06 JUN '18

My Odyssey Travel and Hellas Group support “Back to Athens” festival. A festival that turns Athens city into culture hotspot.

10 days, 75 artists, 9 curatorial exhibitions, events, performance, talks, screenings, parties

Hellas Group and My Odyssey Travel loyal in the vision of supporting culture, art and sharing knowledge, officially supports and partially hosts the ‘’Back to Athens’’ festival by providing the venue hall of the first floor of the headquarters, located inside a meticulously renovated 19th century neoclassical building designed by the famous German Greek architect Ernst Ziiller at 1 Vassilikis street, in Agia Irini square.

For 10 days, from June 1 – June 10, local and international artists from Greece, Austria, Germany, US, Belgium, Cyprus, Georgia, Ireland unite their creative vitality at the 6th Back to Athens Festival, inhabiting empty spaces and buildings within the Athens Commercial Triangle. Back to Athens is an idea platform a transit-meeting place for artists in Athens.

Launched in 2012, Back to Athens Festival combines the city’s artistic community in a cultural get-together of events including visual arts, curatorial exhibitions, performances, music performances, screenings and more. Back to Athens is a public showcase of contemporary art and expression that boosts social awareness and restores the local community to the Athens City Center. This year’s 6th Back to Athens is organized by CHEAPART in collaboration with the Athens Commercial Triangle and Athens Intersection cultural program, implementing an ambitious agenda of cultural events.

Athens Commercial Triangle Revitalization Program
The municipality of Athens has selected part of the Commercial Triangle of Athens to implement a pilot intervention program aiming at the overall revitalization of the area. In this context, it is upgrading infrastructure, pedestrianizing an area of 110 acres, redesigning cleaning and municipal police services, and renewing urban equipment, and restores the proper functioning of the area. The program of the municipality is supported by an exclusive donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ISN) with the coordination of the Athens Partnership.

 

EXHIBITION hosted at Hellas Group headquarters
#Ziller Art Space

Strange days: The anaesthetic wearing off
1 – 10.6.2018
The world changed in a manner different from what the poets wanted. The post modern man imprisoned in a world of spectacles, passivity and inactivity, sinks into an ocean of the virtual escapism.
Participating Artists: Eleanna Balesi, Lina Bebi, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Babis Karalis, Andreas Lyberatos, Eva Marathaki, Maro Michalakakou, Nikos Michalitsianos, Nikos Papadimitriou, Aliki Pappa, Giannis Sinioroglou, George Tserionis
Curated by: Nota Koulouriotou, Andreas Vousouras