Platforms Project 2018 will be presented from 17 to 20 May 2018 at the “Nikos Kessanlis” Exhibition Hall of the Athens School of Fine Arts (Piraeus str. 256, TK 182 35 Ag. Ioannis Rentis), including a rich and multifaceted program of lectures, videos and performances by the participating teams. As an "incubator" for young artists where experimentation, research and the structure of artistic identity is a continuous demand, the exhibition space of the Athens School of Fine Arts is the ideal choice for the Platforms Project, the aim of which is to present the independent artistic scene, as it is expressed by artist run initiatives.

The project is directed by Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou. Artemis Potamianou is the artistic director of the Platforms Project 2018.

The Platforms Project will be presented for sixth consecutive year aiming to map visual artworks as it is produced withing the frame of artist group initiatives of young artists in the international art environment in order to find together solutions to contemporary fine arts questions.

Following the successful edition “Platforms Project - Independent Art Fair 2017”, featuring 42 platforms from 17 countries, enabling thousands of viewers to get contact with the independent art scene and artists' groups, Platforms Project 2018 will be the largest meeting of collectives-platforms of all previous years. After receiving hundreds of applications from 24 countries in the open internet call, Platforms Project 2018 will feature 57 platforms from 17 countries, 41 cities, and more than 600 artists, creating a global network.

In Platforms Project 2018, following 56 platforms-artists groups from 17 countries are participating:

24hrs Project (Switzerland), AC Institute, NYC (USA), AKA x UAS (Canada), ALISN & Darling Pearls & Co (UK), ARTIA GALLERY (Greece), Autobiographical Systems (Greece), Bcademie (Netherlands), BEASTON Projects (UK), Binary art group (Cyprus), Bureau d'Art et de Recherche (France),  Candyland ( Sweden), CAT project and cult story makers (Greece), Come alone do not call cops (Greece & France), Concrete Artifacts (Great Britain), CUBE ART EDITIONS (Greece), DAILY TEMPORARY (Sweden), DAS ESSZIMMER art (Germany), DIENSTGEBÄUDE Art Space Zurich (Switzerland), Ed Video (Canada), EN FLO (Greece), EX-MÊKH  (Netherlands), Fragment S (Sweden), Fronteer (UK), Future Scenarios ( Netherlands & Greece), Gallery ABC (Russia), Ύλη[matter]HYLE  (Greece), IDI Galleri (Sweden), International Fine Arts Consortium / IFAC Arts (USA), IS-projects (Netherlands), Kunstenaarsinitiatief | elders (Netherlands), Kunsthalle Graz (Austria), LaLa Art Group (Greece), Library Gallery (Canada), MATERIALIZED(Greece), METAPOLIS (Greece),  Museum of Contemporary Cuts (USA), MUU Gallery (Finland), Ordinary beds, approaching the poetry through visual arts (Greece), ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON (Greece), Ormston House, (Ireland), Post (Greece), RAMDOM (Italy), ROSALUX (Germany),  SCOTTY (Germany), Snehta Residency (Greece), space52 (Greece), SYN + ERGASIA (Greece), Technopaignion art group (Greece), THE M{}ESUM (Germany), THE MILENA PRINCIPLE (Belgium),  The Museum of forgetting (Sweden), transformer (USA), Underground Space Station (Canada), VITAL SPACE (Greece), WATER: CASUS BELLI (Greece), YAFCA (Yearn to Abstract Form Cube Analysis), Greece

The aim of the Platforms Project is to be the core of creativity, showcasing the pioneering positions in art, and to develop relationships between the platforms. Thus, Platforms Project has created within its six years of operation a global network of independent artistic groups and spaces in direct communication with each other. Along with the presentation of the Platforms Project 2018, a series of workshops, presentations, performances and workshops will take place. The Platforms Project is not an impersonal event but a visual community full of energy, freshness, giving time and space to present alternative art that could not be expressed elsewhere.

INFORMATION:

Artemis Potamianou
Tel. 0030 6937768769
Email: platformsproject@gmail.com