Τhe Blender Gallery presents The Inside Out Ceremony, a solo exhibition of self-portraits, wall sculptures, installations and artworks by painter and engraver Anna Charaktinou. Her preferred medium is paper - which she turns into a labyrinthine journey, full of personal discoveries. What: Charaktinou draws inspiration from the...
Read moreAlexandros Georgiou’s Prince in a Blue Crown at Rebecca Camhi Gallery doesn’t just push boundaries, Cara Hoffman observes, ‘these are dispatches from another universe; a psychic excavation, a revelation.’ Georgiou is a spiritual magpie and the canvas is a tangle with the talismans he has collected; animal heads, maps, biological diagrams. ...
Read moreWhat: The Museum of Cycladic Art celebrates beauty through 300 exceptional antiquities from Museums and Collections in Greece and abroad. The ancient Greek word Kállos essentially means beauty and is associated with both the female and the male sex. However, the concept of Kállos in its ultimate dimension is not a word signifying merely beauty. It ...
Read moreTenia Christopoulou discusses her peripatetic memoir and debut publication, Lords of the Dance with Sudha Nair-Iliades. A compelling read, Lords of the Dance takes its readers on a wide-ranging journey over several continents, whilst delving deep into the fundamental questions. What does it mean to remember? What does it mean to endure? ...
Read moreIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Athens. Almost as a reaction to the muted Christmas we had last year, the appetite for live entertainment and cultural offerings seems to have gone into over-drive. Expect Christmas 2021 to be bigger, sparklier and more filled with festive fun than ever before, certain menacing letters of th...
Read moreWhat: An exhibition of oil paintings on canvas and works on paper created by artist Alexandros Georgiou in New York and Athens from 2017 to the present. The works present a multicolored world, in which mysterious creatures reside and interact, at times anthropomorphic and at others not, as if from the subconscious. Using oil paints and marker pens...
Read moreThe Breeder hosts Philippe Malouin for his first solo exhibition in Athens. As a product and furniture designer whose radical approach to design involves scavenging metal scrapyards for salvageable material, Philippe Malouin’s works are at a junction between craftsmanship, sculpture and industrial design. In this new body of work, he expl...
Read moreWorking intuitively with hands-on techniques and a wide range of materials, young Norwegian designer Sigve Knutson creates objects that question contemporary mass-produced design. After presenting the critically acclaimed solo project Drawn to Production with Carwan Gallery during Milan Design Week in 2017, Knutson presents a new solo sho...
Read moreFourteen Greek and international artists have been given free rein to interact with the the charming Shila's interiors, situating their works organically within its rooms, salons, corridors, and exteriors. Versatile in texture and form, these works range from the whimsical to the sacred, where each piece takes on new meaning. This time-se...
Read moreMost of us us would have swept away autumnal leaves being shed by stubborn indoor plants without a second thought. Kanella Arapoglou thought otherwise, painstakingly embroidering each of them with colourful strands, lending new life to something that was in decay. Her friend, the talented photographer Manos Chatzikonstantis, decided to ca...
Read moreWhat: Athens' contemporary art fair pivots into cyberspace after the pandemic and goes virtual with a roster of multidisciplinary programmes featuring performance, new media space, live talks and a podcast series. Expect to see 1100 artworks by 400 artists represented by 70 galleries showcasing Athens' vibrant art scene. The online event culminat...
Read moreWith a whopping 1,200 exhibits spread across the 2,500 square metres of the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street site, “1821 Before and After” is the most extensive exhibition ever presented on modern Hellenism. Make a date to see this comprehensive panorama of a pivotal century in Greek history now. [caption id="attachment_9...
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