for the love of art.

MEMBERS AREA

Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative PCAI
Greece
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Vasilis Karouk, Prima Materia, 2016, PCAI Commission | Polygreen and PCAI headquarters, Piraeus | Architectural Design: Margarita Chatzakou | Photographer: Yiorgis Yerolymbos
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Wu Tsang, We hold where study, 2017, PCAI Commission | Installation shot, Paratoxic Paradoxes exhibition, Benaki Museum Athens | Photographer: Yiorgis Yerolymbos
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Eva Papamargariti, Always a body, always a thing 2017, PCAI Commission | Installation shot, Paratoxic Paradoxes exhibition, Benaki Museum Athens | Photographer: Yiorgis Yerolymbos
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Mika Rottenberg, Minus Yiwu, 2017, PCAI Commission | Installation shot, Resilient Futures exhibition, CACT Thessaloniki | Photographer: Lazaros Grekos
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George Drivas, Kepler, 2014, PCAI Commission | Installation shot, Resilient Futures exhibition, CACT Thessaloniki | Photographer: Lazaros Grekos
About the collection

Launch year:
2014

Number of artworks:
Aquisitions and Commissioned artworks on environmental awareness

Status of collection:
International

Artistic domain:

PCAI stands for Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, a non-profit organization, which primarily aims at raising environmental awareness through its unique, annual, art program. PCAI was founded by Athanasios Polychronopoulos, the CEO and founder of the Polygreen network of environmental companies, as a result of his genuine belief that art is the best tool to stimulate dialogue about critical environmental issues. Through its updated “culture and art” program PCAI acquires a more comprehensive cultural spectrum, keeping its foundational aim, values and operational guidelines fully unchanged, along with its commitment to raise environmental awareness through art, inspire, educate and ultimately be part of the change.

The transition from still to moving image art, with the latter emerging as the dominant expressive medium in the last decades, was the main reason behind PCAI’s decision to focus primarily -though not exclusively- on the dynamic medium of artistic films as the main means of achieving its goals. The organisation implements its objectives though three areas of activity: its mainly commissioned-based Art Collection, its Projects and its Support. PCAI has already commissioned a number of artists regarding its collection including Wu Tsang, Eva Kotatkova, Mika Rottenberg, Angelo Plessas and George Drivas amongst others and quite a few more commissions are on their way.

Since its foundation, PCAI has been collaborating with a number of established art organisations, festivals and institutions including the Venice Biennial, the Lahore Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the British Culture, the Onassis Foundation, the TBA21's Ocean Archive and so on. Fully aware of its social role, PCAI is also dedicated to organising and implementing educational programs on the environment and it has been awarded for its collection, programs and partnerships on many occasions. Kika Kyriakakou, PCAI’s Artistic Director, initiated in 2019 the organisation’s artist-in-residence programme focusing on the interaction between contemporary art and environmental consciousness. The artist residency selection committee, consisting of Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director, Krist Gruijthuijsen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Director, and the PCAI Directors, chose artists Rindon Johnson and Lito Kattou to participate in the residency programme taking place in 2020.

For more information related to PCAI contact info@pcai.gr, +30 2104060088, +30 6948500531

Commission program / Site-specific order(s) :

The PCAI Collection is based on special commissions and acquisitions of moving image and contemporary art. During commissions PCAI provides mid-career and emerging artists with the means and resources to create an artwork inspired by urgent environmental issues in their broader relation to current sociocultural, economic or philosophical concerns. The Collection invites artists to reflect on the concept of sustainability, waste and related processes in a free and innovative way; to create art that challenges the limits of previous views and representations; to imagine new forms and use radical tactics while addressing our changing world. A selection of works from the PCAI Collection is presented below.


Prize(s):

PCAI has been awarded on many occasions including the ISWA 2018 Conference in Kuala Lumpur, the Corporate Art Awards 2018 in the European Parliament in Brussels, the Bravo Sustainability Awards 2019 and the 2019 Corporate Responsibility Awards.   



About the company

Polygreen

Launch year:
2018

International presence:
40 countries

Annual revenue:
not disclosed

Number of employees:
not disclosed

Profile of the company:

Polygreen provides pioneering circular economy solutions that improve life quality, since 2018.

Polygreen is one of the leading companies in SouthEast Europe to offer a total circular economy approach worldwide. The transition to circular economy is a vast, multidisciplinary global project that requires coordinated policymaking and reform, capacity across business and institutions, development of new business models and concepts, as well as radical shifts in citizens’ attitudes and consumers behavior. All these challenges present for Polygreen opportunities for sustained stakeholders’ engagement and purposeful, knowledge-driven action. This way, Polygreen creates added value for both business and society, contributing significantly to environmental sustainability.

Polygreen provides reliable and cost effective resources management solutions for the entire range of industrial waste and marine pollution through careful planning, management, innovation and sophisticated lab analyses. With presence in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Polygreen implements some of the most technically challenging and time critical environmental projects across the globe, with presence in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Polygreen sustains, reuses, recycles and upcycles with a goal to make our world a viable place to live in now and in the future.

www.polygreen.eco/