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Radio Athènes

Radio Athènes was founded in 2015 by art historian and curator Helena Papadopoulos. It experiments with new models of representation and develops long-term relationships with international and Athens-based emerging and established artists through exhibitions, commissions, and publications.

Its primary interest lies in what contemporary artists are making, but there are also flashbacks and eclipses. Parallel to its contemporary programme, it re-examines the work of historical artists who have been largely marginalized or forgotten, making them part of a discursive process.

The programme of exhibitions, screenings, and live events takes place at its HQ in a 1930s building in the historic centre of Athens, but also off-site, in temporary spaces depending on the needs of the artists.

Its two websites were designed in collaboration with David Reinfurt. Radioathenes.org was created to funnel all its communication through text and an audio channel. Radioathenes.tv ambiently broadcasts documentation images from all its exhibitions and events.

Radio Athènes is a founding member of the Contemporary Art Library.

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Kazuna Taguchi
The eyes of Eurydice #45, 2019
Silver gelatin print
Edition 2/3
Image: 16.6 x 12.1 cm (6 ½ × 4 ¾ in.)
Sheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

Kazuna Taguchi’s spectral, invariably black-and-white
analogue photographs reconfigure images of her own
paintings and sculptural fragments, as well as private
pictures, historical artworks, and found anonymous imagery.

Radio Athènes presents three silver gelatin prints by Kazuna Taguchi, from her ongoing series The Eyes of Eurydice, her most extensive work cycle to date in which she alludes to the mythological figure of Eurydice, and Orpheus' forbidden look at her on their way back from the underworld—though here, the gaze is reversed. Drawing from several sources, including her own oil paintings and sculptural fragments, private photographs, historical works, and anonymous images, the artist creates layered and spectral images. - © Kazuna Taguchi / Gelatin silver print
16.6 x 12.1 cm
ed. 2/3
Courtesy of the artist and Radio Athènes, Paris Internationale

Kazuna Taguchi
The eyes of Eurydice #13, 2020
Silver gelatin print
Edition 2/3
Image: 16.6 x 12.1 cm (6 ½ × 4 ¾ in.)
Sheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

The Eyes of Eurydice, ongoing since 2019 is her most
extensive work cycle to date. Taguchi alludes to the
mythological figure of Eurydice, whom Orpheus was
unable to redeem for he dared a forbidden look at her
on their way back from the underworld.

Kazuna Taguchi
The eyes of Eurydice #14, 2019
Silver gelatin print
Edition 1/3
Image: 16.6 x 12.1 cm (6 ½ × 4 ¾ in.)
Sheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

This photograph of an abandoned house in
Vienna’s 14th district was taken by the artist
from the street in the early morning.

Lukas Gschwandtner
vitrine, möbel dinner (detail), 2026
Steel, plaster, glass, mirror
56 x 38 x 107 cm
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

An interpretation of a “Perspektivenkasten”, a perspective
box cabinet, to view a gathering of absence. The internal
surface shows a dinner scene, while the external one shows
a cast fragment of a table dressed with a cloth. A hidden
plaster stucco fresco, viewed through a vanity mirror
acts like a portal that draws the viewer into the dinner.

Lukas Gschwandtner
club chair twins (I & II), 2026
Fossilized textile (late 19th century), canvas, steel
56 x 64 x 80 cm (each)
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

Translation of a club chair set. Canvas is pressed
onto metal frames. The chairs coexist with a shared,
but divided between them Middle Eastern textile from
the late 19th century. Frozen in its drape, the fabric
becomes an integrated fossil suggesting a human
absence. There is an echo of Aristophane’s speech
on Eros, in the Platonic dialogue Symposium.

Lukas Gschwandtner
vitrine, narrenkastl [glass sibling of club chairs], 2026
Steel, sheets of glass
56 x 64 x 107 cm
Courtesy the artist and Radio Athènes

“Ins Narrenkastl schauen” dates back to the Middle Ages
and is an Austrian dialect expression for “staring into space.”
While seated, two people stare into an empty glass cabinet
that frames the person sitting opposite them. What they share
is the empty vessel in between them that is filled with nothing,
just their thoughts.

Kazuna Taguchi: I'll never ask you at mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Lukas Gschwandtner: Möbelstücke etc. at Kunstverein München