Arts & events
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Thessaloniki Concert Hall St. Petersburg Ice Ballet, The Nutcracker 05 Experience the magic of Christmas with the famous ballet of St. Petersburg which comes to the Thessaloniki Concert Hall to give us generous doses of beauty, grace, colour and innocence, unravelling on ice the world famous and endearing Christmas tale, The Nutcracker. It is one of the most beloved compositions by Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky, one of the first global successes of the St. Petersburg Ballet and a classical piece for the world’s most famous dance troupes. 25 Martiou Street & Paralia www.tch.gr
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Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
Teloglion Foundation of Art – AUTh
The Mediterranean experience The exhibition comprises more than 120 emblematic art works by Greek and foreign artists, who negotiate the manifold concept of free public space. The Mediterranean is understood as a spatial paradigm and structure in which the traditional notion of centre is substituted by the function of an “opposite side”, which gives place to communication and exchange. The exhibition explores the formation of new cognitive and aesthetic categories as a topology of “The Mediterranean Experience”, within contemporary art, starting with Le Nouveau Réalisme and Arte Povera until now. Egnatia 154 www.mmca.org.gr
Vasso Katraki: In Black and White Vasso Katraki was the greatest female engraver in Greece and her work has illustrated the agony of the difficult post-war period. Her socially and politically charged work echoed a universal message of humanism and renewed the art of engraving. The exhibition focuses on the politically charged work of Katraki, the emergence of material and folk art. The second focus is on Messolonghi’s lagoon, not only as an idyllic landscape, but also as an ecosystem in danger. Agiou Dimitriou 159A www.teloglion.gr
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Myro Gallery Ink on paper The Myro Gallery presents a group exhibition presenting six of the most prominent young artists in Greece who sketch or paint with ink. Most of them focus on psychedelic landscapes and expressionist portraits. Also take in the solo exhibition of Giorgos Korbakis’ s works in charcoal while the sculptor Thanos Karonis presents an installation at Myro Vitrine. Nikiforou Foka 8 www.myro.gr