Platforms Project is the international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by young artists on the international scene as they join forces to seek answers to contemporary artistic questions. In its ninth consecutive year, the Platforms Project Net 2021 will enable a wider audience of art lovers to access the works and the artists of the groups through a digital show, and viewers can live a new experience by visiting the Platforms Project site for 15 days, from May 27th to June 10th, 2021.
A virtual plan view of the ‘Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition space of the Athens School of Fine Arts shows the platforms installed in their digital stands. Viewers can click on a platform’s number and title and see the works presented by each artist in the group (video-art, painting, photography, installations, etc). Visitors to the new Platforms Project NET may engage in direct, real-time dialogue with the artists over the internet as part of the overall interactive experience.
The Platforms Project NET will be featuring 68 platforms from 28 countries (Greece, UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, France, Panama, Finland, Indonesia, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, Cyprus, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, China, Ukraine, Chile, Slovenia, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela) and over 900 artists. The main program of Platforms Project NET 2021 will comprise 68 platforms – artists’ groups.
The Platforms Project Net was held for the first time last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led the Platforms Project to come up with a new way of viewing. The Platforms Project ΝΕΤ 2020 was internationally the second fair to have taken place online, and the first one in Greece. It was visited by viewers from over 80 countries, with more than 264,000 hits over the period of the digital exhibition.
This year, the Platforms Project Net hosts more platforms and artists than ever before, and if the pandemic conditions and the safety of artists and visitors allow it, the physical presentation of Platforms Project 2020-21 will be held from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 October 2021 at the “Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Platforms Project aims to serve as a hub of creation, a register of the avant-garde trends in art and a forum for promoting interaction among platforms. Over its ninth years of operation, it has established a world network of independent art groups and spaces in direct communication with one another. In its nine years of operation, the Platforms Project has established a global network of independent art groups and spaces in direct communication with one another.
As proof of this, several platforms have invited other groups/platforms and integrated them into their presentation. In this way, the program of Platforms Project ΝΕΤ 2021 ultimately includes 91 artists’ groups-platforms.
Some notable examples of this are the En Flo platform from Greece which has invited the groups-platforms of Poetry Well, Poetry Perfo U.W.M., Surrealistic Team of Thessaloniki, Echoes in the well (collective poem), Karyothrafstis literary journal poets group, Women’s thirty ways of entrapment (poetry in two acts), SIATERLI & CO, Brothers Group, COM.ODD.OR., Buffalo Fire Women Project–The Howl, Poetry Well ΙΙ, Coo Action Playback Theater, Ephemeral sculptures, hanging in balance, Poetry Well ΙΙΙ, Pictorial synergy recitation of haikou and works of art, TRIBUTE TO KASOMOULIS, Deterritorialized, Sonorous Wishing Well -Florina Conservatory, Attempt Number One, Walter Benjamin, The philosophy of art history, XA-OIKOY, Fragments of truth who has joined forces with LaLa Art Group and the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH which features also works by the German platforms KRAATZ and A Trans.
A key parallel program in the context of the Platforms Project NET is OPEN STUDIOS, where teaching studios of the Athens School of Fine Arts present the students’ actions and works. For Platforms Project ΝΕΤ 2021, the participants are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th Painting Studios, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Sculpture Studios, the Elective Studios 3d modelling and printing studio, the Videoart Studio and the Master in Fine Arts (MFA) of the ASFA.
This year’s KIDS LAB educational program is designed for 4-16-year-olds. Developed by the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH and the artist and art educator Ellen Rodenberg, the program invites children to set up their own mini space ( a small stand/cube) with paper, pencils and colors during the Platforms Project NET, for which they can draw inspiration from the exhibition.
In addition, the program designed by the Greek platform Lab for Arts aims to introduce children to the visual arts and help them find inspiration in the works of major artists.
Viewers will also be able to watch online, in Greek , English, French and German, a rich and varied program of lectures on matters of contemporary art, online performances and videos by the participating platforms.
The schedule of lectures and events of the Platforms Project Net will be posted on the www.platformsproject.com and its facebook page
Facts & Credits
Project name: Platforms Project NET 2021
Location: Athens School of Fine Arts, Online
Project Manager: Artemis Potamianou, Michalis Argyrou
Artistic Director: Artemis Potamianou
Duration: 27th of May – 10th of June 2021
Main Artists: A Very Very Happy Gallery (Canada, Hong Kong), ABC Gallery (Russia), ACEY Europe (Greece, Cyprus), AKA artist-run (Canada), AMV (Canada), ArtCode (Greece), ARTIA GALLERY( Greece), artplatform |elsewhere (Netherlands), ASSOCIATION THÈÂTRE DIONYSOS ET APOLLON (Greece, France, Canada, Chile, Russia, Slovenia, Argentine, Brazil, Venezuela, USA), ATHENS STREET ART FESTIVAL (Greece), Autobiographical Systems (Greece), Bcademie (Netherlands), BEASTON Projects (UK), BIG – Biennale Inannulable des espaces d’art de Genève (Switzerland), Binary art group (Cyprus), Bureau d’art et de recherche, Roubaix (France), Cable Depot (UK), Chicago Artists Platforms (USA), Come alone (Greece, France), Cube Art Editions (Greece), CYBORG/ASMA (Greece), DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ (Germany), D.E.U.S (Greece & Belgium), DIPOLA (Greece), Ed Video (Canada), Embryo LLC (USA), EN FLO (Greece), EULENGASSE (Germany), EX-MÊKH (Netherlands), Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co (UK), Fragments of truth + LaLa Art Group (Greece), Future Scenarios ( Netherlands, Greece), GREYLIGHT PROJECTS ( Netherlands & Belgium), ID:I GALLERI (Sweden), IFAC Arts ( USA), IN VIVO (Greece), ITSONLYARTS (Greece), JAW (UK), JuJe (Canada), Κ4+1 project (Greece), Kaktos Project (Greece), ΚΟΙΝΩΝΩ Τhe Tinos Gathering (Greece), CultivationCultivation (Greece)), Kunsthalle Graz – association for contemporary art (Austria), Kunsthallekleinbasel (Switzerland), Lab for Arts (Greece)), METAPOLIS (Greece), ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΤΕΣ | META-FRASTES (Greece), Mnky Bizz Group (USA), mp43 – project space for the peripheral (Germany), Museum of Forgetting/TILT platform (Sweden , Greece), MUU Galleria (Finland), ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON (Greece), Penelope’s webs (Greece), personal identity (Greece), Pow Wow (Greece), Project 2 (Greece), Rhythm Section (Australia, China, Germany, Great Britain, Italy , Netherlands, Ukraine), rosalux (Germany), Sans Titre, Tourcoing (France), Sepersepuluh (Indonesia), SHELTER Artists Run Space (Turkey), THE M{}ESUM (Germany),TIDAL FLOW ART (Greece), Topp & Dubio (Netherlands), Tranformart Gallery (Serbia), Y@oldnursery (Greece)
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