sensescapes
14 – 23 November 2025 | Pikap -iσο-
sensescapes is a group exhibition that is creatively accessible and collaboratively curated, seeking to redefine the relationship between audiences, artworks and exhibition practices.
Conceived as a continuation of Making Sense project (2024) by Off Stream, it invites visitors to explore diverse and heterogeneous sensory landscapes, activating different senses each time.
Focusing on both the literal and metaphorical meanings of wandering, sensescapes connects sensory experience with discovery, encounter and embodied engagement with art.
Walks in sensory landscapes
Walking, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and remembering; place and space; the city, the natural and the human-made environment, and the self. These are “landscapes” where personal and collective experiences are imprinted through continuous wandering.
A walk, however, is not merely a transition; it is a journey rich in meaning and sensory density – an active process that engenders action: for exploration, daydreaming, introspection, creation, and conflict. It is a mutual link between self, knowledge, and earth, an act of observation and embodied understanding of the world, and not least, an open dialogue between matter and sensations.
Through the exhibition sensescapes, we attempt to reconstruct a walk across our external and internal landscapes from which tangible and intangible elements are drawn as components of an original visual language: organic materials, technological components, elements of nature, materials in decay and regeneration, memories of the city of Ioannina, where the displayed works were created, and human presences. This wandering explores the experiential relationship between humans, space and art. The exhibition aims to create a field of experience and inclusion where art—like walking—should be a process open to all.
Walking is a multisensory experience… Yet accessibility, the pursuit of inclusion, and the acceptance of difference and diversity form but simple reasons for our action. In reality, the functioning and mobilization of the senses neither constitute a requirement nor prerequisite for accessibility, but mainly an opportunity to reexamine the creation of artworks and explore new ways of communicating with the public.
Artists
Apostolos Anagnostaras, Anna Alexandridou, Maria Beka, Anastasia Fouka, Giouna Gkioni, Ioannis Karagiannopoulos, Athina Kaltasi, Konstantinos Koualiarella, Elli Papadopoulou, Iro Papagiannopoulou, Nash Proios, Anastasia Rontogianni, Lucy Sarafianou, Vasiliki Siatara, Christina Spyropoulou, Liza Stoitsi, Varvara Thoma, Afroditi Tziletta, Sofia Tsakiridi, Maria Tyers, Elisavet Vlachou
Exhibition information
Venue: Pikap -iσo-, 57 Olympou St, 54631, Thessaloniki
Duration: 14–23 November 2025
Opening hours: Mon–Fri 17:00–22:00, Sat–Sun 12:00–20:00
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 14 November, 19:00
* At 20:00 the performance “Twelve” by Elli Papadopoulou will take place
Parallel Events:
Guided tours: Sat 15.11 & Sat 22.11 at 12:00, Book your spot here
sensescapes radio takeover: a series of radio shows hosted at To Pikap radio (more info coming soon)
sensescapes is implemented by Off Stream in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts, the MA Programme Exhibition Curation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches and the Department of Architecture of the University of Ioannina, To Pikap, Community AMKE, the Panhellenic Association of the Blind – District Union of Central Macedonia, under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and with the kind sponsorship of Feels like Home and the Technical Chamber of Epirus.
Credits
Management, Artistic Direction, Creative Access Curation: Off Stream
Exhibition Curation: MA Programme Curating Exhibitions: Theoretical and Practical Approaches, University of Ioannina
(Evanthia-Nefeli Voutsina, Konstantina-Kassiani Ioannou, Chara Kappa, Katerina Panagopoulou, Theodora Rapanta, Alexandra Feleki)
Supervision: Esther Solomon, Stela Anastasaki, Christina Vlachou
Visual Identity & Signage: Mariza Tsakona
Greek Sign Language Interpretation & Video: Spiros Kouzelis
Translations & Audio Descriptions: Evanthia-Nefeli Voutsina, Konstantina-Kassiani Ioannou, Chara Kappa, Katerina Panagopoulou, Theodora Rapanta, Alexandra Feleki
Press Office: Despina Polychronidou
Artwork Installation: Periklis Galanos
Photographs: Hichem Merouche
