Sub Rosa Space

10/01/2023

Still here, still gorgeous. We are in a constant state of transformation and we posses that ever rare thing: oomph, charisma, hospitable s*x appeal, and a total lack of pretension. Yes we’re generally s**t at social media but we are without a doubt the greatest little underground art space on Earth.If you’ve come by you know how true this is. Next projects are in development. You are dying to come back and we are dying to meet you again. Sub Rosa loves you. ❤️

10/05/2022

ATTENTION, ATTENTION: Announcing an announcement. Saturday 14 May launches a new exhibition project by . Occultist rituals for the post internet age. Semiotic squares, collapsed binaries, radical diagonal pathways.

With performances the next three Saturdays!
14 May: “Cataclysm for the Few” by
21 May: “The Third Threat” by
28 May: “Do Ghosts Eat Dumplings?” by

Artists that share are artists that care

Aaaaand! The exhibition is available for view by appointment, M-F, 20:00-22:00. 16 to 27 May. DM to request a visit.

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*xyvibes

13/04/2022

The Killing Eve finale was kind of s**t but that art direction was killer, the way they intercut Villanelle raging on The Twelve and Eve line dancing to Candy. Ammiright or
ammiright????? 🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🌹Join us for something you'll never forget April 21 ! https://www.facebook.com/events/701073907905774/

REMASTERED IN HD!!Official Music Video for Candy performed by Cameo.

09/09/2021

✨ SUB ROSA PLANS YOUR WEEKEND ✨

So much to do these next days it's hard to keep up. Let us remove the stress of choosing.

SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER ! Midday/afternoon, head over to Kypseli and peruse the Athens Art Book Fair 2021: The Local Edition. Support local artists, expand your god damn mind. At 19:00 join the Athens Pride 2021 March | Πορεία Υπερηφάνειας and display what the hell you're proud of. F**k the Google contingent, march with/show your love to the smaller contingents that are on the ground doing real work for qu**rs, refugees, and the otherwise vulnerable. AND THEN, literally/figuratively roll down the road and join us at Sub Rosa Space for Local Culture: Bury Me at the Mall ! (Seriously it's an absurdly short downhill walk from Syntagma Square, the parade's culminating point.) Saturday night's performance offers much for such a symbolically overloaded day: a meditation on commemoration and what pernicious projects it may bear, the voice of the outraged and overlooked cutting through the nonsense.

THEEEEEN on SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER go back to Kypseli for ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΗ ΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ / POETRY READING - ΕΛ/ENG at O Meteoritis. Original works by Odysseas Simos from his 2020 edition with Cha Ni (Charlotte Nieuwenhuys), read by some of Athens's s*xiest independent art hustlers (you may even get to see someone from the Sub Rosa team reading a poem...) THEN THEN, cross Patision and go to Sheger Restaurant for dinner. They are a delicious new Ethiopian restaurant in Plateia Amerikis, they make an amazing kitfo (Agathoupoleos 19) ✨✨✨

18/08/2021

✨ HOW GOOD IT FEELS ✨

Thank you, all, for attending our grand re-opening. Thank you all for supporting Local Culture in their first show. Thank you for sharing this most special of evenings with us. Local Culture: Two Thousand Twenty One Years of Lockdown was a beautiful affair, because of you, you, you, and you.

It has been far, far too long since we've been together. As ever into the future, we will take care to do things right, we will tend tenderly to this sweet, soft light.

AND PLEASE JOIN US for our next show: Local Culture: Once Upon a Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Saturday 28 August!

(photo below by Alexandre Collet, action shot of "Two Thousand Twenty One Years of Lockdown")

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14/08/2021

Forever and always, Sub Rosa Space ❤️ Und. Athens.

Click on over and read the very generous text of Kiriakos Spirou, who contextualises tomorrow's performance in social, cultural, and political terms.

Thank you, Und., thank you Kiriakos!

AND YES, SEE YOU ALL SUNDAY. Local Culture: Two Thousand Twenty One Years of Lockdown.

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Text by Kiriakos Spirou The qu**rs, the critical, the underground, the emerging, the outsiders, the underfunded, the out-of-towners and many ...

12/08/2021

⚡️ATHENS CALLING ⚡️
Thank you Αθηνόραμα for featuring us in this week’s hottest of the hot.

“SUB ROSA SPACE RETURNS: The cultural space of Praxitelous 37 returns to its pre-COVID rhythms on 15/8 with a special performance by the artist collective Local Culture. In ‘Two Thousand Twenty One Years of Lockdown’ the Dormition of the Virgin meets the myth of the Sleeping Beauty, in a performance that raises questions of patriarchal power and its obsession with women’s virginity. The performance will begin at 9:30pm, doors open at 8:00pm. Free entrance.”

Note as well that use of masks is mandatory and there will be no late admittance (show up before 9:30) 😎

As ever, Athinorama, we love you! Thank you for spreading the word!

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09/08/2021

⚡️BACK WITH A VENGEANCE ⚡️

If you know a thing or two about Greece, Christianity, traditions, legends, magic, fairytales, make-believe, Jean Cocteau, the Cocteau Twins, Belle and Sebastian, Björk, Marina Abramović, Slavoj Žižek, then you know that Sunday is a special day for sleeping virgins the world over.

And if you’ve been following the news, you know our beloved Athens, Evvoia, and Lakonia are in flames.

As ever, as always, Sub Rosa proposes an evening to contemplate in timely fashion. THIS SUNDAY, a night to be remembered. What it means to sleep, what it means to burn. Why, whether, how any phenomenon and any narrative are forcefully tied together. That’s the food for thought you’ll gorge on—on this, our exuberant return.

WE ARE WAITING TO HEAL YOU.
WE ARE WAITING TO FEEL YOU.
Social distancing & Masks required.

SUNDAY 15 AUGUST
“Two Thousand Twenty One Years of Lockdown”
Debut performance by Local Culture, our new resident art collective
Doors at 20:00, show at 21:30

We are waiting for you.
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You're watching Madonna perform "Like A Virgin" on the VMAs in 1984. Original song taken from Madonna's album 'Like A Virgin' released on Sire Records in 198...

19/05/2021

Sub Rosa Space condemns the forced closure of EMPROS Theatre Θεατρο Εμπρος by Greece's national police force.

EMPROS hosted hundreds of free cultural events by collective occupation of an unused, publicly owned building in central Athens. It will forever be a brilliant work of independent, lateral organising.

Covered by cement bricks, EMPROS is casualty to a violent politics of sealing off that is embodied in the current Minister of Culture's office. The Acropolis is another casualty. Covered in coarse synthetic binders, force makes new surfaces of them to permit flows of mass tourism, of easy consumption. The endemically, organically Athenian core is made to suffocate thereunder.

Shame to any government that would destroy cultural brilliance, ignorant of wealth it is too callous to appreciate.

Life everlasting, evermore to EMPROS.

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