WHAT: Join in a four-day celebration of the city’s artistic renaissance as Art-Athina 2024 opens its doors at the Zappeion from 19 to 23 September. Not just another art fair, this sophisticated highlight of the Athenian art calendar brings together the most influential local galleries and international exhibitors under the one roof and should not b...
Read moreFor the third year in a row, Athens Insider curates a new series of conversations with international literary luminaries on May 27 and May 28, 2024 as part of the Athens City Festival. Athens Insider continues with its Literary Salons with international literary luminaries as part of the Athens City Festival at two different v...
Read moreNow established as an important date in the cultural agenda of the city, the French Film Festival, as every spring, brings the best of French cinema to Greece. The Festival will open with Cedric Kahn's Making Of which premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, starring Denis Podalydès, Jonathan Cohen, Souheila Yacoub, and S...
Read moreWith so many Lenten treats on offer, the 40-day pre-Easter abstinence feels more like indulgence than penance. Here’s Insider’s guide to navigating Lenten dos and don’ts. For Greeks, even fasting is all about food! In fact, it reflects the rich culinary repertoire of the country, relying heavily on seasonal veggies and the bou...
Read moreBernier-Eliades Gallery opens the first exhibition of cult fashion designer turned artist Marin Margiela in Athens. A legendary Belgian designer, he left his eponymous label in 2008 and has been making art ever since. Margiela's art explores themes of deconstruction, fragmentation, and the reconstruction of found objects, much like his fa...
Read moreΤhe exhibition explores one of the most important historical events of Greek antiquity – the battle of Chaeronea that brought Alexander the Great onto the political stage and laid the foundations for the creation of the modern world. One of the most important historical events of Greek antiquity – the battle of Chaeronea that ...
Read moreIf you've passed down Syngrou Avenue, you've probably seen Yael Bartana's inspiring neon light installation as it preaches a powerful message to passers-by: "What if Women Ruled the World". Until the end of October 2024, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (ΕΜΣΤ) presents a three-part cycle of exhibitions exclusively dedicated...
Read moreWhat: The Benaki Museum celebrates the 60th anniversary of George Seferis winning the Nobel Prize for literature with a commemorative exhibition entitled “George Seferis: sixty years later.” The exhibition features artefacts and photographic documents, newspaper clippings, documentation of the award ceremony, press articles, letters and congratulat...
Read moreFor its bewitching visuals alone, Athenian director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things stands tall as the season’s must-watch. The film’s sets, costumes and color palette commit to making each frame a visual masterpiece. But is Poor Things really the subversive, inventive spin on Frankenstein it claims to be, or, are we merely cha...
Read moreNo words. No music. This theatre production coming to Athens turns instead to otherworldly masks, costumes, choreography and large-scale props to tell its stories. Mummenschanz, a Swiss performance troupe founded in 1972, is bringing its 50-year anniversary production to Athens at the Pallas Theater on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March. A s...
Read moreAthens pays tribute to celebrated bard Constantine Cavafy whose verses inspired a whole generation of Hellenes, both in his native Alexandria and in Greece. Athens welcomes the opening of an archival space dedicated to Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. Cava...
Read moreIt’s taken 25 years of preparation to make it a reality, but the wait has been well worth it. Athens celebrates the life and times of the legendary soprano Maria Callas with not one, but two cultural centres dedicated to the enigmatic icon. The newly inaugurated Maria Callas Museum in Athens on Mitropoleos Street with over 1,300 items ass...
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