Grant supporting AthenSYN II: Going viral
Panos Kompis, Docile Being, 2012
The Schwarz Foundation is supporting AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL.
AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL exhibition and symposium for Contemporary Greek Art in Berlin opens with 14 artistic positions of the generation Y in the newly established STEINZEIT Gallery in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The participating artists are raising questions that concern our future coexistence.
Participating Artists
How isolated do we feel and act as individuals? AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL focuses on the subtle connection of all existence, the importance of taking initiative and the search for ecological and affectively sustainable ways of living. In AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL, AthenSYN presents paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by young Greek artists who have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, created against their background experience between the socio-economic crisis of 2009 and the current Covid-19 Pandemic. The positioning of Greek art between the global South and the North, lack of economic resources and prosperity, political center and periphery, traditionalism and innovation is characteristic.
