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This is the first solo exhibition in Greece by world-renowned British artist…
This is the first solo exhibition by Kalliopi Lemos and presents her new group of sculptures, with large-scale steel works. Space is transformed into an environment for contemplation formed like a bee-hive.
The exhibition includes the majority of Dimitris Pikionis’s oeuvre, both in painting and architecture, acquired by the Benaki Museum due to a major donation by the Pikionis family.
The first portion of the exhibition presents his paintings oeuvre in the groups he himself designated: From Nature, Recollections of Paris, Antiquities, Byzantine, Imaginary, Folk pieces. Painting was [...]
The exhibition represents the first occasion that particularly significant visual arts works from the internationally renowned Prinzhorn Collection of the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Heidelberg are shown in Greece.
Lecture by Peter Sapp, member of the austrian architectural firm Querkraft Architekten, which constitutes part of
Photographs by Lizzie Calligas in the old Acropolis Museum solidify and record – with the artist’s idiosyncratic artistic gaze – a transitional condition:
A showing of works by Georgia Gremouti will introduce the series of exhibitions entitled Material Quests, which will be organised by and at the Benaki Museum Shop at the Piraios Street Annexe.
The group of works presented by the artist, eloquently entitled Change of Identity, using everyday materials which she then transforms, has as it’s starting [...]
Painting 1960-2010
The Makis Theofylaktopoulos retrospective presents, for the very first time, pieces from the entirety of his artistic progress, from 1965 to the present day.
The works, oils and drawings, are drawn from all the various periods of his artistic output: the first period when he created unconventional pieces in the nineteen sixties, the motorcyclists and [...]
Locus Solus is performance based installation project based on Raymond Roussel’s novel Locus Solus (Solitary or Unique Place, 1914), in which a scientist fits out his luxurious laboratories in a villa near Paris, each room demonstrating one of the ingenious inventions of his encyclopaedic mind.
Locus Solus represents the spaces and exhibits of a museum of inventions/cabinet of curiosities.
