Athens, Greece
solo show

02  – 31 October 2026
Opening day: 02 October 2026, 7 pm – 10 pm

 

Callirrhoë is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by British artist Jonathan Monk in Athens. Known for his playful approach, Monk often questions the legacy of conceptual art by revisiting seminal works with humour and critique. Spanning from sculpture, painting and photography to film and installation, his practice challenges notions of originality in an attempt to demystify the creative process itself. Speaking in 2009, he said, “Appropriation is something I have used or worked with in my art since starting art school in 1987. At this time (and still now) I realised that being original was almost impossible, so I tried using what was already available as source material for my own work.”

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Η Callirrhoë παρουσιάζει την πρώτη ατομική έκθεση του Βρετανού καλλιτέχνη Jonathan Monk στην Αθήνα. Ο Monk συχνά επανεξετάζει σημαντικά έργα της εννοιολογικής τέχνης με χιούμορ και κριτική διάθεση. Η παιγνιώδης πρακτική του, που περιλαμβάνει γλυπτά και ζωγραφικά έργα, φωτογραφίες, φιλμ και εγκαταστάσεις, αμφισβητεί την έννοια της αυθεντικότητας σε μια προσπάθεια απομυθοποίησης της ίδιας της δημιουργικής διαδικασίας.Σε μια δήλωσή του από το 2009 o Monk αναφέρει, «Η ιδιοποίηση είναι κάτι που έχω χρησιμοποιήσει στην τέχνη μου και με το οποίο δουλεύω από τότε που μπήκα στην καλών τεχνών το 1987. Τότε (και τώρα ακόμα) συνειδητοποίησα ότι το να είσαι αυθεντικός είναι σχεδόν ακατόρθωτο. Άρχισα λοιπόν να χρησιμοποιώ αυτά που ήταν ήδη διαθέσιμα ως πηγή των έργων μου».

 

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Upcoming
Paris, France
Art fair
 

 

Paris Internationale 12th edition

Vasilis Papageorgiou

 

 

19 – 24 October 2026

Vip-Preview: 19 October 2026, 11 am – 7 pm
General Admission: 20 October 2026, 11 am – 7 pm
21 – 23 October 2026, 12 pm – 7 pm 
24 October 2026, 12 pm – 6 pm
         

Address: 187—189 Quai de Valmy 75010 Paris
 Courtyard Section, 2ND Floor, booth A2.02  

Callirrhoë is happy to showcase a solo presentation by the artist Vasilis Papageorgiou. Papageorgiou investigates through his new series of bronze sculptures Scarps the geology of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea by molding a series of lithified sedimentary rocks. The artist considers this act the first step in a broader project that explores how the built environment, shapes and transforms the natural landscape. As a result of the real estate overdevelopment on islands, alluvial deposits like bricks and concrete merge with natural limestones. Together they are forming a new landscape, reshaped by the sun, the sea, the salt and the wind. Papageorgiou produced at Koufonisi island a series of molds as an act of preservation. The molds function as negative spaces, forms to be filled, reconsidered in terms of materiality and understood as tools for reimagining history. Through this process, materials begin to unify, losing their sense of extrinsicness.

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