2017
Allegories are symbolic figures which identify ideas and give to the abstraction a face, an expression, a position, a costume which reveals the meaning. Victory has wings, Death is a skeleton with scythe, when Spring is surrounded by flowers. The Allegory can freeze the temporality of an idea, like the gold fleece, the holy grail, the “immortal" water, or the Spring of Youth. The Greek mythology humanizes everything, the muse, the grace, the winds. The Gods give form and behavior to all the main powers of the universe. In the Greek national anthem Freedom, exhausted, poor but full of courage lives her life of a constant struggle. An empire holds a specter and democracy wears on her head laurel leaves, war wears black and red symboling ash and blood. But what happens when a symbolism goes beyond the extreme of its meaning. The title of the Mykonos Biennale 2017 is Trans-Allegoria. It raises (and answers) the question of the capacity of Art to initiates, introduce and captivate. Art which transforms energy into creation and creation into life. The saga of the Great Ideas, at the transcendental Island that changes everyone into something new, something that discovers only in place. Lydia Venieri Athens 2014
Bill Pangburn · Joan Giordano · Meghan Boody · Jacci Den Hartog · Pavlos Samios · Maria Karametou · Andrew Ellis Johnson · Arezoo Moseni · Cecilia Whittaker-Doe · Debby Lee Cohen · Seth McBride · Antonia Papatzanaki · Renee Magnanti · Bong Jung Kim · Stephen Cox · Despo Magoni · Devon Farber · Dominick Lombardi · Vassilis Tsokopoulos · Liliane Lijn · Katherine Liberovskaya · Egon Zippel · J.T. STEINY · Eozen Agopian
View DetailsLydia Dambasina · Constantinos Bouras · Ilias Koen · Lykou Isis · Antonakis · Artemis Potamianou · Margarita Myrogianni · Maria Efstathiou · Sofia Touboura · Natalia Koursoumi · Aristides Logothetis · Antonis Maros · Evi Eleftheriadi · Leonidas Papadopoulos · Lydia Andrioti · Lydia Venieri · Kallina Maiopoulou · Yannis Gazetopoulos · Emelia Filipopoulou · Twofourtwo art group
View DetailsAngelos Spyropoulos · Bobi Hatisi · Maria Venieri · Michel Paroussis · Paul Boghossian · Meriam Korichi · Barry C. Smith · Spiros Tegos · Stelios Virvidakis · Gloria Origgi · Kyriaki Goudeli · Yannis Prelorentzos
Isabelle Baraona · Jacci Den Hartog · Konstantinos Stamatiou · Ran Hwang · Renee Magnanti · Fay Ku · Mina Cheon · Meghan Boody · Andrew Ellis Johnson · Jeffrey Bishop · Joan Giordano · Devon Farber · George Tzinoudis · Xin Song
Dir. Julia Campanelli · Fabrice · Price Arana · Adam Rothlein · Bob Celli · Rowena Woods · Sezen · Alexander Tuschinski · Ilia Antonenko · Kalilah Robinson · Matthew Gentile · Emilija Gasic · John Hellberg · Pasquale Encell · Mohsen Serajian · Marzieh Hakim · James Francis Khehtie · George Vatistas · Alejandro Alberola · Jennifer Perrott · Farnoosh Abedi · Ali Kalthami · Ella Kohn · Elpiniki Voutsa Rentzepopoulou
Lydia Dambasina · Constantinos Bouras · Ilias Koen · Lykou Isis · Antonakis · Artemis Potamianou · Margarita Myrogianni · Maria Efstathiou · Sofia Touboura · Natalia Koursoumi · Aristides Logothetis · Antonis Maros · Evi Eleftheriadi · Leonidas Papadopoulos · Lydia Andrioti · Lydia Venieri · Kallina Maiopoulou · Yannis Gazetopoulos · Emelia Filipopoulou · Twofourtwo art group
Bill Pangburn · Joan Giordano · Meghan Boody · Jacci Den Hartog · Pavlos Samios · Maria Karametou · Andrew Ellis Johnson · Arezoo Moseni · Cecilia Whittaker-Doe · Debby Lee Cohen · Seth McBride · Antonia Papatzanaki · Renee Magnanti · Bong Jung Kim · Stephen Cox · Despo Magoni · Devon Farber · Dominick Lombardi · Vassilis Tsokopoulos · Liliane Lijn · Katherine Liberovskaya · Egon Zippel · J.T. STEINY · Eozen Agopian
Katherine Liberovskaya · JooHyun Kang · Anastasia Pelias · Julia P Robbins · Seth McBride · Pavlos Samios · Anthony Haden · Augustus Goertz · Antonia Papatzanaki · Don Doe · Dominick Lombardi · Horst · J.T. STEINY
Dir. Martin Gerigk · Lexi Bass · Rakel Jonsdottir · Seyed M. Tabatabaei · Nancy Allison · Laura Boato · Costas Picadas · Liam Morgan · Top Tarasin · Patrick Tarrant · Nirvana Paz · Katherine Liberovskaya · Kirk Tougas