New York, USA
Art fair
 

 

Independent

Nikolas Ventourakis

 

 

 

 

14 – 17 May 2026

Opening hours
VIP preview: 14 May 2026, 11 am – 5 pm
Henry Street Settlement Gala: 14 May 2026, 5 pm – 8 pm
Open to the public: 15 – 16 May 2026, 11 am – 7 pm
17 May 2026, 11 am – 6 pm

 Address: Pier 36
299 South Street, New York, NY 10002

 

Callirrhoë is pleased to announce its participation in Independent New York 2026 with a solo presentation by Nikolas Ventourakis. Ventourakis’s practice operates at the intersection of art and documentation, probing the limits of the photographic image. Eschewing fixed interpretations, his work embraces ambiguity, wherein the familiar is shaped by personal and collective memory rather than objective truth. Extending his ongoing investigation into ambiguity and the instability of photographic reality, Ventourakis presents this body of work in New York City, a context in which art, media, and public discourse continuously converge. Moreover, Independent commissioned the artist to blow up his photograph XXIX. “a pile of many colours and a multitude of textures”—a shot of a collapsing pile of trash that sprawls to block off a side street in Athens—to mural scale, so that it verges on abstraction. Installed at the entrance to the fair, the image constitutes an unlikely and ironic yet timely introduction for visitors.


View installation shots of the booth

Upcoming
Athens, Greece
solo show


 

Grounding

Vasilis Papageorgiou

 

 

27 May – 26 September 2026
Opening day: 27 May 2026, 7 pm – 10 pm

 

Callirrhoë presents the second solo exhibition by Vasilis Papageogiou at the gallery, titled Grounding. Working through molding and casting, he examines how built environments, particularly those shaped by tourism and real estate overdevelopment, intervene in and transform natural landscapes. In this context, alluvial deposits such as bricks and concrete increasingly merge with limestone, forming hybrid terrains continuously reshaped by sun, sea, salt and wind. For the purpose of his presentation Papageorgiou produced a series of works that function as negative spaces: forms to be reinterpreted materially and conceptually as tools for reconsidering landscape and history. 

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Η Callirrhoë παρουσιάζει τη δεύτερη ατομική έκθεση του Βασίλη Παπαγεωργίου στη γκαλερί, με τίτλο Grounding. Μέσω του καλουπώματος και της χύτευσης, εξετάζει πώς τα δομημένα περιβάλλοντα, και ιδιαίτερα εκείνα που διαμορφώνονται από τον τουρισμό και την υπερ-ανάπτυξη ακινήτων, παρεμβαίνουν και μετασχηματίζουν τα φυσικά τοπία. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, αλλουβιακές αποθέσεις όπως τούβλα και σκυρόδεμα συγχωνεύονται όλο και περισσότερο με τον ασβεστόλιθο, δημιουργώντας υβριδικά εδάφη που ανασχηματίζονται συνεχώς από τον ήλιο, τη θάλασσα, το αλάτι και τον άνεμο. Για τη συγκεκριμένη παρουσίαση ο Παπαγεωργίου παρήγαγε μια σειρά έργων που λειτουργούν ως αρνητικοί χώροι: μορφές που επαναερμηνεύονται υλικά και εννοιολογικά ως εργαλεία για τον επαναπροσδιορισμό του τοπίου και της ιστορίας.

 

 

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