State of Concept Athens

12/04/2025

Delighted to read our founder’s new text coining the new term othercare. You can read it online for free at the new issue no153 of the eflux journal

13/11/2024

Only a few catalogues left! Claim yours at by 23.11! ❤️‍🔥

In the catalogue you will find the full curatorial text of the group exhibition “Murderesses” written by the curators & in Greek and English designed by Rana Karan.

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The exhibition explores the archetype of the dangerous woman - femininity that threatens patriarchy, imitating its violent means and tools in the effort of self-determination, salvation and emancipation.

The title refers to Alexandros Papadiamantis’ landmark book “The Murderess” of 1903, one of the most important novels of Greek literature and perhaps an interesting challenge for the feminist reading of patriarchy.

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Duration: 25.09-23.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

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Image Credits:
Part of the series The Wrong Side of the bed (2019) by © the artist, Courtesy the artist and The Breeder . The work “The wrong side of bed” was commissioned in 2019 for the group show “Gone Today Here Tomorrow” curated by at annex-M, Megaron the Athens Concert Hall

08/11/2024

❤️‍🔥LAST DAYS TO VISIT MURDERESSES 💣 ON VIEW UNTIL 16.11.2024 💥

The exhibition explores the archetype of the dangerous woman - femininity that threatens patriarchy, imitating its violent means and tools in the effort of self-determination, salvation and emancipation.

The title refers to Alexandros Papadiamantis’ landmark book “The Murderess” of 1903, one of the most important novels of Greek literature and perhaps an interesting challenge for the feminist reading of patriarchy.

In the exhibition you will find narratives of violence, spells, s*xual practices, caustic campaigns, medical trolley tables, and hybrid creatures that make us rethink the gender stereotypes that are reproduced not only in society but also in science.

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

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For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

01/11/2024

30/10/2024

⚡️🪼MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES 🪸🫧

This week we are happy to present you the video installation As they were drifting away, their bodies turned into waves (2021) by Eva Papamargariti () part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11.2024 🩸

Feminine hybrid figures transform into water, refers to myths as well as microbial origins, that carry histories and constant exchanges, as a mechanism of survival. Approaching also the phenomenon of moulting, which specific organisms periodically remove their outer skin leaving behind a shell, as a survival mechanism - an exoskeleton - the work refers to a constant effort to find one’s identity by shedding what has been prescribed upon them, and also connotes on how to define desires within a constantly changing field of flows on a political, geological and technological level. Hers is a proposal of going beyond gender, in order to possibly escape the violences imposed on those that identify as female. As many older than Papadiamantis’s myths attempted to do, to save women by turning them into something else, Papamargariti is now proposing this fusion of identities and entities, as a right to opacity, reminiscent of the stories of women described in feminist scholar’s Saidiya Hartmann thinking. 

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

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30/10/2024

⚡️🪼MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES 🪸🫧

This week we are happy to present you the video installation “As they were drifting away, their bodies turned into waves” (2021) by Eva Papamargariti () part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11.2024🩸

Feminine hybrid figures transform into water, refers to myths as well as microbial origins, that carry histories and constant exchanges, as a mechanism of survival. Approaching also the phenomenon of moulting, which specific organisms periodically remove their outer skin leaving behind a shell, as a survival mechanism - an exoskeleton - the work refers to a constant effort to find one’s identity by shedding what has been prescribed upon them, and also connotes on how to define desires within a constantly changing field of flows on a political, geological and technological level. Hers is a proposal of going beyond gender, in order to possibly escape the violences imposed on those that identify as female. As many older than Papadiamantis’s myths attempted to do, to save women by turning them into something else, Papamargariti is now proposing this fusion of identities and entities, as a right to opacity, reminiscent of the stories of women described in feminist scholar’s Saidiya Hartmann thinking. 

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

Images by

23/10/2024

⚡️🔮MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES 🌞

This week we are happy to present you the sculptures from the series Wrong side of the bed (2019) & Midsummer love and softest silences, (2024) by Malvina Panagiotidi () part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11 🩸

Malvina Panagiotidis’ sculptures examines the state of the “undead”, the condition between the living and the dead and how this characterises the entity and the role of a work of art itself. Body parts with living gestures (hands, legs etc.), made of metal, copper and nickel are placed on medical trolley tables, highlighting the in-between state. In this exhibition, it is a symbol of gender dysphoria, referring to the time and financially consuming medical and governmental protocols that individuals in s*x transition have to experience together with the discrimination and uninformed, most of the times, medical staff. But, it can also be seen as a scream for help, as femininities in general are facing cruel behaviour in already abusive situations, seeking for understanding and help in order to get out of this in-between - living and dead state. 

