16 FELLOWS AT THE GROUP EXHIBITION “ENCORE: NEW GREEK PAINTING”

With the ambition to place painting at the center of the debate on contemporary art, highlighting the central issues that preoccupy contemporary painters and introducing the youngest of them to the wider Greek public, the exhibition “Encore: New Greek Painting” which takes place in Gallery of the Municipality of Athens with their editors Eleni Koukou, Christopher Marino and Theophilos Trampoulis organized by the Municipality of Athens/OPANDA, presents painters up to about 40 years of age and will last from June 24th to September 10th.

“Encore: New Greek Painting” features 33 painters based in Greece.While most of these artists are indeed under the age of forty, the term ‘new’ does not refer to the artists’age but rather to their painting language and the inherent qualities of their work.This exhibition adopts an interrogatory nature.Unlike typical exhibitions organised around a specific medium, our intention is not to imply any cultural superiority or aesthetic autonomy of painting. On the contrary, we aim to initiate a discussion by posing a series of questions that form the basis of our investigation.

Participant artists:

Ileana Arnaoutou, Konstantinos Giotis, Niki Gulema, Giorgos Gyzis, Eirini Efstathiou, Anestis Ioannou, Alexia Karavela, Stelios Karamanolis, Andreas Ragnar Kassapis, Panagiotis Kefalas, Kiki Kolibari, Giorgos Kontis, Karolina Krasouli, Aristeidis Lappas, Varvara Liakounakou, Aggelos Merges, Nikos Moschos, Eleni Bagaki, Anastasia Pavlou, Dimitris Rentoumis, David Sampethai, Katerina Sarra, Nicolas Simantarakis, Giorgos Stamkopoulos, Sofia Stevi, Antonis Stoantzikis, Anastasis Stratakis, Sasha Streshna, Antrea Tzourovits, Nikos Topalidis, Stella Tsoumatidou, Georgia Fabris, KEZ

ENCORE
New Greek Painting
Gallery of the Municipality of Athens
27 June – 10 September 2023
Curated by
Eleni Koukou, Christophoros Marino and Theophilos Trampoulis

Ileana Arnaoutou, Konstantinos Giotis, Niki Gulema, Eirini Efstathiou, Anestis Ioannou, Alexia Karavela, Andreas Ragnar Kassapis, Giorgos Kontis, Karolina Krasouli, Aristeidis Lappas,  Eleni Bagaki, Anastasia Pavlou, Katerina Sarra,  Sofia Stevi,  Sasha Streshna and Antrea Tzourovits are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.