Boundless House

Boundless House, 2024 025 

Wood , acrylic

107 x 94 x 11 cm 

 "House Party" 

#ninettogallery

 

Seaside Wheel

Seaside Wheel, 2024
Wood, plywood, acrylic, chalk paint, colour paper, colour pencil
167 x 69 x 29 cm

Vessel performance

Vessel performance, 2024
144 x 23 x 44 cm / 56 x 20 x 23
Wood, plaster, clay, gesso, acrylic, oil 

The Gravity of the Sun

Divergence of the Sun (Solar Politics in Labour Practice), 2023-24 

Wood, metal, acrylic, oil 

130 x 110 x 29 cm

«Whispers and microhistories between the bastions»

Φρούριο του Νιόκαστρου, Ναβαρίνο

Curated by : Stella Christofi

with:
Stella Christofi, Maria Glyka, Antonis Kanellos, Konstantinos Lianos, Valia Papachristou, Hara Piperidou, Marios Stamatis, Kostis Stafylakis, The Callas, Dimitris Trikas, Marina Velisioti, Kostis Velonis, Evgenia Vereli, Vasilis Vlastaras, Poka Yio 

20/7-28/7/2024

#kostisvelonis #sun #φρούριο #fortress #Pylos #ΝιόκαστροΝαυαρίνου# #NewCastleofPylos#politics#labour #sculpture #puppetry#solarpolitics

Dry Dreams on the Sea Floor

 

     

Dry Dreams on the Sea Floor, 2024 

Plastic, polysterene, polypropylene, rope, iron, fabric, acrylic, oil

@perasmaistanbul

“All Things Become Islands Before My Senses” 

#kostisvelonis #sea #seafloor #dry #dreams #precarious #dwelling 

Salty Mountain

Salty Mountain, 2024

Plywood, wood, acrylic 

"Things Become Islands Before My Senses”

 presented by @perasmaistanbul

#floating #salty #mountain #vagabondobjects #sculpture #kostisvelonis #environmentalsculpture

Bucket Full of Blues

Bucket Full of Blues, 2024

Fiberglass, wood, marine plywood, plastic bucket

 

The Clumsy Boat

"The Boat" is a classic silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, released in 1921. The film follows Keaton's character and his family's escapades aboard a small homemade boat. Drawing inspiration from themes and motifs in Keaton's silent short film, Kostis Velonis' "Fragile Ship Adrift" series informs his work across sculpture, installations, drawings, and ephemeral events, serving as a metaphor for the human condition. It explores individuals' navigation of life's unpredictable seas, often feeling vulnerable and adrift. The juxtaposition of the ship's precarious situation with moments of humor and slapstick underscores the irony and absurdity inherent in human existence. In "The Boat," Keaton navigates a series of comedic mishaps and perilous situations aboard a small vessel, highlighting the fragility of human endeavor against nature's vast and unpredictable forces. Similarly, the "Fragile Ship Adrift" series delves into themes of resilience, determination, and the absurdity of human striving in the face of adversity. The second body of works, "Fair Winds and Following Seas," features a 2024 sculpture crafted from marine plywood. This piece embodies the essence of the nautical phrase 'Fair Winds and Following Seas, which originates from two distinct sources and is universally embraced as a maritime blessing, wishing travelers a safe and fortunate voyage. 'Fair winds' symbolize the blessing of favorable breezes guiding one's journey homeward, while 'following seas' signifies the supportive currents propelling one toward their intended destination. This sculpture encapsulates the optimism and hope inherent in these phrases, celebrating the guidance and support we seek in our life's journeys.

callirrhoe_BLOOM 

Courtesy the artist and Kalfayan Gallery Collaboration with Callirrhoë Commissioned by OCEANIC PRO #KostisVelonis #BLOOM #callirrhoeathens

The Propeller Keeps Turning

The Propeller Keeps Turning, 2024 

Fiberglass, resin, iron

 