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

Credits:
© the artist, Courtesy the artist and The Breeder

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16/10/2024

⚡️🪓MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES 🪓

This week we are happy to present you the video performance MIDWAY, BETWEEN STATE AND HUMAN MURDER (2024), a newly commissioned work by Eleni Karakou () part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11 🩸

Eleni Karakou, inspired by the novel and the phrase, “In the middle of the road, between divine and human justice” attempts to make a bridge with the present. Referring to a femicide that happened outside of a police station in Athens on April 1st, 2024, Karakou aims to discuss the absurdity and immeasurable injustice that women experience in Greece in 2024. The woman in question, Kyriaki Griva, was killed by her boyfriend, while exiting a police station that she had visited minutes before to report fear of her ex-partner and request assistance. She was advised by a police officer to return home and when she asked if a police car could drive her home, the officer replied: “The police car is not a taxi “. The phrase became viral and the recording of her call was shared in social media. Karakou underlines something common to the novel, the same linear relationship of women dying or being killed due to injustice maintained by patriarchal structures. She thus proposes an ironic “solution” to the government - in order to fill what she calls “market gap”: a taxi company that will be taking over what police should have done, return abused women safely back to their homes.

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program that will be announced in October, so stay tuned!

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

11/10/2024

⚡️🪓MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES 🪓

This week we are happy to present you the installation “Vaggeli” a newly commissioned sound installation by part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11 🩸

“Vaggeli” (2024), is a recording of the life story of the artists’ great grandmother narrated by her grandmother. In this story we find many similarities with Hadula (heroine of Papadiamantis’ novel “Murderess” 1903) - the profile of a strong and taught woman. As Papadiamantis’ protagonist, she grew up and spent the rest of her life in a village, uneducated. She followed the typical line: a pre-arranged marriage, working in the fields together with her farmer husband’s family, and a life of endurance while she faced fertility issues and baby mortality, and the role of witchcraft in her unfortunate circumstances in life. The great difference is that Vaggeli attempted to kill her sοn in order to make him a “decent” man and a neighbour when he caught him hitting his wife, creating a myth for herself for decades to come in her village. In the exhibition the “weapon” that was said she used, is exhibited together with a picture of her as well the sound recording of the artists’ grandmother. 

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program that will be announced in October, so stay tuned!

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥

02/10/2024

⚡️💥MEET THE ARTISTS OF MURDERESSES🕳️💦⚡️

This week we are happy to present you the installation “Experience the holes…in patriarchy” a newly commissioned work by (Miammy) part of our group exhibition “Murderesses” which is on view until 16.11💥🕳️💥

Miammy’s presents a handbook, a step by step manual for a**l s*x for men, in this way she tries to unlock patriarchy by normalising a s*xual practise that is characterised by shame but also is connected with specific s*xual identities, and not as a normal human s*xual exploration. Her work is a call for emotional and s*xual openness, embracing vulnerability - that is banded for men of all ages - leaving behind the fear of being “less of a man”. Miammy believes that our world would be a safest and happiest place if men would explore their s*xuality without being constrained by societal bias and gender role prescriptions imposed by patriarchy, which in most occasions are also self-imposed limits and self - shame that lead to unhappy lives and repressed individuals. Miammys’ installation is an open call for all straight cisgender men to allow themselves to experiment, to be vulnerable and enjoy - with consent and respect in their bedrooms and beyond. - part of the curatorial text

*the handbook can be purchased only at State of Concept Athens during the opening hours of the exhibition 📖

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Duration: 25.09-16.11.2024
Opening hours: Wednesday- Friday 16:30-20:30 & Saturday 12:00-17:00

Curators
(Konstantina Melachrinou)
(iLiana Fokianaki)

Artists
(Eleni Karakou)
(Markella Ksilogiannopoulou)
(Miammy)
(Malvina Panagiotidi)
(Eva Papamargariti)

The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program that will be announced in October, so stay tuned!

For more info visit 🔗 in bio 🔥