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FFF3 | Domo de Eŭropa Historio en ekzilo (House of European History in Exile)

Thomas Bellinck

Dates

Prices

3 — 5 €

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Friday
Time
17:30 | 18:00 | 18:30 | 19:00 | 19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Venue
40 Peiraios str, Omonoia sq.
Day
Saturday-Sunday
Time
10:00 | 10:30 | 11:00 | 11:30 | 12:00 | 12:30 | 13:00 and 17:30 | 18:00 | 18:30 | 19:00 | 19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Venue
40 Peiraios str, Omonoia sq.

Information

Tickets

Presale:
Full price: 5 €
Reduced, Unemployed: 3€
Tickets at the door:
Cash only (available 30’ before the show)

Reservation is recommended due to limited availability.

General

Tours begin every 30 minutes with 6 visitors per tour.
On Wednesday 25 May last entry on 20:00.

Exhibition languages: Arabic, English, Greek

The activity takes place in a non-theatrical venue which is not accessible to people with mobility impairments.

Α futuristic history of the present with ample black humor... Presenting the EU as a brief historical intermezzo, this sharply critical, yet loving installation teleports its audience to a dystopia which somehow looks oddly familiar.

Photo: Danny Willems

“Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo (‘House of European History in Exile’) takes you more than half a century back in time to the early twenty-first century. Although little-studied, this period nevertheless provided the breeding-ground for the sweeping changes that were to take place during our century. It was a remarkable era, characterised by Integration and Harmonisation. Blessed by the Long Peace. Overshadowed by the Great Recession. Back when national borders were blurred and people everywhere used a single currency called the ‘euro’. Back when Brussels, not Warsaw, lay at the beating heart of the old continent. The first international exhibition on life in the former European Union."

Engaged with the EU’s crisis of confidence since 2013, having traveled from Brussels to Rotterdam and Vienna, Belgian artist Thomas Bellinck’s “Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo” has anticipated recent developments. Having spent the past few months living and researching in Greece, as well as Germany, Bellinck has conceived of a new version of the exhibition especially for Athens and Wiesbaden. In his quaint, uncanny museum, rife with dusty maps and decaying artifacts, Bellinck stages a futuristic history of the present with ample black humor. Presenting the EU as a brief historical intermezzo, his sharply critical, yet loving installation teleports its audience to a dystopia which somehow looks oddly familiar.

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Parallel Events

Wednesday 25 May
Thomas Bellinck in a conversation with the philosopher Srećko Horvat
(21:30 | 40 Peiraios str. | In English)

Thursday 26 and Friday 27 May
Theatre-History workshop by Thomas Bellinck
(11:00-14:00 | 40 Peiraios str.)

Credits

  • Concept & Realisation

    Thomas Bellinck

  • Curated by

    Katia Arfara

  • Dramaturgy

    Sébastien Hendrickx

  • Design Coach

    Stef Stessel

  • Technical Director

    Tim Vanhentenryk

  • Line producer

    Kostas Raftopoulos

  • Production management

    Dimitra Dernikou, Mariet Eyckmans, Catherine Vervaecke

  • Constructions

    Anne Straetmans, Menno Vandevelde, Stelios Lampadarios, Manos Antonopoulos

  • Set

    Workshops KVS Brussels & Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

  • Research assistance

    Laura Kurtz, Marina Troupi

  • Museum Caretakers

    Pavsanias Karathanasis, Theodoros Koveos

  • Location Management

    Dimitris Chalkiadakis

  • Texts translation in the installation

    Vassilis Douvitsas

  • Production

    KVS Brussels

  • Co-production

    Onassis Stegi-Athens, Wiesbaden Biennale 2016

  • Executive producer

    ROBIN vzw

  • We kindly thank

    the Integrated Supplementary Pension Fund for its support to the project.

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