The Sanctuaries Deep Within Us
Tenia Christopoulou discusses her peripatetic memoir and debut publication, Lords of the Dance with Sudha Nair-Iliades. A compelling read, Lords...
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What to see and do in Athens this December
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Athens. Almost as a rea...
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Alexandros Georgiou colour-soaked child-like paint...
What: An exhibition of oil paintings on canvas and works on paper created by ar...
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Art Athina virtual: Get into your viewing room now!
What: Athens' contemporary art fair pivots into cyberspace after the pandemic and goes virtual with a roster of multidisciplinary programmes featuring performance, new media space, live talks and a podcast series. Expect to see 1100 artworks by 400 artists represented by 70 galleries showcasing Athens' vibrant art scene. The online event culminat...
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Philippe Malouin’s radical designs at the Breeder
The Breeder hosts Philippe Malouin for his first solo exhibition in Athens. As a product and furniture designer whose radical approach to design involves scavenging metal scrapyards for salvageable material, Philippe Malouin’s works are at a junction between craftsmanship, sculpture and industrial design. In this new body of work, he expl...
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Sigve Knutson at Carwan Gallery
Working intuitively with hands-on techniques and a wide range of materials, young Norwegian designer Sigve Knutson creates objects that question contemporary mass-produced design. After presenting the critically acclaimed solo project Drawn to Production with Carwan Gallery during Milan Design Week in 2017, Knutson presents a new solo sho...
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Songs of Clay – A Journey Through Ceramics at Shila
Fourteen Greek and international artists have been given free rein to interact with the the charming Shila's interiors, situating their works organically within its rooms, salons, corridors, and exteriors. Versatile in texture and form, these works range from the whimsical to the sacred, where each piece takes on new meaning. This time-se...
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Meta: Infusing life into decomposed nature
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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1821 Before and After: Experience a Complete Panorama of Modern Hellenism at the Benaki Museum
With a whopping 1,200 exhibits spread across the 2,500 square metres of the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street site, “1821 Before and After” is the most extensive exhibition ever presented on modern Hellenism. Make a date to see this comprehensive panorama of a pivotal century in Greek history now. [caption id="attachment_9...
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Greek National Opera
What: This Greek National Opera production, based on a famous novel by Nikolai Leskov - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - and directed by French actress Fanny Ardant, is an operatic treatise on the status of women in provincial pre-revolutionary Russia. Dmitri Shostakovich’s stirring music evokes their plight. When: From October 10 to October ...
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Kallos: Retracing the Definition of Beauty at the Cycladic Museum
What: The Museum of Cycladic Art celebrates beauty through 300 exceptional antiquities from Museums and Collections in Greece and abroad. The ancient Greek word Kállos essentially means beauty and is associated with both the female and the male sex. However, the concept of Kállos in its ultimate dimension is not a word signifying me...
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Why you should make time to see “Reality Check,” an on-site exhibition at the Psychiatric Hospital in Dafni
A bare, raw, deeply personal and disturbing exhibition that we should all make time for. Dr Kostas Prapoglou, who curated the exhibition, prods, probes, provokes, arouses emotions and evokes reactions in directions you may not be willing to examine or anticipate. Make time. Dig deep. ‘Imagination is the only weapon i...
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