Summer creativity… Visual Art exhibitions in Greece this August

Exhibitions of Visual Arts this August in Greece. See the location of all the exhibitions

by Natasa Kremmyda

“Summer colors” exhibition.

Art L-S Gallery hosts the exhibition of the artist Danai Megreli. The exhibition, titled “Summer colors”, aims to keep the summer feel lingering on. Megreli wants to take people on a journey to the boundless blue and innocence of youth. The exhibition consists of works with oils and acrylics on canvas.

Location: Gallery Art L – S, Elounda Mare Hotel, Crete

Dates: July 24 – August 13, 2015

summer-colors-exhibition

“1095 Art Days” exhibition

ArtWall Project Space has been organizing visual arts exhibitions over the last 3 years. During these years the ArtWall project has hosted 29 exhibitions of more than 100 artists combined with music events and theatrical performances. In this 3-year anniversary exhibition people will have the opportunity to see and remember works of previous years and also new projects from the participant artists.

Location: ArtWall Project Space, 26 Sofocleous Street, Athens

Dates: July 24 – September 8, 2015

Contact details: artwallprojectspace@gmail.com

 

ArtWall-exhibition

“Sea Through 2” Photography exhibition

Skoufa Gallery at Mykonos hosts the exhibition of Marina Vernikos “Sea Through 2”. The exhibition consists of photographs that have to do with marine landscapes. The basic material of the artist is the depiction of nature, colors and weather conditions and how the watery element responds to that.

Location: Skoufa Gallery, 12 Dilou Street, Mykonos

Dates: July 25 – August 6 2015

Contact details: +30 22890 28560

sea-through-exhibition

Exhibition of Sterna Art Project

The Sterna Art Project is featuring the work of 6 artists  at the historic building of the Baths in Mandraki. The theme of the exhibition is to investigate whether Nisyros is a myth or reality. The volcano is still active and – as a result – water in some coast lines is hot and full of curative properties. The goal of the exhibition is for the artists to observe and be inspired of the magical power of the volcano and the thermal springs. People visiting the exhibition will have the opportunity to get the book that accompanies the exhibition written in two languages. This book analyzes the projects of the artists and also is a diary that describes the procedure that artists followed until they manage to come to the final result of their work.

Location: Baths of Mandraki, Nisyros

Dates: July 31 – August 30 2015

Contact details: www.sterna.com.gr

Photo by Nysos Vasilopoulos

Nisyros-Baths

“Bench 886” exhibition of artistic jewelry

The Eleni Marneri Gallery presents the exhibition of artistic jewelry created from the team “Bench 886”. Ten artist from Taiwan share their passion for artistic jewelry and present their work for the first time in Greece.

Location: Eleni Marneri Gallery, 5-6 Lempesi Street, Athens

Dates: July 20 – September 12, 2015

Contact details: +30 210 8619488

artistic-jewelry

“Mythical narratives” exhibition

The museum of Contemporary Art of Chania in Crete presents the exhibition “Mythical Narratives” at the Cultural Center of Chania . The goal of the exhibition is to show the variety of ways that we can approach the meaning of narration through different expressions of art (painting, videos, photography, and sculpture).

Location: Cultural Center, 70 Andrea Papandreou Street, Chania. Crete

Dates: July 30 – September 12, 2015

Free entrance

mythical-narratives

“Reflections” exhibition

Elizabeth Nead, Manolis Theodorou and Dominique Lietaert present the exhibition “Reflections”. This exhibition presents the work of the three artists that live near the sea, at Karystos in Evia. Their creations reflect the natural and social environment of Karystos.

Location: Mpourtzi Castle, Karystos, Euvoia

Dates: July 30 – August 6, 2015

reflections-exhibition

“Ploes” exhibition

“Ploes” exhibition is presented every summer in Andros during the last 20 years. This year the artists of “Ploes” exhibition will be inspired by the “things that do not cause pain and sadness and the things that appear with the first sunshine” this is also the title of the exhibition.

Location: Institution of P. & M. Kydonieos, Andros

Dates: August 1 – 27 September 27, 2015

Picture of Aris Kopsidis artwork.

ploes-exhibition

“Henri Cartier – Bresson” photography exhibition

The Company of Photography of Mytilene organizes and presents an exhibition with photographs of the great photographer Henri Cartier – Bresson. The exhibition consists of photographs that are signed at the back by the artist. These photographs present landscapes, life in the fields and cultural scenes mostly from Greece (ancient ruins, photos of night life with bouzouki…).

Location: Gallery of Company of Photography of Mytilene, Mytilene

Dates: August 1 – September 31, 2015

henri-cartier-exhibition

“Diamantis Aidinis” painting exhibition

Gallery “Anti” presents the exhibition of Diamantis Aidinis at Antiparos. The well-known artist imagines that he creates his work under the blinding Aegean sun. He is known for his incidentary inspiration and he claims that his best pieces of work have been made by accident.

Location: Gallery “Anti”, Antiparos Castle

Dates: August 1 – August 15 2015

Diamantis-Aidinis-exhibition

“The greatest  inventions of ancient Greeks” exhibition

The exhibition will take place at Irakleidon Museum.  The exhibits will be taken from the Museum of Greek Technology Kosta Kotsana, that operates in ancient Olympia. Those exhibits will be replicas of the greatest inventions of ancient Greeks, among them will be the famous Antikythera Mechanism

Location: Iracleidon Museum, 37 Ap. Pavlou Street, Athens

Dates: August 1 – January 10, 2015

greatest-inventions-exhibition

“Andreas Kontellis” painting exhibition

Andreas Kontellis comes from Limnos. He is a known painter, who has been repeatedly inspired by his birthplace. In this exhibition, the artist tries to present Limnos through different vantage points.

Location: Gallery Apothiki, Limnos

Dates: August 7 – September 6, 2015

andreas-kontellis-exhibition

“Rocky days” painting exhibition

The Historical Museum of Hydra presents the exhibition of Alexis Veroukas “Rocky Days”. The exhibition consists of 10 artworks that the artist inspired and created in Paris. It is a personal diary of memories in Hydra combined with historic events.

Location: Museum of History, Hydra

Dates: August 8 – September 30, 2015

Contact details: +30 22980 52355

rocky-days-exhibition

“The soul of the landscape – a flashback from 1989 until 2015” painting exhibition

“The soul of the landscape” exhibition is hosted at the Art Gallery of Syros. The artist is Chrysa Vergi that is a well known landscape painter.  In that exhibition Chrysa Vergi dives into the Greek landscape and presents a flashback of Greek landscapes through her point of view.

Location: Art Gallery of Syros, Syros

Dates: August 22 – September 13, 2015

soul-landscape-exhibition

This week‘s new events