[…] In the dream where I was walking, everything seemed like unanswered questions at bus stops. When I wake up, I won’t remember any of it. And yet, for many years, the truth was pounding in my heart. I just wanted to sleep, because it suited me.
Perhaps that’s why the best poems don’t just leave us with unanswered questions. They change the way we ask the questions.
And that is already a form of knowledge, even if it isn’t the ultimate truth.
K. Vita, July 2026
“No Corner,” “Summer Dead End,” “Until You Return,” “The Blue Tree”: these are some of the titles of the paintings that K. VITA is presenting to the public for the first time at MOMUS—Museum of Contemporary Art, in the Case Studio space, as part of the exhibition “Only the Coastline Remains,” running from October 1, 2026, through January 31, 2027. The exhibition also serves as the opening event of the program for the 61st Dimitria Festival organized by the Municipality of Thessaloniki.
And while these titles can be read as titles of works, they also sound like lyrics. The title of the exhibition itself is also a lyric. Her “melodies” are conveyed in her paintings through the colors, frames, forms, and elements that make up the works.
Known to the public primarily as a musician and lyricist, K. VITA has, at times, also pursued a parallel career in the visual arts. His connection to the visual arts began during his education, with studies in painting and art history in Melbourne, where he was born, and has continued through his personal study and systematic artistic practice.
Approximately twenty years after his first solo exhibition in 2005 at the Thessaloniki Center for Contemporary Art—now MOMUS-Experimental Arts Center—K. VITA returns to the city with a series of painterly, dreamlike depictions. The works in the exhibition date from 2019 to the present and reveal a different, yet deeply related, aspect of his artistic practice.
Drawing on Symbolism and the naïve painters of the 20th century, K. VITA creates a visually vivid and personal universe. In this universe, human loneliness coexists with poetry and melancholy, but also with a subtle, hidden optimism: the hope that people, even if only within an imaginary landscape, will one day meet.
The mountains, trees, bodies of water, and sky depicted in the works do not refer to a specific geographical location. They are distorted, simplified, and transformed in order to convey emotions such as isolation, anxiety, serenity, nostalgia, or the fear of death.
Solitary figures or groups of people—friends, lovers, siblings—move or stand still, observing and gazing into the distance. They are frozen in a motionless, timeless moment. The colors—pink, green, blue, purple, ochres, among others—appear in their most vivid yet most delicate forms. They do not adhere to the realism of an actual landscape but are freely chosen according to their emotional and thematic function. Thus, the place we see remains open-ended: we do not know whether it is real, imaginary, dreamlike, or nightmarish.
As viewers, we are called upon to make our own connections and to place the images where they resonate with our own inner world. Perhaps this is one of the most essential elements of contemporary visual art and, more specifically, of K. VITA’s work: the artist’s need to engage with the dreams, aspirations, and disappointments of the person standing before a painting.
Artistic Director: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMUS—Museum of Contemporary Art
Curator: Theodoros Markoglou, Art Historian, Curator at MOMUS
Produced by: City of Thessaloniki and MOMUS—Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the 61st Dimitria Festival.
October 1, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Opening: Thursday, October 1, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
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