Athens based French artists and ceramists, Diane Alexandre and Camille Cornillon curate a mixed media exhibition inspired by Circe and the island of Ææa, exploring ideas of confinement, safety and sanctuary in the domestic setting. The exhibition features contributions from Mara Desipris, Joanna Burtenshaw and Yulia Koval with vegetal tou...
Read moreby Sudha Nair-Iliades As a competitive sprinter (many moons ago), I never thought I’d be championing walking over running, but into my third marathon this year, I’ve come to enjoy the joys of walking 42.195 kms spread across a good six and a half hours. Once you’re past the sniggers of “anybody could walk a marathon, what’s the big dea...
Read moreAthens Continues its Cocktail Ascendence with Athens Bar Week With multiple bars in the World's 50 Best Bar list again this year and an increasing reputation for innovative and exciting mixology, Athens is already a great place to drink cocktails. Athens Bar Week, starting on Sunday 3rd Nov will up the ante further with a seri...
Read moreLeslie Absher's poignant memoir on growing up in Greece as the dauhter of a CIA agent during Greece's military dictatorship, Spy Daughter, Queer Girl will be published in Greek by Brainfood Media. The author will be in conversation with the amazing poet/Vima columnist Crystalli Glyniadaki at Kombrai Books in Exarcheia on Wednesday, November 13, a...
Read moreWHAT'S ON: Artefact Athens presents Wanderlust / All Passports, an evocative contemporary art exhibition curated by Kostas Prapoglou, set within the storied walls of the Schliemann–Melas mansion in the heart of Athens. This remarkable venue, built in 1890 by the legendary architect Ernst Ziller for Heinrich Schliemann, is a testament to Greek cultu...
Read moreWHAT'S ON: As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting those who suffer from breast cancer, MANA is hosting "Pink October," an exhibition which features the works of eleven visual artists at the MANA House. This space, which typically functions as a care space for cancer patients and with the main objective of reconnecting women to the nor...
Read moreWhat: Katerina Vrana, one of Greece‘s top stand-up comedians, is recording her smash-hit show “Staying Alive (I nearly died, you know)” in English. The most entertaining and uplifting story of nearly dying you’ve ever heard! The show has been selling out in Greece consistently since 2019, when it opened, and in English it sold out all 14 cities...
Read moreWhat: Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, one of Greece's most pivotal 20th-century painters, takes center stage at the Benaki Museum in a masterfully curated retrospective that spans six decades of his work, from 1930 to 1990. Marking 30 years since the artist's passing, this exhibition revisits his transformative 1958 odyssey from West to East—a journey t...
Read moreBy Maya Abuali In the serene courtyard of San Giorgio dei Greci, an ancient Greek church nestled in Venice, George Petrides’ sculptures stand as silent sentinels, bridging ancient sensibilities with modern techniques. His monumental itinerant exhibition, “Hellenic Heads: A Personal Exploration of Greek History and Culture over 2,500 Ye...
Read morePhenomenon, the biennial project for contemporary art housed on the Aegean island of Anafi, is on now and will run to 7th July. If you are within a ferry, speed boat, helicopter or brisk swim’s distance of the island you should head there immediately to experience one of Europe’s most interesting and arresting art happenings. ...
Read moreWHAT'S ON: Reality and fantasy blur in the liminal space of Manolis Daskalakis Lemou's new solo exhibition this week at CAN Gallery's swanking new space in Omonoia. Crisply curated by Christina Androulidaki, Lemou's pieces invite us to marvel at the ever-evolving relationship between man and technology in the search for new-age creative innovation....
Read moreWHAT'S ON: Acclaimed artist Rene Habermacher introduces his first solo exhibition, “NEW DIGS,” at Space52 in Athens. Departing from traditional media, “NEW DIGS” offers a multidisciplinary exploration of photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, text, and mixed media. Habermacher’s work navigates contemporary gender discourse, Ancient Greek culture, ...
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