31/05/2025
Eudaimonia. Living in Bliss Today
An exhibition by Joulia Strauss
May 16 – July 18, 2025
Crux Galerie is happy to present Eudaimonia. Living in Bliss Today, a solo exhibition by artist and activist Joulia Strauss, curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis.
Joulia Strauss is an artist, activist and multimedia sculptor. She was born in the Soviet Union as Mari, one of Europe’s last indigenous cultures with a shamanic tradition, and lives and works in Athens and Berlin. Her sculptures, paintings, performances, drawings and video works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, at Tate Modern, as well as at the Tirana Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Athens Biennale, the Kyiv Biennial, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and documenta14, among others.
She is the editor of Krytyka Polityczna Athens and co-editor, together with Friedrich Kittler, Peter Berz, and Peter Weibel, of Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer (Wilehlm Fink, 2017). Strauss founded and organized Avtonomi Akadimia , a socio-cybernetic sculpture, film
set, and activist education experiment in Athens. She recently finalized her film Transindigeneous Assembly.
Left to right:
Frequences, 2009, ink and pencil on paper, 21x29.5 cm, 45x54.5 cm framed
Papaya, 2009, ink and pencil on paper, 21x29.5 cm, 45x54.5 cm framed
Second Delphic Hymn to Apollon, Fragment, 2010, silver wire, glass pearls, approx. 80x60x15 cm
Opening hours:
Thursday & Friday: 17:00–21:00
Saturday: 13:00–17:00
