Téchne

21/03/2022

World Poetry Day 2022 on the First Day of Sping - and what better medicine than Art against this dark dark winter we are all forced to deal with?

Άνοιξη σ’ αγαπώ!
Spring I love you!
Frühling Ich liebe Dich!

Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος Nikiforos Vrettakos

Άνοιξη σ’ αγαπώ
Μοιάζεις με την ειρήνη.
Μοιάζεις με τις μητέρες
που θήλασαν τα βρέφη
στις εικόνες του Ραφαήλ.

Μοιάζεις με το χαμόγελο
μέσα στη μουσική.
Μου θυμίζεις το Θεό
που γράφει για την αγάπη
σε μεγάλα κατεβατά
σελίδων με αστέρια
στροφές ποταμών
και ποιήματα.

Spring I love you
You look like peace.
You look like mothers
who nursed babies
in the images of Raphael.

You look like the smile
in the music.
You remind me of God
who writes about love
in great descents
of pages with stars
bends of rivers
and poems.

Frühling Ich liebe dich
Du siehst nach Frieden aus.
Ihr seht aus wie Mütter
die Säuglinge gestillt haben
in die Werken Raffaels.

Du ähnelst dem Lächeln
in der Musik.
Du erinnerst mich an Gott
der über die Liebe schreibt
in langen Absätzen
von Seiten mit Sternen
Flussbiegungen
und Gedichte.

Ιακωβίδης Γεώργιος (1853 - 1932) Άνοιξη, 1927 Λάδι σε μουσαμά, 120 x 168 εκ. Συλλογή Ιδρύματος Ε. Κουτλίδη
αρ. έργου: Κ.697

Iakovidis Georgios (1853 - 1932) Springtime, 1927 Oil on canvas, 120 x 168 cm E. Koutlidis Foundation Collection
inv. no: Κ.697

Source: www.nationalgallery.gr

19/03/2022

Frere Zak/Zackie - Φρέρε Ζάκι

FRERE ZAK/ZACKIE

12 of February 2022, while the trial over the killing of Zak Kostopoulos is being held in Athens, a group of FOLX gathers in Berlin to shed a song and a video-tear for the activist of the LGBTIQ+ movement and drag queen (ZACKIE OH!), who was brutally assassinated in the center of Athens in public view, more than 3 years ago. The song is a new, q***r version of the old french song Frere Jacques.

Read more about the murder trial at:
https://zackieohjustice.watch/en/

Support the struggle of the family for justice at:
https://gogetfunding.com/justice-for-zak/
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Συνεχίζεται στις 22 Μαρτίου στο Μικτό Ορκωτό Δικαστήριο, η δίκη των δολοφόνων του Ζακ Κωστόπουλου. “Δεν πήγα να καταθέσω γιατί φοβήθηκα μην μπλέξω, έχω παιδιά”, είπε ο άντρας με το κίτρινο μπλουζάκι.

Εγώ πήγα να καταθέσω, γιατί φοβήθηκα μην μπλέξω, έχω παιδιά. Κι ήρθαν μαζί μου κι άλλα 50 κι υπέγραψαν την κατάθεσή μας. Μια κουίνα, μια ορχήστρα και μια χορωδία, 4 κάμερες, 12 οικογένειες και 2 μεγαλο-οικογένειες (συλλογικότητες) μαζευτήκαμε. Επειδή φοβηθήκαμε με αυτά που είδαμε, με αυτά που διαβάσαμε κι ακούσαμε κι επειδή δε θέλουμε να φοβόμαστε άλλο. Φρέρε Ζακ, τραγουδάμε, Φρέρε Ζάκι. Επιδιώκουμε με αυτό το τραγούδι να διανύσουμε τα 2329 χιλιόμετρα, να μπούμε στη δικαστική αίθουσα και να αγγίξουμε τρυφερά το χέρι της οικογένειας του Ζακ, κάθε φορά που μια προσβλητική φράση αφήνει τα στόματα όσων συνεχίζουν να κατηγορούν, αντί να σκύβουν το κεφάλι. Ζητάμε δικαίωση.
Αν θέλεις “υπόγραψε” κι εσύ με ένα σχόλιο.

Σε καλούμε να μοιραστείς το βίντεο μας, σε καλούμε να τραγουδήσεις την προσευχή μας, γιατί...
όσο λέμε το όνομά της, θα είναι εδώ
Justice for Zackie Oh!

