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

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

Anna Ampariotou, Memorabilia, 2025

The performance will take place on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 19:00 at Gate E8, where the Art Explora Festival will be held from 3 to 12 October 2025.

The installation–performance "HEAVY ZEYBEK" investigates the possibilities of sonic diversion: how rhythm and sonic texture can be slowed down to stillness, altered, or deconstructed through frequencies, vibrations, temporal shifts, and sonic distortions.

The work is part of Panos Charalambous’s ongoing research into the expressions of popular culture in the Balkan and Mediterranean region — song, dance, festive practices — beyond conventional notions of "authentic revival". In Piraeus, a port of transformations and crossings, this exploration acquires particular resonance, linking the local context to a broader cultural landscape.

About the Art Explora Festival
In 2024, the Art Explora Foundation introduces its flagship project: a museum boat and a traveling festival that will explore the seas and oceans around the world, offering unique artistic and cultural experiences. This unprecedented adventure aligns with the foundation's ambition to reduce cultural barriers and promote a broader and more democratic engagement with the arts. From October 3rd to 12th, 2025, the Art Explora Festival will dock at Gate E8 in the Port of Piraeus. Admission to all events is free.

Co-organised by Art Explora Foundation & Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF)
Under the auspices of The Ministry of Culture & the Region of Attica

HEAVY ZEYBEK
Gate E8, Port of Piraeus
Sunday, 5 October 2025, 19:00

Panos Charalambous, HEAVY ZEYBEK

Curated by Dimitris Trikas, the exhibition takes place at the Athens Conservatory from October 2 to November 1, 2025.

From the utopias of antiquity and Plato’s Republic to the Cubo-Futurist manifestos, technological optimism, and the dystopias of our time, the history of humanity has been continually infused with the pursuit of a better world.

The visual art exhibition "Tatlin’s Dream. Utopias. The Eternal Return.", curated by Dimitris Trikas, explores these trajectories of imagination and political thought, shedding light on how utopia—sometimes as hope, others as threat—continues to inspire humankind to confront the present and envision the future.

Hosted at the Athens Conservatory, an emblematic modernist building–utopia designed by architect Ioannis Despotopoulos, the exhibition is accompanied by an extensive public programme including talks, performances, and artistic actions, in collaboration with universities and research laboratories.

Participating artists:
Dimitris Alithinos, Dimitris Ameladiotis, Philippos Vassiliou, Kostis Velonis, Babis Venetopoulos, Vasilis Vlastaras, Stratis Vogiatzis, Antonis Volanakis, Vasilis Gerodimos, Nikos Giavropoulos, Giannis Grigoriadis – Giannis Isidorou, Sofia Damouli, Anastasia Douka, Giorgos Drosos, Katerina Zafeiropoulou, Thodoros Zafeiropoulos, Pinelopi Thomaïdi, Nadia Kalara, Fotini Kalle, Babis Karalis, Anastasis Karras, Zissis Kotionis – Marianthi Efthymiou, Alex Louloudis, Architects of the Whale & Alexandra Bisa & The Pokari Project, Eirini Mantinou, Anastasis Meletis, Nikos Moschos, Eleni Mouzakiti, Mania Benissi, Katerina Botsari, Nourako, Maria Papanikolaou, Dana Papachristou, Pinelopi Petsini – Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Nikos Podias, Panos Prophetis, Dimitris Rentoumis, Kyrillos Sarris (1950–2024), Fani Sofologi, Marios Spiliopoulos, Athanasia Tsatsou, Giorgos Tserionis, Athanasia Tsopanargia, Maro Fasouli, Marios Fournaris, Youla Chatzigeorgiou, Marios Chatziprokopiou – Antonis Antoniou (video editing), ce_lab (Christos Charisis – Eleni Molyva), Kostas Christopoulos.

Tatlin’s Dream. Utopias. The Eternal Return.
Curator: Dimitris Trikas
Organized by: Rizes Politismou Non-Profit Cultural Organization
Duration: October 2 – November 1, 2025
Venue: Athens Conservatory, Rigillis & Vasil. Georgiou B 17–19, Athens
Opening: Thursday, October 2, 2025

Nikos Podias, Mind the Gap, 2025