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Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation exhibition at DESTE Foundation, Athens

DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)Nea Ionia

Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation

Azken aukera2026(e)ko ekainaren 18(a) – 2026(e)ko azaroaren 26(a)Ordainpekoa, ikusi webgunea

Group show of 49 artists born 1960 to 1980 from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with the New Museum.

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You walk in on a couple kissing, filmed in one slow pan: Douglas Gordon's Monument for X (1998). Nearby, David Shrigley's black octagonal sign announces Tomorrow is Cancelled, and an office worker in a Gillian Wearing photograph holds up a card that says "I'm desperate."

Everything comes from Dakis Joannou's collection: 49 artists born between 1960 and 1980, chosen by Massimiliano Gioni of New York's New Museum. Instead of describing the works, the wall texts quote Gen X books, films and songs, from Richard Linklater's Slacker to Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel. For a generation billed as forgotten, the list includes Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson and Chris Ofili.

ArtReview's Stephanie Bailey found some works "sharply contemporary" but said the show at times feels like a "greatest hits" of past DESTE exhibitions, and that its argument "unravels" over the contradictions it leaves out. It is open Tuesday to Thursday, 12:00 to 20:00, in a former sock factory in Nea Ionia, and closes on 26 November.

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You walk in on Douglas Gordon's slow pan around a kissing couple, near David Shrigley's sign Tomorrow is Cancelled. ArtReview found some works "sharply contemporary" and the show at times a "greatest hits" of past DESTE exhibitions.

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  • Monument for X

    Douglas Gordon's 1998 video opens the show with a slow camera pan around a couple kissing.

  • Tomorrow is Cancelled

    David Shrigley's black octagonal sign, with the title crudely scrawled across it.

  • The "I'm desperate" photograph

    From Gillian Wearing's Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say series (1992 to 93): an office worker holding up a sign reading "I'm desperate."

  • Cheryl Donegan's HEAD

    A 1993 video in which the artist drinks milk spurting from a green bottle.

  • Andra Ursuța's pink marble statue

    Commerce Exterieur Mondial Sentimental (2017) is carved from a 2011 photograph of a Roma woman waiting to be deported from France.

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You want art beyond the West: ArtReview found the show's frame of reference mostly Western.

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