Exhibition Opening Portikus
Georgia Sagri & I
Friday, April 20. 2018, 7pm, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
Duration: 10.02. – 08.04.2018
PORTIKUS is pleased to announce the exhibition Georgia Sagri and I .
Georgia Sagri and I is a playlist, a perspective on retrospective and an exhibition of exhibiting – an institution without confines.
For the first time, sculptures, video works and performances from the last ten years of Georgia Sagri’s multidisciplinary oeuvre come together. Their instalment is treated as a score that decides on tempo, duration, entry and exit. Screenscapes, landscapes, soundscapes will be part of it, similarly as performances, concerts, workshops and their organizing modes.
The exhibition already has started during the conversation of the artist and the curator on Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig, where the symmetry of the architecture allowed the works to be accommodated and exist at ease in their module state. Module conveys the idea of the conceived possibilities of an object’s multiple meanings in space and time’s (gravity and temperature) impact.
In rejecting the singular by the act of doubling, she as well rejects the hierarchies between object and subject with their spatial determinations. The white cube of Portikus though, is in an ambiguous state, it can be many and is one. Its history and structure makes it an exhibition space per se, suspending other determinations. Georgia Sagri and I allows cracks and syncopations on this premises through the means of her works’ thought experiments.
On Friday April 6th at the Aula of Städelschule Georgia Sagri and Christina Lehnert met the students and started to play the exhibition’s score. In this continuum, musicians' friends, her brother poet and activist, and writers are some of the references of the artist's home town Athens who bring more affects in the exhibition. Georgia Sagri’s performances are endurance in loop, where repetitions give space and time for contemplation. Hence, exhibitions are a tool for different bodies to use Portikus as a concert hall, an exhibition space, a memory bank and an art school.
Playlist
April 6th, 3 pm Meeting with the students, Aula, Städelschule
April 20th, 7 pm Opening, Portikus
April 20th, 8 pm Jay Glass Dubs, Concert, Portikus
April 21st, 3–6 pm The Invisible Ones (2008/2018), Performance, Portikus
April 24th, 11am – 6 pm Workshop on Dynamis, Städelschule
May 5th, 9 pm Guided Tour, Portikus
May 12th, 3 pm Christos Chondropolous, Concert, Portikus
May 14th – 15th, Do Jaguar (2009/2018), Installation, Städelschule
May 16th, 9 am – 5 pm Do Jaguar (2009/2018), Performance, Städelschule
May 29th, 7 pm Lecture, Städelschule
June, 2nd, 8 pm Tasos Sagris & Whodoes, Poetry reading and electronics, Portikus
June 10th, 3 pm Hymbro (2008/2018), Performance, Portikus
June 15th, 7 pm Minimaximum, Concert, Portikus
On occasion of the exhibitions at Portikus and Kunstverein Braunschweig a catalogue will be published at Sternberg Press with essays by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Daniel Horn, Ruba Katrib, Diego Singh, Steven Squibb and Monika Szczukowska, along with a discussion between Georgia Sagri, John Kelsey and Bettina Funcke, as well as Georgia Sagri and Silvia Federici.
Georgia Sagri (b. 1979, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens and New York. Her works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, such as: Kunstverein Braunschweig (2017), documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); Manifesta 11, Zürich (2016); at the Sculpture Center, New York (2015); at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); at the Museum for Modern Art, Warsaw (2014 and 2015), at Kunsthalle Basel (2014), as well as the 14th Istanbul Biennale (2015), the Lyon Biennale (2013), and the Whitney Biennale, New York (2012).
In 2009 she founded the Audio-Magazine FORTÉ as well as the curatorial project SALOON, and in 2014 she initiated the semi-public space 'ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE (hyle.gr) in Athens.
The exhibition at Portikus was made possible with the financial support of StädelschulePortikus e.V. and Graf von Westphalen
Director: Philippe Pirotte
Curator: Christina Lehnert