CITRONNE Gallery presents at Booth A8 at the international VIMA Art Fair in Limassol works by Stephen Antonakos, Yannis Adamakos, Aphrodite Liti, Myrto Xanthopoulou, and Pantelis Chandris. Conceived as a dialogue between different generations and distinct artistic approaches, the presentation brings into focus key aspects of contemporary art.

Stephen Antonakos developed a body of work of defining importance to postwar American abstraction, in which light, geometry, and colour cohere into a visual language of remarkable clarity and spirituality.

Yannis Adamakos, in his work, bridges the threshold between the visible world and the subconscious perception of reality, where light and darkness, nature and imagination dissolve into colour.

Pantelis Chandris has developed a sculptural practice of psychological and symbolic density, in which matter is transformed into forms that are fragile, suggestive, and sensuous.

Aphrodite Liti presents sculptures in which organic forms assume monumental scale, luminosity, and a commanding spatial presence.

Myrto Xanthopoulou articulates an artistic approach in which language, the fragility of materials, and bodily presence condense into works of distinctive poetic and performative intensity.

Inaugurated in Limassol in 2025, VIMA Art Fair has already established itself as an important new platform for contemporary art in Cyprus and the wider Eastern Mediterranean. International in outlook and committed to fostering connections between regional and international art networks, the 2026 edition brings together 150 artists, 30 galleries, and participants from more than 20 countries, further strengthening its role as a meeting point for galleries, curators, collectors, and the public.

For more information: https://www.vima.art/

May 15–17, 2026 (Preview: May 14, 2026) - VIMA Art Fair, Limassol

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

The artist, in collaboration with Studio Lialios Vazoura, has designed the newly published book by Big Black Mountain The Darkness Never Ever Comes.

Myrto Xanthopoulou expresses herself through sculptural compositions and constructions. She uses fragile and perishable materials—traces of everyday life that embody the passage of time through decay, repetition, and physical exhaustion. Her works do not merely appear as objects but as the result of manual processes. Their coexistence within the space creates a narrative of materiality, forming a personal, informal archive of the artist.

Her book "Terma Asklipiou" captures the idiosyncratic nature of her practice, not only as an outcome but also as a process, through the presentation of artworks and handwritten notes.

For more information, please visit the publisher’s website: https://bigblackmountain.org/product/terma-asklipiou-myrto-xanthopoulou/

Myrto Xanthopoulou’s artist book, Τerma Asklipiou

The exhibition opens on October 14 and runs until November 28, 2025.

The interactive exhibition "BOOKMORPHS: Artists’ Books from Greece & the UK" brings together a diverse selection of artists’ books, book works, book-art objects, limited and multiple editions, ephemera, and journals by 44 visual artists, curators, publishers, and theorists from both Greece and the UK. It marks the first comprehensive presentation in London of contemporary artists’ books by Greek and British visual artists in dialogue. "BOOKMORPHS" borrows its title from a term used by art writer Michael Hampton and aims to foster dialogue and exchange between Greek and British artists.

Showcasing a wide range of techniques and media – painting, printmaking, drawing, writing, poetry, digital printing, cutting, bookbinding, sculpture, sound, and photography – the exhibition highlights the rich materiality and experimental nature of the book as an artistic form. What happens when a book’s legibility is disrupted? "BOOKMORPHS" invites audiences to engage with books through unconventional forms of ‘reading’: holding, touching, activating. Here, books transform into vehicles of unique, interactive experiences, allowing visitors to explore the anatomy of the book and connect more intimately with its content.

In re-examining the meaning and history of the codex, these works address a range of social, political, cultural, ecological, and gender issues. Personal narratives and subversive themes are reimagined in the artists’ book format, expanding the ways books can be created, read, and understood as cultural artefacts. The various objects presented in "BOOKMORPHS" continue to abide by typical bibliographic references, even though an artist’s book presents a disruption to conventional literary structures. In an age of screen reading and doom-scrolling, this exhibition seeks to preserve a tactile connection with the book – as text, as layered object, and as interactive form.

Participating artists: Eleni Angelou, Nikos Arvanitis, Rania Bellou, David Blackmore, Sarah Bodman, Ismini Bonatsou, BOOKEND - Matt Hale & Nick Cash, Maria Bourbou, Thodoros Brouskomatis, Jonathan Callan, Natassa Chelioti – Naga, Ioanna Delfino, Joe Devlin, Anna Dimitriou, Stephen Emmerson, SJ Fowler, Michael Hampton, Rowena Hughes, Inscription Journal (Gill Partington, Simon Morris, Adam Smyth), Antonia Iroidou, Eleni Kastrinogianni, Peggy Kliafa, Alexia Kokkinou, Georgia Kotretsos, Nikos Kryonidis, Vasiliki Lefkaditi, Eleni Maragaki, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi, Despina Meimaroglou, Christina Mitrentse, Fiona Mouzakitis, Kiki Perivolari, Stamatis Schizakis, Ifigeneia Sdoukou, Christina Sgouromiti, Danai Simou, Dimitris Skourogiannis, Annetta Spanoudaki, Nectarios Stamatopoulos, Despina Stavrou, Aris Stoidis, Evangelos Tasios, Yannis Tzortzis, Leonie Yagdjoglou.

Curated by Project 2 Athens (Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrou) and Christina Mitrentse.
Co-organised and hosted by the Hellenic Centre.
Lead sponsor Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation.
With the support of The A. G. Leventis Foundation.
The catalogue is sponsored by The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation.

BOOKMORPHS: Artists’ Books from Greece & the UK
The Hellenic Centre, 16–18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS
Dates: 14 October – 28 November 2025

For more information: https://helleniccentre.org/event/bookmorphs-artists-books-from-greece-the-uk/

Poster for BOOKMORPHS exhibition, at the Hellenic Centre, London