Low Suns

Rubber Ray, 2024

420 x 0,19 x 2 m 

Polyethylene, soil, plastic 

Marble, Labour and the Sun, 2024 

0,22 x 0,23 x 019 cm 

Marble, nylon wire

Low Sun, 2024

1,4 x 0,60 x 18 cm

Polyethylene, metal

Everything Ι touch turns into me

Archaeology of Gesture

Group Show @space.52

Curated by Evagoria Dapola

@scale_appropriate 

Nikos Alexiou. The Collection

In the still sleeping town the force that drives the trees is the midnight noise that empty rooms may make, 2005 

Wood, veneer, acrylic, felt, clay, canvas, seeds 

Variable Dimensions

In 2010, a few months before he passed away, Nikos Alexiou (1960-2011) donated to the Benaki Museum his rich contemporary art collection that he created with great dedication and patience, along with his artistic work. It is a unique set of artworks by contemporary Greek and foreign artists, which reveals a special aspect of Alexiou’s the multifaceted activity, that redefined the artistic practices in Greece in the late 20th and early 21st century, with a long-lasting impact.

The exhibition presents this donation, introducing it as part of the artist's own practice but also as an example of an artist-collector capable of contributing not only to the reflection on the artistic production of twenty years (1990-2010) but also to the creation of existential worlds and unexpected constellations of meaning.

The corpus of these 236 works by eighty-four artists can also be understood as an "open work" that Alexiou constantly rearranged in his places of residence, multiplying synapses and narratives.

This ensemble is governed by certain recognizable characteristics: a preference for the minor event or gesture, craftsmanship and fleeting personal traces, an obsession with paper, transparency and lightness, an interest in the relationship of line to space, webs and grids, a delicate balance between disorder and order and, above all, a prominent attitude of artistic solidarity. All those things that we could call a passion for creating and interweaving worlds (referring to the Greek dia-kosmos, meaning ornament but also – literally- inter-world).

The multi-layered and at the same time imperfect character of the Collection makes it a functional unity and proposes a tactile and physical experience emerging from a special in situ installation in collaboration with the architectural office AREA. Curated by: Polina Kosmadaki, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

Artists:

AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller, Nik Kosmas), Alexis Akrithakis, Andreas Angelidakis, Andisheh Avini, Vassilis Balatsos, Carmen García Bartolomé, Dikos Byzantios, Gustav Ceder, Bernhard Cella, Yannoulis Chalepas, Panos Charalambous, Manolis Charos, Adam Chodzko, Kostas Christopoulos, Daniel, Stephen Dean, Katerina Diakomi, Dimitris Foutris, Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos), Werner Moser Dorfmann, Jimmie Durham, Jack Early, Dora Economou, Kostis Velonis, Naya Frangouli, Vasso Gavaise, Alexandros Georgiou, Voula Gounela, Elias Kafouros, Eleni Kamma, Irene Karagiannopoulou, Apostolos Karakatsanis, Apostolos Karastergiou, Polydoros Karyofyllis (Poka-Yio), Stathis Katsarelis, Anne Kern, Panos Kokkinias, Haris Kontosfyris, Daphne Kostopoulou, Kostas Koulentianos, Antonis Kyriakoulis, George Lappas, Spyros Litinas, Pieretta Lorentzatou,Jason Meadows, Deanna Maganias, Jörg Mandernach, Caitlin Masley, Voula Masoura, George Mavroidis, Michael Michaelides, Christos Mitas, Christina Mitrentse, Amy O'Neill, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Maria Papadimitriou, Leonidas Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Aemilia Papaphilippou, Nina Pappa, Enoc Perez, Simon Periton, Elena Poka, Marie Françoise Poutays, Mantalina Psoma, Mary Redmond, Rémy Rivoire, Vicente Rojo, Georgia Sagri, Yorgos Sapountzis, Kai Schiemenz, Minas Semerdjian, Jim Shaw, Irys Schenker, Alex Slade, Danae Stratou, Stephen Sutcliffe, Philip Tarlow, Yuken Teruya, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Nikos Triantaphyllou, Alexandros Tsadilas, Nanos Valaoritis, Ino Varvariti, Kostis Velonis, Lydia Venieri, Vangelis Vlahos, Pae White, Manolis Zacharioudakis.

