Panoramica*21
Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca – Thessaloniki, Greece
Address: 182, Vas. Olga Av. & Loro. Via Sofouli, Thessaloniki
18 May 2022, 12:00 -20:00

Video Art Projects presents the curatorial selection of Visuacontainer PANORAMICA * 21, Wednesday 18 May at the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca in Thessaloniki, Greece

Artists: Sonia Laura Armaniaco – Lorenzo Papanti – Matteo Campulla – APOTROPIA – Gianni Barelli – Simona da Pozzo – Benedetta Fioravanti – Duccio Ricciardelli – Gianmarco Donaggio – Silvia De Gennaro

Video Art Projects is a newly emerging international festival focusing on the artistic video creation, which is organized for the first time by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca, in collaboration with the New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the support of the international festival Video Art Miden.

Video Art Projects will take place at the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca (182, Vas. Olgas Av. & Them. Sofouli str., Thessaloniki), on Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 of May 2022 (12:00 -20:00), on the occasion of the International Museum Day. 5 projector screens in the gallery rooms will display different video art programs each day.

In the first edition of Video Art Projects, which aspires to be established as an annual event in the future, a rich program of video art screenings from all around the world will be displayed, with more than 140 participant artists and art students from 21 countries. The program includes curatorial selections from invited foreign festivals, specifically from Italy, Germany, Portugal and Brazil. The screenings also include tributes to Greek video art, as well as student works from the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, curated by the teaching team of the New Media Laboratory.

The invited platforms and organizations from abroad include selections from The New Museum of Networked Art, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany), Visualcontainer, curated by Alessandra Arno (Italy), FONLAD – International Video Art and Performance Festival, curated by Jose Vieira (Portugal) and Strangloscope, curated by Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting (Brazil). Also, Video Art Miden (based in Kalamata, Greece) will participate with selections curated by 5 basic members of its curatorial team (Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika).

Video Art Projects organizational team & partners:

Municipality of Thessaloniki – Municipal Art Gallery

Organizational directors:

-Lela Tsevekidou, head of the Directorate of Culture & Tourism, Municipality of Thessaloniki

-Margarita Salpiggidou, head of the Municipal Art Gallery Department, Thessaloniki

Museological direction:

-Thaleia-Maria Alexaki, Museologist, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca

Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca organizationalteam: Eleni Anastasiadou, Chara Theocharous, Katerina Geovanekou, Costas Bachariadis, Giorgos Athanasiadis

New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Director of Video Art Projects:

-Georgios Katsangelos, head of the New Media Laboratory (School of Visual and Applied Arts, AUTH)

Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou, art director of Video Art Miden and teaching staff member of the New Media Laboratory.

Curatorial team-New Media Laboratory: Georgios Katsangelos, Athanasios Pallas, Stelios Dexis, Babis Venetopoulos, Gioula Papadopoulou, Yiorgos Drosos, Fani Boudouroglou

Partner festivals & curators

Video Art Miden [Greece]: Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika

The New Museum of Networked Art [Germany]: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Visualcontainer [Italy]: Alessandra Arno

FONLAD [Portugal]: Jose Vieira

Strangloscope [Brazil]: Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting

Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca

address: 182, Vas. Olgas Av. & Them. Sofouli str., Thessaloniki

Dates and hours: 18-19-20 May 2022, 12:00 -20:00 (each program will play in a loop)

Info: thessvideo.festival@gmail.com

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