Expositions à Athènes

Benaki Museum Pireos 138

Portrait photographer Platon's first major museum retrospective in Athens, from world leaders and cultural icons to human rights defenders, plus photographs from Paros.

EMST National Museum of Contemporary ArtPassée

First major museum show on composer Jani Christou (1926-1970), drawn from his archive, shown to the public for the first time.

EMST National Museum of Contemporary ArtPassée

Retrospective of painter Stathis Logothetis (1925-1997): about 70 works and unpublished archive material, his first retrospective since 1994.

DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)

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

Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre (Foundation of the Hellenic World)

Works by about seventy contemporary figurative painters from the Frissiras Collection, plus Vlasis Frissiras's own recent paintings.

Museum of Cycladic Art

Two large fabric and mixed-media works by Eugenia Vereli, drawing on dreams, mythology and folk art, shown in the museum's café.

Benaki Museum of Greek Culture

Seventeen works lent by the UK Government Art Collection, including Thomas Phillips’s portrait of Lord Byron, hung within the permanent display.

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum

About 25 collections of objects Ilias Lalaounis designed between 1970 and 2002, staged as a dining room, living room and study, honouring Lila Lalaounis.

Benaki Museum of Greek CultureGratuit

Odysseas Fokas’s Autumn Landscape and Georgios Roilos’s The Army Officer, shown in the mansion’s reception area.

Benaki Museum of Greek Culture

Benaki objects shown beside their reproductions in the pages of Cahiers d’Art, with an immersive video installation by Natalia Papadopoulou.

National Archaeological Museum

The museum's first solo Kentridge show sets his Orpheus and Eurydice works among kouroi, sphinxes and funerary antiquities.

Megaron Athens Concert Hall (annexM)Gratuit

Site-specific show on people and nature: a disc of raw salt, a light sculpture of the Moon in real phases, and Breathe (2000).

National Archaeological Museum

214 objects from Messenia trace a Mycenaean power centre and the Palace of Nestor at Ano Englianos, with excavation diaries and archival photographs.

Benaki Museum of Greek Culture

Sephardic and Romaniote costumes and objects of worship from the 17th to early 20th century, added to the permanent display.

EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art

Retrospective of Greek artist Niki Kanagini (1933-2008), from tapestries to participatory installations, with works from a promised family gift.

Benaki Museum Pireos 138

Retrospective of painter Alecos Levidis with over five hundred works: color compositions, drawings, book covers, notebooks, murals, installations and stage sets.

Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation (Athens)

About 90 works by 15 artists, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Steinlen and Bonnard, on Parisian posters and life from 1880 to 1900.

B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music

Archive show on architect Christos Papoulias (d. 2024), with drawings, models and his dialogue with artists such as Jannis Kounellis and Brice Marden.

B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music

Kylie Manning's first institutional solo show in Greece, with new works and loans, on the foundation's second floor.

Bathhouse of the Winds

Photographs, documents and survivor interviews on Greek Jewry from liberation to the late 1970s, shown at the Bathhouse of the Winds in Plaka.