Gold und Liebe, Liebe für Gold at Haus N / Athens

Participating artists: Margarita Bofiliou, The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ionas, Arbit City, Dora Economou, Socrates Fatouros, Hypercomf, Stelios Karamanolis, Charalambos Kourkoulis, Manolis D. Lemos, Panos Papadopoulos, Ilias Papailiakis, Sofia Stevi, Iris Touliatou

Curated by Amalia Vekri

29 March – 21 April

Haus N, Kairi 6, Monastiraki
Opening Hours: Thurs. – Fri. 15:00 – 20:00, Sat. 13:00 – 18:00

 Iris Touliatou 

Panos Papadopoulos


Charalambos Kourkoulis 
  
Margarita Bofiliou 

Margarita Bofiliou 

Panos Papadopoulos



The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ionas

The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ionas, Margarita Bofiliou 

Sofia Stevi



Margarita Bofiliou, Dora Economou


Dora Economou



Sofia Stevi

Manolis D. Lemos 



Arbit City , Margarita Bofiliou 

Arbit City 



Charalambos Kourkoulis 

Dora Economou





Stelios Karamanolis 

Socrates Fatouros


Socrates Fatouros

Socrates Fatouros


Ilias Papailiakis, Hypercomf Enterprise

Ilias Papailiakis

Hypercomf 

Ilias Papailiakis

Ilias Papailiakis



images credits; Athanasios Gatos



It’s a Saturday night and I am at a basement club in Athens dancing to Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick by the German band D. A. F. Everything is so smoky and dark. The dance floor is so crowded that everybody is pushing you around. I try to move but the smoke is so deep that I loose my sense of place. As I try to come out of the smoke I turn around and I see a man with a golden head. I move closer and I see an old inscription on his forehead: ‘You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold’. [1]

According to alchemical thinking body and soul should reach unison. Through gnosis gold finds a canal to a higher state, symbolically creating the philosophers stone. Gold the most precious of materials, its benevolence abide materiality and wealth. Its capital evokes the pursuit of happiness and satisfaction through possession. Love a feeling of lust simulating a higher goal in life, one that in accordance can lead to true happiness or denial. Life without love. Can one go on without it? To love and feel loved is a step closer to spirituality and perfection. Can love exist without gold? Do they feed each other or do they devour each other?

Participating artists: Margarita Bofiliou, The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ionas, Arbit City, Dora Economou, Socrates Fatouros, Hypercomf, Stelios Karamanolis, Charalambos Kourkoulis, Manolis D. Lemos, Panos Papadopoulos, Ilias Papailiakis, Sofia Stevi, Iris Touliatou

Curated by Amalia Vekri






[1] Holy Mountain’ Alejandro Jodorowsky


Haus N, Kairi 6, 105 51, Athens