In the striking landscape of the Acheloos River delta, within one of the best-preserved ship sheds of the ancient world, artists Angelos Krallis and Panos Charalambous present, on 7 and 8 July, 2025, their new interdisciplinary work "RAST Diversion", curated by Eleni Riga, with the support of 3 137.

The work takes as its point of departure the myth of the Acheloos River, through which memory is explored as an active force of transformation. It focuses on the geomythology of Acheloos, linking the geological, climatic, and cultural history of the area to contemporary issues: water management, extreme weather phenomena, human intervention in the environment, and the vulnerability of local communities. Specifically designed for the ship sheds of the archaeological site of Oeniadae, Aetolia-Acarnania, the work unfolds in a place where the river once met the sea.

The concept of “diversion” acquires multiple meanings: it refers not only to the physical redirection of the river and human efforts to control its waters, but also to the shifting of historical and cultural narratives. Just as a river changes course, memory, too, is redefined—keeping the past alive through a continuous process of revision and re-creation. The “myth” of Acheloos functions as a living archive, where natural phenomena are interwoven with human narratives, overturning structures of power and redefining our relationship with water and land.

"RAST Diversion" combines visual performance with original musical composition. It employs a variety of traditional and improvised sound sources—such as pipes and metal objects—together with live sound processing and microacoustic environments. The result is a sonic happening—an act of “acoustic archaeology” that activates space, time, body, and nature.

Angelos Krallis creates a sonic palimpsest based on the Rast Makam—a musical mode that reached Greece through the Ottoman Empire and influenced Byzantine, rebetiko, and folk music. Here, Rast is interpreted as a slow, ritual tsamiko, enriched through live processing and improvisation. The outcome is a new acoustic experience that resists categorization, attuned to voices and ecologies that challenge human dominance.

Panos Charalambous draws on familiar motifs from his practice—irrigation pipes, metal basins, and a boat from Lake Amvrakia, his place of origin. The boat is transformed into a musical instrument, embodying the intertwined stories that shape our relationship with water and land. He adopts an auto-ethnographic approach, grounded in lived knowledge from the agricultural and fishing communities of Xiromero and Lake Amvrakia. This embodied knowledge reflects a population that is vulnerable yet deeply connected to its environment. Here, “diversion” becomes an act of liberation from linear narratives—a turn toward ecstasy and collective experience, a reflection on the memory of the body and the landscape.

"RAST Diversion" proposes a new way of approaching cultural heritage: as a living, dynamic relationship with landscape, past, and sound.

Supported by All Greece One Culture

RAST Diversion
Artists: Angelos Krallis, Panos Charalambous
Curator: Eleni Riga
Organized by: NPO 3 137
Photographer All Greece One Culture: Christos Karras
Photography: Alexandra Masmanidi

Useful Information:
The event is offered free of charge by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The entrance fee to the archaeological site is required (€5, reduced: €3). Reservation is mandatory. The duration is 50 minutes.

For more information, please visit the website: https://allofgreeceone.culture.gov.gr/en/event/rast-diversion/

RAST Diversion at the Shipyards of the archaeological site of Oeniadae, Aetolia-Acarnania

The event will take place in the context of Christina Mitrentse’s solo exhibition Wood Wide Web at CITRONNE Gallery – Athens, and on the occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue, on Tuesday, 20 May 2025, at 18:30.

What are the beneficial properties of mushrooms for humans and the ecosystem? How are they related to books, and in what ways do fungi transform into works of contemporary art? A discussion inspired by the work of Christina Mitrentse, unfolding as an imaginative mushroom hunt across the forests and libraries that shape the artist’s visual landscape. The authors of the publication WOOD WIDE WEB will participate in the discussion:

Christina Mitrentse, Visual Artist
Panos Giannikopoulos, Curator – Art Historian
Nikos P. Paisios, Pathologist – Infectious Disease Specialist

The discussion will be held in Greek and it will be moderated by
Tatiana Spinari-Pollali, PhD, Art History, Director of CITRONNE Galleries

WOOD WIDE WEB catalogue cover, for Christina Mitrentse's solo exhibition

The National Library of Greece presents Alekos Kyrarinis' solo exhibition "Blooming Field", from March 18th to June 20th, 2025.

The exhibition includes sixty-one works created in the last four years, which are being showcased to public audience for the first time, while some of them were especially made for the presentation at the National Library.

The large-scale work which gives the exhibition its title, depicts a vibrant blooming field in Kyrarinis' characteristic visual "language", while viewers will encounter the characteristic symbols he has established in his iconography.

The exhibition is accompanied by a detailed catalogue, edited by Stavros Zoumboulakis, the Board President of the NLG.

Exhibition poster view

The Hellenic American Union presents the visual arts group exhibition entitled "The Silent Language of Plants", curated by Nina Fragopoulou, which opens on March 17, 2025, at the Hellenic American Union Galleries and will last till April 14, 2025.

