Curated by Kostas Prapoglou, the exhibition takes place from October 8 to November 16, 2025, at the Express Facility — a long-inactive space within the airport complex.
The exhibition "All Aboard", featuring 40 artists from different generations and countries, marks the first initiative in Greece — and one of the few worldwide — where a large-scale contemporary art exhibition is presented within an active airport. The chosen venue, the Express Facility, is a building located alongside the western runway for take-offs and landings.
The airport, as both a geographical and psychological crossroad, is transformed into a site of experience. Within its waiting halls and corridors, narratives of departure, transition, and return are inscribed. Waiting becomes a liminal state — an experience without beginning or end — where time gains elasticity and art expands consciousness.
Greek and international artists present installations, sculptures, videos, paintings, and performative works that breathe new life into the building as an “archive of suspended intentions,” transforming it into a field of reflection. The sound of aircraft and airport announcements becomes a poetic substrate, conversing with the works and highlighting the traveler as a fragmented, quantified entity — one under constant “reading.”
All aboard focuses not on the destination, but on the in-between. It explores the experience of travel as allegory — as an inner journey where identity is reconfigured, space becomes a field of memory, and art invites the visitor to redefine their position not as passenger, but as co-creator of an existential landscape. The exhibition seeks to transform a utilitarian infrastructure — the airport — into an ark that activates dialogue between artistic practice, society, and public space.
Participating Artists:
Anna Ampariotou, Alexandra Athanassiadi, Anna Andarti, Klitsa Antoniou, John Baldessari, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Robert Cahen, Aikaterini Gegisian, Irini Gonou, Susan Daboll, Maya Deren, Olafur Eliasson, Sofia Zarari, Rosa Zeidan, Eleni Zouni, Michal Heiman, Elia Iliadi, Annita Kalimeri, Vassilis Karakatsanis, Lizi Kalligá, Jenny Marketou, Varvara Mavrakaki, Arianna Oikonomou, Michail Parlamas, Ada Petranaki, Lia Petrou, Lina Pigadioti, Yulia Pinkusevich, Evi Savvaïdi, Ismini Samanidou, Ridley Scott, Dimitra Skandali, Nadia Skordopoulou, Jesse Leroy Smith, Marianna Strapatsaki, Tonoptik, Nikos Tranos, Klairi Tsalouchidi–Chatzimina, Theophilos Chatzimichail, Francesca Woodman
All Aboard
Curator: Kostas Prapoglou
Organized by: artefact athens
Duration: October 9 – November 16, 2025
Venue: EXPRESS FACILITY, Athens International Airport
Opening: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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Anna Ampariotou, Memorabilia, 2025
