SOFT WALLS – ANDREAS RAGNAR KASSAPIS
At Soft Walls, we invite artists and curators that inhabit Athens permanently, occasionally or momentarily to share excerpts, points, reasonings and thoughts around their practice in the context of an artist talk.
Soft Walls function as listening and exchanging platforms, invitations and opportunities to meet, share and fill the space with words and thoughts that we consider vehicles and catalysts for our shared experiences.
This month’s Soft Walls, present artist Andreas Ragnar Kassapis
Monday May 12th at 19:30
Language: Greek
Duration: 45 minutes
Andreas Ragnar Kassapis (b.1981, Greece) in his is practice is devoted to painting, sound and text. In each medium, there is a sluggish repetitive mood in rhythm and composition. The issues of space and object, perspective, duration, overtone, layering and flatness, involuntary mistakes and in conclusion the issue of memory within the cultural context of technical images are some of his directions.
He has presented his work in solo and duo shows such as Pliancy – Radio Athenes, Athens 2022, The Shallow Room – A Sud, Pescara, 2022, To see a block of flats as a cave – Kalfayan galleries, Athens, 2021, Melting snow as if in a room, Andreas Ragnar Kassapis / Konstantinos Hadjinikolaou – Tavros, Athens, 2021, Songs, Athanasios Argianas / Andreas Ragnar Kassapis – Hero Gallery, Amsterdam, 2018, Breakwater – Independent Space, Athens, 2015, How Can One Remember Thirst? – Loraini Alimantiri Gallery, Athens, 2011, Bones are Tight – Loraini Alimantiri Gallery, Athens, 2008, Numb – Loraini Alimantiri Gallery, Athens, 2006
His work has been included in notable group shows such as Documenta 14 (Art Director: Adam Szymczyck, Cur. Katerina Tselou, Athens / Kassel 2017), Reverb: new art from Greece (cur. Evita Tsokanta – Eirene Efstathiou, Boston, 2014), Hell as Pavillion (cur. Nadja Argyropoulou, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013), Heaven, Athens Biennale (cur. Christoforos Marinos, Athens, 2009), Anathena (cur. Marina Fokidi-Marina Gioti, Athens, 2006).
His music publications include Rooms in negative – Lucky Boys, published on tape by Untitled-1, 2019, Rooms in Negative, published on vinyl, 2009 and music for the dance performances by Agni Papadeli Rossetou between 2016 and 2024.
