KALO MINA 2.024
12 UNIQUE MONTHLY SHOWS
January 1, 2024 – December 25, 2024
Christos Mitsikas
Kalo Mina continues!
widmertheodoridis keeps finding and presenting art at new places. This time the event was limited by the spatial conditions of the exhibition space OTTTO: The art works had to fit into the display window in favour of a 24/7 accessibility.
On the first day of each month, Greeks will be greeting just about every single person they know and meet with: “Καλό μήνα” (Kalo Mina), which literally means “good month”. widmertheodoridis wishes you in 2024 with 12 Greek artists a ‘Kalo Mina’ in Athens. Kalo Mina is not a thematic exhibition but a window of Greek contemporary art. On the first of every month one artist out of twelve is presented.
January:
Kalo Mina kicks of in January with the painter Christos Mitsikas. His passion is abstract art which manifests in the paintings through a liberating, strong ductus and intensive color eruptions. While his abstract works are waiting for completion, or maturation, he paints still lives and portraits. Finger exercises in order not to get rusty, he says. Bottles, pots, chairs and tubes from the studio are the probs that he is arranging. For the portraits Christos Mitsikas often asks neighbors to sit for him. And sometimes he even paints with friends.
February:
Chrysanthi Koumianaki opens the February window of Kalo Mina. Her drawings and stickers cover the surface of the shop window and show figures of Mavromichalis passers-by. The quick, abstract and linear drawings are integrated into the urban environment and create a play of associations, they could be another font or symbols on a bus wallpaper or spray paint lines on the opposite wall.
Her practice investigates the idea of translation, creating symbolic systems, codings, scores and alphabets focusing on a non-verbal communication. She reconsiders and manipulates rules and methods of a global visual language, creating new narratives which reflect upon different times. Her works suggest dialogues and communication systems. In this way she often collaborates with other professionals such as dancers, actors, architects and musicians who have an active role in each piece. Her main body of work are installations combining different media like sculptures, drawings, prints, video, sound and performance.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in institutions, museums and galleries, such as: ΕΜΣΤ, Athens; The National Opera of Greece, Athens; Theocharakis Foundation, Athens; NEON Foundation, Athens; Fondation Hippocrène, Paris; Netwerk Aalst, Belgium; Kadist, Paris; Fondazione Prada, Milan; PHENOMENON; DESTE Foundation and New Museum New Yοrk. Since 2012, along with Kosmas Nikolaou and Paky Vlassopoulou, she is one of the co-founders of 3 137 artist-run space in Αthens.
March:
Kalo Mina in March opens Dimitris Kontodimos with the installation ¨More than meets the eye¨. The starting point of this work is the concept of remembering in a double meaning.
In his artistic work, which is based on a process of wandering around the city, Dimitris Kontodimos explores new forms of expression of the urban landscape. Starting from the everyday and universal nature of the city, he arrives at his own personal perspective by rearranging objects, contents and contexts from the public space. They lose their primarily functional role, as he places them in a newly defined context that opens up new possibilities for reading. The selected objects are mainly building materials or objects and products of urban civilisation.
By incorporating found objects from urban architecture, art and fashion, he creates images in which the sculptural process goes hand in hand with urban life. Seemingly disparate everyday objects, which together make up the totality of a city, encourage a dialogue between the concepts of memory, structure and spatiality and the collected objects. The city, a place of action, where the ephemeral and the monumental, the everyday and the impermanent meet as a chronology of its own history.
The installation ¨More than meets the eye¨ focuses on common and recognisable building materials in the urban space. Elements such as architectural ornamental decorations stand next to parts of scaffolding and pieces of marble. Although they are removed from their original context and far from their original purpose, they come together to form a new narrative. They are joined by small building blocks as a kind of commentary, reminiscent of children's toys - a reminder of our past, of our first attempts to build something. With the same playful approach to building - without rules and without purpose - Dimitris Kontodimos also assembles his works of art.
Kontodimos also assembles his works of art.
Dimitris Kontodimos lives and works in Athens. He completed his education at the University of Ioannina GR. In 2021 he received the Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). His work has been exhibited at home and abroad, in art spaces, at art projects and art fairs. Most recently his work was part of the European Capital of Culture Eleusis initiative: 2023 Eleusis, Mystery 56, “In from the margins”.
April:
In the April edition of Kalo Mina Evgenia Efstathiou presents the installation “Puppet” comprising of 16 cyanotypes.
Using different media and ways of processing, Evgenia creates autobiographical works that depict the transition from childhood to womanhood.
Combining the image of the adult self with constructions that refer to hanging crib toys, this work explores the notion of objectification and sexualization of the female body. The transition from childhood to female adulthood (womanhood) is described by self-portraits printed by cyanotype on disposable tea filters. The materials and technique emphatically emphasize the disposability of the body, the fragility and diminishment of the self in relation to the burden this adulthood carries.
Evgenia Eftstahiou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2017. In 2018, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, she was the 12-month intern in the department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
widmertheodoridis keeps finding and presenting art at new places. This time the event was limited by the spatial conditions of the exhibition space OTTTO: The art works had to fit into the display window in favour of a 24/7 accessibility.
