EMST Commissions 2011

to 16/10/2011

opening up the series Every Month to important works by Greek Artists outside of its collection,

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in the framework of its collaboration with the University Research Institute of Applied Communication (U.R.I.A.C),

How can the new commons be mapped on the urban environment? How can their dynamic by located? What is their role in the life of the contemporary metropolis?

The aim of the exhibition, passing from the politics of the collection to the politics of art, is to investigate, through different fields, the ways and strategies of the presented works, which explicitly or implicitly refer to political, financial and social issues and events, the political potential of contemporary art, its invention as a new [...]

Selections from the EMST CollectionProject Room
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, presents the screening program “Performance 1964-1976, Selections from the EMST Collection”, from September 7 to October 3.
Through 17 videos this program presents different themes in performance art, like the chance element of early happenings, the relation with different artistic mediums and practices, the [...]

…How Can Society Do What Each Person Dreams
From its beginning the National Museum of Contemporary Art set, inter alia, a double goal. This was, on the one hand, to bring the Greek audience into contact with the international contemporary art. And, on the other hand, to present significant experimental and critical forms, [...]

Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest and Other Stories
The first part of the monumental cinematic cycle Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, which forms the core of the artist’s entire oeuvre, as well as of the present exhibition, was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Although the other parts of [...]

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens inagurated in January the series EMST Commissions 2010 which are commissions of new works for the museum’s Project Room.
The works are realized with the kind support of Bombay Sapphire gin. The second work of the year is roomwithaview by Evanthia Tsantila.
Tsantila [...]