The opening ceremony of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, “Everything Must Change. Radical Intelligence. Thessaloniki 9,” organized and implemented by the Thessaloniki Museum of Art, is articulated through gatherings, works, and other creative expressions that function as hints and predictions, joyful gestures of questioning, tangible invocations, and thoughts about the Biennale. These, and whatever follows, form a chord of tonalities with a “permanent” structure and an “elusive” center, leading up to the major event in May–July 2026.

The exhibition “Upside Down (science fiction as change)” is complemented by the ritualistic confusion of workshops, screenings, performances, and live music, an unhierarchical mix that runs through this entire Biennale in its attempt to explore, among other things, the possibility of critical fabulation, as established in the work of Saidiya Hartman, or the possibility of the doing of the study and the revolutionary perspective of playing in its different forms.

The 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is curated by independent curator and art historian Nadia Argyropoulou.

The Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is co-funded by the European Union (ESPA – Central Macedonia Program).

@Εrrands

MOMus

6:00 p.m. Opening of the exhibition Upside Down (science fiction as change)

with works by Ben Rivers, Errands group, Kostas Sfikas

Co-organized with the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Exhibition duration: October 31 to November 16

Kostas Sfikas| Allegory III

TIF-HELEXPO, Pavilions 2 & 3

7:30 p.m.–1:30 a.m. seed -bombing, anarchic screenings, canvas bag recycling, dance interactions, live music, party

7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. seed bomb workshop In collaboration with the environmental organization Mamagaia

This collaboration also extends to the following activities:

– 10/31 @ 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. seed bombing workshop for schools

– 1/11 @ 17:00-19:00 opening of the exhibition “WONDER CITY: Planting our urban present together” at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art – exhibition duration: 1-7/11

– 1/11 @ 19:00-21:00 dinner-discussion “Syn-daitimones” at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (by invitation only)

Seed Bombing

7:30–10:00 p.m. silkscreen printing workshop Momus sacculos in MOMo non imprimet

Mephisto Me Studio will “tag” your canvas bags with you

MEPHISTO ME Studio

7:30 p.m.–1:30 a.m. film screenings moving in riot

an eclectic mix of nine films screened on a loop in empty spaces

19:30–22:00 live VELVET BUS goes Salonica Biennale Part 1

DJ performance by the duo Touba – Charilaou
(Marina Velisioti – Xenia Kalpatsoglou)

Vassilina live performance

Bipolia live performance

22:00–23:00 dance DETH ARTHO

the Aerites dance group in a dance journey through the uncertain and the possible

The Callas performance

23:00–24:00 live VELVET BUS goes Salonica Biennale Part 2

The Callas with The Callasettes live

24:00–01:30 DJ set Yavash