An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. Retrospective

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.