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 Papageorgiou 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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Upcoming
Basel, Switzerland
Art fair
 

 

Liste Art Fair Basel

Ileana Arnaoutou & Ismene King

15 – 21 June 2026

VIP-Preview: 15 June 2026, 11 am – 6 pm
Opening: 15 June 2026, 6 pm – 8 pm
General Admission: 16 – 20 June 2026, 12 pm – 8 pm 
21 June 2026, 11 am – 4 pm
         

Address: Liste Art Fair Basel
Messe Basel, Halle 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / Ecke Riehenring 113
4058 Basel

booth 29 

Callirrhoë is happy to present a solo presentation by the artist duo Ileana Arnaoutou and Ismene King, whose collaborative practice investigates the afterlives of industrial ruins and natural remnants. Working across sculpture, installation and field research, they transform discarded matter into forms that explore memory, resilience, and the ways in which material landscapes hold traces of past labour.  For LISTE 2026, the duo developed new works inspired by the Rhine River, which crosses the city of Basel. Their research focuses on historical structures once found along the riverbanks, such as the fishermen’s huts that functioned both as shelters and as tools for river-based labour. These structures, largely discontinued since the 1960s, remain as markers of a past rhythm of life shaped by the river’s once-industrial and polluted state. Today, following extensive environmental recovery, the Rhine has transformed into a space of leisure, movement and communal activity.

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Upcoming
Basel, Switzerland
Art fair
 

 

Basel Social Club

Vasilis Papageorgiou

 


14 – 20 June 2026

Opening: 14 June 2026, 2 pm – 3 am
15 – 20 June 2026, 4 pm – 3 am 
         
Address: Erdbeergraben 1, 4051 Basel

Vasilis Papageorgiou’s practice explores the delicate balance between togetherness and solitude, focusing on how people inhabit shared spaces (bars, beaches, or local stadiums) to experience community while preserving individuality. Reimagining these everyday settings, he weaves narratives that challenge our perceptions of leisure and social interaction. His work elevates overlooked objects and materials, revealing their quiet role in shaping our environments and reframing the ordinary as poetic. Papageorgiou with the work Shells on Beam, 2023, reclaims the familiar language of administration through blue Spirit Bucket seats with celestial and everyday elements. The seats evoke the queues outside an office, a silent martyr of bureaucracy. It is all about the choreography of waiting lines, ticket numbers and other core rituals of bureaucratic systems. Within the concept of the Office of this year’s Basel Social Club, they become both functional placeholders and symbolic interfaces of contemporary office culture. 

 

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