Structured around the fundamental questions of self and mortality, the sarcastic work of Albee (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?”) is inspired by the character of his own mother. Now facing the end of her life, she is cared for by two nurses who take on the form of her younger self. With his well-known holistic management of space and time, the internationally acclaimed American director Robert Wilson, guiding three prominent Greek actresses in the leading roles, masterfully narrates the imprint of time, highlighting the multiple reflections generated by the mirror of life.
On the 21st of December, a unique visual and auditory experience at the Onassis Foundation, with the leading figure of the Greek rock scene in music, Giannis Aggelakas himself, and Olia Lazaridou in narration, along with the emerging pan-European choreographer Christos Papadopoulos in direction. The audience is not invited to a typical dance or theater performance, but rathen an auditory situation resembling a ceremony. Alongside the narrators, Aggelakas and Lazaridou, two musicians, four female voices, and the sound design by Coti K. accompany us in a surround descent into Hades, the realm of memory, and into ourselves.
The new exhibition program at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) places women at the center, presenting four new projects on femininities. These projects feature established figures in international art as well as younger artists who contribute their own perspectives to contemporary narratives. The National Museum of Contemporary Art, with the new exhibition program inaugurated on December 14, initiates a new cycle of narratives centered around women. This time, the EMST asks, ‘What if women ruled the world?’ ‘Would the world be better if governed based on empathy, care, and understanding?’ This question has been occupying the museum’s artistic director, Katerina Gregou, for some time.
Every year during the Christmas holiday season, the festive atmosphere that prevails in Athens extends its “magic” to the musical scene. Thus, apart from the programs in clubs and on the small or large stages of the city that are adjusted to the festive spirit, a creative “fever” also takes over the venues hosting concerts, where evenings of various genres are organized – featuring both local names and international guests.
The visual artist Toula Ploumi presents her project at the ARCH space until the end of January. The exhibition showcases a series of works made from bamboo. Long and flexible reeds are interwoven to create larger surfaces that host other materials, such as painted metal pieces, paper cut-outs, fabric, thread, and light. The exhibition borrows its title from the term “Ground Bass,” originating from music and dance, referring to the continuous repetition of a pattern/theme or a movement that coexists simultaneously with the development of other more complex and free themes and movements.
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is preparing a major tribute to Neo-Impressionism in 2024. The exhibition, titled “Neo-Impressionism in the Colors of the Mediterranean” is being organized in collaboration with leading European museums. The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation collaborates with top museums such as Musée d’Orsay, London’s National Gallery του Λονδίνου, Centre Pompidou, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, Musée de l’Annonciade, Musée de Grenoble, Musée national d’archéologie, d’histoire et d’art – Luxembourg and Musée des Arts Décoratifs and organizes, for the first time in Greece, a comprehensive tribute to the Neo-Impressionist movement. The exhibition, taking place from January 10 to April 7, 2024, focuses on the Mediterranean region and is under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture.
Vassilis Ziniadakis and Stefi Stouri, the curators of the project take a journey into the second part of the visual “unboxing” presented by the National Opera House at the National Library of Greece, “revealing” even more secrets from the Pyromallis Collection about the life of the great soprano, Maria Callas. This is another project celebrating the Maria Callas Year.
The curators of the new exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art, have given us a first taste of the historical endeavor that examines the Battle of Chaironeia from every possible perspective and with a very modern method that brings us even closer to Alexander the Great. A historical battle became the inspiration for the new and tremendously interesting project presented by the Museum of Cycladic Art from December 14, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture. Despite the fact that the exhibition ‘Chaironeia, August 2, 338 BC: A Day that Changed the World’ is based on a single event, the truth is that it explores many different perspectives of Chaironeia, using historical evidence as well as modern methods.