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What's On | Sep 2022
An exhibition that marks the centennial anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe at the Benaki Museum, that showcases the everyday life and the extraordinary events that led to one of the most painful displacements in the past century.
The Benaki Museum and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies are co-organising this large commemorativ...
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What's On | Sep 2022
A cultural wave is breaking over central Athens, distinctly placing the city on the European modern art map. Artist Kyvèli Zoi is one of the young, creative game-changers. In conversation with Athens Insider’s Elena Panayides, she shares her journey of artful expression from her downtown Exarcheia artspace and studio KYAN Athens.
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People | Jun 2022
It’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 ...
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Culture | Dec 2021
Τhe Blender Gallery presents The Inside Out Ceremony, a solo exhibition of self-portraits, wall sculptures, installations and artworks by painter and engraver Anna Charaktinou. Her preferred medium is paper - which she turns into a labyrinthine journey, full of personal discoveries.
What: Charaktinou draws inspiration from the...
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City Life | Nov 2021
BAFTA and multi-award winning artist Alison Jackson explores how photography, the cult of celebrity, the media and the internet have transformed our relationship to what is real. On the eve of her upcoming exhibition in Athens, where she presents her ‘never seen before’ Disaster Series and her director’s cut video from the exclusive Dura...
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What's On | Nov 2021
What: For the first time in Athens, Alison Jackson, a contemporary BAFTA and multi-award-winning artist, exhibits a retrospect of her unique photography and video works. Jackson’s work explores one of the most important topics of our time: ‘’Can we believe what we see in a mediated world of screens, imagery and the internet?’’ She comments on our ...
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Culture | Nov 2021
What: An exhibition of oil paintings on canvas and works on paper created by artist Alexandros Georgiou in New York and Athens from 2017 to the present. The works present a multicolored world, in which mysterious creatures reside and interact, at times anthropomorphic and at others not, as if from the subconscious. Using oil paints and marker pens...
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News | Nov 2021
Four Greek artists celebrate the heroic effort of its citizens and philhellenes to secure its independence 200 years ago, with an evocative exhibition in New Delhi and a spate of events across Northern India. This is India's 75th anniversary since its independence and as the world's oldest and largest democracies, Greece and India have mu...
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Culture | Nov 2021
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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Culture | Jun 2021
What: ANTI-STRUCTURE, Curated by Andreas Melas
Anti-Structure explores the far-fetched realm of fine lines between order and chaos, stasis and flux, structure and fragility. Taking an immersive installation by Urs Fischer as a starting point, and placing it in dialogue with the works of twenty-one Greek and Cypriot, the exhibition explores ...
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Culture | Jun 2021
What: Make time to take in NEON's exhibition Portals curated by Elina Kountouri, Director, ΝΕΟΝ and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago featuring works by 59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new works commissioned by NEON at the impressive Public Tobacco Factory Complex.
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