From Port to Port | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
The port, beyond serving as a safe haven for ships and a hub for the transport of goods, is also a crossroads of people, cultures, languages, and ideas arriving from unexpected places - a postmodern Tower of Babel in today’s world.
The encounters between individuals and their thoughts, often compressed into the brief span of time it takes to unload cargo, give communication at the port a unique character. It happens instantly, without elaborate procedures, at a rapid pace. Indeed, civilization itself has long been anchored to ports, shaped by their complex and ever-changing human geography. Metaphorically, too, the port embodies safety, warmth, and protection, becoming not only a physical location but also a symbol of refuge.
Seven artists now depart - not only in the literal sense of transport—from the ports of Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, to dock at the port of Piraeus: Almuth Baumfalk, Petra Forman, Alina Grabovsky, Carla Magnier, Niklas, Timo Pfeiffer, Ragna Jürgensen, Lap Yip.
Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos
The exhibition is presented at OpenArtLink 2025, an initiative that brings together international artists from diverse disciplines to explore innovation and creative exchange.
OpenArtLink 2025
Piraeus-Project
Athinon 8-12, 185 40, Piraeus 185 40
22 - 26 October, 2025
Opening: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Organised by: CHEAPART, keramikos23
Georg Georgakopoulos, Paolo Incarnato, Fotini Kapiris, Thalia Kerouli
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