Tentacular ways, art strategies, ecosystems and planetary transformation | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
Akademie der bildenden Kuenste Wien and Athens School of Fine Arts, ASFA
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene / Capitalocene / Chthulucene?
How do we navigate through a world shaped by the exploitative interventions against natural ecosystems, proliferation of reactionary power structures, and galloping inequalities? Can we think of our artistic agency in ways that accentuate our capacity to design alternative futures while remaining resilient in the present? Donna Haraway’s concept of the Chthulucene invites us to reflect on our “tentacular connectedness” and explore our entanglement within multispecies of human and non-human components. Addressing these questions, and seeking tangible alternatives from the perspective of an expanded artistic praxis, students and professors from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Athens School of Fine Arts extend their on-going collaboration and exchange to stage a new creative output defined by attentive and transformative response to each other’s moves, maneuvers, materialities, desires – a tentacular dance!
Academic supervision: Studio Art and Image / Drawing of the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Veronika Dirnhofer / Steffi Alte, Studio 11 of Painting and Expanded Media of the Athens School of Fine Arts, A.S.F.A., Studio11asfa.
Artists: Matei Alexandrescu, Helle Paraskevi Papageorgiou Alexiou, Eleftheria Amolochiti, Alexandra Apsokardou, Aza Aufgeweckt, Evi Barbounaki, Arileia Buseu, Tatiana Choremi, Sophia Davislim, Christos Filippakis, Konstantinos Filippoglou, Anastasia Georgakopoulou, Julian Griss, Yiannis Kaleridis, Markos Kampourakis, Christoph Karrer, Katerina Korre, Mariella Lehner, Danae Lountzi, Lisa Lupsina, Antzie Malliara, Νikos Manolis, Anna Manoussaki, Jannis Neumann, Kweku Okokroko, Max Oswald, Helle Paraskevi, Franziska Prohaska, Maria Pylypenko & Rafael Hofmann, Christian Reinecke & Leonard Senholdt, Nico Schleicher & Jonathan Gamperl, Gianna Semmelhaak, Paria Shahrestani, Rafiqul Shuvo, Katerina Skordou, Myrto Skoutela, Thalia Stouraiti, Leda Thanassa, Kieren Tockner, Phaidon Venetis, Foteis Xenoktistaki, Hao Yang.
The exhibition is presented at OpenArtLink 2025 | Piraeus Project, an initiative organised by CHEAPART and keramikos_23, aimed to unite 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, keramikos_23
Georg Georgakopoulos, Paolo Incarnato, Fotini Kapiris, Thalia Kerouli
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