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Our mission
Our mission is the exploration of art as an agent of social change based on long-term strategic planning in dialogue with cutting-edge creative industries and communities.
We introduce solutions and alternative strategies for the production of culture with the contribution of the artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-producer. We are a laboratory and instigator of applied creativity that responds to society’s needs and problems. |
The artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-producer.
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The Book of Heroes
2022 - today A Site of Memory and Experience A journey of self-awareness In the village of Kallithea - Region of Etoloakarnania, above Lake Trichonida, Greece, a new site of memory and experience is planned. It is a donation of Mr. Nikolaos Balagiannis, Greek of the Diaspora, to his birthplace. The ultimate goal of the Donor is for this site to become the new landmark of the area, attract international interest and ultimately offer local growth based on culture.
Inspired by the figure of the Greek Kleftararmatolos, the Book of Heroes refers to the archetypical character of the Hero, shaped through myths and tales but also through history, official and individual. All the elements of the site — the Kleftarmarmatolos, the architecture, the natural environment, the relationship with the local community and the wider area, the audiovisual content — are designed so that all together they contribute to a deep experience, a journey of discovery and self-awareness for the visitor. They convey messages that arise from the local and interact with the global, creating a model of contemporary monument with content that will last over time. At the same time, the Book of Heroes offers Kallithea and the wider region a new public space, a square, a place for gathering, hosting events and public art works, that support the vision for the regeneration of the area in various ways. |
Tales of X Cities
2021-today "Tale of X Cities" is Festival through a series of workshops for residents of cities in Northern Greece. It focuses on topics related to local history, traditions and current issues, and provides media literacy, in order to familiarise people with the use of new information and communication technologies. Through the "educational" process, the workshops guides the participants in the creation of works to be presented in a final hybrid Festival in the summer of 2021, in both physical spaces in the participating cities of Northern Greece. 
State of the Arts
[by Common Lab project] 2020-2021 State of the Arts explores the major issues in the way visual arts are produced, presented and received, that have been triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. With the contribution of artists, theorists, critics, curators, policy makers and other stakeholders, and in partnership with institutions from Greece and abroad. 
LABattoir project
at the Old Slaughterhouse Thessaloniki December 2015-2019 completed according to plan. LABattoir is a socially engaged machine for the production of culture; a laboratory of applied creativity that responds to society’s needs and problems introducing solutions and alternative strategies with the contribution of the artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-producer. |
FREIRAUM PLATFORM
2017-today FREIRAUM is a cultural platform of Institutions and indipendent initiatives working on strategies for positive social change and greater individual and collective freedom in a cross-diciplinary manner. Initiated by the Goethe-Institut in 2017, Freiraum is now an autonomous network of more than 40 actors from culture, science and civil society. 
Common Lab project
2020-2021 Common Lab’s (CoL) mission is to create a Manual for Social Innovation through Art, in order to empower communities to overcome crises, employing art for social change, post-industrial design and commoning practices. Common Lab (CoL) is a programme by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and ArtBOX, in the framework of Goethe-Institut’s Excellency Initiatives 2020 in partnership with TIF - Helexpo. It is based on the experience gained through Project LABattoir. 
HALAQAT PROJECT
[by the Goethe-Institut and Bozar Centre for Fine Arts Brussels with many Arab and European partners] 2020-2022 Halaqat: Lessons for the Future Mobility, Funding, Crisis as a Permanent State, Fair Cultural Relations, Sharing of Expertise. These five topics were the end point of the Lessons for the Future the Halaqat experts drafted together in Brussels in May 2022. These Lessons for the Future have established the path by which improved cultural relations between Europe and the Arab world can be achieved. © Bozar/Goethe Institut |
STRATEGIC PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
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In a series of projects since the early 2010s, ArtBOX has been coherently and systematically developing a methodology of socially engaged art that introduces a new conception of creativity and invents new activities and practices, engaging artists, creative citizens, and institutions with new forms of "social practice". more
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