On Saturday 26 October 2024, at the Mount Athos Center in Thessaloniki, Her Excellency President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou will officially open the exhibition entitled ‘Artistic Journey on Mount Athos’, which features works by Greek artists from the period 1922-1995 borrowed from the collections of the Thessaloniki Municipal Art Gallery, the Teloglion Arts Foundation of Aristotle University, the Society for Macedonian Studies, the Central Library of Aristotle University, the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou, the Mount Athos Art Archive (Holy Monastery of Simonopetra) and the Holy Convent of the Annunciation at Ormylia.   
 

The exhibition presents works by the important artists Spyros Papaloukas, Lykourgos Kogevinas, Panos Papanakos, Nikos G. Pentzikis, Polykleitos Regkos, Giorgos Moschos, Giorgos Doukas, Christos Dellios, Nikos Fotakis, Ioannis Vranos, Nikos Vakalopoulos, Kleio Natsi, Efthymios Papadimitriou, Nikos Sachinis, Kostas Grammatopoulos, Giorgos Velissaridis, Panos Valsamakis and Georgios Kosmadopoulos.  
The exhibition is being staged as part of the 59^th Dimitria Festival of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.  


The art critic and curator of the exhibition, Dr. Katia Kilesopoulou, states the following in her introduction to the exhibition:
‘Based on artworks lent by various public cultural bodies in Thessaloniki and Athonite monasteries, the exhibition showcases the artistic fruits that have arisen from the need felt by their creators to record the spiritual and aesthetic values that have been cultivated on Mount Athos for centuries. […]  The Byzantine and post-Byzantine tradition, as a cognitive tool for discovering and understanding the Greek cultural continuum, the transcendental content of art and inventive techniques, has helped artists to discover, through an authentic Greek source, analogies with contemporary art – that is to say, the value of the so-called ″diachronically modern″. […] The lessons of Byzantine art had an educative effect on their artistic perception [leading them to create] a unique kind of narrative of multiple significance for art, Greece and the holy land of Mount Athos – one that enables us to travel to distant and yet familiar and popular places.’

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FLYER OF EXHIBITON

Exhibition curators: Dr. Katia Kilesopoulou, Anastasios Douros
Venue: Mount Athos Center, Nedelkos Mansion, 109 Egnatia St., Thessaloniki 546 35 (tel. no. 2310 263 308).
The exhibition will be open to the public from 29 October 2024 until 2 February 2025. 

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Opening hours: Monday & Wednesday 09.00-16.00 / Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 09.00-20.00 / Saturday 09.00-15.00 / Closed on Sundays.

During the exhibition tours can be arranged for school pupils, university students and other groups. For further information please contact 2310 263 308.

ADMISSION FREE