Aristeidis Lappas: Gift of the Moon Crab

The Breeder is pleased to announce Aristeidis Lappas first solo museum exhibition taking place in Kunstverein Ludwigshafen from September 2024 until November 2024.

Aristeidis Lappas’ works appeal to our senses: his works are for touching, smelling or hearing. His multisensory working techniques allow him to convey the narrative of the Gift of the Moon Crab beyond mere viewing, to involve each of us.

By combining a multitude of perceptions, Lappas challenges the isolation of the senses within artistic media to go beyond visual representation. The artist consciously engages with Greek topoi and artistic techniques, transferring familiar narratives into a contemporary visual language.

The exhibition is the first in a new format: ASSEMBLY is a joint production with Karen Bergman, Assistant Director of Interpretation and Access at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. It consists of a changing program of solo exhibitions that exclusively show new productions by young artists. The only requirement for the new productions is a targeted focus on inclusion of visitors with different needs, especially people with sensory and physical impairments.

Aristeidis Lappas

Aristeidis Lappas (b. Athens, 1993) lives and works in Athens. He studied for a BA in the University of West England, Bristol, UK during which time he did an exchange program with Academia De Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions like Tenderness of a Cutting Sword, The Breeder Gallery, Athens (2020, Solo); Theorimata 2, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2020, Group); Polymorphic Entrancing Topos, P.E.T Projects, Athens (2019, Solo); Part II, The Breeder, Athens (2019); Break Time Contemplations, Transformer, Washington D.C (2018, Group). From November 2020 until January 2021 he was a resident in St.A.I.R, Graz, Austria. He is a recipient of the Artworks Fellow Grant (2020) and his work was part of the 7th Athens Biennale Eclipse (2021).

The Breeder Gallery – In a few words

The Breeder gallery was founded in 2002 by Stathis Panagoulis and George Vamvakidis. It developed organically from The Breeder magazine that started in 2000, out of the need for building an artistic dialogue between Athens and the world. Over the past twenty years, The Breeder gallery has been a pioneer in the development of the contemporary art scene in Athens. 

In 2008, the Breeder relocated to an abandoned 1970s ice-cream factory. The new space was designed by Aris Zambicos architects and its renovation was awarded by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. Throughout 2013, The Breeder operated a pop-up gallery space in Monte Carlo, Monaco. From 2010 to 2015 The Breeder operated Breeder Feeder a pop-up restaurant in its second floor, inside a site specific installation by Andreas Angelidakis. Among the guest chefs was Mina Stone who has now founded Mina’s at MoMA PS1.

Since 2019, the Breeder operates the Breeder Open Studio, as a means to engage with the production of art practice. Several times per year, the gallery space is transformed to a studio space for four to six weeks, hosting the outpost of an invited artist’s studio.