The Organization for Culture and Development NEON presents the report space of union at the National Theatre School of Drama / School of Athens – Irini Papafrom September 9 to October 20, 2024.
NEON, curated by the Director Elina Kountouripresents a report that raises some of the most pressing issues facing Europe and the world today. The movement of people, cultures and ideas shapes Europe as a space of flows through the interaction and exchange of cultural differences. The space of union is an exhibition about stories revealed when race, politics and human rights intersect.
the exhibition space of union is developed in the premises of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Athens. The School plays an important role in the cultural life of the city, as it functions as a center for artistic practices and is a lively space where students from different social backgrounds, origins and cultures coexist. Since 1930, when the School was founded at the same time as National Theatreis a workshop dedicated to the creative exploration of the art of acting and an artistic education institution that cultivates progressive pedagogy and ideas.
The exhibition and the public program of the exhibition seek to coexist with the activities of the School of Theater, creating an open and living laboratory.
The uniting exhibition space will explore how preconceived ideas about racism, social mobility, immigrant rights and how a sense of belonging, coexistence, exists across the diversity of class, race, gender are intertwined in our everyday lives.
Artists, artists and collectives participate, presenting artistic practices that challenge stereotypes:
Igshaan Adams, Taysir Batniji, Enri Canaj, Døcumatism, Mona Hatoum, Patricia Kaersenhout, Bouchra Khalili, Menelaos Karamagiolis, Grada Kilomba, Tarik Kiswanson, Sophie Kovel, Kalliopi Lemou, Maria Loizidou, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Stella Nastou, Costas Roussakis, Georgia Sagri, Antrea Tzourovits, VASKOS, Marianna Christofidou.
The exhibition will be framed by a public programme that will bring together a range of stakeholders, including artists, academics, civil society organisations and policy makers.
In its context space of unionO NEON carried out infrastructure construction works in the School’s unrenovated facilities, in accordance with its principle of creating and donating infrastructure in all the places it collaborates with and opening unexpected places of cultural importance to the public.