A Place Called Space: Art Athina, 2023

Monday, 30 October 2023

Art Athina, 2023 - part 1

Art Athina, 2023, at the Zappeion Megaron, Athens.

This annual contemporary art fair was organised for the first time in 1993, making it one of the oldest contemporary art fairs in Europe. It takes place in the Zappeion Megaron, hosting 67 art spaces from Greece and 9 from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Cyprus, the UK, Switzerland, Poland and Romania.

All the major Athens galleries had booths here, and it took us a very long time to see everything: we were completely arted-out by the end, totally exhausted. But, in a good way.

Panos Papadopoulos, Stay Romantic, 2023, (oil on canvas)

Helmut Middendorf, Congas-gelb/blau, 1979

Karolina Krasouli

Nikos Kessanlis

Giorgos Gyparakis, Untitled, 2002 (indian ink on cotton paper)

Nikos Kessanlis, Swadows, 1999, (print on photosensitive canvas)

Nikos Kenssanlis, Untitled, 1998, (oil on canvas)

Franca Sonnino

Margaret R. Thompson, Return to the Island, 2023, (oil, wax and chili on paper)

Mantalina Psoma, Sitting Room

Leda Papakonstantinou, Midday 1/3

Christos Athanassiadis, Untitled

Sabine Liebhen, City

Alex Psychoulis, H.E. Sleeping under a Wild Pistachio Tree

Philippos Theodorides, When the City is Asleep II, 2023, (acrylic, gold leaf, oil, pencil)

Prodromos Charalambidis, 2023, (oil on canvas)

Johanna Bath

Eirene Kana, Hit by the Moon, (oil on canvas)

Eirene Kana, Anefelo, (oil on canvas)

Efi Xaliori, Untitled, 2018, (print on paper)

Thanasis Dapis

Yannis Ziogas

We took a five-minute break here, and walked around one of the courtyards which is beautifully planted and where people were sitting around having drinks