#justice4ZakZackie

Νάστα/ Nasta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoFyyP4dlYA

star queen: Chrys Stray
μουσική διεύθυνση: Christos Drouzas
σκηνοθεσία: Alkistis Kafetzi
μοντάζ: Polyxeni Fotopoulou

Ευχαριστούμε Dimitris Tsamantanis για την παραχώρηση του χώρου SaliGari κι όλα τα πλάσματα που στήριξαν τη δράση.
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>>παρακολούθηση των τελευταίων εξελίξεων στο Παρατηρητήριο της δίκης για τον φόνο του/της Ζακ Κωστόπουλου/Zackie Oh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/zjusticewatch
>>οικονομική ενίσχυση της οικογένειας:
https://gogetfunding.com/justice-for-zak/

"Η συγκεκριμένη διαδικασία οικονομικής ενίσχυσης είναι αυτή που συνδέεται ευθέως με την οικογένεια του Ζακ Κωστόπουλου. Το ποσό που θα συγκεντρωθεί θα διατεθεί για την κάλυψη των διαδικαστικων και λοιπών εξόδων που απαιτούνται για τη διαλεύκανση της δολοφονίας του Ζακ και της δικαίωσης της μνήμης του."
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12 of February 2022, while the trial of Zak Kostopoulos is being held in Athens, a group of FOLX gathers in Berlin to shed a song and a video-tear for the ac...

11/02/2022

POWER SHAME — DOCK 11

POWER SHAME is a tribute to the emotion of shame.

A shameborn werewolf strives towards the longed-for act of liberation. It is a full moon.
An Easter celebration ends in a massacre.

What does shame do to a person?

On March, 17-19.03 at DOCK 11

Concept / Choreography / Performance: Yannis Karalis
Dramaturgy: Dimitra Thomaidou, Petros Mandalos
Sound Design: Sakis Kleisiaris
Light and Space Design: Emilio Cordero Checa
SFX MUA: Victoria Rose

Photo Credits: @hxxdz

https://dock11-berlin.de/en/theater/programm/calendar/power-shame?fbclid=IwAR1NVhxGMPuEe_iauSyfk2tGYGtTmUrk0VtOgIU8s9G6E4QJ8f-vgfxJnWg

DOCK 11 EDEN ist Teil der vielfältigen internationalen Tanzszene und verbindet räumlich und strukturell die Bereiche Produktion, Pädagogik und Präsentation.�

07/02/2022

Exhibitions | TECHNEBERLIN.COM

▪️You now can explore our “Threads of Freedom” Catalogue on our Website.

◼️You can meet the participating Artists through their Bio and come closer to them by reading about their Artworks.

⬛️We are warmly recommending the visit and longing for the Upcoming Téchne happenings.

⭐️Enjoy!

Valentini Loizou
Panagiota Asimaki Nikoleta Koutitsa
Stratis Anubis Elena Sokratous
Christos Bouronikos Miltos Despoudis Art
Susan Lipp Anastasia Argyropoulou Artist
Giorgos Staikos Artist Charis Lm

Ελληνική Κοινότητα Βερολίνου - Hellenische Gemeinde zu Berlin e. V.

Anastasya Bogacheva
Bucco Marina
Serge Bulat Edyta Dzierż Alexandros Giovanos
Kantartzis Konstantinos
Ιουλίττα Καραμαύρου Giorgos Kevrekidis
Dimitra Kousteridou Kassi Manousopoulou
Pawel Pacholec Stefania Patrikiou @Palaiologos George Maria Salouvardou Phaedra Soutou Helena Stiasny Alejandro Zertuche Zoi Zipela

For the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution of 1821 and under the auspices of the "Greece 2021" Committee, the team "Téchne"  has organized a multimedia group-exhibition  in Art Stalker in Berlin.

06/02/2022

Αρλέτα - Τα ήσυχα βράδια

The news of the death of the great lyricist Marianina Kriezi (Μαριανίνα Κριεζή, 1947-2022) spread sadness in Greece.

She faded away, at the age of 75, having sealed with her elaborate and inventive speech an important piece of Greek repertoire that was identified with a musical era of renewal and creativity.

Lyrics: Marianina Kriezi
Music: Lakis Papadopoulos
First version: Arleta

Even if you go away
to travel all around the world
you will always be mine
and together we will always be

And I won't miss you
cause my soul will be
the song of the desert
that will follow you

The quiet evenings,
Athens will light
like a big ship
where you will also be.

And you won't miss me
cause my soul will be
the song of the desert
that will follow you

The quiet evenings,
the train of my life
will pass full of lights
where you will also be.

