Thessaloniki, 29 August 2017

Press Release
6th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
30 September 2017 14 January 2018

96 artists meet at the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

A journey to four continents and 37 countries is promised to the visitors to the 6th
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art under its title "Imagined Homes",
through the works of 96 individual artists and groups participating in this year's main
exhibition and performance festival.

One month prior to the official opening of the main exhibition of the Biennale, which
celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, the State Museum of Contemporary Art
(SMCA), in its capacity as organising body, hereby announces the names of the
participating artists who will present their works in four venues in Thessaloniki: at the
SMCAs site at Moni Lazariston, the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki at
Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki port, in the premises of the Macedonian Museum
of Contemporary Art and at the Mount Athos Center.

Additionally, the SMCA announces the artists participating in the Thessaloniki

Performance Festival, which forms part of the main program of the Biennale,
alongside the artists residency program, events, exhibitions by the Movement of the
5 Museums of Thessaloniki, and educational activities for children and adults. The
parallel program includes self-funded exhibitions and events that are presented
under the auspices of the Biennale.

The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is co-financed by Greece and

the European Union (European Regional Development Fund).

Participating artists hail from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,

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Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, New Zealand,
Norway, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain,
Switzerland, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, the UK and the USA. All of the artists were
either selected by the curatorial team of the Biennale, responded to the Biennales
open call (in Nov. 2016), are participating in the artists residency program or the
performance festival, or were due to participate in the anakkale Biennale last
September and are now hosted by the Thessaloniki Biennale. They all respond to
this years theme, taking as a starting point the current attention on the immigration
problem, focusing at the same time on the fluidity and constant redefinition of the
home as a concept.

The participating artists in the main exhibition are:

Giorgos Alexandridis, Babis Alexiadis, Halil Altindere, Einat Amir, Arushee, Oreet
Ashery, Younes Baba-Ali, Dora Belegrinou, Natasa Biza, Eva Borner, Alkis Boutlis,
Ascan Breuer, James ridle, Myriam Chaieb, Bo Choy, Dionisis Christofilogiannis,
Raffaella Crispino, Sophie Dubosc, Ahmet Elhan, Alessandra Eramo, Dimitris
Fragakis, Alicia Framis, Alexander Glandien, Dylan Graham, Chaja Hertog & Nir
Nadler, Paolo Incarnato, Dzamil Kamanger & Kalle Hamm, Reysi Kamhi, Akis
Karanos, Fotini Kariotaki, Norayr Kasper, Sharlene Khan, Peggy Kliafa, Gustav
Klucis, Panos Kompis, Mikko Kuorinki, Sotiris Lioukras, El Lizzitzky, Andreas Lolis,
Orly Maiberg, Kazimir Malevich, Panos Mattheou, Oleg Mavrommati & Boryana
Rossa, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Vladimir Miladinovi, Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen,
Marina Naprushkina, Kristian Nemeth, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Nefeli Papadimouli,
Fotini Papahatzi, Eva Papamargariti, Kostas Pappas, Kosmas Pavlidis, Martha
Rosler, Xenis Sachinis, Deniz Sad, Mark Salvatus, Sermin Sherif, Walter Solon,
Efi Spyrou, Tatiana Stadnichenko, Stefania Strouza, Constantinos Taliotis, Dimitris
Tataris, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Giorgos
Tserionis, Andri Tsiouti - Michalis Charalambous - Giorgos Stylianou - Stefanos
Papadas, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Marian Wijnvoord,
Ino Varvariti, Loukas Venetoulias, Babis Venetopoulos, Arseny Zhilyaev.

The Thessaloniki Performance Festival, which will take place from 13 October until
21 October 2017, is organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art and
supported by the 52nd Dimitria Festival. It consists of a series of live performances by
artists from Greece and abroad, as well as a special tribute to the artist Ana Mendieta
(Cuba, 1948 New York, 1985) who holds an emblematic position in the feminist
history of art, which will run for the whole duration of the Biennale (SMCA, Moni
Lazariston, 30 September 2017 14 January 2018).
The participating artists in the Thessaloniki Performance Festival are: Lanfranco
Aceti, Maria Jose Arjona, Filippo Berta, Fuku Cosmonaut, Paraskevi Frasiola, group
Geopoetics, Ana Mendieta, Efthimis Theou Electra Angelopoulou, Julie Tolentino - -
Stosh Fila, VestAndPage.

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