a plot twist and a prelude

• “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)” exhibition
  @ MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, Oct. 31–Nov. 16, 2025
• “moving in riot” film screenings and opening live events
  @ Pavilions 2 & 3 of the TIF-HELEXPO premises, Oct. 31, 2025

The opening celebrations of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, “everything must change. RIS9,” in October–November 2025, consisted of encounters, works and other creative manifestations that acted as hints and predictions, joyful signs of questioning, factual invocations, and thoughts about the Biennale. These constituted a chord of tonalities with “enduring” structure and a “fugitive” core, leading up to the broader staging of Biennale 9 in May–July 2026. Read more

Ester Krumbachová tribute 

(in the context of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival)
@ Greek Film Archive
The 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art “everything must change. RIS9” paid tribute to the work of filmmaker, set designer, costume designer, and artist of the Czechoslovak New Wave Ester Krumbachová, in the context of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, through a collaboration with the Ester Krumbachová Archive, the Czech National Film Archive in Prague, and the Greek Film Archive, via the screening of Krumbachová’s film Murdering the Devil (Czechoslovakia, 1970, 72′). Read more

“anarchiving change” film screenings 

(in the context of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival)

@ Cine MAKEDONIKON

“anarchiving change” was the conversation between the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art “everything must change. RIS9” and the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival and its 2026 theme: archives. Biennale 9 curator Nadja Argyropoulou compiled a selection of eight films that were screened over a three-day period at Cine MAKEDONIKON. Read more