Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Our public hours during exhibitions are Thursday 1–9pm and Friday through Sunday 1–6pm.

Celebrating our 15th anniversary in 2017, ATHICA is an independent, non-profit gallery promoting and supporting innovative contemporary art and artists through exhibitions, education, and events. On view through June 10: DOMESTIC STRUCTURES, a group show featuring Athens and Atlanta based artists, curated by Candice Greathouse. Opening June 17: ATHICA Emerges X, the gallery's 10th annual exhibition of emerging local artists.

Sonic Space Presents: immersive experience combining techno, house, electro and dance musics performed on live electroni...
05/26/2026

Sonic Space Presents: immersive experience combining techno, house, electro and dance musics performed on live electronics and hardware alongside live visuals and video work curated by Jay Domingo and Ryan Schey.

Saturday, May 30th
Doors at 7
Music at 8
$10 Suggested

Music from:

✨ .athens - Live solo electronics and modular synth project inspired by house, electro, and musique concrète, based in Athens GA

✨ - Ambient house with arps and heart in the sleepy south

✨ - Atlanta based musician who’s work spans from electronic music to ambient performances. Jones uses both hardware synthesizers and drum machines to create sonic landscapes that reference the lineage of black art across disciplines.

✨ - in a long relationship with improvised noise, hybrid digital/analog beats, and electro-funk. Expect modular synths pumping out post-punk, Detroit-style minimal Techno.

Visuals by .tv & 👁️

This Saturday, May 31st 🎷 Doors at 7Music at 8Suggested $10
05/26/2026

This Saturday, May 31st 🎷

Doors at 7
Music at 8
Suggested $10

Sonic Space PresentsIlyattDrone TomorrowThe StoreMay 23rd at 8 PM at ATHICAIhlyatt. Josh Anderssen is an audiovisual art...
05/19/2026

Sonic Space Presents

Ilyatt
Drone Tomorrow
The Store

May 23rd at 8 PM at ATHICA

Ihlyatt. Josh Anderssen is an audiovisual artist based in Athens GA, creating atmospheric and textural work based around ambient music and VHS technology. He releases music and performs under the name Ihlyatt.

Drone Tomorrow constructs immersive electronic environments that blur the line between sound and space—moving through ambient drift, industrial tension, and cyberpunk-inspired atmospheres.

With a foundation in formal music training from Anderson University (SC), his work bridges academic composition and raw sonic experimentation.

From punk basements to classical halls to abstract electronic realms, Drone Tomorrow pulls from a lifetime of musical exploration to create performances that feel less like concerts and more like places you’ve wandered into—and aren’t sure how to leave.

The Store is an industrial harsh noise project that combines butchered guitar textures with raw distortion, under a blanket of ambient decay. It’s not meant to be listened to, but endured. An endless valley of soundscapes that demand you completely surrender your mind and body entirely.

☀️ ATHICA is on hiatus this summer. Join us for special events, including the opening of Mutual Grit on Friday, May 22 f...
05/19/2026

☀️ ATHICA is on hiatus this summer. Join us for special events, including the opening of Mutual Grit on Friday, May 22 from 6-8pm. Be on the lookout for more updates with our calendar (at athica.org), newsletter, and instagram!

Sonic Space Presents:IlyattDrone TomorrowThe StoreMay 23rd at 8 PM at ATHICA
05/18/2026

Sonic Space Presents:
Ilyatt
Drone Tomorrow
The Store
May 23rd at 8 PM at ATHICA

ATHICA Ambient Music HourSunday, May 17thDoors @ 7pmMusic @ 8pm$10 SuggestedCraig Colorusso (Arkansas, also performing a...
05/13/2026

ATHICA Ambient Music Hour
Sunday, May 17th
Doors @ 7pm
Music @ 8pm
$10 Suggested

Craig Colorusso (Arkansas, also performing at the High Museum on the 16th)

Craig Colorusso’s music and performances are immersive, durational experiences that unfold slowly, inviting deep listening and reflection. Using bowed electric guitar, bass clarinet, and electronics, he creates layered, harmonic sound environments that emphasize repetition, tone, and subtle change over time. His performances often blur the line between concert and installation, allowing audiences to move freely within the sound. Rooted in minimalism and influenced by natural rhythms, his work encourages heightened awareness, shared presence, and a sense of calm. Each performance becomes a space for contemplation, where sound shapes perception and transforms the surrounding environment.

Craig will be performing Army of Chainsaws For Brian Kelly.

Salmon Tubes (Kyle MacKinnel and Jon Vogt)

Salmon Tubes is an electro-acoustic improvisation duo from Athens, Georgia, made up of Kyle MacKinnel and Jon Vogt. To date, they have collaborated visually and musically as members of Sonic Divination and Brooms of Fantasia. Their separate evolving music endeavours have included frog like leaf, CALL, come, Oceanic Sound Research, Solution Cave, and Dark Wale. Salmon Tubes represents the expression of multiple instruments (salmon) carried electronically through a narrow system of tubes (a heavily processed signal path) used to bridge here to there across massive dams of intelligible thought and understanding, effectively transporting nature through the built environment back upstream and back into dream.

StudioFest this Saturday, May 2 from 11-7pm ❣️ After party at ATHICA from 7-9pm 🪩 Check out the map + more info at athic...
04/29/2026

StudioFest this Saturday, May 2 from 11-7pm ❣️ After party at ATHICA from 7-9pm 🪩 Check out the map + more info at athica.org 📌

StudioFest is a day-long Athens-wide art and craft crawl. Think of it as PorchFest for artists of all kinds, shining a light on the creative community of Athens through opening artist studios, galleries, makers’ spaces, and pop-up exhibitions and markets to art lovers and explorers. The day-long art crawl will be free to the general public, with a map of all participating places available in print and online.

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Athens, GA
30601

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Wednesday 4pm - 5pm
Thursday 4pm - 9pm
Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday 1pm - 6pm
Sunday 4pm - 6pm

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