You can easily visit with your pet , also inside the exhibition spaces. Before that, she led Argos β Centre for Art and Media in Brussels, worked for four years as Artistic Director of Art Brussels, curated the pavilions of different countries at the Venice Biennale twice, and organized quite a few internationally significant expositions.
Gregos fundamentally rethought the museum's mission there is even a special document titled just that, which can be read here. Over the course of , this cycle has presented a total of 18 solo exhibitions, installations and projects, highlighting the work of 40 women artists. The fourth and final part of the cycle, consisting of seven solo exhibitions, started in mid-June.
At the same time, part of the exhibitions from the previous rounds can still be seen in the museum. This is not the first major exhibition project featuring women artists, but perhaps the first of its kind in a major public museum.
Photo by Panos Kokkinias. Our problem, especially in the 90s, was our desire to become part of the international mainstream. We largely imitated what was happening outside instead of looking at our own culture and modern history. I'm not even talking about antiquity, but the last years of our history β a massive refugee crisis in , with 2 million people displaced due to the Greco-Turkish war; the newly founded Greek state, the influence of the great powers, two world wars, two civil wars β it's a history filled with trauma, suppression, and marginalization.
It's a classic case of "if you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going. But Greece has a hybrid history, with one foot in Europe and one foot in the East.
