Date: 30.6–2.7.2015
Location: Kunsthalle Athena, Athens
Participating artists: Agent Mo, Amateurboyz, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Danai Anesiadou, Andreas Angelidakis, Anastasia Ax, Aza, Athens Zine Biblioteque , George-Ikaros Babassakis & Eleanna Martinou, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Angela Brouskou & Parthenopi Bouzouri, Vincent Chomaz, Angela Dimitrakaki, Pakui Hardware, Katerina Kana, Valentinas Klimašauskas, Dimitris Kotselis, Eleni Kotsoni, Mikko Kuorinki, Quinn Latimer, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Giorgos Papadopoulos, Natasha Papadopoulou, Giannis Loukos, Eleftheria Togia, Angelo Plessas, Dimitris Politakis, Theo Prodromidis, Lars Siltberg, Jennifer Teets, and Paolo Thorsen-Nagel
Borrowed from the 1939 British song made famous by Vera Lynn, We’ll Meet Again invokes the bittersweet optimism of parting: the expectation of reunion and the promise of return after absence. Through three days of lectures, screenings, and performances, the event marked our farewell to the building that housed Kunsthalle Athena for five years and became inseparable from its identity.
Kunsthalle Athena was founded in an unrestored neoclassical house in Metaxourgeio, Athens, within a neighborhood shaped by overlapping communities, movement, hardship, and constant change. In this environment—where desire and despair, culture and survival coexisted—the institution grew, alongside the many people who passed through its spaces.
Over time, artists, writers, friends, and collaborators left their marks on the building, adding new traces to those already embedded in its worn surfaces. We chose to preserve these scars, allowing the building itself to become part of our history.
We’ll Meet Again brought people together for a final collective passage through separation and displacement. Through talks spanning love and architecture, debt and global politics, women and the cosmos, the internet and poetry—alongside performances, sonic interventions, and music—the event honored the life of the building and carried it forward with memory, care, and resilience.
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