THE HIDDEN THIRD: Trapped Between Absence and Presence
The National Gallery of the Republic of North Macedonia, in collaboration with the Art Project Space gallery, presents an international group exhibition featuring women artists from Macedonia, Greece, Serbia, and Cyprus, titled The Hidden Third: Somewhere Between Presence and Absence.
Slavica Janešlieva, Traces of Confusion, 2025
print on canvas, mash, drawing; 100x70x5cm (x2)
The exhibition will first open at the Art Project Space gallery on Tuesday, May 13, from 19:00 to 22:00, and will run until June 6, 2025. In October, the exhibition will be presented to the Macedonian public, with the works displayed at the Multimedia Center Mala Stanica. The Macedonian opening is scheduled for October 2–25. The curators of the exhibition are Dr. Ana Frangovska, museum advisor at the National Gallery of the Republic of North Macedonia, and independent Greek art historian Niki Papaspirou.
The exhibition unfolds along an imaginary axis stretching from Belgrade to Nicosia, with Athens and Skopje functioning as key nodes in this geopolitical and cultural connection. Thirteen artists from Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, and Cyprus present works ranging from installation and video to painting, sound, and performance. The exhibition creates a feminist space of coexistence, resistance, and reframing, highlighting the importance of artistic expression in a constantly shifting world.
Participating artists: Slobodanka Stupar, Anica Vucetic, Darija S. Radakovic, Annita Argyroiliopoulou, Efi Fouriki, Katerina Evagelakou, Monika Moteska, Vana Urosevic, Dijana Tomic, Slavica Janeshlieva, Klitsa Antoniou, Marina Kessanidou, Elina Ioannou
The Hidden Third expands upon the project Presence/Absence, forming a network of dialogue between female artistic voices from the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Inspired by Basarab Nicolescu’s theory of interconnected and multi-layered reality, the exhibition approaches the "hidden third" as an intermediate sphere of existence where oppositional concepts coexist and are transformed: presence/absence, material/immaterial, individual/collective.
The exhibition is accompanied by a trilingual catalogue.
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