The body is absolutely and multidimensionally present in the artistic journey of Alexandros Plomaritis and as such it “stars” in the exhibition titled “Becoming a Ghost,” which will be presented at MOMus-Experimental Arts Center (Warehouse B1, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port) from September 11 to October 25, 2025. Through his performances for the photographic camera, Plomaritis’s body wanders through public and private spaces, appearing at times exposed, at times integrated, and at other times discordant within the respective spatial and social fabric.

His body is imprinted on the architectural ruins of Brussels – abandoned monasteries, churches, and mansions, carriers of a lost aristocratic and religious identity. His body tells stories from other places, his body returns to the familiar land – Thasos and Mount Pangaio – and finally, his body stands in the middle of the sea on an old bunker holding an open black umbrella as a silent poetic reference to René Magritte. Through the performativity of his body, Plomaritis raises timeless questions about identity, homeland, loss, and otherness, while simultaneously focusing on the activation of the body as an archive, as a site of inscription and a bearer of memory, historical continuity, and political conflict.

In the exhibition “Becoming a Ghost,” through photographs, videos, and installations, Alexandros Plomaritis explores the performativity of the body as a ghostly presence – a body that exists but is not recognized, that is inhabited but not visible, that is silent yet enacts its presence, that does not belong but survives.

Curator: Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art Historian, MOMus Curator

BIO

Alexandros Plomaritis was born in Argos Orestiko and grew up in Thasos. He studied (BA) English Literature and Theatre at London Metropolitan University and specialized in performance (MFA) Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University in London. His performances have been presented at the Milan Biennial of Young Artists, the Venice International Performance Art Week, the Thessaloniki Performance Festival, CIPAF in Nicosia, the NRLA Festival in Glasgow, the Re-culture Festival in Patras, the MEK Museum in Berlin, the Contemporary Art Museum in Skopje, MOMus, KMST, and others. He has also held solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions, workshops, and projects in independent spaces, while collaborating with artists such as Ulay, Manuel Vason, Bobby Baker, as well as artist groups like Nekri Fysi (Still Life), among others. He has curated two performance projects/festivals: the 1st Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival and Platformance. His works are included in public and private collections. He lives and works between Brussels and Thessaloniki.

Program of Parallel Activities & Tours

Saturday, October 11, 2025, 11:00 AM

Experiential Workshop for Adults: “On the Move: Art and Displacement”

An experiential and visual arts workshop for adult audiences focusing on personal experiences of movement, transition—whether voluntary or not—displacement, and their consequent imprint on the body’s memory. Starting from Alexandros Plomaritis’s exhibition section Becoming a Ghost, participants will explore key liminal moments in their own journeys, investigate moments of “suspension” in the time and spaces of their displacements, and attempt to visually capture what may still “haunt” the images recalled by mind and body.

Tickets are issued online. https://cometogether.live/event/3456

Sunday 21 September & 19 October 2025, 12:00

Guided tour by the curator of the exhibition, Irini Papakonstantinou, in conversation with artist Alexandros Plomaritis.

Tickets are issued online https://cometogether.live/event/3451 

Saturday 27 September 2025, 21:00

Performance by Alexandros Plomaritis with Maria Kremeti

Alexandros Plomaritis’s performance is a living study on the search for root, homeland, and “home” — not as a geographical location, but as an existential necessity. It focuses on the endless journey of the individual, and especially of the migrant and refugee, to take root where they are a stranger; to “graft” themselves, like a transplant, amid the uncertainty of whether they will take root or be rejected.

The two artists, themselves strangers in other places, embody with their bodies the ambiguity of integration, the trauma of transition, and the precariousness of belonging. The performance unfolds as a ritual of embodied confrontation with the European narrative of migration, law, and acceptance.

Tickets are issued online.  https://cometogether.live/event/3454

Saturday 4 October 2025, 20:00

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Students from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki present a collective performance in the outdoor space of MOMus -Experimental Arts Center, the result of a series of workshop meetings with Alexandros Plomaritis on the themes of the exhibition.

Curator: Alexandros Plomaritis

Tickets are issued online https://cometogether.live/event/3455 

Saturday 18 October 2025, 20:00

Music Performance with Kareem Samara

The work of Kareem Samara (Palestinian, based in London) combines traditional Arab and Western acoustic instruments with electronic systems, creating unique soundscapes and performances. His work explores concepts of diasporic identity and the decolonial approaches and potentials of sound and music.

Co-organization: International Workshop in Theory and Sound, University of Thessaly and Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa (King’s College London, ERC/UKRI)
Curated by: Daphne Tragaki, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly & Martin Stokes, Professor of Music, King’s College London

Tickets are issued online. https://cometogether.live/event/3457