And you won't miss me
cause my soul will be
the song of the desert
that will follow you
#marianinakriezi

Αρλέτα - Τα ήσυχα βράδια Στίχοι: Μαριανίνα ΚριεζήΜουσική: Λάκης ΠαπαδόπουλοςΠρώτη εκτέλεση: ΑρλέταΔίσκος: Τσάι Γιασεμιού (1985)Στίχοι:Ακόμα κι αν φύγειςγια τ...

06/02/2022

AthenSYN

AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL

EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM FOR CONTEMPORARY GREEK ART IN BERLIN

AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL exhibition and symposium for Contemporary Greek Art in Berlin will open on 20 January 2022, 5-9pm, with 14 artistic positions of the generation Y in the newly established STEINZEIT Gallery in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Exhibition duration: January 21 – March 3, 2022.

Artists: ILEANA ARNAOUTOU / SOFIA DONA / MARO FASOULI / KYRIAKI GONI / ANESTIS IOANNOU / ANDREAS RAGNAR KASSAPIS / PANOS KOMPIS/ LATENT COMMUNITY / MARIA LOUIZOU / COLLECTIF MASI / IRINI MIGA / STEFANIA STROUZA / MARIA TSAGKARI / ERSI VARVERI

AthenSYN is the initiative of a group of artists, curators and cultural agents, building an infrastructure and a network to foster the presentation of Greek contemporary art internationally, with focus on the exchange between Greece and Germany.

03/02/2022

program 2022 – The Greek Film Festival in Berlin

One of our favorite festivals The Greek Film Festival in Berlin has announced its program for 2022 and we can’t wait to visit!

Take a look at it and book your Ticket asap.
🎥🎞📽🎦🔝👏

We are very proud to announce our program of films and events 2022.
Diversity, openness and freedom are the key-words that mark this year’s edition and serve as an inspiration to all its sections. 36 films in total, fiction, documentaries, short films, specials will be screened over the five days of the event with some selected repetitions.

The timeline program will be released by the end of February.

Tickets will be available by the end of February at Babylon

Karagiozis (animation, work in progress) – by G. Karras, Aik. Papageorgiou, Ch. Livadites by Manny Di Presso Festival2022_SpecialScreenings

02/02/2022

| Berlinale |

The 72nd Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival is taking place from February 10 to 20, 2022 as an in-person event.

The opening takes places on February 10 with the premiere of François Ozon’s Peter von Kant in the Berlinale Palast.

Berlin International Film Festival - official website

01/02/2022

Die Sache Makropulos | Staatsoper Berlin

Finally, it’s Time for an Opera again.

The Makropulos Affair

OPERA IN THREE ACTS (1926)

MUSIC AND TEXT BY
Leoš Janáček after the eponymous play by Karel Čapek

Premiere
Sunday, 13 February 2022, 6.00 PM Staatsoper Unter den Linden

A documentary account of a rather dry inheritance dispute, a crime drama, a meta-opera featuring a singer playing a singer, a treatise on the sense and nonsense of human immortality. »The Makropulos Affair« is all of the above. With inexplicably detailed background knowledge, opera diva Emilia Marty inserts herself into a century-long inheritance dispute and recklessly exploits her irresistibility to men for her own cryptic purposes.

Language: In Czech language with German and English surtitles

Age recommendation: as of 14 years

A documentary account of a rather dry inheritance dispute, a crime drama, a meta-opera featuring a singer playing a singer, a treatise on the sense and nonsense of human immortality. »The Makropulos Affair« is all of the above. With inexplicably detailed background knowledge, opera diva Emilia Mar...

31/01/2022

KALLOS: For Me, This is Beauty

Do you, by any chance, have any emerging junior painter next to you? 👧🏻👦🏼🎨🖌

Or a talented illustrator making right now their first art steps?

Then take a look at the link below 🙌 We just share 3 hints with you:

Beauty - Museum of Cycladic Art - kids’ contest 😉

Inspired by the archaeological exhibition “KALLOS. The Ultimate Beauty,” the Museum of Cycladic Art’s 9th kid’s contest is entitled “Kallos: For Me, This is Beauty” and is presented virtually for the second time!

17/01/2022

Home - Fassianos Alekos

Greece’s celebrated painter Alekos Fasianos died on Sunday 16th April 2022 in Athens. He was 86.

Born on December 16, 1935, Fassianos studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1960.

He adopted a personal anthropocentric style and was given awards by the French and Russian governments.

Fassianos was very popular in Greece, and some of his works are exhibited in public places: two large murals entitled The Myth of My Neighborhood, can be seen in Athens at the Metaxourgeio metro station. Small sculptures can be seen in front of the Orthodox Church of St. Irene in Athens. A giant vertical mural can be seen in the lobby of the Electra Metropolis Hotel in Athens.

