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Colour Red

Alekos
Kyrarinis
Colour Red
June 5 - July 26, 2025
Athens
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CITRONNE Gallery – Athens presents "Colour Red", a solo exhibition by Alekos Kyrarinis, opening on Thursday, June 5. The exhibition features works created over the past two years and marks a new chapter in the artist’s ongoing exploration of form and symbolism.

In his own words: "In my new exhibition, entitled "Colour Red", I am trying to find a new creative condition, a tactical move to restore the artist’s love for this primary colour itself. Visitors will come across figures, angels, dragons, abstract or less abstract compositions. They will encounter works that oscillate between the heights and the depths of an artistic behaviour whose sole objective is a mature, almost conclusive art that strays, at the same time, towards the foundational, the new, and the playful - just like a child who prefers to draw with one colour only."

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Wood Wide Web

Christina
Mitrentse
Wood Wide Web
April 2 – May 31, 2025
Athens
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CITRONNE Gallery presents Christina Mitrentse’s solo exhibition "Wood Wide Web". The gallery space is transformed through the artist’s painting and sculptural installation into a peculiar forest environment, where visitors are invited to enter.

Christina Mitrentse is an interdisciplinary artist who incorporates elements from her research in forestry and mycology into her practice. In recent years, her work has revolved around the physical axis and the conceptual chain "Forest – Tree - Trunk - Paper - Book - Fungus - Mycorrhiza - Decomposition - Regeneration", which she initiated in London in 2005. The exhibition "Wood Wide Web" incorporates all the creative manifestations of the same theme. Mitrentse’s forest is composed of paintings and sculptures made from old books, collages of "controversial" books and, likewise, poisonous mushrooms, tree-trunk seats where mushroom-books sprout from.

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Asterisks in my mouth

Myrto
Xanthopoulou
Asterisks in my mouth
February 27 – March 29, 2025
Athens
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CITRONNE Gallery – Athens presents the solo exhibition-installation "Asterisks in my Mouth" by Myrto Xanthopoulou. “The asterisks that reside in the mouth are only a few millimeters away from the light and a few millimeters away from the darkness.” This is how Myrto Xanthopoulou explains the title of her exhibition.

Language serves as the conceptual and tangible foundation of her works—whether implicitly or as a direct record of a living expression, yet without a coherent thread. It is, therefore, an explicit language, a composition of scattered sounds and images—elements that immerse the viewer in the structured “confusion” of our times. At the same time, there is a visible effort, at times even a struggle, to find meaning between the two lived languages (Finnish and Greek) that have shaped the artist’s identity.

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The Dreamlike and the Dream: the Pollinators of Life

Afroditi
Liti
The Dreamlike and the Dream: the Pollinators of Life
December 12, 2024 – February 15, 2025
Athens
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CITRONNE Gallery Athens, is hosting the exhibition-installation “The Dreamlike and the Dream: the Pollinators of Life” by the sculptor Afroditi Liti. This gallery builds on the past collaborations with the sculptor in Poros, at her atelier and at the Archaeological Museum of Poros. Afroditi Liti considers dreams “pollinators of life”. They convey memories, desires, hopes, and fears as well as visions of stillness, tranquillity and distant bliss. They are based on memories, traditions, myths, and narratives; lived experiences which she credits to her family and childhood. This is how our life is nourished, how the burden and the –often unattainable– desires that govern the sensed world are mitigated.

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I think I made you up inside my head

Nina
Papaconstantinou
I think I made you up inside my head
October 31 – December 7, 2024
Athens
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The title of the exhibition refers to Sylvia Plath's poem “Mad Girl's Love Song” and makes allusion to the starting point and source of the exhibited works, in which the artist uses excerpts from poetry and prose written by female writers. Papaconstantinou’s approach is rather atypical: she could have produced thematic or artistic versions of the texts; instead, she opts for their manual transformation, in order to “make up inside her head” and ultimately deliver through combination –the interweaving of different excerpts– a visual perception of words and a new reading. 

In terms of narrative, the exhibition unfolds into two sets of wall-mounted works, a four- part drawing and a bound work that draws from Virginia Woolf's diary entries when she was writing “Mrs Dalloway”. The exhibition ends as a description-narration and a part of the “workshop”, namely the editing process, is revealed to viewers.

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Mythistories II

Mythistories II
Group Exhibition
September 12 - October 21, 2024
Athens

Alexandra Athanassiades
Lydia Delikoura
Iasonas Kampanis
Katerina Katsifarakis
Alekos Kyrarinis
Tasos Mantzavinos
Petros Moris
Nikos Podias
Nana Sachini

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Mythistory, a term used in science, literature, and art, reflects the relationship between the imaginary and the real, the natural and the supernatural, the rational narrative and the absurd fairy tale. It intertwines different, sometimes even contradictory, spheres of existence. History represents knowledge, while Myth signifies transcendence.

The nine artists—Alexandra Athanassiades, Lydia Delikoura, Iasonas Kampanis, Katerina Katsifarakis, Alekos Kyrarinis, Tasos Mantzavinos, Petros Moris, Nikos Podias, and Nana Sachini—form a collective vision around the individual and shared concepts of Myth and History. In the second part of the exhibition in Athens, the participating artists expand on the theme, either through new ad hoc creations or by reinterpreting earlier historical works.

Mythistories unfold sequentially from one work to another, forming a cohesive whole while maintaining the distinct narrative identity of each artist.

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