Group Exhibition "Platforms Project" 2026

Makeshift football “pitches” on vacant lots between demolished buildings, among working-class apartment blocks and small villages, with stones, sticks or bags placed just so to mark the goalposts. Balls — some made from all sorts of everyday materials, others simply old and second-hand — do the job. Children of every age kick a round object, setting reality aside for a while. The power of football as play, and the children’s imagination in identifying with famous footballers, create an environment where adults are absent: a temporary refuge.

ArtUnitas “build” the symbolic miniature of such a pitch, an altar on which each artist of the group lays their work as an offering to a game that, for children, works as a space that needs neither a white flag nor any agreement. The result is a single collective work that points to the redemptive power of play and to the value of children’s creative imagination.

Participating artists:
Elli Velliou, Ennios-Eros Giogos, Vassilis Theos, Andreas Kalakallas, Maria Kelaidi, Tita Stavrou, Athina Hatzi, Anna Maria Hadjistephanou.