The Art Trail - 2025

This is something we do every time we get back to Greece: we walk around Kolonaki, stopping at various private art galleries to see what's on.

Hatzikyriakou-Ghika Benaki Museum shop:

Yannis Tsarouhis, Kalamata Square

I couldn't get a photo without the reflections, but still wanted a record of this.

Yannis Moralis

Michalis Maidatis, Christos Christidis

Antonia Lekatsa

Giorgos Vavatsis

Margarita Ecclesiarchou

To see more of Ecclesiarchou's work go here ,  here ,  here and here

Kika Hinari

Roma Gallery: Voices of Africa exhibition

Featuring works of contemporary African artists this exhibition explores issues of identity, urbanisation and cultural innovation, detailing the multiple lived and imagined realities of contemporary Africa. 

Anami Bodo, Untitled, 2019, (acrylic on canvas)

Adjei Tawiah, I Can't Be Held Back, 2023, (oil on canvas with sponge)

Yeanzi Saibnt Etienne, Untitled, 2000, (mixed media on canvas)

Salifou Lindou, Untitled, 2022, (pastel on paper mounted on canvas)

Boris Nzebo, The Heart of Man, 2016, (acrylic on canvas)

Aboyudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, Dreams, 2013, (acrylic, oil pastel and collage on canvas)

Armand Boua, L'Enfant Orange I, 2022, (mixed media and collage on canvas)

Zoumboulaki Gallery: Palermo - People and Ruins exhibition by Yannis Psychopedis:

An installation of painted bricks and roof tiles, surrounded by a series of 100 mixed media drawings.

Part of the artist's statement: '... we discovered the small treasures that the sea so  lavishly gives out. Where it washes up on the shore wonderful stones, pebbles, broken pieces of wood, shells, weathered plastics, rusty metals, eroded chunks of marble, roof tiles, terracotta fragments, broken bricks. They were once parts of old edifices, fragments and scraps of proud buildings, human structures for humble or majestic habitats... these broken pieces evoke in our minds their imagined prehistory, another life that once existed, human beings bulding and securing their homes, their hopes and their dreams. 

These shattered memories, the fragments of another life, are calling today to be transformed through the visual language into small, symbolic 'valleys of the temples', fantastical buildings and dwellings, primive new settlements, testaments of a new hope for the continuation of life'.

Athens Art Gallery:  Ilias Karras - Fluid Existences

Skoufa Gallery:

We also stopped at Skoufa Gallery. A group of five-year olds were sitting on the floor listening to their teachers talk to them. I over-heard one of the questions: 'Now, this is about feelings. Can you tell me what these pictures make you feel'? Several little hands went up. It was all so wonderful and so sweet. I wish more kidergardens and schools would do that.

Phillippou:

And then it was time for lunch, and since we were in Kolonaki, where else but Phillippou?

This taverna has been going for 102 years.

Not very busy at 12:45, it got much busier later

but there is always a queue in front of the food display cabinet/cookers of people who come in for take out. The delivery guys are also always very busy

This is a neighbourhood taverna - people come here for lunch and some literally eat and go. Three different people came, ate  and went at the table next to us, and we did not stay long at all: I think people come in their lunch hour for some delicious and nutritious food rather than bringing something from home and having at work.