Like a farewell and a new—or latent—promise of an encounter, Yiannis Grigoriadis’ solo  exhibition, TA LEME (See You Around), explores the traces of the unfinished conversations  we exchange until the “next time”: a dialogue that refuses to end because we keep it  informal and open-ended each time we meet.

Moving between archival retrieval and subjective montage, Grigoriadis’ new body of work  reshapes fragments of everyday experience through processes that bypass conventional  disciplinary classifications. In a period marked by increasing social and geopolitical rift, his  new works open up broader reflections on the coexistence of bodies, systems,  temporalities, and perspectives.  

The central find of the installation on the ground floor of Neo Cosmos is a pair of 1968  armchairs, located in an online classified ad and recently acquired by the artist. The chairs  correspond to a furniture sample book of that era, which Grigoriadis retrieved years ago  from the basement of the School of Architecture and has kept in his possession ever since.  Parallel to the seating and in a transversal semantic relationship with it, documents from the  National Audiovisual Archive underscore the contemporary inclination toward the revival of  past social and aesthetic forms, like an echo beneath the surface. These memory  fragments, sounds, and images, borrowed from a shared repository, emerge within a  broader historical continuum. The “citations” created by Grigoriadis’ installation resonate on  multiple levels, through association, reflecting a world in which meaning is never fixed but  constantly “assembled” and decomposed.  

In the basement, the video installation Zippo (2026) serves as a framework for investigating  what happens when infrastructures collapse, and how conditions of production—along with  processes of fragmentation, deregulation, and precarity- give way to instability,  interdependence, and metamorphosis. 

The performance titled “I can do everything by myself” (2026), which the artist will present  on the day of the opening at the intersection of Pissa and Vrestheni streets, constitutes  (also) an embodied commentary on the “immaterial labor” of cultural producers. We  function as a nomadic (sic), globalized body of freelancers without stable labor structures or  substantial collective representation, permanently finding ourselves in a position where we  have to do “everything by ourselves.”  

In Yiannis Grigoriadis’ long-standing artistic practice (comprising of sculpture, installations,  soundscapes, performances, and multiple collaborations with his peers), contradictions are  not a problem to be solved, but a condition to be inhabited melancholically, with humor,  and somewhat discordantly. The assemblage of elements, combined with a sound  composition of oral narratives, static, and improvisations, moves between intimacy and  distance, promise and uncertainty, ultimately highlighting the ability of solid objects to  resist. The exhibition asks how we might inhabit a world undergoing fundamental change  and how we can begin to imagine new forms of togetherness.  

“See you around,” then, without a trace of nostalgia, among ourselves and with the past  that remains open, haunting the present through an uncanny coexistence of different  temporalities.  

Short Bio  

Yiannis Grigoriadis (1971) studied Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1990–1995)  and completed postgraduate studies in the UK at Staffordshire University (1996–1997),  specializing in Video Art and Installations. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions  in Greece and abroad. His work explores the city, highlighting its multiple readings through  systematic documentation, and examines public and private space as a field of meanings  that constitute memory. He has organized open art project spaces and curated exhibitions  and screenings. He is currently a Professor at the Sculpture Lab of the School of  Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).  

Exhibition opening hours :Thursdays 17.00- 20.00, Saturdays 13.00- 16.00 

Opening: Saturday 9 May 13.00- 21.00  

Performance: “I can do everything by myself” 15.00- 15.30  

Neos Cosmos (Ε. Pissa 51 & Th. Vresthenis 83)