Sculptures and installations inspired by fashion and related to the human body, paintings depicting figures with fluid gender identities, performances and videos with a strong autobiographical character, actions and photographs with a central theme of climate catastrophe, experimental documentaries that promote social cohesion and equality. , and cartoons that politicize without moralizing.

The solo exhibitions, which open at the EMST from the day after tomorrow, are spread across different areas of the large building, essentially emphasizing the diversity and polyphony it seeks to show. Artists Mikhail Karikis, Eleni Bagaki, Erika Skurtis from Greece, Hana Totiki from Denmark, Dan Perzovsky from Romania and Melanie Bonaggio from the Netherlands speak different “languages” and express themselves in different ways, but they creatively communicate with each other in Babylon. contemporary visual expression. Each in their own way comments on the influence of the Internet, social networks and the modern technological economy on relationships and modern life. Thematically connected with the central axis of the group exhibition “Modern love. Love in the Years of Cold Intimacy”, this new exhibition cycle – winter – allows the museum visitor to navigate within the art network that interacts with society, spreads inside and outside Greece and develops from the first basement of EMST to the 4th floor.

On this floor, the fourth floor which, with the new layout and design, no longer houses a permanent collection but is dedicated to periodical and individual exhibitions of particular historical and artistic interest in Greek contemporary art, the Why We Are Together exhibition is presented by Stop Schizaki. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the work of Mikhail Karikis, an internationally recognized artist from the diaspora. His work is distinguished by his personal participatory practice, which combines video and sound, aims to highlight social, political and environmental tensions and is always carried out in collaboration with groups of people who draw inspiration from the world’s industrial and political history.

Descending, the tour passes through the project halls on the 3rd, 2nd and 1st floors for the exhibitions “Something Like a Poem, Nude and Flowers in a Vase” and “All Your Faces”, a mezzanine cinema hall where the exhibition “Progress vs. Regress” to be on the first floor. Here, on the walls of the lobby, Dan Perzowski created on site The Long Wall Report, a series of his signature images, done with indelible black markers, inspired by current events, politics and social issues with a humorous, poignant and critical eye. As for Totika’s solo exhibition titled “Everything, Everywhere”, she is featured on the ground floor and in the periodical exhibition hall, work inspired by fashion, design, theater and pop culture, with works that often have a direct bearing on the body and resemble furniture, accessories or clothes at the first level.

Exhibitions run until May. Long wall report until 10/29/2023.