Future Perfect
The double reading of the word 鈥榩erfect鈥� in the title of the exhibition 鈥淔uture Perfect鈥� stands at the core of it, along with the question: how will we have lived? The exhibition, coproduced by MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the ifa 鈥� Institut f眉r Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, along with the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Thessaloniki, presents the visual proposals of 19 artists, an equal number of different answers and assumptions about the (realised) future, at the Museum, from 23 January until 30 March 2025.
Films, photographs, sculptures, objects, paintings, and collages by the participating artists comprise their artistic suggestion as speculations on the course of history. Today, the future appears to us as a critical concept, and even the near future, despite all our digital and mobile acceleration, can scarcely be anticipated.
If in the southern Mediterranean region, civil societies are demanding a future and facing massive resistance in the process, at Europe鈥檚 center it is as if the future were more a source of concern than of motivation.
However, the ability to speculate, to name intentions, expectations, and fears, and then to make these the basis for action is what holds societies together. The works on show design spaces of imagination, action (and play) for the future and they 鈥渢ranslate鈥� important social questions into artistic concepts.
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The double reading of the word 鈥榩erfect鈥� in the title of the exhibition 鈥淔uture Perfect鈥� stands at the core of it, along with the question: how will we have lived? The exhibition, coproduced by MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the ifa 鈥� Institut f眉r Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, along with the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Thessaloniki, presents the visual proposals of 19 artists, an equal number of different answers and assumptions about the (realised) future, at the Museum, from 23 January until 30 March 2025.
Films, photographs, sculptures, objects, paintings, and collages by the participating artists comprise their artistic suggestion as speculations on the course of history. Today, the future appears to us as a critical concept, and even the near future, despite all our digital and mobile acceleration, can scarcely be anticipated.
If in the southern Mediterranean region, civil societies are demanding a future and facing massive resistance in the process, at Europe鈥檚 center it is as if the future were more a source of concern than of motivation.
However, the ability to speculate, to name intentions, expectations, and fears, and then to make these the basis for action is what holds societies together. The works on show design spaces of imagination, action (and play) for the future and they 鈥渢ranslate鈥� important social questions into artistic concepts.
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