From a retrospective of contemporary African art to Brice Marden's marble compositions, Takis' magnetic sculptures, photography exhibitions, film festivals and more, Athens' cultural scene is thriving, angry viruses notwithstanding. Sam Friedman’s Island at Dio Horia WHAT: Sam Friedman's first solo show in Athens, Island, c...
Read moreWHAT: Charles Sandison's extremely timely exhibition, "The garden of light", highlights the dissonance of our current political reality and our fraught relationship with the environment, identity, morality and memory. He uses interwoven video projections and large screens to immerse the audience in a digital glow. “At the centre of my works is ‘sim...
Read moreWHAT: An exhibition, in collaboration with Tate Modern, on Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, 1925–2019), the legendary conceptual sculptor, who pa seed away last year. The exhibition was conceived by the renowned UK critic and close friend of Takis, Guy Brett, and Michael Wellen, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. Takis looked for essential poetr...
Read moreWHAT: The Athens Photo Festival presents a selection of more than 100 projects, from all over the world exploring diverse cultural, artistic, social and political perspectives. The Festival welcomes a wide variety of works from all the image-based genres, ranging from fine art and conceptual to documentary and photojournalism, photo-based installa...
Read moreWHAT: An overview of contemporary African art through 66 works by 34 artists from the Harry David Art Collectionat EMST, the Greek Museum of Contemporary Art. Harry David, prominent art collector and industrialist, showcases his cosmopolitan upbringing with his impressive collection of contemporary African talent. Bold, powerful and engaging, th...
Read moreWHAT: Promoting the importance of recycling and sanitation in the public space, the City of Athens’ Sanitation and Recycling department is organizing a refreshing three-day boat ride. Supported by City of Athens’ Europe Direct. We invite you for a unique onboard experience of romance, blue waters, music and sunset on the maiden voyage of “The Lo...
Read moreWHAT: A group exhibition that explores our primal fears It's the dry season. A buffalo sleeps through the heat of the day in one of the last waterholes. Dragons lurk around the margins. The buffalo seems to view them as just an irritation, not a danger. A serious mistake. The dragon is wary, a jab or a kick could injure it fatally. its bites are...
Read moreWHAT: French actress Monica Bellucci celebrates her birthday on stage in style at an epic venue, portraying Maria Callas, the legendary Greek soprano, in a monologue based on her unpublished letters, unknown and hidden from the public. During the 80 minutes of the play, Monica Bellucci will take us across Maria Callas's life, from her childhood to...
Read moreWHAT: FokiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens. The space encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community. The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direct...
Read moreWHAT: In his latest series of paintings, Samios welcomes us to the traditional kafeneio (Greek café) with its marble-topped tables and shiny mirrors. Here, the painter has returned to a carefree time, as well as an era of personal distinction. In the early 1980s, he was introduced to the metropolis of Paris through a series of cafés, at a time, muc...
Read moreFrom concerts at epic venues, retrospectives on contemporary art, sculptural installations, new gallery openings, ceramic exhibitions, collectible design, tango, theatre and more, Athens Insider rounds up the must-see events for the next two weeks. Kick off the cultural scene this September in style. Monica Bellucci in “Maria Ca...
Read moreWHAT: The Breeder is pleased to present The Elephant in the Room by Joy Labinjo’s – the London-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Athens that marks the close of her participation in The Breeder Open Studio. The artist began this new body of work, during the pandemic lockdown in the UK as mass protests around the Black Lives Matter movement sur...
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