ART ATHINA x FLUX LABORATORY
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GOLDEN AGE

 

THURSDAY 18.9 (Press & VIP Preview)

  • Ari Seth Cohen, Advanced Friendship
    14:00–16:00: Ari Seth Cohen & Judith Boyd – Meet the Artists – Flux Laboratory Pavilion
    18:00: Judith Boyd – Ask Judith – Zappeion Garden

FRIDAY 19.9

  • Ari Seth Cohen, Advanced Friendship
    12:00 Judith Boyd – Ask Judith – Flux Laboratory Pavilion

 

  • Talk
    17:00–18:00 Advanced Friendship – Ari Seth Cohen & Judith Boyd – Garden
    Acclaimed photographer and author, Ari Seth Cohen, together with model and blogger, Judith Boyd in conversation with the audience about style, creativity, and aging with vitality.

 

SUNDAY 21.9

  • Talk
    17.00 -18.00 Cynthia Odier & Konstantinos Rigos – Golden Age- Zappeion Garden
    Cynthia Odier, Founder and Artistic Director of Flux Laboratory, and Konstantinos Rigos, Choreographer and Director of the Greek National Opera Ballet, in a discussion about the creation of Golden Age.

 

  • Greek National Opera Ballet & Konstantinos Rigos, Golden Age
    Greek National Opera Ballet in collaboration with Flux Laboratory
    20:00 Konstantinos Rigos – Golden Age (2025) – Duration: 15 minutes – Peristilio

PERFORMΑNCE | NOW WHAT

 

SATURDAY 20.9

  • Curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis in collaboration with Flux Laboratory
    18:15 Collectif MASI – Markets and markets (2025) – Peristilio – Duration: 45 minutes – Nitra Gallery
    19:30 Despina Sanida Crezia- Such a Crybaby (2024) – Peristilio – Duration: 20 minutes – Callirrhoë
    20:00 Angelos Papadopoulos – An UMBRA Story (2025) – Peristilio – Duration: 30 minutes -Performance / Co-Creation: Danae Pazirgiannidi, Thanos Ragousis – Thermia Project

 

SUNDAY 21.9

  • 18:00 Katerina Zacharopoulou – Performance as-Interview-as Performance (2013-2025) – Peristilio – Duration: 90 minutes -Crux Galerie
Art Athina Art for Tomorrow Talks Powered by TATOÏ Club

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, SEPT. 20  

Venue: Aigli Upstairs

 

  • 15:05-15:15 Opening Remarks
  • Marilena Koutsoukou, Development Director, Art Athina
  • Kim Conniff Taber, Editorial Director, Art for Tomorrow

 

  • 15:20 – 16:10 Panel: Collecting for Social Impact
  • Contemporary art collectors are increasingly embracing roles as cultural catalysts, using their platforms to commission new work, support emerging artists, and engage with civic and social issues. Collecting today often extends beyond private ownership to include the creation of foundations, public programming, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. These practices are reshaping the cultural landscape, positioning collectors as active participants in public discourse and community-building – and sometimes as lightning rods for controversy. What responsibilities come with this expanded role, and how is it redefining the future of collecting?
  • Moderated by Farah Nayeri, Culture Writer, The New York Times

 

  • 16:10 – 16:15 Audience Questions

 

  • 16:15 -16:35 Networking Break

 

  • 16:35 – 17:20 The Future of the Museum: Local Roots for Global Institutions?
  • Art institutions are increasingly challenged to honor local cultural heritage while actively participating in global artistic discourse. Navigating this dual role demands blending tradition with innovation and physical presence with digital access. As institutions embrace more inclusive practices, sustainable models, and support for local artists, they redefine what it means to serve both community and culture. How can they remain responsive to local needs while contributing meaningfully to an interconnected global landscape?
  • Moderated by Farah Nayeri, Culture Writer, The New York Times

 

  • 17:20 – 17:25 Audience Questions

 

  • 17:25 – 17:30 Closing Remarks
  • Achilles Tsaltas, President, Democracy & Culture Foundation
Educational Program: Little Athina

 

KROMA cultural organization returns to Art Athina 2025, presenting the new children’s educational program “Little Athina” on the weekend of September 20 and 21.
Little Athina is a creative journey for children who wonder: What makes a city real? Is it the buildings and monuments? Is it the people? Is it the history or perhaps the small, everyday moments that bring its streets to life? Through artistic workshops, children are inspired by Athens and its many facets to create, imagine, and discover their own city within the city.
The aim of the program is to cultivate in children a deeper relationship with their city, encouraging them to see it as a place of shared life, collaboration, and inspiration. Through the process of art, children learn to observe, express thoughts and feelings, and propose new ways in which Athens could be in the future.

With painting, collage, theater, photography, crafts, and more, young participants are invited to explore the concept of the city as a living organism. The program encourages them to collaborate, express ideas, and find new ways to perceive Athens – not only as a geographical location but as an experience and inspiration. Participation is by pre-registration from Monday, September 15, with specific ages and participant numbers for optimal implementation.

Together for All Children
The Life is For All team is participating for the second time in Art Athina and, in collaboration with KROMA, is shaping the fair’s workshops so that they are also accessible to children and teenagers with learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental differences. Drawing on the experience of numerous workshops during its first year of activity in schools, museums, and public spaces, Life is For All collaborates with educators and artists to present a series of inclusive activities for children in the Zappeion atrium. Its specialized staff will create conditions that reduce sensory overload and integrate auditory, visual, and tactile elements, ensuring that the workshops address the full spectrum of children and teenagers, both with visible and invisible disabilities, enabling them to express themselves, socialize, and participate fully in the cultural activities of the fair.

