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An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. Retrospective
Retrospective of Greek artist Niki Kanagini (1933-2008), from tapestries to participatory installations, with works from a promised family gift.
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Among Niki Kanagini's papers was Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to Things", and the show borrows its title and its closing idea: things "were so close that they were a part of my being." She spent four decades turning tapestry, handwriting and everyday objects into stores of memory.
On Floor 3 it runs from the large tapestries she first showed at the Lausanne biennale in 1971 to the participatory installations of her later years, some reactivated for this show. The floor of Rose, Blue, Teal (1979) was remade for it, and works promised to EMST by her family are shown for the first time. She addressed some of her Manuscripts to "potential viewers and readers", and the museum casts you as both.
This Is Athens pitches it as post-war Greek art "beyond the usual names". It's on the museum ticket (€10, reduced €5, free for 12 and under) until 14 February 2027. Thursdays run to 22:00, and the first Thursday of the month (next: 3 December) is free from 18:00.
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Large tapestries first shown at the Lausanne biennale in 1971 lead to participatory installations, some reactivated, and a remade floor for Rose, Blue, Teal (1979). This Is Athens calls it post-war Greek art "beyond the usual names".
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Children 12 and under get in free, and every floor is step-free with lifts.
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- An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. RetrospectiveCourtesy of EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art
- Eugenia Vereli, Cycladic Café Art ProjectPhoto: Yannis Kouskoutis, © Museum of Cycladic Art
- Belle ÉpoqueCourtesy of Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation (Athens)
- Grand TourCourtesy of Benaki Museum of Greek Culture
- EMST National Museum of Contemporary ArtEMST Athens / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Byzantine and Christian MuseumG.dallorto / Wikimedia Commons
- Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation (Athens)Sp!ros / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Benaki Museum of Greek CultureGeorge E. Koronaios / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0