“Modern Love”: Inauguration of individual exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art

The National Museum of Contemporary Art is launching on 28/1 the cycle of its winter solo exhibitions, centered on the large group exhibition “Modern Love”.

Love in the years of “Cold Intimacy”, which was inaugurated in December 2022, edited by the director of EMST Katerina Gregou.

The artists focus is on the effect that the internet, social media and the modern economy of technology has on relationships and modern life.

With the exhibitions of Michael Karikis, Eleni Bagakis, Erika Skurtis, Hannah Toticki, Melanie Bonajo and the in situ painting installation of Dan Perjovschi, an exhibition route is woven throughout the museum, with the large group exhibition as the central axis “Modern Love. Love in the years of Cold Intimacy”.

Starting from the ground floor of the museum, Danish artist Hannah Toticki, under the title “Everything, everywhere all the time” examines the emotional architecture created by work environments in Western societies, the effects of burnout on everyday life, work addiction and working life as forms of a possible secular religion, and the problematic role of insomnia in a society struggling for productivity, acceleration and growth. As part of the opening, the performance of “In Sacred Work” will be presented at 18.00 and 20.00.

Eleni Bagaki shapes her painting exhibition “Something like a poem, a nude, and flowers in a vase” as a condition of dreamlike wandering and observation on desire, sexuality, and erotic search.

Erika Skurtis turns viewers into witnesses of her personal life with her autobiographical work “All your faces”, where personal biography meets the collective, the personal interacts with the political and reality with fiction.

Acclaimed artist of the diaspora Michael Karikis presents on the fourth floor of the museum six pivotal video-audio installations from his artistic career in the last decade. In his exhibition, entitled “Why we are together”, the common denominator of the works is the special polyphonic poetics of Karikis, which, through different narratives and a sense of solidarity, connects groups of people fighting for a better future.

Melanie Bonajo from the Netherlands, with ‘Progress vs Regress’ explores the impact of technological innovations on senior citizens, who have experienced the most sudden changes in human history.

The Romanian Dan Perjovschi, known for his cartoons inspired by current affairs, politics, social issues and modern pathogens, creates at EMST and in his first solo museum exhibition in Greece, a new, large-scale mural, almost 30 meters, directly on the largest wall of the EMST foyer. Title of the project “The Long Wall Report Drawing on a wall”.

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