Thirty acclaimed visual artists present works inspired by the beauty and magic of the natural world, opening a creative dialogue between art and the public science of plants. Through paintings, sculptures, photography, video, and installations, the participating artists seek to highlight the unparalleled role of plants and their ongoing contribution to the balance of nature, while reinforcing the sense of responsibility for the protection of our natural world. This exhibition showcases both the beauty and biological significance of plants, as well as their responses to an environment that is constantly deteriorating under the impact of the climate crisis.

As the exhibition's curator and Marine Biology PhD, Nina Fragopoulou notes: "Overall, the contribution of plants to art has a long and rich history and continues to be a significant part of contemporary artistic creation. Artists design plants to serve as a field of study for botanists, ecologists, physiologists, and doctors in the development of medicines. Whether for their symbolic and aesthetic value or their role in everyday life and the creation of a specific emotional atmosphere, plants are an integral part of many artworks, while many artists draw inspiration from contemporary ecological issues related to plants.

The silence of plants is not merely the absence of sound, but a form of existence that invites the viewer to attune to the invisible signs and quiet messages that plants send us, offering a new dimension to our perception of nature and the world around us. With their silent strength, plants remind us of the interdependence of all forms of life and convey a message of solidarity and respect for the Earth and our future.”

Participating artists: Io Angeli, Tzeni Antonopoulou, Annita Argiroiliopoulou, Panagiotis Daramaras, Martha Dimitropoulou, Thalassini Douma, Efi Fouriki, , Marios Fournaris, Marina Genadieva, Nikos Giavropoulos, Miltos Golemas, Marion Inglessi, Marigo Kassi, Rob Kesseler, Panagiotis Koulouras, Vassiliki Lefkaditi, Aggeliki Loi, Alexandros Maganiotis, Michalis Manousakis, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi, Christina Mitrentse, Antonia Papatzanaki, Konstantinos Patsios, Nikos Podias, Ifigenia Sdoukou, Nadia Skordopoulou, George Stamatakis, Maro Theodorou, Chrysa Vergi, Andreas Vousouras

Exhibition poster view

The visual identity of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, set to begin on March 6, has been unveiled with the presentation of posters designed by Dimitris Anastasiou.

The figures portrayed in the three paintings that make up the posters of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival embark on a journey across the Greek landscape, but also to the cities of the future. Without us ever taking a glance on their faces, the people in the Festival’s posters look ahead, towards what is coming up next. The three paintings converse with the tributes and the thematics of this year’s Festival. In the artist’s words: “The three paintings compose a three-fold narrative. If placed aligned, each serves as a continuation of the previous one. The two first (that depict a field of land and a provincial Greek town of the 1960s) allude to the Greek landscape. The third one (that portrays an absurd and imaginary city, whether utopian or dystopian) nods to Artificial Intelligence. Viewers, like time travelers, move within these landscapes.”

Dimitris Anastasiou's posters view

A Cabinet of Curiosities: The first 2025 production of MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona, curated by Yannis Bolis, featuring 78 artists, including Christina Mitrentse, Pantelis Chandris, Panos Charalambous.

The unexpected, the ambiguous and the enigmatic, the imaginary and the grotesque act as a conceptual and spatial grid for the exhibition entitled "a Cabinet of Curiosities" presented at MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona, from 13 February to 31 August 2025. The periodical exhibitions’ space of the Museum in Thissio, Athens, is “conquered” by paintings, prints, sculptures, constructions and videos ‒works remarkably diverse in style, materials, qualities, sensitivities, visual values and aesthetic preferences‒ created by 78 artists.

Emerging in Europe during the Renaissance, cabinets of curiosities came to be identified with a collecting frenzy, aesthetic pleasure and amazement through their wondrous and rare exhibits: these ranged from works of art andrelics to strange and “exotic” artifacts from distant cultures, alongside scientific tools and instruments, objects from the natural world, and items related to medicine, zoology, botany, gemology, mineralogy, and astrology, as well as to the realms of the occult, alchemy, and magic. These cabinets, which can be considered precursors to modern museums, played a pivotal role in shaping Western perceptions of the "other", while also offering an aesthetic, social, anthropological and political space wirh numerous benefits of research.

In the modern, extended Cabinet of Curiosities at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, in a multiple connection of images and realities, the exhibits cover a broad thematic spectrum, opening portals to different worlds, times, and regions. The stories they tell, inventive and original, explore concepts such as life and death, nature and technology, vanity and paradox, violence and threat, myth and dream, erotic desire and libido.

The exhibition "a Cabinet of Curiosities" functions as a proposal-challenge for a modern, new "cabinet" which, although apparently creates the fear of emptiness (horror vacui), can nevertheless function as a starting point for a new consideration of the present we live in.

Curated by: Yannis Bolis, Art historian, Head of Department of Contemporary Sculpture, MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona

Opening: 13.02.2025, 17:00-21:00 - Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:00-18:00, Thursday: 10:00-21:00 - MOMus - Museum Alex Mylona, Agion Asomaton Sq 5, 105 54 Athens