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Press material from XES (solo show)

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Scans from XES—solo show curated by Jonathan James and hosted at James Gallery Berlin, in July 20222.

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Images from "The New Greek Revolution"—featured in the online group show "200 years of asphyxiation", curated by FITA in March 2021.

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Images from "The New Greek Revolution"—featured in the online group show "200 years of asphyxiation", curated by FITA in March 2021.

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From the archives: "Ta Pio Orea Laika"

Images featured in the site specific installation developed especially for the fundraiser event "Athens Djs for Athens Pride", hosted in Romantzo, Athens, in March 2020.

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"Peripeteies sto Periptero" (selection)—collage series featured in Post Emotional Therapy, a group show curated by Vassilia Kagka and hosted at P.E.T. Projects Athens in December 2019.

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Reading a first except from ''Elegy to Katerina'' on the occasion of POST EMOTIONAL THERAPY exhibition at P.E.T. Projects Athens, in October 2019.

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Performing "Queering Vietnam" or "Hλία, βαλ'το στον κώλο σου" as Melina Mercury—Athens Festival of Queer Performance, hosted in FAQ Research, 17th of October 2019

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TECNOSEXUAL ASTROLOGY five lightboxes and a reader, produced especially for LECKEN DILDOTEKNOTONICS on 07.12.2018 

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“The Real Noikokyrés Get Deep Greeked” a site specific performance by Berlin’s favorite @therealhousewivesofneukolln for the opening of #TheThreeGraces, documented by @spyressence.

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NIE WIEDER SPARGELZEIT, studies for a billboard in Berlin.

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THE THREE GRACES a site-specific installation by Elias Karniaris curated by Wanda Vrasti for the back room of Gelegenheiten Berlin on display: 13.10.2017 till 01.12.2017 There was a time when television gave the majority meaning, a time when only a handful of television stations and a TV set in every living room could fuse the national, the familial and the personal with a symbolic force neither technology nor democracy have been able to accomplish since. Elias Karniaris grew up during that time.   In 1990, MEGA CHANNEL, Greece’s first private channel, launched the nationally acclaimed sitcom, Oi Trei Harites (“The Three Graces”), a lighthearted comedy of morals whose object of ridicule were a peculiar class of people — women. Three sisters (the three graces) are reunited in midlife under the roof of their childhood home searching, once more, for their luck in love and in life. To the foreign eye, ignorant of the narrative on screen, it is the peripheral semi-archeological details that demand attention — gaudy interiors, scripted outfits, and the catalogue of the graces' highly studied gestures and expressions. The latter, in particular, compose a score of female-connoted affectations one is invited to both laugh at and with. Ridiculous, extravagant and frivolous, such are the demi-goddesses of Greek retro-camp. Karniaris’ full-room installation in Gelegenheiten is, at once, homage and phantasm, an archaeology of a place that no longer exists as such and the fantastic projection of a drag imaginary that would last a lifetime. The piece is part of a larger preoccupation the artist has been pursuing over the past few years on the archaeology of television and projected femininities.

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ΚΑΙ ΤΟΤΕ Η ΑΘΗΝΑ: Melina Mercury, talking about Athens.

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The Extensive Karniaris Archives: <it>Oi Afthairetoi (The Arbitraries)</it> 1989-1991 (details)