Eleni Kamma (CY/GR)
Born 1973, Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht.

SOLO SHOWS

2012
– Villa Romana, Florence

2011
– Enlever et Entretenir II, Wiels Project Room, Brussels

2010
– Enlever et Entretenir I, HEDAH, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2009
– Forgotten Ties, Nadja Villene, Liège, Belgium

2007
– Once past the years of green emotion, Loraini Alimantiri/gazonrouge,
Athens

2005
– Eleni Kamma. Vamiali’s, Athens

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2011
– Found in Translation, Chapter L, a project curated by Emmanuel Lambion, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
– Anonymously Yours, Maison Gregoire, Brussels
– Drawing Stories (2), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
– Picturing Nature, curated by Christine van den Bergh, Soledad Senlle gallery, Amsterdam
– Animacall, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
– Open House, Iaspis, Stockholm

2010
– Drawing Stories, 50-1 Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
– Athens Visual Dialogues, curated by Marilena Karra. Works commissioned by the Onasseion Cultural Center, Athens
– Weaving In and Out, curators Jodie Dinapoli and Ella Levitt, Tapestry, 124th and 2nd Ave in East Harlem, New York
– Mixed & Mastered: Greek video art from the 00s, curated by Xenia Kalpatsoglou and Christopher Marinos, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania (screening)
– Wuthering Heights, Siakos-Hanappe, Athens
– Bubbles and Harlequins, Theater aan den Vreithof, Maastricht, The Netherlands
– Voyage in Arcadia, curator Els Hannape, Hilton Hotel, Athens

2009
– Panorama of European cinema, organised by the Municipality of Athens, Exhibition: Projections, curated by Katerina Tselou, Athens
– Tower-Tower. Nikos Alexiou-The Collection. Bazeos Tower, Naxos, Greece
– Expanded ecologies. Perspectives in a time of emergency, curator Daphne Vitali, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2008
– Collage, Cut, Paste, curator Thodoris Markoglou, State museum of Contemporary Art, Thesaloniki, Greece
– Bargain Prices on Elephant gun, curator Katerina Nikou, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
– Chanting Baldessari, curator Paula van den Bosch, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
– Women Only, works from the Beltsios collection, curator Sotiris Bahtsetzis, Margaris Foundation, Amfilohia, Greece
– Video Relay 07051830, Muzz Project space, Kyoto
– Freeze! Who is there? 1st International Moscow Young Biennial, chief curator Daria Pyrkina, Moscow
– L’amiral cherche une maison a louer, Nadja Villene, Liege, Belgium
– L’Art en Europe, Domain Pommery, Rheims, France
– Athensville, curator Marina Fokidis, Athens Art Fair, Athens

2007
– Visual Arts in Greece, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
– In Present Tense. Young Greek Artists. Curators Dafne Vitali, Tina Pandi, Stamatis Schizakis, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Lissone 2007 Award, Lissone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan
– Stronghold, Loraini Alimantiri/gazonrouge, Athens
– Not only possible, but also necessary: optimism in the age of global war. 10th International Istanbul Biennial, curator Hou Hanru, Antrepo 3, Istanbul
– Other Spaces, 1st Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial: “Heterotopias”,curator Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Thessaloniki, Greece
5th DESTE Prize, DESTE Foundation, Athens

2006
– Apolis, Hellenic-American Union, Athens. Curated by Kostis Velonis.
– Take My Breath Away, Gallerie La Centrale-Powerhouse, Montreal (curated by Noemi Mc Comber)
– Drawing Screen, Tint Gallery-Museum of Cinema, Thesaloniki, Greece. Curator Sotiris Bahtsetzis
– What remains is future, old girl school of Patras, Patras, Greece. Curator Nadja Argiropoulou
– An outing: Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st century, Matsopoulos Mill Art and Culture Center, Trikala, Greece. Curator Sotirios Bahtsetzis
– Architectural Transparencies, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens. Curator Christina Petrinou
– AnotherProduct, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
– The Collection-Nikos Alexiou, Mac Gallery, XXII International Festival Sarajevo.
– Positive Charges, Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Centre, Thesaloniki, Greece. Curators Thouli Misirloglou and Vasilis Amanatidis

2005
– New Acquisitions. Athenaeum Intercontinental, permanent Collection, Athens
– Other Voices, Other Rooms, Museum of Modern Art-Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily. Curator Alessandro Riva
– Protaseis-Version IV, Action Field Codra, Kalamaria, Thesaloniki, Greece. Curated by Augustinos Zenakos and Xenia Kalpatsoglou
– Photosingiria, Thesaloniki, Greece
– Visions. Nikos Alexiou Collection, Athens Imperial, Athens, Macedonia Palace, Thesaloniki, Greece

2004
– Manderley. Astoria Hotel, Thesaloniki, Greece, curator Xenia Kalpatsoglou.
– Autotopia. NERV, Athens
– Domestic Alien. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens. Curator Kostis Velonis
– Parasite. DIY space, Athens. Curated by Em-Kei
– The Drawing Project. Vamiali’s, Athens

2003
– 20 Rooms 2003. Kappatos Gallery, St George Lycabettus Hotel, Athens. Curator Margarita Kataga
– Science Fiction Double Feature, AAS, Birmingham, UK
– E.T.NBSL, NERV, Athens

2002
– Long Way Home. Goldsmiths College, London

2001
– SubArt. The House, Chelsea College of Art, London. Curated by Luke Dowd
– 7 Young Artists. Spirer Tobacco Warehouse, Volos, Greece

ENLEVER ET ENTRETENIR
English - 48 pp. – 31,5 x 23 cm – hardcover – full colour and b/w illustrations
Edition: 500 (special edition of 10)
Selection of images and texts from different sources: Eleni Kamma
Drawings, photographic series of gestures and scans of three-dimensional objects: Eleni Kamma
Texts: edited, re-written and invented by Orla Barry
Translation: Petra van der Jeught
Design: Salome Schmuki
Production management: Jo Frenken
Proofreading: Petra van der Jeught
Printing and binding: Fortemps, Liège, BEPublished and distributed by: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
ISBN: 978-90-72076-42-7

Enlever et Entretenir is an artist's book by Eleni Kamma, made in collaboration with designer Salome Schmuki and artist Orla Barry. Enlever et Entretenir develops the idea of an in-between space through the format of a book. It examines how words and images can coexist and create meaning by disrupting it; how they make sense by seemingly letting meaning collapse. The book follows the format of a 1950s photo collection book titled Entre Escaut et Meuse [Between Scheldt and Meuse], in which images and textual descriptions of plants, animals and human activities coexist. In Enlever et Entretenir, the coexistence occurs between gaps, empty spaces and various cultural descriptions and representations of nature, both historical and newly invented. In-between the visual stimuli, the rhythm of perception is interrupted by four manuals that examine the qualities of Number, Shape, Position, and Proportion and their relation to description via Linnaeus’ taxonomical theories. Kamma’s work investigates possibilities for a future architecture that activates rather than tolerates "other" positions. She explores persistently the inherent gaps and contradictions within existing cultural narratives and classification strategies. The book disrupts the canonical production of meaning within and via the synchronous appearance of words and images, researching the relation of the cliché, the banal and the stereotype to the formation of history and the fabrication of identities.

Eleni Kamma: Once past the years of green emotion, 2007
publisher: gazonrouge