The publication 'What is an Art Book? Vol. 4' will be launched in Munich on February 25th, 2026, at Gallerie J.J.Heckenhauer, and in London on March 31st, 2026, at the artist-led space Studio 1.1.

The project 'What is an Art Book?' was initiated in 2011 by the artist-led contemporary art project ‘The Modern Language Experiment’ in response to Artist Book Weekend at Whitechapel Gallery. Since then, further editions have followed in London and New York, with distribution across a wide network of institutions.

This fourth edition once again asks the deceptively simple question, 'What is an art book?', inviting artists, makers, curators, and academics from Munich, London, and beyond to respond within the shared format of A4 black and white pages, reflecting on the evolving landscape of art-making and publishing.

In the foreword to the volume, Hubert Kretschmer—artist, curator, and founder of AAP Archive Artist Publications in Munich— examines whether this publication positions itself as an artists’ book, an art book, or both.

The volume is published by icon Verlag.

Cover of the publication ‘What is an Art Book? Vol.4’

The group exhibition 'Women’s Matters', organized by the Municipality of Larissa at the Municipal Art Gallery - G.I. Katsigras Museum, curated by art historian Bia Papadopoulou, will open to the public on February 21, 2026. Thirty-three Greek women artists from various places, epochs and generations, using different expressive media, compose an artistic anthropological narrative around the social role and the position of women.

Participating artists: Artemis Alcalay, Εleni Boukouri-Altamoura, Annita Argiroiliopoulou, Ria Dama Katerina Diakomi, Eleni Exarchou, Mary Zygouri, Demi Kaia, Thaleia Flora-Karavia, Katerina Katsifaraki, Sofia Laskaridou, Georgia Lale, Despina Meimaroglou, Katerina Mertzani, Jeny Bampali, Lina Bebi, Emilia Bouriti, Anita Xanthou, Leda Papaconstantinou, Nina Papaconstantinou, Margarita Petrova, Makrina Prousali, Christina Mitrentse, Aspa Stassinopoulou, Eliza Soroga, Fani Sofologi|Slobodanka Stupar, Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Kleopatra Tsali, Rena Tsitota, Efi Fouriki, Maria Adromachi Chatzinikolaou, Thalia Chioti

The works by the first three women artists of the newly founded Greek state form the exhibition’s starting point: Eleni Boukouri-Altamoura, Thaleia Flora-Karavia, and Sofia Laskaridou. With their bold, non-conventional conduct, their passion and devotion to art, they opened the path to other female artists in a variety of ways. They enhance the exhibition with a historical background while their oeuvre and lives harmonically intertwine with the show’s conceptual rationale. A dialogue is, thus, established between the past and the present.

'Women’s Matters' is an enlarged evolution of the homonymous exhibition that took place at the Municipal Art Gallery of Athens in 2024, in which seventeen living artists from different generations participated. The project was conceived especially for the Municipal Art Gallery - G.I. Katsigras Museum in relation to its architectural space.

Women’s Matters
Duration: February 21-May 24, 2026
Venue: Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - G.I. Katsigras Museum
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00
Free entrance

Christina Mitrentse's exhibition entry

On Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, at CITRONNE Gallery, artist Maria Oikonomopoulou will discuss the themes and visual language of her solo exhibition 'All Included' in conversation with visual artist Angeliki Douveri.

'All Included' brings together, for the first time, works from all of the artist’s thematic cycles. The exhibition thus unfolds as a cohesive narrative of her practice, conceived as an open-ended inquiry into the delicate balance between the personal and the collective. —examining how we coexist, build relationships, and set boundaries.

Ikonopoulou works with common, everyday materials—paper, thread, fabric, pencil, and wax—which are chosen both for their accessibility and as carriers of memory. These are materials associated with craft, education, and collective practices, reintroduced into the artistic field as mediums of connection, experience, and coexistence.

Her artworks are marked by meticulous, often labor-intensive care, precision, and extraordinarily subtle gestures translated into form. They embody and convey ideals of shared inhabitation of the world. 'All Included' proposes a space for (self-)observation and reflection, where everyday experience becomes a terrain of shared questions.

Artist Talk
Maria Oikonomopoulou in conversation with Angeliki Douveri
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 18:30

Installation view