What: The Blender Gallery in collaboration with Varvara Roza Galleries hosts an exhibition of new works by New York artist Philip Tsiaras. As a painter, photographer, ceramicist, bronze and glass sculptor, Tsiaras's work touches on practically all art forms. In a conceptual sense Tsiaras believes that “each exhibition should contain an unexpected e...
Read moreWhat: RUINS, exclusively commissioned by Carwan Gallery is finally ready to be unveiled in Athens in June 2021 Ruins features a series of works that re-signify architectural fragments belonging to different historical periods and which refer to the most significant archaeological sites placed in the Mediterranean basin. The project relates some...
Read moreWhat: OBJECTS OF COMMON INTEREST, an installation by Archipelago Two talented designers who spend time between Athens and New York, Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis create still life installations, experiential environments and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept and tangible spatial experiences. Work roots from an ...
Read moreWhat: ANTI-STRUCTURE, Curated by Andreas Melas Anti-Structure explores the far-fetched realm of fine lines between order and chaos, stasis and flux, structure and fragility. Taking an immersive installation by Urs Fischer as a starting point, and placing it in dialogue with the works of twenty-one Greek and Cypriot, the exhibition explores ...
Read moreWhat: Make time to take in NEON's exhibition Portals curated by Elina Kountouri, Director, ΝΕΟΝ and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago featuring works by 59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new works commissioned by NEON at the impressive Public Tobacco Factory Complex. [caption id="attachment_9971"...
Read moreFrom revolutionary jewellery, ceramic keepsakes, colour-soaked silk scarves, blue-and-white spangled dresses and cheeky ties, Greek designers and international fashion houses celebrate Greece’s defining moment in history with humour, sophistication and style. We’ve curated a tempting collection to commemorate Greece’s bicentennial milesto...
Read moreThe Irish Embassy in collaboration with Athens Insider, call on street artists to create a mural inspired by James Joyce or his book Ulysses to mark Bloomsday. Bloomsday is marked around the world on June 16 as a celebration of Irish writer James Joyce, one of the most important writers of the 20th Century, but also as a celeb...
Read moreSpread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always marked the beginning of the summer cultural season. Expect an adrenaline-charged programme with 80 open-air performances, experimental theatre, contemporary dance, classical music, subverted operas and more in 2021's packed repertoire. Athens and Epidaurus Fest...
Read moreThe B&E Goulandris Foundation welcomes summer 2021 with 58 new works in its collection. Wander among your favourite works of El Greco, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges...
Read moreWhat: The Athens Concert Hall presents a magnificent concert for the 30 years since its founding at the Odeon of Herod Atticus , with the legendary conductor Zubin Mehta, and the internationally renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman performing with the acclaimed Orchinos May (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino). A bucket-list event not to be mi...
Read moreThe Queer Archive Festival is back again from 3 to 6 June 2021, hosting a great celebration of Athens’ rich and vibrant queer culture, with the support of Onassis Stegi for a second consecutive year. Designed to celebrate the very best of queer arts and culture, The Queer Archive Festival raises the curtain on another rich pro...
Read moreFrom Pheidias to Michaelangelo, few materials signal high art more than marble—the medium of sculptors. And for Swiss sculptor Tom von Kaenel, it was his quest to work with antiquity’s most prized marble that led him to Naxos, where his sublime and sinuous creations honour the pure lines of the earliest Cycladic sculptors. The...
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