Art appointments in September – Exhibitions not to be missed

After short or long vacations, the prospect of returning to the closed city can become attractive to the art-loving, and not only, public, with artistic appointments that enter the agenda from the end of September.

In this way, APE-MPE gathered the first important exhibitions of the autumn that are expected in Eleonas, in the Butterfly factory, in the Benaki Museum of Piraeus, some others that continue and of course in Zappeion the anniversary Art Athina 2023.

In Eleonas from 29/09 to 10/12

The expected major exhibition “Elaionas ’23 – Chthonian and Anthropocene” examines the various critical and complex situations, the dipoles that dominate the region, the relationship between the past and the present and vice versa. Through the works of 35 artists and a rich public program, performances and actions. It is edited by journalist and museologist Dimitris Trikas.

It focuses on the Xthonian and the Anthropocene, the conflict but also the conversation of the two elements, with Eleonas as a point of fulfillment and reference.

The exhibition spaces are developed in the urban area where Marconi Street, as the “border” of the Municipality of Athens with the Municipality of Aigaleo, intersects the Holy Road. There are the archaeological site with the foundations of the ancient bridge of Kifissos, the Metro station, containers and warehouses on the adjacent STASY plot, the “Souzi Tros” site of Maria Papadimitriou, the neighborhood of Elaion, etc.

“In other words, we will find ourselves where the fertile soil of Eleonas of Peisistratos met, the fertile soil of rural Attica of recent years – up to the sixties – and the “dead land” handed over by the human use/economy of the last almost sixty years to the present day with the upcoming… “gentrification” of the area” states the curatorial note. “These spaces will function as fields of research and modern Wunderkammer, which through the works and discussions will narrate and interpret old and new stories of the people and the cities of the Sacred Way through the conversation and the co-existence in from the disasters and the transformations of the landscape and the human geography of the region”.

The public program of the exhibition will utilize the conversation of contemporary art, archival and photographic material from the wider region of the geologist, visual photographer Manias Benisi and Maria Papadimitriou, the scientific discourse of the speakers, with the aim of highlighting the stratigraphic background of of the Athenian metropolis and the anthropogenic imprint that continues to exist in the sense and body of the city.

Art Athina in Zappeion from 14/9 to 17/9

Renewed, with a different structure and new staff, Art Athina 2023 celebrates its 30th birthday. In this edition, it will host a total of 67 art spaces from Greece and nine foreign countries. A specially designed space will be dedicated to the anniversary album for the thirty years of Art Athina published by the organizer Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries, edited by Yiannis Asdrachas. Among other things, two separate entries will be of particular interest to design fans: the “In Conversation with a Chair” exhibition by Mare Studio, in the context of which the chair – an ordinary utilitarian object – is transformed into an exhibit and takes us on a journey through the Greek tradition, design and craftsmanship summarizing over 100 years of history, with the signature of Greek creators.

As well as the Zappeion Garden x BlueCycle project exhibition. BlueCycle is the only Greek blue and circular economy social company that holistically addresses the goal of protecting the marine environment. As part of Art Athina, BlueCycle will create an integrated garden project with furniture and objects bearing its artistic and environmentally positive imprint. A specially designed space will be dedicated to the anniversary album for the 30 years of Art Athina published by the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries edited by Yiannis Asdrachas.

At the Butterfly factory from 21/9 to 22/10

At the historical factory of Mouzaki Textiles “Petalouda”, at 41 Kifissou Avenue, the promising exhibition entitled “the Butterfly Effect”, inspired and curated by Kostas Prapoglou. The exhibition will operate on specific days and hours. Details are awaited.

At the Benaki Museum of Piraeus from 21/9 to 14/1/2024

The announced retrospective exhibition on the work of Giorgos Chatzimihalis will be presented in two parts, which will be extended to all the exhibition spaces of the building. PART ONE of the exhibition will run from 9/21 to 11/5 and PART TWO from 2/113 to 1/14/2024.

In the interim, specifically on the weekends of November 11, 12 and 18, 19, 2023, the exhibition space will remain open so that the public has the opportunity to watch the transition and experience the behind-the-scenes of setting up an exhibition.

The works record the artist’s 56-year creative journey. At the exhibition, works will also be presented to the public for the first time. George Hatzimichalis is one of the most important artists of his generation. His work is multifaceted and often consists of large sections. It investigates memory, the importance of the archive and the relationship between the past and contemporary visual reality. To create a work, he often uses many different media, alongside painting, such as video, photos, texts, prints, etc. The two-dimensional space of the painting expands into the third dimension and the resulting spaces allow the viewer to experience the image as it is shaped by the experience of life in the postmodern condition.

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“Elefsina mon amour” until 30/9

Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour | 2023 ELEVSIS

Those who did not catch the big artistic event of the Elefsina Cultural Capital in July in the middle of the heat, have the opportunity until September 30 to visit it. In the Old Olive Mill, in the restored warehouses, “Elefsina mon amour” with works by 16 artists is in a way “the symbolic portrait of Elefsina, a society in transition. The exhibition runs through the shipwreck and the reflection on how communities can be formed after an industrial trauma” according to Katerina Gregou, who curated the exhibition.

“Astigraphy” at the National Gallery until 3/3/2024

Urbanography in the National Gallery

Group exhibition that, through works of painting, sculpture, photography and cinema, seeks to highlight the experience of the city, Athens, as interpreted by the artists of the 1950s-1970s. At the center is the way man participates or resists the new condition dictated by his ever-changing environment. The first periodical exhibition with which the director of the National Gallery, Syrago Tsiara, inaugurated the new program.