We are supporting UK artists’ participation in the 1st Athens Biennial. The Biennial aims to attack stereotyping, and the UK artists have been invited not to 'live' the experience of the city and to create works about its supposed 'reality' but to destroy their preconceptions about it.

One of the major parallel exhibitions at the Biennial is Young Athenians, curated by Neil Mulholland and Tommy Grace, with Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman.

The exhibition presents the work of a group of artists that live and work in Edinburgh. The title is an ironic reference to the infamous cliché of Edinburgh as 'the Athens of the North'. This – often idealised – relationship between the two cities is used by the artists as a vehicle to comment on the urban environment they live in. They describe their social and cultural identity and map out the city’s past and current history through a wide variety of media such as collage, painting, video, photography and installations.

Artists
Tam A, Kim Coleman, Craig Coulthard, Keith Farquhar, Tommy Grace, Jenny Hogarth, Darius Jones, Keith MacIsaac, David MacLean, John Mullen, Ellen Munro, One O’clock Gun, Lee O’Connor, Katie Orton, Kate Owens, Sophie Rogers, Robin Scott, Cathy Stafford.