudian ‘day residues’ - fragments of memories, experiences and thoughts - which come together in a dream the following night, creating a new narrative, and a new experience. In a similar way, the exhibition No scrap no dream gathers scraps of materials from the street that come together in a new narrative, a dream state of the wanderer, who, after a long day in the city, repurposes all these scraps to interchangeable goods. Wandering through the city of Athens, one comes across plenty of kiosks - περίπτερα. Many remain active and full but bound to disappear, while others stand out, empty, like relics. Around them, construction materials of different generations accumulate in the dumpsters of renovation and demolition sites. This imagery leaves the subconscious with a sense of fragmentation and abundance of matter. As a miniature reflection of the broader financial system they are part of, periptera create circles of interaction around them in their most minimalistic version…

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The exhibition 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.



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.

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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