Haus N Athen

Eva Papamargariti, All that is hidden, 2025 (ongoing series), Ceramic sculptures, automotive pigments, Dimensions variable

Theodoros Tzannetakis, Untitled lamp, 2025, Fer fogé lamp, fabric, Dimensions variable

Vera Lutz, Untitled, 2020, 4 parts, mirror foil, tape, 60 x 60 cm (each), Courtesy of the artist & Felix Gaudlitz

Amalia Vekri, The hills have eyes, 2025, Oil, oil pastel, graphite on canvas, 93 x 80 cm

Amalia Vekri, The hills have eyes (details), 2025, Oil, oil pastel, graphite on canvas, 93 x 80 cm

Nancy Lupo, Disko in short, 2025, Breathing cat, arctic cotton, granite, chandelier glass, glue, pearlescent paint, ceramic, nail polish, Dimensions variable

Nancy Lupo, Disko in short (detail), 2025, Breathing cat, arctic cotton, granite, chandelier glass, glue, pearlescent paint, ceramic, nail polish, Dimensions variable

Jeff Wall Production, PLUIE (A piano recital), 2023, Video, Courtesy of the artist & Hot Wheels Athens London

Iris Touliatou, FEW BODY SYSTEMS, 2024, Chairs, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist & Sylvia Kouvali

Georgia Sagri, In 4000 technology is the engineering of emotions, 2014, Oil on canvas, 111 x 90 cm, Courtesy of the artist & The Breeder gallery

Sem Lala, States (Lightfast) #1-6, 2024, Inkjet transfers on paper, 40.5 x 37.5 cm (each), Courtesy of the artist & Hot Wheels Athens London

Sem Lala, States (Lightfast) #1-6 (detail), 2024, Inkjet transfers on paper, 40.5 x 37.5 cm (each), Courtesy of the artist & Hot Wheels Athens London

Christodoulos Panayiotou, Wonder Land, 2008, 1-channel slideshow with 80 colour slides, Variable, Courtesy of the artist & Sylvia Kouvali

Konstantinos Giotis, Untitled, 2025, Oil, acrylic on linen, 189 x 135 cm

FIRE SPIRITS

Opening September 11

Duration September 11 - October 18

Konstantinos Giotis, Sem Lala, Nancy Lupo, Vera Lutz, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Eva Papamargariti, Jeff Wall Production, Georgia Sagri, Iris Touliatou, Theodoros Tzannetakis, Amalia Vekri

Curated by Amalia Vekri

Fire spirits were inspired by the lingering presence of faded pasts. Mark Fisher described it as futures that never arrived, while the past is seeping quietly into the present holding it suspended. Fisher borrowed the term hauntology from Jacques Derrida, in order to portray how lost possibilities and unrealised dreams continue to drift through, shaping the textures of our current lives.

For Fisher haunting marked the persistence of unrealised futures, whereas for Avery Gordon ghosts appear when the past itself still has work to do. They are not only remnants but companions, insistent figures leaning into the present. Haunting, then, becomes both memory and a summon, but also a threshold through which what is unfinished returns, to be seen or reimagined.

It is this interval, between Fisher’s lost futures and Gordon’s unfinished pasts, that this exhibition gathers. The artists work with fragments, archival traces, ethereal gestures, and half-forgotten stories, turning them into openings where other kinds of time can be felt. What remains visible and what has vanished, their works invite us into spaces, where memory becomes an act of care and imagination dares to rebuild what was once left behind.

Fire Spirits, is taken from a Gun Club song. Haunting can be sparked by a sound, an impulse or a smell while roaming into a smokey bar.

Photos by Nikos Katsaros