Eugenia Fragkolia
Chrysi Papadaki
Aliki Papadimitriou
Natalia Papadopoulou
Nana Sachini
Kostis Velonis
Eugenia Vereli

CITRONNE Gallery inaugurates a new annual series of group exhibitions titled INTERSECTIONS, bringing together works and artists of different generations and artistic approaches. The first exhibition is titled Bidirectional Memory, a theme that refers to the past as it is revisited, reconsidered, or even reconfigured by the present.

The seven participating artists — Eugenia Fragkolia, Chrysi Papadaki, Aliki Papadimitriou, Natalia Papadopoulou, Nana Sachini, Kostis Velonis, and Eugenia Vereli, share the common narrative foundation in mnemonic material, as encountered in children’s toys, fairy tales, the circus, and Commedia dell’Arte, carrying the notion of magic in its dual nature: an alluring fascination as well as a primordial fear. The interplay between these two tendencies largely shapes the subconscious, which evolves and becomes integrated — transformed in one way or another — into these new artistic suggestions.

The artists engage in an ongoing dialogue composed of complementary voices and expressions unfolding throughout the gallery spaces. Emerging from the inner realms of individual childhood memory, they move along a shared path, reconstructing personal references into a transcendent and complementary symmetry within the present.

Yiannis Adamakos
Anna Ampariotou
Dimitris Anastasiou
Yiannis Bouteas
Pantelis Chandris
Panos Charalambous
Steve Gianakos
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Alekos Kyrarinis
George Lappas
Christina Mitrentse
Nina Papaconstantinou
Nikos Podias
Nana Sachini
Myrto Xanthopoulou

CITRONNE Gallery brings together a multifaceted constellation of artists at booth L8 of Art Athina 2025. Established artists—pioneers who have shaped what we understand as contemporary in art today—enter into dialogue with emerging voices, coalescing into a shared whole. Through this presentation, the gallery affirms its commitment to the ongoing evolution of modern and contemporary Greek art, with a focus on the present moment.

Placed alongside historical works by artists whose practice has been marked by major international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, and documenta 14 (G. Lappas, G. Bouteas, P. Charalambous, Y. Adamakos, P. Chandris), visitors will encounter within CITRONNE Gallery’s booth a wall installation conceived in the spirit of the salon (A. Ampariotou, D. Anastasiou, S. Gianakos, M. Ikonomopoulou, A. Kyriarinis, C. Mitrentse, N. Papakonstantinou, N. Podias, N. Sachini, M. Xanthopoulou).

By juxtaposing a historical exhibition model—one that evokes the intimacy of a domestic environment—with large-scale works, the gallery highlights the expansive way in which it envisions its artistic identity. Within this “mosaic-like,” multilayered installation, the multiplicity of artistic lineages emerges as a dynamic interplay of contrasts that ultimately resolves into a synthesis, a mnemonic atlas of relations, forms, and meanings. For CITRONNE Gallery, the breadth of these propositions, brought together at Art Athina 2025, constitutes a position in itself.