Biennial
Being as Communion (8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art)
4 Mar 2023 — 21 May 2023 at New Mosque
· Thessaloniki Municipality
Being as Communion is the 8th edition of the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, held at the Yeni Mosque in 2023. The exhibition examines fundamental questions about human connection, collective experience, and the nature of being through contemporary artistic practice.
About the venue
New Mosque
· Thessaloniki Municipality
The Yeni Mosque is a mosque in the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. It was built by Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in 1902, during the Ottoman era, for the city's Dönmeh community, crypto-Jewish converts to Islam. However, when the Dönmeh had to leave the city during the population…