KN Group x Stamos Michael

Exhibition space

Address: 61 Vas. Sofias av. 115 61

Dates: Thursday, September 30 to Saturday, October 2 // Wednesday, October 6 to Saturday, October 9

Hours: 11:00 am-7:00 pm

Installation Venue

Address: Vorres Museum, Diadochou Konstantinou 1, Peania 190 02, Greece

Dates: Thursday, September 30 to Sunday, October 10

Hours: Saturday & Sunday 10:00-2:00 PM, Tuesday & Thursday 4:00-8:00 PM

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Athens-based architectural design practice KN Group partners with artist-designer Stamos Michael to present "Part of something", a commissioned work, as part of the first edition of Athens Design Forum.

Conceived as a site-specific environment that calls upon ecologies of the local, traditional, and personal vocabularies, "Part of something" proposes four instances of a repose pavilion, enclosed within the realm of open space surroundings. Four individual elements — a tree, a platform, a set of partitions, and a gate — are pieced together each time to form a quad where materiality, the natural environment, craft, design, and open space, are contemplated to a symbolic excess.

The project will be presented in two venues:

Τhe garden of the Vorres Museum, a once closed-off private space that will be opened for this occasion will host the first realised installation. The abundant spolia mixed with the rich foliage enables the audience to interact with the installation in an intimate manner - the audience encounters a temporal-built structure in a historic landscape.

The design research and the architectural studies for the first three instances will be exhibited on the first floor of KN Group’s eclectic office in conversation with a series of collectible objects produced by the artist, especially for Athens Design Forum.

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ABOUT

KN Group_ Design that Works

Established in 1969, KN Group is an international architectural and urbanism office based in Athens, Greece. Working in various typologies – including large-scale commercial buildings, educational spaces, houses, and signature design objects – KN Group blends into one science, craftsmanship, creativity, and its unique expertise to create distinctive spaces for public and private use.

Leveraging the powerful medium of concept design while developing a practice that controls the complete process from the first sketch to the last detail, KN Group creates high-quality and exciting spaces that celebrate the beauty of everyday life through the ongoing development of design culture.

The consistency of its work and its commitment to quality is reflected in KN Group's long-standing relationships with numerous local and multinational clients as well as its growing talent pool that includes collaborators with diverse design-related expertise and international working experiences.

Project management, architectural & industrial design, production, visual identity design, licensing: KN Group_Design that works

71 Vasilissis Sofias Av., Athens, Greece 11561

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T: +30 210 7255052

E: info@kngroup.gr

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Stamos Michael

Stamos Michael is a self-taught artist-designer based in Athens. He studied Sociology at the Panteion University of Athens. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked in various creative fields focusing on architecture and applied arts. In 2016 he founded Grace, an independent cultural platform that inhabits the interior spaces of an abandoned neoclassical hotel in Athens, aiming to recompose an empty space and reintegrate it back into the active landscape of the city as a space for cultural development and creative interaction.

In Michaels' work characteristics of the physical space such as open and closed, available or taken, as well as actions such as intervention, reconstruction, or dereliction of space, reflect a sociological methodology of perceiving reality. While processing a system for understanding and dealing with the reality that finds common ground in social studies and critical architecture, Michael appropriates both the notion and the mediums of architecture for expressing ideas related to the management of physical space. Through a multidisciplinary practice that brings together architectural design, functional art, digital media, and textual landscape analysis Michael aims to establish a new sense of architecture that seeks to evolve in a space that is mostly taken.

Creative direction: Stamos Michael

Objects designed by Stamos Michael

2 Filadelfeias str. Athens, Greece 10440

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T: +30 2108843373

E: info@forgrace.eu

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