3 urban experiments by Candy Chang

8 February - 6 March 2016 | Exhibition space
"School of the Future"

The classroom reinterpreted without teachers, books or pupils. Visitors find themselves in a space with a school desk at one end surrounded by thousands of big, red balloons. They are invited to write down a lesson life has taught them in a notebook on the desk. In so doing, the visitors become teachers and students at one and the same time: by taking part in a school of collective experience in which the shared encyclopaedia of knowledge consists of the lessons of their individual lives, they can teach but they can also learn.

30 June - 20 July 2016
12:00-22:00 | Municipal Park of Flisvos and Dionisiou Areogitou & Makrigianni str.
"Before I die"

In 2011, Candy Chang started this installation as an experiment in an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighbourhood. She literally took over the building, painting its outer walls the colour of a blackboard and writing on them the phrase “Before I die, I want to...” over and over in white stencilled letters. Passers-by were invited to complete the phrase, writing their wishes on the walls in chalk.
Her best-known visual installation, Before I Die… combines art with social dialogue and urban regeneration. Today, over a thousand “Before I die” walls have been created in 70 plus countries including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina and South Africa.

30 June - 20 July 2016
12:00-22:00 | Spyrou Miliou Arcade, City Link and Dionisiou Areogitou & Makrigianni str.
"Confessions"

Anonymous, secret confessions written in a private booth on small wooden plaques are hung in public space to form a polyptych confessional. Individual confessions are brought together to form a unique installation which recalls a prayer wall and reminds us that we’re not alone.