Sofia Stevi
The Breeder x Dexamenes
September 4, 2020–October 4, 2020Dexamenes °° Seaside Hotel, Kourouta
We are pleased to announce the launch of The Breeder x Dexamenes, a collaboration between The Breeder gallery and Dexamenes°° Seaside Hotel, with the inaugural project a harvest song by Sofia Stevi.
“a harvest song is a selection of paintings I made from 2015 to now. The paintings suspended in space are resembling a storyline as a forest. Ideas and thoughts are depicted as dreamlike states and impressions of mythological realities. These paintings were made on flowing cotton fabric during different periods and life moments. They are stories, in a way that stories are inside us all. This presentation, happening in September, is a harvest of sorts. A harvest of perpetual pleasure and wasted opportunities, of memory and desire, of love and death, of history and the present.”
-Sofia Stevi
Sofia Stevi (b. Athens 1982) is a graduate of Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design of London and lives and works in Athens. Selected exhibitions include: “turning forty winks into a new decade” solo exhibition at BALTIC, Gateshead, UK, curated by Emma Dean (2018); lizzie & laura, solo exhibition at The Breeder, Athens (2017), The Equilibrists – Benaki Museum, Athens, organised by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation and curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen (2016). She is represented by The Breeder.
The Breeder gallery was founded in 2002 by Stathis Panagoulis and George Vamvakidis, out of the need to build an artistic dialogue between Athens and the world. With a strong international presence over the past eighteen years The Breeder gallery has been a pioneer in the development of the contemporary art scene, having transformed into a hub that discovers, supports and promotes both Greek and international art and artists, demonstrating a commitment to fostering progressive, boundary-pushing practices.
Dexamenes°° is a postwar winery turned into a hotel that focuses on hospitality as an experience through art, wine, nature and local culture. It is located in the Western Peloponnese, Greece. Envisioned by Nikos Karaflos and designed by k-studio, Dexamenes°° has already been multiply awarded for its architecture and its unique history and through its curated programming it works as an open platform of hospitality, cultural activity and conscious wellbeing.
THE BREEDER x DEXAMENES is a series of projects and art interventions curated and selected by The Breeder gallery, especially for the unique space and surroundings of Dexamenes °°, aiming to a holistic experience of art, luxury and nature.
Address:
Dexamenes °° Seaside Hotel
Kourouta Beach | Beach Front, Amaliada 272 00, Greece
