What’s On
City Life | Feb 2025
What: Starting March 5th, Via Maris kicks off a vibrant new tradition—an art-infused evening on the first Wednesday of each month. Each edition will spotlight a different artist, whose work will be printed live and offered to guests, while the menu transforms into a pinchos-only experience, setting the stage for a laid-back, social atmosphere.
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What's On | Feb 2025
What: Kalfayan Galleries present the group exhibition titled “Shaped By Earth”. The exhibition opening is on Thursday, February 27, 2025.
The exhibition “Shaped by Earth” at Kalfayan Galleries reflects upon the timeless importance of clay as a medium of artistic creation. Ceramics are ranked among the oldest forms of art, while ceramic artifacts...
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City Life | Feb 2025
In his first exhibit in Greece, Romauld Hazoumè explores post-colonial legacies and contemporary issues across different mediums. The Gagosian welcomes the artist and his unique vision.
Gagosian is hosting works by artist Romuald Hazoumè. Working across numerous mediums, Hazoumè engages with the postcolonial legacies and...
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What's On | Jan 2025
What: A recent donation to the Benaki Museum, with objects mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya, acted as trigger to collect stories of people of African descent born or living in Greece. “Africa Amongst us*” is a participatory exhibition that gives voice and visibility to the Afro-diasporic communities in Greece, designed of, by and for over th...
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What's On | Jan 2025
What: James Franco & Kalup Linzy
Dreams, Fame and the Savage
The Breeder presents “Dreams, Fame and the Savage”, an exhibition by internationally acclaimed video and performance artist Kalup Linzy and Academy Award-nominated actor, producer, writer and visual artist James Franco. The show features newly created collaborative works alongside...
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City Life | Jan 2025
Ready to lose yourself in the warm, crackling sound of vinyl? The city's most beloved record fair is back at Technopolis, promising a weekend of pure musical bliss.
Bigger, bolder, and packed with treasures, this season’s Vinyl Market is a paradise for collectors and casual listeners alike. Whether you're hunting for rare find...
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Culture | Dec 2024
What: The Breeder presents Transmutation, an exhibition by Margarita Myrogianni. Her new works examine the interplay between the body and art. At the core of the show is a captivating series of artistic jewelry, where the opulence of nature merges seamlessly with the essence of the everyday.
Drawing inspiration from a tradition of artists who em...
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Culture | Dec 2024
What: Jacques Leleu and Nikos Koutsopoulos documented people working on antique machinery, gathering valuable visual material for one of the oldest artisanal and commercial enterprises in Greece, NEMA. An insight into the passementerie tradition and Greece's industrial history.
Frequent visitors to the Benaki Museum / Mentis – Antonopoulos (‘N...
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Culture | Nov 2024
WHAT'S ON:
The Breeder, Athens
The Breeder proudly unveils MIRRORS, Maria Hassabi's much-anticipated second solo exhibition with the gallery. With her signature ability to blur the tangible and the ephemeral, Hassabi invites viewers into a meditative exploration of how images—both physical and metaphorical—shape our perception of reality.
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Culture | Nov 2024
Award-winning artist Thomas Schütte follows his widely successful MoMA exhibtion with a solo show at the Bernier-Eliades Gallery. In Thomas Schütte’s world, delicate watercolors, towering figurative sculptures, vibrant ceramics, architectural models, and fully constructed buildings coexist as explorations of aesthetics, history, and cultu...
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Culture | Nov 2024
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...
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City Life | Nov 2024
by 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...
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