The Platforms Project– Independent Art Fair, the international fair for the independent art scene and meeting place for art groups, platforms, and artists from 26 countries, is being presented for the second year at the Tobacco Factory with a multifaceted parallel program and free admission for the public.

METApolis

The Platforms Project 2025 – Independent Art Fair will be presented this year, from October 9 to 12, 2025, for the second year in the iconic Tobacco Factory building (Lenorman 218, 104 43) with conferences, performances, lectures, and workshops by the participating groups. The Platforms Project 2025, which for thirteen consecutive years has been creating the conditions and the venue for hundreds of artists and theorists from around the world to meet and exchange ideas in the visual and other arts.

Katharsis

The project is directed by Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou. Artemis Potamianou is the artistic director of Platforms Project 2025.

This year, the admission is free.

The Platforms Project 2024 will present platforms from 25 countries (Greece, USA, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus, Germany, Ukraine, Portugal, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Russia, Italy, Armenia, Finland, Latvia, Colombia, Singapore) after receiving hundreds of applications in response to its open call online.

Dionysos and Apollon Theatre Company

Platforms Project 2025 will involve 64 visual arts platforms with more than 900 artists, expanding the global network that has been built and communicated over the last twelve years.

The following are participating in Platforms Project 2025 at the Tobacco Factory:

AC Institute (USA),  adARTes (Greece), Art For Earth 22 (Greece), art group Συν | art team syn (Greece, Cyprus),  ArtUnitas (Greece), ARTÁGORA (Spain), ArtCode (Greece), ArtEngine (Poland), artplatform | elsewhere and museum of forgetting (The Netherlands, Sweden), Athens Street Art Festival (Greece, France, Spain, USA), AVARTS (Greece), AXIONART (Greece, Germany, Finladn, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Singapore, France, Czech Republic), Beaston Projects (United Kingdom), BROKEN ART GROUP (Greece), Bureau d’Art et de Recherche, Roubaix (France), Carrying home on our backs (India, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Pakistan), Collectif Encyclies (France), CUBE ART EDITIONS (Greece), D2D (Greece, Sweden), Darling Pearls & Co (United Kingdom), DepArt (Greece), Dionysos and Apollon Theatre Company (Greece, France, Lebanon, Turkey), DIPOLA (Greece), Distortion Art (Sweden), Eco Flaneur (Greece), elementA  (Greece, Cyprus, Australia), Encounters (Greece), ESPAI SANT MARC AIR (Spain), EULENGASSE (Germany),Events Horizon (Greece),  FARFALLA (Greece),  Gi-Nekyia (Greece), HELLENIC JET SOCIETY (Greece), ID:I Gallery (Sweden), INSIGHT GAZE (Greece), JS Gallery by IMC (Greece, Czech Republic, USA, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Armenia, Germany, Finland, Spain, Latvia),  Katharsis (Greece), Kunstruimte411 (The Netherlands), les Apaches de Patission (France), m.a.m.a. contemporary (Cyprus),  META-FRASTES (Greece), METApolis (Greece), Molekyl gallery (Sweden), Nourishing Memory (Colombia, Greece, India, France), Open Y@ (Greece), oxymoron (Greece), PAPER PROJECT (United Kingdom), PASAJ (Turkey), Pixel Pulse (Greece), Postcards from home (Greece), POW WOW (Greece), Project Space Piraeus  (Greece), Rhythm Section (Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom), SHELTER Artists Run Space (Turkey), Χώρο-Χρόνος | Space-Time (Greece, Denmark), Straße der kollektiven Kunst (The Netherlands), Studio44 (Sweden), Temporal Synthesis (Greece), The Art Project (Greece), The Red Boat Projects (Greece), threadsafe.art (United Kingdom), TIDAL FLOW ART (Greece), Visual March to Prespes (Greece), WEDO (Greece), yellow chair (The Netherlands)

ARICORE

The Platforms Project aims to be the nucleus for the creation and recording of innovative trends in art and the development of relationships between platforms and artistic groups. Thus, in its thirteen years of operation, the Platforms Project has created a global network of independent artistic groups and spaces in direct communication with each other.
Alongside the presentation of the Platforms Project 20125 exhibition, there will be a series of conferences, presentations, performances, workshops, and guided tours. The Platforms Project is not an impersonal event but an energetic visual arts community, providing time and space for the presentation of alternative independent art.

Platforms Project 2025 Opening Hours | Tobacco Factory:

Exhibition Opening: Thursday 9 October 2025 at 18.00 – 22.30

Exhibition Opening: Thursday 10 October 2025 to Sunday 12 October 2025

Opening Times:

Thursday 9 October , 18.00 – 22.30

Friday 10 October to Sunday 12 October, 12.00 – 21.00

Website: www.platformsproject.com

Address:  Tobacco Factory (Lenorman 218, 104 43)