Forced displacement and population exchange in 20th century
19/09/2012 – 25/11/2012

Artist’s Jewellery
to 02/09/12

Catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name…

The exhibition focuses on Manolis Charos’s take on Aesop’s Fables…

Photographs of Grecian Antiquities, 1853-1854

For the International Tourist Guides Day (February 21nd),

An installation by artist Stratos Kavalieratos located outdoors at the Main Building of the Benaki Museum: sculptures that convert wind energy into motion and provide an unanticipated visual diversion.

The exhibition presents the work of a renowned 15th-century painter, Angelos Akotantos, who lived in Venetian-held Crete. The artist was a prominent member of society during his life and a significant number of icons bearing the signature The Hand of Angelos has been preserved, along with his hand-written will, which brings into focus his personality. [...]

A study of the concept of theatricality outside the confines of a stage

The exhibition attempts to create a discourse between recorded history and that which remains unwritten, between the official story and the traces of small everyday stories through time;

The exhibition contains a group of twenty paintings from the art collection of the Emboriki Bank of Greece. It offers the public an opportunity to see up-close a representative sample of the oeuvre of this painter from Mytilene, which records in his characteristic manner his involvement with painting. The works in the collection include a selection [...]