WHAT: There will be free entrance to all monuments and archaeological sites in Greece on Monday, April 18, to mark the International Day of Monuments and Sites. A perfect excuse to visit or re-visit Greece's treasures of art and civilization. WHERE: All monuments and archaeological sites including the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora, Delphi and Oly...
Read moreWHAT: The Meet Market is back at Technopolis for the classic, annual Easter Edition celebration, and ready to hail the arrival of Spring one weekend before the big week, on the 20th and the 21st of April! You will find the Meet Market both indoor and outdoor, with their usual tents, but with plenty of new businesses & brands too, making a total...
Read moreWHAT: Visit this small, idyllic venue in Plaka to experience the works of ten Greek female visual artists. All of them have had a significant impact on Greek contemporary art. Each of them has their own style, preferred medium, and themes, resulting in a varied and vibrant artistic conversation between creators. The participants were not selecte...
Read moreWHAT: Yannis Moralis was one of the most popular artists of 20th-century Greece: pioneering painter, talented print-maker, gifted set designer and inspiring academic teacher. Through his paintings, sculptures, architectural commissions, record covers, and book illustrations, the retrospective exhibition aims to shed light on the artist’s progress f...
Read moreA new museum, The Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, housing paintings and sculptures by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Bonnard, Pollock, Matisse, and Braque, as well as works by the prominent Greeks artists such as Pathenis, Bouzianis, Cassilion, Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Tsarouchia, Moralis and Tetsis,...
Read moreWHAT: What materials make up a dancer’s life? In the eyes of the public a dancer’s career may seem like a sprint, but in fact it is a marathon of challenges, beginning with training at a young age and coming to a close with the final bow. As a career wanes, every dancer is called upon to refute the obvious: the body, exhausted by the constant techn...
Read moreWHAT: German artist Christiane Löhr seeks to understand the connection between the natural order and modern architecture. This search manifests itself in her art, in which she uses eccentric methods and materials to construct everyday objects and architectural designs. For her second exhibition in Athens, she utilizes horse hair and needles, alongs...
Read moreWHAT: After the death of their guitarist, Robert Buras, in 2007, the band Madrugada took a hiatus, but the band is ready to make its comeback. Twenty years after their debut album, “Industrial Silence,” the Norwegian group aims to relive their glory days and share their signature melancholic sound. WHEN: April 7 at 20:00 (SOLD OUT) and April 8 a...
Read moreWHAT: For the 1st time in Greece comes Convergences, the interactive and innovative forum that brings together opposing worlds for a good reason! The Convergences Greece Forum will take place in Athens on the 1 & 2 April 2019 at the historical theatre OLYMPIA and the Hub Events. Its main focus in on the UΝ Sustainable Development Goal 11 Sustai...
Read moreWHAT: A play written and performed by French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy for a theatrical tour of 20 European cities from March to May 2019. Looking for Europe is the internal monologue of an intellectual holed up in a hotel room in Sarajevo with 90 minutes to compose an important speech about Europe. Should he begin with Greek ...
Read moreWHAT: The cultural evolution of the Arabian Peninsula from antiquity to the modern age is revealed through a fascinating collection of exhibits that include large-scale sculpture, gold burial ornaments, tombstones and precious offerings. This exhibition was launched at the Louvre in 2010 and has toured cities including Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Wash...
Read moreWHAT: Romance, action, drama, comedy, suspense and even bone-chilling horror – the 20th edition of the French Film Festival promises all this and more. Now 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 Athens from April 2 to April 10 and Thessaloni...
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