MYKONOS BIENNALE

2025


9 THE AMPHIBIAN

Numbers are akin to wine or narcotics; they intoxicate us. How many souls have vanished in the rooms of Monte Carlo or Las Vegas, mesmerized and lost? Money governs all. It is merely an abstract power, printed paper adorned with countless zeros. Money is god; when nature cries out that the emperor is naked, it simply does not exist. Nine is a number—a number that the Nuer people, an African tribe, do not count. If you add or subtract nine from a series of numbers, nine remains invisible. Nine is the magnetic spiral. It embodies rhea, a force that assassinates time (chronos) through a divine conspiracy. Just as rhea, the feminine principle, cannot end her own existence while birthing. Nine will consume all other numbers, devouring both odds and evens. Like an amoeba, it will emerge as the new unit. Nine is the python, which has hibernated for years. Apollo bound it with numbers when time stripped away the sanctuaries of Earth. Yet now we wander toward the sun of eternal night, and the python will stretch, preparing to burrow into the core of the Earth. From the pain of this world, a ring of tension encircles the nucleus of the Earth. Through internal light, it radiates. In the sea, lightning devours the elements, gaining mass and form. The flames, the water, and the air coalesce into lava. Lava envelops the children, the mountains, nature, and the souls. Into the abyss, the souls gestate within the seed, waiting for the ice age to pass, dreaming. The spiral, the healing serpent of Asclepius and Imhotep, the thirteenth zodiac, Unuk Elhaija, the Ophiuchus constellation—nine, the amphibian, gestates. Lydia Venieri New York, November 2024

Program 2025

Tuesday, 09/09

Location: MYRSINI BEACH

Thursday, 25/09

Location: YELLOW TOWER, ANO MERA

Sculpture Playground

Art installations begin for works featured in the Garden of Mysteries.

12:00 PM

Astron Synodos

Artists from all disciplines are invited to join us for the official welcome. This is an opportunity to meet, connect, and share ideas in the spirit of collaboration.

9:00 PM

Dramatic Nights

A selection of films from the dramatic nights collection dedicated to the Anima Mundis.

Friday, 26/09

Location: YELLOW TOWER, ANO MERA

5:00 PM

ENΩΣIΣ: A Healing Resonance Temple

A ritual led by Dr. Christos Sach and Dr. Napoleon Mitsis of Unifying Life Technologies X Lydia Venieri

Saturday, 27/09

Location: YELLOW TOWER, ANO MERA

8:00 PM

Mystic Garden

An installation of works in the old garden of the Venieri house in Ano Mera.

Sunday, 28/09

Location: Island of Delos

1:00 PM

Treasure Hunt - Antidote

Boxes with the label “Antidote” have been sent to artists from around the world. The artists will return the boxes with a piece of art inspired by the theme - Antidote. The boxes will be hidden on the sacred island of Delos. A treasure hunt will be organized, where visitors will scatter around the island to find the “treasures”. Our long term goal is to attain the first floating museum - maybe an old war ship- where the artworks of the Mykonos Biennale will be exhibited, the museum of Archipelago.

Monday, 29/09

Location: MYRSINI BEACH

Tuesday, 30/09

Location: YELLOW TOWER, ANO MERA

4:00 PM

Exploring the Hyena workshop

A sculpting workshop led by Lydia Venieri on the double sexuality of Hyenas.

9:00 PM

Irini Karaianni& Nikos Platanos Dedication 100 Years to Miki & Manos Performance

A performance of selections from Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis, who were both born 100 years ago, 1925

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