Myrto Xanthopoulou presents her solo exhibition ‘eternal fan’ at the MOMus – Alex Mylona Museum in Athens, from 10 September to 25 October 2026. The exhibition is part of the Art Athina 2025 Young Artist Award, with which the artist was honoured.
Language as an expressive medium and tool lies at the heart of the artist’s explorations and experimentation. Myrto Xanthopoulou assembles an idiosyncratic archive of words and expressions, improvised poems and fragmentary sentences that evoke imagined everyday dialogues or elliptical inner monologues, while she is equally fascinated by semantic misunderstandings, puns and linguistic play.
At the same time, she systematically collects all kinds of consumable and construction materials, different types of paper, which she works on using adhesives, acrylics and spray paint, as well as disposable objects from the city, her home and her studio. These used materials—the discarded remnants of everyday life—become, alongside language, the primary “materials” of her compositions. Her compositions emerge through a laborious and time-consuming process that always requires her direct physical engagement.
Drawings, installations and constructions, of medium and large scale, come together to form a narrative within a unified visual environment. The works are almost precariously unsupported, and therein lies their strength: in the need to stand, even within a condition of instability and uncertainty.
The exhibition is presented as part of the programming partnership between the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries, and Art Athina for the Young Artist Award, with the aim of supporting and promoting the work of emerging contemporary artists.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, supported by Art Athina.
Curator: Giannis Bolis, Art Historian, Head of the Department of Contemporary Sculpture, MOMus – Alex Mylona Museum
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Installation view
