LETTER TO AN AILING FATHER
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Volissos School, Chios, Greece
11 July - 30 August 2026
Exhibition Opening: 11 July, 19:00
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Arda Asena (Turkey/USA), Shezad Dawood (United Kingdom), Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq (Bangladesh), John Gerrard (Ireland), Evi Kalogiropoulou (Greece), Lito Kattou (Cyprus), Eleni Odysseos (Cyprus), Zohra Opoku (Germany/Ghana), Vasilis Papageorgiou (Greece), Cindy Sherman (USA), Kiriakos Tompolidis (Germany), Nasan Tur (Germany), Paky Vlassopoulou (Greece) and Danh Võ (Denmark/Vietnam)Curated by Akis Kokkinos
DEO announces the group exhibition LETTER TO AN AILING FATHER at Volissos School in northwestern Chios. 14 artists from 11 countries present new commissions alongside existing works across a range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, sound, video, installation and digital media.
The exhibition explores the paternal figure as a site of authority, absence and emotional deprivation. The “father,” whether understood as an individual subject or a social construct, is approached through a condition of diminishment: an inadequate framework assembled from inert and disarticulated materials, one that relinquishes the responsibilities of care to such an extent that the relationship between caregiver and dependent is often reversed. At the same time, the exhibition foregrounds practices of craft and the collection of folkloric material, as forms of situated knowledge and collective endurance. Through these gestures emerge modes of solidarity, cultivating conditions of mutual support and resilience in times of precarity.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme curated by Evita Kyriazi, unfolding throughout its duration.
ONCE WE WERE GARDENS
Group Art Exhibition
Karavas Estate
Kampos, Chios
July 5 - September 7 2025
Opening Hours:
July: Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00-14:00 & 17:00-21:00 August & September: 10:00-14:00 & 17:00-20:00
Participating artists:
Mohammad Alfaraj, Martha Dimitropoulou, Emre Hüner, Derek Jarman, Maria Loizidou, Anestis Michalis, Natalia Papadopoulou, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Socratis Socratous, Teresa Solar Abboud, Theo Triantafyllides, Adriana Varejão
Curated by Akis Kokkinos, Founder of DEO
On the occasion of its 5th anniversary, DEO presents the exhibition Once We Were Gardens at the historic Karavas estate in Kampos, Chios. The exhibition examines the inevitable cycles of growth and decay, exploring the deterioration of bodies, ideas, spaces, and relationships through the evocative symbolism of the garden.
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My Dreams Were Dashed Against Your Walls
Public Art Exhibition
Medieval Village of Vessa
Chios
July 6th – September 8th 2024
Opening reception: 6 July, 18:00
Participating artists:
Ahmet Doğu Ipek, Andreas Lolis, Francis Offman, Malvina Panagiotidi, Georgia Sagri, Socratis Socratous, Hale Tenger, Antrea Tzourovits
Curated by Akis Kokkinos, Founder of DEO Projects
DEO in collaboration with the community of the medieval settlement of Vessa presents My Dreams Were Dashed Against Your Walls, its first public art exhibition.
Eight international artists present new, site-specific, large-scale installations as well as existing artworks, transforming the entire village of Vessa into a contemporary art experience.
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My Past is a Foreign Country
Group Exhibition
Temenos Hamidiye & Ottoman Baths
Chios Castle, Chios Town
July 8th – August 28th 2023
Opening reception | July 8th, 18:30 – 21:00
Participating artists:
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan (TR), Stelios Faitakis (GR), Nikomachi Karakostanoglou (GR), Avish Khebrehzadeh (IR/US), Maro Michalakakos (GR), Petros Moris (GR), Dala Nasser (LB), Yorgos Petrou (CY), Aykan Safoğlu (TR/DE), Mounira al Solh (LB), Maria Tsagkari (GR), Abbas Zahedi (UK/IR)
Curated by Akis Kokkinos, Founder of DEO Projects
DEO Projects in collaboration with Chios Ephorate of Antiquities presents My Past is a Foreign Country, a group large-scale exhibition presented between two historical monuments within Chios Castle, the Temenos Hamidiye and the Ottoman Baths, both inherited by the Ottoman Empire. The exhibition invites twelve artists from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, and Cyprus to reflect on the palimpsest histories of the island and examine borderland cultures, collective traumas, and forms of iasis.
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Commission Series x Saskia Calderón
Residency & Performance
10 May - 10 July 2023
Chios Island, Greece
DEO Projects, in partnership with EACHEVE, is pleased to present Saskia Calderón as the Commission Series 2023 artist. Saskia Calderón has been selected through an open-call process, and her live-performance in Chios will mark the first presentation of the artist in Greece. Her residency commences in early May 2023 and after a two-months research and practice on the island, it will culminate in the presentation of a new live-performance at the Chios Castle on July 8th and a video performance available online after July 15th.
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