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...
Read moreJoin 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 ...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreStart 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...
Read moreHer sculptural forms feel like moving pieces of fine art. She painstakingly twists and contorts silk into new forms and shapes that make for stunning showmanship and thought-provoking personal self-expression. Daphne Valente’s sculpted works of wearable art are as timeless in their sophistication as the designer herself. Visit the prieste...
Read moreFollowing last year's powerful exhibition Reality Check Chapter II: Inner Sanctum, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, returns to the same place with 36 artists seeking through contemporary art, answers to new questions, figments of a dialogue between artists and viewers; a dialogue that has been unfolding unceasingly since the exhibition gave a...
Read moreWhat: For a second consecutive year, NEON and the Hellenic Parliament activate the emblematic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory to present Dream On, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Art historian Dimitris Paleocrassas, that brings together 18 large-scale installations by Greek and international artists, as well as a newly commi...
Read moreWhat: Iranian-born, Paris-based architect and designer India Mahdavi calls herself “a polyglot and a polychrome”, implying that she uses many different design languages and loves bringing colours together in brave new combinations. At her current exhibition at Carwan, she sticks to classical white. Notable for referencing disparate cultures and di...
Read moreIt’s hard to deny that there’s something about Greece that delights the natural born nomad’s soul, and the British painter John Craxton was no exception. Finally deserting the icy drawing rooms of post-war Britain, Craxton first arrived in Greece in 1946, aged 23, unsure what he was looking for or what he would find. He was already known ...
Read moreLouise Bourgeois iconic giant spider — one of the works that made the artist internationally famous — will be on display at SNFCC’s Esplanade for a seven-month period, with free entry to the public. The first artist to receive a commission for the London’s Tate Modern, her stainless steel, 30ft sculpture of a spider carrying marble eggs,...
Read moreWhat: An inspiring group exhibition titled, “Open-ended”, celebrates the unique value of the work in progress and the beauty of the incomplet. The exhibition brings together a wide spectrum of techniques and materials that highlight the artistic process; the inception of a creative idea, what strikes the imagination, and all the variou...
Read moreWhat: A group exhibition that brings together richly varied works by three generations of international, regional, and local artists. Their works reflect on the poetic power of ruins and fragments—in the city of Athens, a thriving contemporary metropolis charged with the traces of ancient histories. The exhibition features different forms of inn...
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