Eleni Bagaki, BLESS, Rallou Panagiotou, Vangelis Vlahos: …this is Radio Athènes

Responding to an invitation by Signal, Radio Athènes is bringing to Malmö four distinct projects by Eleni Bagaki, BLESS, Rallou Panagiotou and Vangelis Vlahos as well as titles from its library in Athens, Greece assembled by artists, curators and writers we have worked with. Books selected by Darren Bader, Kirsty Bell, Josephine Pryde, Teddy Coste, Thomas Boutoux, Kerstin Cmelka, to name a few, will become part of the Signal library available to peruse in the months to come and in an environment infused with the spirit of BLESS.

As the sequence of autonomous presentations unfolds, I. Economy Class (Eleni Bagaki), II. Two-Hander (Rallou Panagiotou) and III. This Event has Now Ended (Vangelis Vlahos) facts and fictions derived from the constant and unique interaction of conflicting forces—corporeality and intangibility, exchange and reification, reality and mediation—operate at different levels and intensities.

A Ryan Air flight (Bagaki), a street-seller’s bench (Panagiotou) and the notes of Greece’s finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos (Vlahos) trigger these presentations, all conceived in 2016.

Organized by Helena Papadopoulos, founding director of Radio Athènes, institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture.

I. Economy Class, Eleni Bagaki November 18, 2016–January 29, 2017
II. Two-Hander, Rallou Panagiotou February 3–March 5, 2017
III. This Event has Now Ended, Vangelis Vlahos March 10–April 9, 2017

Eleni Bagaki (*1979, Crete) holds a Master’s in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. Recent solo shows include: Now you see me, oh now you don’t, New Studio, London (2015–16); Crack, Crack, Pop, Pop…Oh What a Relief It Is!, Radio Athènes, Athens (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: The Equilibrists, organised by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation, Athens in collaboration with the Benaki Museum.

BLESS, the designer duo of Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, have been working together since 1997 crossing the fields of art, fashion, architecture and design which they approach as a way of life. Recent projects include: Costumes and Wishes for the 21st Century, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Bless No 56 Worker’s Delight, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. They live and work in Berlin and Paris.

Rallou Panagiotou lives in Glasgow, UK and Athens, Greece. Solo exhibitions include: Rallou Panagiotou/David Adamo, Ibid. London (2016); Kalypso (Volume II), Radio Athènes, Athens (2016). Recent group exhibitions include: Lanzarote, Union Pacific, London (2016); Vanilla and Concrete, Tate Britain (2015–16); The Transparent Tortoiseshell and the Un-ripe Umbrella, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow (2016).

Vangelis Vlahos (*1971, Athens). He lives and works in Athens. Recent group exhibitions include: caméra(auto)contrôle, Centre de la photographie, Genève (2016); Gesture, Kunstverein Stuttgart (2014); On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination, Artspace, Auckland (2014); The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011).

…this is Radio Athènes follows a series of events under the title Sending a Signal out in the Ether: Live on Radio Athènes organized by Elena Tzotzi, co-director of Signal, the first part of which took place in October 2016 in Athens. To listen to the recorded performance of Kerstin Cmelka’s If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right…, and Thomas Boutoux and Teddy Coste’s radio show in front of a live audience Maybe I’m not the person that I never wanted to be, please follow these links.