EXHIBITIONS
PEDION TOU AREOS / ATHENS
Plásmata 3
We’ve met before, haven’t we?
Plásmata 3 returns to Athens from May 27, 2025 to June 15, 2025, and focuses on the organic and material, seeking new forms of land art while incorporating digitality in artistic and creative expression.
© Pinelopi Gerasimou
Plásmata 3 is a living laboratory, a trans-local machine of desire, dreams, and bodies, human and non-human. Urban public space, ‘nature’ trapped in anthropocentrism, especially as expressed through the fantasy and mythology of the park, is again the porous and yet solid core around which the Creatures in Plásmata 3 develop. It is a vast magnetic field in which the Creatures meet, attract and repel, desire and despise, fall in love or fall out, pass by or stick around. It is the material and symbolic space in which each visitor creates their own fragmentary and often conflicting realities. It is an embrace that will take you somewhere unknown. Like any embrace worthy of the word.
When and where do we meet? Do we need a common reality, or are we satisfied with solipsism? What brings us together, and what repels us? What is nature, what is real and what is not, when the surreal becomes the dominant visual language and even algorithms hallucinate?
Plásmata 3 take over Pedion tou Areos for three weeks. Familiar and unfamiliar creatures beckon us from within the flowerbeds of the park as the summer is approaching but hasn’t yet arrived. The boundaries between digital and physical, human and non-human, inside and outside, dissolve.
What is the Ministry of Anarchaeology? Does that owl next to Athena really move? What’s a flock of sheep from Lebanon doing in the park? Can the Spirit of the Park bring us together? Do golden Datsuns fall from the sky? Do seashells sing? Would you like to become a bat?
Onassis Stegi’s major art exhibition comes to Athens’ largest urban green space, presenting 25 works by Greek and international artists that reflect on our post-digital world. 21 days of concerts and music, 24 speakers exploring art, the park, its neighborhoods, and Athens; 13 screenings of short and feature films with the filmmakers present; food and flavors from the communities living around the park.
