CLOSING SOON is an artist-run nomadic project dedicated to minimum production. It presents exhibitions that explore an economy-of-means approach in the visual arts, prioritising the reactivation of existing forms over the creation of new ones. Focusing on intervention-based practices that recontextualise objects, images and texts, often through alteration and displacement, it supports work across collage, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Aiming to use the fewest resources possible, CLOSING SOON takes a critical stance towards the means of artistic production. In parallel, it is drawn to projects engaging with situations whose function is in crisis. Economies, systems and infrastructures in states of decline or decay suggest that something may be understood differently. Without romanticising failure, such conditions invite reflection on the potential for a shift in perspective, which its exhibitions seek to frame and amplify.

The purpose of the main exhibition program is to support artists presenting their first solo shows in Athens. Using diverse exhibition and screening formats, the intention is to merge young, underrepresented, as well as established artists with a variety of backgrounds and nationalities. CLOSING SOON runs on a self-financed basis, and when possible, the production materials are sourced through arrangements and agreements made between the team of CLOSING SOON and a network of friends and collaborators. CLOSING SOON is often supported by in-kind contributions, and the goal is to provide the exchange of goods and services and avoid any acquisition outside of this economy.

CLOSING SOON was founded in 2019 by Orestis Mavroudis.