HUNGER AT DORTMUNDER KUNSTVEREIN / DORTMUND

HUNGER

MARCEL HILLER, CLÉMENCE DE LA TOUR DU PIN, MÉLANIE MATRANGA, TOBIAS SPICHTIG

20 May - 16 JULY2017

DORTMUNDER KUNSTVEREIN
Park der Partnerstädte 2
D-44137 Dortmund

Melanie Matranga

Andrea Zittel at Regen Projects / Los Angeles

Andrea Zittel

June 8 – August 12, 2017

Regen Projects

6750 Santa Monica Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90038

VEIN SECTION at Berthold Pott Gallery / Cologne

VEIN SECTION / curated by Thomas Caron and Manor Gruenwald

with: Davide Balula, Amy Brener, Nicolas Deshayes, Sarah & Charles, Loup Sarion, Piotr Skiba

June 9 – July 8, 2017

Berthold Pott Gallery

Cologne

An der Schanz 1a

50735 Cologne, Germany

A Highly Dazed World at Daily Lazy Projects / Athens

Stephan Backes, Stefania Batoeva, Robin von Einsiedel, Stelios Karamanolis, Isaac Lythgoe, Yves Scherer, Yorgos Stamkopoulos

26 May - 15 July 2017

Daily Lazy Projects

Sina 6 & Vissarionos 9 (entrance)

Athens 10680

Camille Blatrix at Bad Reputation / Los Angeles

Camille Blatrix
Unview

21 May - 8 July 2017

Bad Reputation
2007 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 729
Los Angeles, CA 90057

ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS at On Stellar Rays / New York

ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS

READING MACHINES MOVING MACHINES

May 21 – June 25, 2017

On Stellar Rays

213 Bowery

New York, NY 10002

CAR SERVICE II at Enterprise Projects / Athens

CAR SERVICE II

Videos by: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Neil Beloufa, Superflex

Marble & Wallpaper by: Vasilis Papageorgiou

Cigarettes by: Irini Miga

Mapping by: Dimitris Zampopoulos

Set design by: Enterprise Projects

31 of May-15 June 2017*

Enterprise Projects

Chalkidonos 56-58, 115 27,

Ampelokipoi, Athens

Erika Vogt at MARY MARY / Glasgow

Erika Vogt

Weed Beach

27.05.2017 –– 08.07.2017

MARY MARY

Suite 2 / 1 6 Dixon Street

Glasgow G1 4AX Scotland UK

Andres Ramirez at Escougnou Cetraro / Paris

Andres Ramirez
17 squares is a love song. Backwards

20 May - 24 June 2017

Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro

7, rue Saint-Claude

75003 Paris

Minda Andren at ZellerVanAlmsick

Minda Andren
CUIRASS

22 May - 29 July

Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
3rd Floor, Suite 16
1010 Vienna

Tiril Hasselknippe at DREI / Cologne

Tiril Hasselknippe
Queens of the Tear Duct

Apr 27 - June 10, 2017

DREI
Arndtstrasse 4
D-50676 Cologne

Ioannis Koliopoulos at The daylight / Athens

Ioannis Koliopoulos

"how to properly read a poem"

20 May - 30 June, 2017 *

The daylight

Epikourou 15, 4th floor

Athens, 105 53

WAYS OF THE HAND at Maisterravalbuena / Lisbon

WAYS OF THE HAND / Curated by Luís Silva and João Mourão

LEONOR ANTUNES, HARIS EPAMINONDA, JOANA ESCOVAL, IMAN ISSA, MAGDALENA JITRIK, CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU, ANDRÉ ROMÃO

16 May - 29 July 2017

Maisterravalbuena

Rua Reinaldo Ferreira, 40 — 1700-324

In The Studio #184 Matthieu Haberard

Daniel Koniusz and Talisa Lallai at Melagne / Cologne

Daniel Koniusz, Talisa Lallai

12 05 2017 — 04 06 2017

curated by Wschod Gallery

MÉLANGE
Sudermanstr. 2
50670 Cologne
Germany

Fabian Knecht at Alexander Levy / Berlin

Fabian Knecht
Isolation

April 28 - June 20, 2017

alexander levy
rudi-dutschke-strasse 26
D-10969 Berlin

Collection n 6 at Interior and the collectors / Lyon

ANTOINE DONZEAUD, HR GIGER, BÉLA PABLO JANSSEN, ELLA MIEVOVSKY, CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI, MIKA ROTTENBERG, SANDRA VAKA OLSEN, ZOE WILLIAMS

curated by Christel Montury and Fabien Villon

March 17th - June 3rd

Interior and the collectors
40 rue Tramassac
69005 LYON
France

Quiet at Barbara Seiler / Zurich

QUIET

Haris Epaminonda, Christina Forrer, Mohammad Ghazali, Youssef Limoud, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Megan Rooney, Stéphanie Saadé, Augustas Serapinas