On the first day of each month, Greeks will be greeting just about every single person they know and meet with: “Καλό μήνα” (Kalo Mina), which literally means “good month”. widmertheodoridis wishes you in 2024 with 12 Greek artists a ‘Kalo Mina’ in Athens. Kalo Mina is not a thematic exhibition but a window of Greek contemporary art. On the first of every month one artist out of twelve is presented.
January:
Kalo Mina kicks of in January with the painter Christos Mitsikas. His passion is abstract art which manifests in the paintings through a liberating, strong ductus and intensive color eruptions. While his abstract works are waiting for completion, or maturation, he paints still lives and portraits. Finger exercises in order not to get rusty, he says. Bottles, pots, chairs and tubes from the studio are the probs that he is arranging. For the portraits Christos Mitsikas often asks neighbors to sit for him. And sometimes he even paints with friends.
February:
Chrysanthi Koumianaki opens the February window of Kalo Mina. Her drawings and stickers cover the surface of the shop window and show figures of Mavromichalis passers-by. The quick, abstract and linear drawings are integrated into the urban environment and create a play of associations, they could be another font or symbols on a bus wallpaper or spray paint lines on the opposite wall.
Her practice investigates the idea of translation, creating symbolic systems, codings, scores and alphabets focusing on a non-verbal communication. She reconsiders and manipulates rules and methods of a global visual language, creating new narratives which reflect upon different times. Her works suggest dialogues and communication systems. In this way she often collaborates with other professionals such as dancers, actors, architects and musicians who have an active role in each piece. Her main body of work are installations combining different media like sculptures, drawings, prints, video, sound and performance.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in institutions, museums and galleries, such as: ΕΜΣΤ, Athens; The National Opera of Greece, Athens; Theocharakis Foundation, Athens; NEON Foundation, Athens; Fondation Hippocrène, Paris; Netwerk Aalst, Belgium; Kadist, Paris; Fondazione Prada, Milan; PHENOMENON; DESTE Foundation and New Museum New Yοrk. Since 2012, along with Kosmas Nikolaou and Paky Vlassopoulou, she is one of the co-founders of 3 137 artist-run space in Αthens.
March:
Kalo Mina in March opens Dimitris Kontodimos with the installation ¨More than meets the eye¨. The starting point of this work is the concept of remembering in a double meaning.
In his artistic work, which is based on a process of wandering around the city, Dimitris Kontodimos explores new forms of expression of the urban landscape. Starting from the everyday and universal nature of the city, he arrives at his own personal perspective by rearranging objects, contents and contexts from the public space. They lose their primarily functional role, as he places them in a newly defined context that opens up new possibilities for reading. The selected objects are mainly building materials or objects and products of urban civilisation.
By incorporating found objects from urban architecture, art and fashion, he creates images in which the sculptural process goes hand in hand with urban life. Seemingly disparate everyday objects, which together make up the totality of a city, encourage a dialogue between the concepts of memory, structure and spatiality and the collected objects. The city, a place of action, where the ephemeral and the monumental, the everyday and the impermanent meet as a chronology of its own history.
The installation ¨More than meets the eye¨ focuses on common and recognisable building materials in the urban space. Elements such as architectural ornamental decorations stand next to parts of scaffolding and pieces of marble. Although they are removed from their original context and far from their original purpose, they come together to form a new narrative. They are joined by small building blocks as a kind of commentary, reminiscent of children's toys - a reminder of our past, of our first attempts to build something. With the same playful approach to building - without rules and without purpose - Dimitris Kontodimos also assembles his works of art.
Kontodimos also assembles his works of art.
Dimitris Kontodimos lives and works in Athens. He completed his education at the University of Ioannina GR. In 2021 he received the Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). His work has been exhibited at home and abroad, in art spaces, at art projects and art fairs. Most recently his work was part of the European Capital of Culture Eleusis initiative: 2023 Eleusis, Mystery 56, “In from the margins”.
April:
In the April edition of Kalo Mina Evgenia Efstathiou presents the installation “Puppet” comprising of 16 cyanotypes.
Using different media and ways of processing, Evgenia creates autobiographical works that depict the transition from childhood to womanhood.
Combining the image of the adult self with constructions that refer to hanging crib toys, this work explores the notion of objectification and sexualization of the female body. The transition from childhood to female adulthood (womanhood) is described by self-portraits printed by cyanotype on disposable tea filters. The materials and technique emphatically emphasize the disposability of the body, the fragility and diminishment of the self in relation to the burden this adulthood carries.
Evgenia Eftstahiou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2017. In 2018, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, she was the 12-month intern in the department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Exhibition
January 1 – December 25, 2024
Reception and presentation of new works:
On the 1st of every month, 6–8pm
Duration: 1st to 25th of every month
Visit: Window exhibition 24/7
Reception and presentation of new works:
On the 1st of every month, 6–8pm
Duration: 1st to 25th of every month
Visit: Window exhibition 24/7
Location
OTTTO
Mavromichali 137
11472 Athens GR
Mavromichali 137
11472 Athens GR