The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens presents three solo exhibitions dedicated to the important Greek creators Niki Kanagini, Stathis Logothetis, and Yannis Christou, revisiting the Greek avant-garde of the 1950–1980 period. Influenced by international avant-garde movements, these artists developed radical artistic practices that remained for many years only partially recognized within the Greek artistic context.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens inaugurates on Friday, June 4, 2026, the major retrospective exhibition “Reimagining Tradition: Panos Valsamakis and the Birth of Modern Greek Ceramics.” The exhibition will run until January 31, 2027.
The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutzos Museum will present the major anniversary exhibition “The World of the Avant-Garde: City, Nature, Universe, Man” from April to September 2026 at its Central Building, in collaboration with MOMus – Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, April 1, marking thirty years since the first major presentation of the Costakis Collection in Greece.
Athens Photo World, in collaboration with the Xposure International Photography Festival, presents for the first time in Greece the legendary war photojournalist Don McCullin with the exhibition “Life, Death and Everything in Between.” An artist who dedicated his life to facing the world head-on—even when he could hardly bear to “see” himself. The exhibition will run until March 12.
Yorgos Lanthimos, one of the most distinctive auteurs of contemporary cinema, is internationally recognized for his imaginative worlds and bold, unconventional explorations of human relationships. At the Onassis Stegi, audiences will experience a rare artistic event: the largest exhibition of Lanthimos’ photographs ever presented by a cultural institution. The exhibition “Photographs”, running from March 7 to May 17, reveals his unique visual language through the medium of photography, capturing fleeting moments with a cinematic gaze and transforming them into still images of lasting impact.
DIscover all the exhibitions taking place at the Benaki Museum on March 2026.
Discover all the events hosted at the Olympia, the Municipal Music Theatre.
On February 26, “The Cherry Orchard”, the final play by Anton Chekhov, written in 1903, premieres on the Main Stage of the Ziller Building at the National Theatre of Greece, in an adaptation and direction by Hector Lygizos, 41 years after its last presentation by the organization.
This marks the third time the play is staged on the Main Stage, following productions directed by Giorgos Michailidis and Takis Mouzenidis, placing the work in a historic dialogue with the theatrical tradition of the National Theatre.
The Megaron Athens Concert Hall joins forces with the Lykofos Cultural Organization in a historic production of the iconic work “Dream Requiem”, presented with Greek and English surtitles, bringing to Athens one of the most significant musical events of the year.
For one night only, on March 22, 2026, the “Christos Lambrakis” Hall will transform into the stage of a mesmerizing musical spectacle featuring 150 performers, in a rare gathering of artists of international acclaim.
The EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art presents three solo exhibitions dedicated to an equal number of major Greek creators who are no longer alive. The three figures—Niki Kanagini (1933–2008), Stathis Logothetis (1925–1997), and Yannis Christou (1926–1970)—form a shared axis for re-examining the Greek avant-garde of the 1950s–1980s, focusing on artists of the same generation whose work emerged under conditions of intense experimentation and radical inquiry.
