Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair

It is not just another art, it is global art...

The 4th Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair (21-24/11/2019), after its establishment as an institution, will present a project on Byzantine Hagiography. Thessaloniki together with Istanbul are two of the most historic cities with an important geopolitical position between the East and the West. Thessaloniki was the second largest and richest city in the Byzantine Empire, leaving behind it many well-known and important Byzantine churches.

Already two important representatives of hagiography have been selected to exhibit their work in individual stands.

Art Thessaloniki Fair caters for the stay of exhibitors,visitors and friends. It cooperates with THE MET, METROPOLITAN, ABC hotels and offers you special low prices. The specific offers are valid for the whole year, as long as the booking is stated to be related to Art Thessaloniki Fair. 

OPENART LAB (HELEXPO)

Opening Thursday 9 May 2019 , 18.00 

Duration:             9 Μαϊου - 19 Μαϊου 2019
Working Hours:  Monday - Friday: 17.00-20.00
                             Saturday & Sunday: 11.00-14.30

Yannis Fikas is Director of Corporate Relations & Cooperative Education and  Professor of Philosophy at New York College. He was Executive Director for Learning Technologies at the American College of Greece from 1995 to 2011.

He was a visiting Professor of Renaissance Philosophy in the Master Programme in Philosophy of the University of Athens from 2001 to 2008 and Professor of Pre-Socratic philosophy at State University of New York/ Empire State College, 2012-2017.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Patras and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Athens.

Honored artist of the 3rd Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair  will be the international renowned artist TAKIS with the collaboration of the TAKIS Foundation – KETE (Research Center for the Art and the Sciences).

Works from Takis are exhibited in the collection of the most important museums as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MOMA in New York, the The Menil Collection in Houston and the Tate Gallery in London. In France the Jeu de Pomme, the Palais du Tokio and the Maeght Foundation have launched important anthological exhibitions.

ART 15 was a very interesting Art Fair in Olympia, Europe's center of Art Market, London and was visited by Artistic Director of Art Thessaloniki Fair, Pantelis Tsatsis and Andreas Daroudis, Director of Exibitions of TIF HELEXPO.