Opening: Thursday 11 September 2025 | 20:00

The body is in all ways and dimensions present in the artworks of Alexandros Plomaritis and as such it "stars" in the exhibition entitled "Becoming a Ghost", at MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A’, Port of Thessaloniki) from 11 September to 25 October, 2025. Through his performances for the camera, Plomaritis' body wanders through public and private spaces, appearing sometimes exposed, sometimes integrated and sometimes out of place. His body is imprinted on the architectural ruins of Brussels – abandoned monasteries, churches and mansions, bearers of a lost aristocratic and religious identity, his body narrates stories from other places, his body returns to its familiar place - Thassos and Mount Pangaeos - and finally his body stands in the middle of the sea on an old machine gun, holding an open black umbrella as a silent poetic reference to René Magritte.

Through the performativity of his body, Plomaritis poses timeless questions about identity, homeland, loss, and otherness, while simultaneously focusing on the activation of the body as an archive, as a place of registration and carrier of memory, historical continuity, and political conflict.

In the exhibition “Becoming a Ghost”, through photographs, videos and installations, Alexandros Plomaritis explores the performativity of the body as a ghostly entity – a body that exists but is not recognised, that is inhabited but not visible, a body that is silent but performs its presence, a body that does not fit in but survives.

Curated by: Eirini Papakonstantinou, Art Historian, Curator MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Alexandros Plomaritis CV

Alexandros Plomaritiswas bornin ArgosOrestiko andraised inThassos. He studied (BA) English Literature and Theatre at London Metropolitan University and specialised in performance (MFA) Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University, London. His performances have been presented at the Milan Biennale of Young Artists, the Venice International Performance Art Week, the Thessaloniki Performance Festival, the CIPAF of Nicosia, the NRLA festival of Glasgow, the Re-culture festival of Patras, the MEK Museum of Berlin, the Contemporary Art Museum of Skopje, the MOMus, the SMCA, and esewhere. He has also held solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions, workshops and projects in independent venues, while he has collaborated with artists such as Ulay, Manuel Vason, Bobby Baker, as well as with groups of artists such as Nekri Fysi, etc. He has curated two performance projects/festivals, the 1st Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival and Platformance. His works are in public and private collections. He lives and works between Brussels and Thessaloniki.

Parallel events & guided tours 

Saturday 11 October 2025, 11:00

Experiential workshop for adults “In motion: Art and displacement” 

An experiential - visual workshop for adults that focuses on personal experiences of movement, transition, intentional or unintentional, displacement and their consequent imprint on the body's memory.Participants will trace key borderline moments of their own journey, they will explore moments of "floating" in time and the spaces of their own displacements and will attempt to capture visually what may still "haunt" the images that the mind and body recall.

The workshop will take place in Greek language. 

Buy your tickets, here https://cometogether.live/event/3456

Sunday 21 September & 19 October 2025, 12:00

Guided tours by the exhibition curator Eirini Papakonstantinou in dialogue with the artist Alexandros Plomaritis. 

The tours will take place in Greek language. 

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Saturday 27 September 2025, 21:00

Performance by Alexandros Plomaritis and Maria Kremeti 

Alexandros Plomaritis' performance is a living study on the search for roots, homeland, "home" — not as a geographical location, but as an existential necessity. It focuses on the perpetual journey of the individual, and especially the immigrant and refugee, to establish himself where he is a stranger; to "attach", like a graft, with the uncertainty of whether it will take root or be rejected.

The two artists, themselves strangers in other places, encapsulate with their bodies the ambiguity of integration, the trauma of transition, the precariousness of belonging. The performance evolves as a ritual of embodied confrontation with the European narrative of immigration, law and acceptance.

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Saturday 4 October 2025, 20:00

Pop up event 

Students from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts in AUTh, present with a collective performance the result of a series of laboratory meetings with Alexandros Plomaritis, around the themes of the exhibition.

Curated by: Alexandros Plomaritis

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Saturday 18 October 2025, 20:00

Music performance by Kareem Samara

Kareem Samara’s work (Palestinian-London based musician) combines traditional Arab and Western acoustic instruments with electronic systems, creating unique soundscapes and performances. His work addresses concepts of diasporic identity and post-colonial approaches and possibilities of sound and music.

Coproduction: International Workshop in Theory and Sound, University of Thessaly and Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa (King’s College London, ERC/UKRI)

Curated by: Daphne Tragaki – Associate Professor, University of Thessaly,  , Martin Stokes - Professor of Music, King’s College London

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