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Culture | Mar 2023
When producer George Karnavas @heretic.films approached artist Stefanos Rokos in 2019 with a compelling script of Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside, he was hooked. The story revolves round Nemo, a high-end art thief, trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Rokos’ brief was to recreate the narcissistic art collector’...
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Culture | Mar 2023
The Breeder presents three solo exhibitions by three inventive artists Sofia Stevi, Hana Ward and Kyriaki Goni.
SOFIA STEVI
When We Start to Understand the World
Sofia Stevi, Orange with two flies, 2022, ink and acrylic on cotton, 71 x 61 cm.
There is a house built by desire itself. It is a hou...
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Culture | Mar 2023
Alkinois Project Space presents Stories About a Whispering Prince by Marco Villard, curated by Romain Bitton and Alix Janta
What:
Heavily inspired by Figurativism and the formal conventions of Abstract Expressionism, Villard's work is firmly rooted in symbolism and evokes a meaningful sense of play. Paintings often portray...
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City Life | Mar 2023
Cycladic culture thrived from ca. 3200-2000 BCE in the core islands of Greece’s Aegean Sea. It is enigmatic and archaeologically complex - leaving behind thousands of miniature marble objects from graves, but no written records or large-scale building to help understand their meaning. This exhibition celebrates the ‘Homecoming’ of a priva...
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Culture | Mar 2023
Thematic guided tours scheduled for Wednesday, March 8 and Thursday, March 9, on the occasion of International Women’s Day
The B&E Goulandris Foundation celebrates International Women’s Day and is organizing, on Wednesday, March 8 and on Thursday, March 9, thematic guided tours titled “Women in the Collection of the Basil ...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Acclaimed photographer Vangelis Kyris collaborates with master embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev to showcase the wealth of Greece's sartorial traditions. Kyris' portraits of contemporary Athenians wearing historic garments were then printed on fabric, with Georgiev bringing the 128 costumes alive with his extraordinary needlework.
As part...
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Culture | Feb 2023
Curated by Katerina Gregos, Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) explores the impact of digital technology and capitalism on human relationships, examining how the Internet and social media have transformed love and social interactions. A brilliant exhibition that explores the pathologies associated with the commodificatio...
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Food & Drink | Nov 2022
Long a favourite of museum visitors and ladies-who-lunch, the Benaki Museum restaurant on Koumpari Street welcomes visitors to its renewed space, with extended hours and a new aesthetic that channels the legendary Fofi’s restaurant in Berlin. With inspiring art by Alexis Akrithakis, and letters and works by his iconic peers who visited hi...
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News | Oct 2022
What: The Meet Market is a two day ‘nomadic marketplace’ that celebrates the creativity and ingenuity of Athens' many local entrepreneurs. Its fresh and alternative style entices interesting characters to enjoy their well-made products & concepts, with artful promotion, in a fun, lively, musical setting, open to all. Every season it attracts mo...
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City Life | Oct 2022
Join Dimitris Paleocrassas, curator of Dream On for a tour of NEON’s exhibition at the former Public Tobacco Factory as he shares an in-depth understanding of the themes and ideas addressed in the exhibition with visitors.
What: Dream On brings together 18 large-scale installations from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection by Greek ...
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Culture | Oct 2022
The Blender Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary in style with a group show exhibition, Shapes Of Stories. 15 contemporary ceramic artists who use ceramics in radical ways to reshape the medium, allow us to witness the sheer versatility of their craft. Drawing inspiration from ancient traditions while pushing the boundaries of what ceramics wor...
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Travel | Oct 2022
Start planning for Elefsina. With its empty factories and oil refineries, a line of tankers pointing the way around Salamina, its easy to forget that this seaside city was the most hallowed site of Ancient Athens. The city that represents nothing less than the eternal cycle of life and death is now the European Capital of Culture 2023. If...
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