Kasia Kay, THE EXPLORER – solo exhibition at Moon Station Athens, curated by artist Irini Karayannopoulou.

Exhibition duration: 21.06 – 03.07.2025

“This constellation of works offers a cartography of mobility—emotional, political, and material. Emerging from a lived experience marked by escape and relocation, Kay’s practice occupies the space between displacement and connection. Moving across media—painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and print- her work acts as a flexible architecture for encounters: each piece a site of passage, shaped by affective charge and temporal elasticity. The Explorer unfolds as a post-geographic narrative. Kay's practice resists territorial fixity and univocal readings; instead, her work composes a fragmented atlas where gestures and durations coexist. Within this logic, exploration is no longer an act of conquest or arrival, but an ongoing negotiation of self and other, absence and presence, silence and signal.” - Irini Karayannopoulou.

Accompanying the exhibition is a specially conceived artist's book, designed by Sebr Studio, which extends the project’s discursive and aesthetic field into print.

THE EXPLORER is Kasia Kay’s second solo exhibition in Athens, Greece.

Moon Station Athens is a pop-up gallery and art salon that resides within the studio of British-Greek artist and designer Olympia Zographos, in collaboration with writer and novelist Rana Haddad. It’s a dreamy salon in the heart of Athens where artists, writers, designers, and innovators are invited to speak and exhibit their works. @moonstationathens

Irini Karayannopoulou is a painter who curates, publishes, and works with moving image. She is the co-pilot of TwinAutomat films (Avaton, Boys, my Room...) and the editor of Janus femzine. Her work has been widely exhibited (Liste, Moma Warsaw, MOMus museums, Salon deNormandy, Deste Foundation, etc). She is represented by Polana Institute in Warsaw, Antonopoulou Gallery in Athens, and Black Bird Rook in London. https://karayannopoulou.com/

Kasia Kay creates work using a wide range of materials, including metal, handmade paper, paints, clay, photography, and found objects. Kasia Kay has studied at Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center. She has completed several artist residencies and international curatorial studies in Germany, Greece, Italy, and the U.S.A. Kay has exhibited in solo and group shows internationally. Her artwork is in private collections. The artist has been featured in Artnet News, :arte Venice, Newcity, Chicago Gallery News, Chicago Interiors Magazine, New York Times, and more. Kay currently lives and works in Chicago, USA. https://www.kasiakayartprojects.co/ @kasiakayartist