Sources: Wikipedia

Fassianos himself relates: “For five years I applied myself to drawing ancient heads and n**e models. I can’t say I didn’t learn anything from this – quite the opposite. Our teacher Moralis had an influence on us both as an artist and as a human being. We learned to observe the effects of da...

04/01/2022

Téchne Team warmly wishes you a happy new Year!

01/01/2022

Christos Danakas – The Journey | Music Stories

May our #2022 be a #journey through colours of twin rainbows, whether they are enclosed in drizzle or framing new skies!

January 1,2022
Falling in love with new music by Christos Danakas.

"The Journey" - Christos Danakas - Pianist
Music composition & recording: Christos Danakas
Filming: Viola Klostermann
Video editing: Christos Danakas

-The Journey-Music composition & recording: Christos DanakasFilming: Viola KlostermannVideo editing: Christos DanakasGive me a THUMBS UP if you like it and S...

31/12/2021

2022

Last day of 2021
And it’s been 22 months of
Pause and Live and Pause again

But is there a Rewind

For actual Life?

Tested and vaccinated
A proof of existence

A passport to…

Outside our home and work,
Outside zones of comfort and stress.

Longing to return
To now forbidden
Old rituals and routines,

Unmasked and free!

A Luxury

To revisit culture,
To dance in a steaming club

Or kiss in front of a work of Art!
We follow Threads of Freedom,
Immunising our hope,
That in the 22nd year of our Century
Instead of threatening our lives
With uncertainty and guilt,
Variants will be again
beautiful shades of diversity.

Happy and Free New Year
We wish for
22 to be our lucky charm
In Life and in the Arts!

#happynewyear #2022

29/12/2021

Regarding the Moon

New Single Release by Petros Klampanis 'Regarding the Moon' - a piece composed for the excellent baritone saxophonist Andrew Hadro and a large ensemble, featuring a string octet, piano, bass and drums.

https://music.petrosklampanis.com/RegardingTheMoon?fbclid=IwAR3-CPMlAgcCVy74sDCNx-EeZsKb1QMlsLrDdqijZLNvFmNhCb_YAAsfIC8

Credits:
Andrew Hadro: baritone saxophone
Martha Kato: piano
Petros Klampanis: bass
Rogerio Boccato: drums
Dionisis Vervitsiotis, Migen Selmani, Haralambos Karasavidis,
Pericles Timplalexis: violin
Enkela Kokolani, Krystalia Gaitanou: viola
Marina Kolovou, Fabiola Ojeda: cello
Concertmeister: Stathis Soulis
Sound Engineers:
George Kariotis at Sierra Recordings SA, Athens
Michael Perez-Cisneros at Big Orange Sheep, Brooklyn NY
Mix/mastering: George Kariotis, Petros Klampanis
Composition & Production: Petros Klampanis
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group

by Petros Klampanis and Andrew Hadro

28/12/2021

ΘΑΝΟΣ ΜΙΚΡΟΥΤΣΙΚΟΣ / ΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΒΒΑΔΙΑΣ Γραμμές Των Οριζόντων_1991

Remembering Thanos Mikroutsikos (13.4.1947-28.12.2019)

01 – Γιώργος Νταλάρας Καραντί 02 – Χάρης Κατσιμίχας, Θάνος Μικρούτσικος Θεσσαλονίκη 03 – Β.Παπακωνσταντίνου.Created by Dimitris Tsaganos - Ερμηνεία: Θάνος Μι...

28/12/2021

Τα #Κάλαντα The #Carols Die #Weihnachtslieder
1872
Nikiforos Lytras (1832-1904)

Probably the most famous Greek painting of the festive season, depicting a characteristic example of 20th Century Greek ethnography and at the same time,presents us with multiethnicity in a core Greek Christmas tradition; 5 boys of 5 different ethnic backgrounds, dressed in the clothing of the time hold traditional musical instruments and sing Christmas carols in the yard of a house.
A housewife stands with the toddler in the window and listens to the carols. Behind the wall, another child tries to watch the carolers. The serenity achieved through the beauty of the flowers and the full moon might be challenged by the fallen bucket, a possible result of the boys' impatience to sing the carols to as many households as possible. A sweet childish moment next to the thousand old history of Greek culture,represented by the statue in the right corner.

Nikiforos Lytras, a reprepsentative of the Munich School and a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is one of the most famous Greek painters of the 19th Century, his works still loved in the 21st. :)