Warm thanks to Popi Alexiou and the Association ‘Megalos Kipos: Nikos Alexiou Archive’ for their support, the access to archival materials and the loan of the unique Filing Cabinet of the artist.

 

Everything Ι touch turns into me/ Archaeology of Gesture

Everything Ι touch turns into me 
Archaeology of Gesture 

When ancient objects exit their flows, they are transformed, becoming visible, familiar, and autonomous. When we interact with them, we re-think gazes, gestures and behaviours and create new functions. In an ever-ending archipelago of protocols of handling, working, and owning artefacts, this exhibition proposes a radical non-use. Exploring the diagonal commonhold of gestures and artefacts as objects of necropolitical desire, the exhibition functions as a parasitic council that suggests alternative gestures, new forms of movements, stares and thoughts etched on gestures of handle, care, love and sharing.

 A rhizome of non-proprietary uses, it summarizes a long research on how gesture, language and value intersect, influenced by Latour’s Berlin Key. Reframing the value of gesture and its embodiment, it urges us to grant no one narrative or discursive practice a preferential role, by reinforcing the idea of incessant metamorphosis by the means of gesture. It highlights an inverted gesture that portrays ecstasy instead of reverence. This creates and augments a series of singular environments and personal perspectives for engaging antiquity as gestural, liquid, performative and heterogeneous, rather than fixed and monocultural.

Kostis Velonis, Elli Antoniou, Phanos Kyriacou, Socratis Socratous, Dimitris Kontodimos, Dionisis Christofilogiannis

April 12 - May 4, 2024 

Curated by Evagoria Dapola 

Space 52, Athens

 

Bringing Owls from Athens

Lunar Maria, 2023-4Acrylic on wood

Bringing Owls from Athens 

Georg Kargl Fine Arts x Callirrhoë 

#opening on March 7, 6 pm  – 9 pm in collaboration with @georgkarglfinearts in #Vienna with works by #ValentinaBartolini, #MladenBizumic, #NicoleEconomides, #VasilisPapageorgiou, #MalvinaPapagiotidi, #RosaRendl, #CamilaSposati, #YorgosStamkopoulos, #ValiniaSvoronou, #NikolasVentourakis, #KostisVelonis and #PakyVlassopoulou##callirrhoeathens #LunarMaria #LunarMare #Luna #Mond #territory #owlterritory  

08 March – 27 April 2024
 Georg Kargl BOX

Moon Landing (Lunar Television Broadcast)

Moon Landing (Lunar Television Broadcast), 2024

 Wood, plywood, acrylic 

 140 x 118 x 15 cm 

Ink and Stone

Herald’s Rest (Dad Returns Home) 2023

Marble, clay, wood, acrylic 

62 x 30 x 25 cm 

The exhibition brings together a number of visual references that examine the language of drawing and sculpture as interconnected, or parallel. The intimate relationship between drawing and sculpture bridges centuries of artistic tradition. In "Ink and Stone" this is presented through the merge of contemporary artists with historic works from the collection of Zoumboulakis Galleries. Works that complement and contrast each other, addressing both the tactile and the visual dimension contained in the common space between the fields of drawing and sculpture; thus revealing intermediate, dialectical spaces, creating a context where the tactile and the ethereal converge.

Participants:
Nikos Alexiou, Vanessa Anastasopoulou, Giorgos Avgeros, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, CHRYSSA, Thomas Diotis, Despina Flessa, Marina Genadieva, Giorgos Gyparakis, Stef Kamaris, Marina Karella, Harris Kondosphyris, Anna Lascari, Yiannis Moralis, Nikos Moschos, Melina Mosland, Aliki Palaska, Malvina Panagiotidi, Nikos Sarlis, Takis, Nikos Tranos, Augustus Veinoglou, Kostis Velonis.

15 /12 /23 - 20/01/24 

Curated by Georgia Liapi

www.zoumboulakis.gr

 

Star Trap

 Star Trap, (Model) 2023

Wood, plywood, acrylic 

94 x 97 x 14 cm