Curated by Samuel Leuenberger

13 April – 5 June 2017

Barbara Seiler
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zuerich

NP or the possibilities of a life, curated by locus athens / Athens

NP or the possibilities of a life / curated by locus athens

Nikos Alexiou, Athanasios Argianas, Natasa Biza, Lizzie Calligas, Anastasia Douka, Farida El Gazzar, George Hadjimichalis, Vassos Kapandais, Kyriakos Krokos, Michael Michaeledes, Kosmas Nikolaou, Nina Papakonstantinou, Zoë Paul, Lucas Samaras, Anastasia Tzakou as well as objects from various collections

Architectural Design: AREA , Architecture Research Athens

address: Tsami Karatasou 51, Koukaki
Dates: 15th May – 30th June
Exhibition times: Wednesday – Friday 17.00 – 21.00, Saturday 12.00 – 16.00

Just Quist at CINNNAMON / Rotterdam

Just Quist – ‘Pla Lino, did you see that lonny pie’

13 May – July 1, 2017

CINNNAMON

Gouvernestraat 83a

3014PK Roterdam

the Netherlands

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Amy Garofano at Good Weather / North Little Rock, Arkansas

Amy Garofano

Citrus on Pico

Apr 15–May 27, 2017

Good Weather

4400 Edgemere

North Little Rock, AR 72116

Markus Amm at Kunsthaus Baselland / Basel

Markus Amm

KUNSTHAUSBASELLAND
St. Jakob-Strasse 170
CH-4132 Muttenz/Basel

28.04. 16.07.2017

Trick ’n’ treat at Yaby / Madrid

Trick ’n’ treat

Diego Delas, Matthieu Haberard, Martín Llavaneras

13 May - 30 May, 2017

Yaby

Calle Ancora 9 (entrada por Calle Rafael de Riego)

28045 Madrid

A Highly Dazed World at DAILY LAZY PROJECTS, ATHENS / opening Friday, 26th May, 7-10 pm

“A Highly Dazed World”

with:

Stephan Backes, Stefania Batoeva, Robin von Einsiedel, Stelios Karamanolis, Isaac Lythgoe, Yves Scherer, Yorgos Stamkopoulos

Opening day:

Friday, 26th May, 7-10 pm

Duration: 26th May – 8 July 2017

Opening hours:

Thursday 16.00-20.00, Dennis Brzek

Friday 16.00-20.00, Dennis Brzek

To make an appointment: dailylazy@live.com

DAILY LAZY PROJECTS, ATHENS

Sina 6 & Vissarionos 9 (entrance), Athens 10680

How do we break from these simulatory boundaries provided within this millennial world? How can one be liberated or emancipated from the bind of digital life. Would it be too romantic to argue that one truly only lives on the edge when encountering the unpredictable or the uncanny, in danger or on the brink of death? Shouldn’t life announce itself through the dynamism of feeling, passion and the direct experience of the present? Can this simulatory world that is rendered through the digital supplement our new highly dazed world?

Has digitalization acted as a numbing agent against mans inhibition to be human? For mans dependency to encounter accidents and to live a full life in the bliss of this highly dazed world? This world we live in allows us to live in a simulatory gaze, moving from algorithm to algorithm, from post to post. As early as Martin Heidegger the accolade of technology has been perceived as an anaesthetic for man, saving man from his innate dependency to find fate and accident, instead finding binary fact and tangible truth. Heidegger then questions our shifting position on this planet, questioning whether we are becoming devoid of a biological prerequisite for sunlight, storing energy through alternate forms? Has man found a new form of digital alchemy? Is this highly digitalized world a new formula for anthropological perpetual motion?

When placing an artwork in a gallery environment, a public space, one is shifting the works ontological matter, thus shifting its value. The artwork is becoming a form of consumed commodity, just like anything else. Yet there is a difference between an artworks commodity purpose, and other commodity purposes. Other commodities tend to have a ticking life spans, inducing a form of ephemerality, such as buying a new computer, a pair of Nike Air Max 95’s or even a pint at the bar, as man is really only looking for the next best thing, a more refined model. Yet the commodity value of an artwork differs due to two reasons: firstly its cognitive value, whereby we acquire knowledge of a work through thought experience and sense. Secondly an artworks value to induce through contemplation, the archetypal ‘consumption/ destruction’ paradigm shifts whereby an artwork is not consumed in a gallery setting yet is observed and contemplated and in most cases do not have an ephemeral quality. This same action exists when an artwork is uploaded onto the internet, again another form of public realm, when a work as been uploaded it has been commoditised, placing it in a sphere where everything happens, from purchasing a ticket to observing capital market flows, or even watching porn, yet again all disposable actions. Therefore in this setting artistic activity becomes ‘normal’ or standardized, art returns to its origins as a utility purpose, refusing to differ from anything else within the ether. Therefore within this highly dazed world does everything just amalgamate into one form, under the pretence of an algorithm? Have we become comfortably numb? Or is there still space for the individual grow?

Text by Hugo Wheeler

The inauguration of Daily Lazy Projects marks the beginning of a two-year series of exhibitions and events showcasing the work of both local and international artists in Athens.

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The Daily Lazy Projects space is sponsored by Efimerida café-bar.