PCAI supports the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art organized by MOMUS and curated by independent curator Nadja Argyropoulou.
With the ambiguous title, everything must change. RIS9, the biennale engages with a common(place), yet (re)current, urgent, and plural demand that, with its punchiness, can feel like a revolutionary cry and echo like an empty slogan, ring like a rage bait and work like a charm; there is something in it for everyone, and it does not belong to anyone. It is a phrase that is now, more than ever, wielded by social revolutionaries and technofeudalists alike, by persecuted activists and fascist-adjacent demagogues, by rival social classes and diametrically opposed collective forms of expression, by countercultures and institutional propaganda. It is being used to erase the gap between the home and the streets, the click and the walk, to highjack ambivalence and twist solidarity.
The shorthand “S9” evokes a popular, older, eastern in origin, name of Thessaloniki ( Saloniki ), thereby inserting in the Biennale’s utterance a double movement, towards and away from the city, an attempt to foster a sense of togetherness — however temporarily — with Thessaloniki’s obscured, neglected spaces, agents, ghosts, and symbols.
After a prelude realized during October–November 2025 around the revolutionary potential of science fiction (“Plot twist: science fiction as change”), and through a host of interim cooperations (with the Thessaloniki Film & Documentary Festivals, as well as with the Greek Film Archives) and off-site manifestations, the Biennale will realize its main exhibition between May 23 and July 5, 2026.
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Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
