Exhibitions
City Life | May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month.
New Contemporary Art Installations at SNFCC
This month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and eng...
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People | Mar 2023
Curator and artist Dimitrios Antonitsis has always been an experimenter: from photography to ceramics to aluminum sculptures, he has been the creative force behind the Hydra Schools Projects, an international platform for the visual arts supporting emerging artists. Held annually since 2000, the Hydra School Project showcases the work of ...
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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 | Nov 2021
Most of us us would have swept away autumnal leaves being shed by stubborn indoor plants without a second thought. Kanella Arapoglou thought otherwise, painstakingly embroidering each of them with colourful strands, lending new life to something that was in decay. Her friend, the talented photographer Manos Chatzikonstantis, decided to ca...
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City Life | Oct 2021
The Museum of Modern Greek Culture, housed in 18 fully restored buildings from the late 19th and early 20th century in the Plaka district, opens its doors to the public for the first time by hosting the Athens Digital Arts Festival. In its 17th edition, the Festival seamlessly ties in the old and the new, by creating a digital village in ...
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What's On | Oct 2020
WHAT: The first exhibition of "Mon Coin Studio", launched by Eleonore Trenado-Finestis, a French ceramist. This exhibition of 35 artists will cross the boundary between art and craft to show the influence of the past in modern ceramics. This work takes its roots in classical antiquity, the Minoan civilization, Cycladic art or even the works of prim...
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What's On | Sep 2020
WHAT: 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...
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What's On | Sep 2020
WHAT: 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...
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What's On | Sep 2020
WHAT: 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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