Life is For All is a non-profit civil company (AMKE) founded to promote inclusion and the rights of people with learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental differences in everyday life, with initiatives aimed at making neurodiversity accepted, empathy practiced, and inclusion a policy and a lived reality. By opening dialogue with families, the educational community, the art world, and businesses, Life is For All brings these values into practice through actions in schools, municipalities, cultural centers, and conferences.
www.lifeisforall.gr | Instagram: lifeis.forall

From Materials to Action – Art & Hobby
At the same time, the collaboration with Art & Hoy, which over the past two years has supported the program by providing materials for the workshops, is this year expanding: in addition to their support, they will also present their own workshops, aimed at teenagers and adults, further enriching this year’s Art Athina program with new experiences.
With a history dating back to 1935, Art & Hobby is one of the oldest and most beloved art supply and craft stores in Greece. Three generations later, we continue to serve the same passion for art, providing artists and creators with high-quality materials and specialized guidance. From acrylics and oils to paper and the most contemporary DIY supplies, we collaborate with leading global brands to offer solutions for every need. Through our stores and our e-shop www.hobby.gr, we support artistic expression, balancing tradition with the modern needs of creators.

 

Interactive Experiences That Stand Out
As every year, in addition to the organized workshops, Little Athina will also include free artistic activities, open to all young visitors of Art Athina.
“Athens for All”
During the Art Athina weekend, LIFA will present the special project “Athens for All”, designed for children of all ages as well as any adult who wishes to participate. It is a spontaneous, ephemeral, and sensory art game, unfolding with flow and continuity, during which participants will create small flat clay portraits on pieces of colored paper, revealing emotions and moods through the layering of the material. Gradually, the portraits will be arranged in a grid on cubes and rectangular forms, evoking the urban geometry of the city. Facilitators and co-creators of the project are Rena Gyftoula and Andromachi Mavrou, visual artists and educators who conceived the idea for this action.

“Deconstruct the Art” – Create Your Own Narrative with DIMY
Interactive installation for young and older visitors
What happens when we “deconstruct” a work of art?

DIMY’s artists draw inspiration from the strange and imaginative world of children to create original compositions. At Art Athina 2025, DIMY brings these works to life by transforming them into an interactive game: shapes and forms become pieces waiting for you to connect them in new ways! Design your own figures, imagine new stories, and see how the artist’s narrative transforms through your own creativity. Because art is not just to be seen; it is to be lived, shared, and to test the limits of our imagination again and againDIMY draws inspiration from the strange, imaginative, and spontaneous universe of children. DIMY’s visual arts offer aesthetic comfort for the whole family and are created in collaboration with selected artists. DIMY also organizes experiential art events that serve as spaces for play, experimentation, and pause, aiming to reshape the relationship between the artwork and the creator, as well as to create new ways of connecting with the audience.

DIMY
@dimyathens
dimy.gr

KROMA
Since 2017, KROMA cultural organization has been designing educational programs for Art Athina to cultivate skills, imagination, and collaboration in children, bringing them closer to art and culture.
Program design and communications: Yanni Spanoudis
Scientific Supervisor: Maria Mantalena Sofra
Participant satisfaction in KROMA’s educational programs for Art Athina since 2017 is 97.8% (based on questionnaire responses).


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SATURDAY 20.09.25

 

  • Free Activities
  • 12:30 – 18:00: Deconstruct the Art
    15:00 – 18:00: Athens for All

 

  • Artistic Workshops
  • 12:30–14:30 | In the Footsteps of Zappeion
    Design and Implementation: Konstantina Markoglou / HERITAGEnt, Archaeologist and PhD Candidate at the School of Architecture, NTUA
    Description: A discovery game of neoclassical architecture and the history of Zappeion Hall. Children become “junior architectural historians” and explore Zappeion like real researchers! Through puzzles, observation, play, drawing, and collaboration, they will discover the building’s history and learn the key elements of 19th-century Neoclassicism in Athens.
    HERITAGEnt is an interdisciplinary project promoting monuments, buildings, and memory sites from early modern times to today, using tools from public history, digital public history, and archaeology of the recent past. Through Instagram and free experiential workshops, the goal is to understand the history carried by the city’s architectural traces and to connect the community with architecture and cultural heritage.
    Instagram: instagram.com/heritagent_
    Website: heritagent.com
    Ages: 8–14
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 13:30–14:30 | The Poster That Speaks Loudly
    Design and Implementation: Jenny Petropoulou, Visual Artist
    Description: A theme connecting art history, mass culture, and the contemporary city. Children will see how it began, evolved, influenced and was influenced by art, and how we arrive at today’s Athens, where posters are everywhere – sometimes creative, sometimes annoying, always interventionist. Children are invited to create their own artistic poster with personal or social content.
    Art, Color & Message on the Walls of Imagination. My Own Poster!
    Ages: 9–12
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 13:30–15:00 | Designing Athens: One Postcard, One Story
    Design and Implementation: AKTO Academy (Eleni Mpouzaki, Polina Mpaka)
    Description: Young artists, starting from a stylized Athens landmark, invent a story and create a postcard for their city. A key detail is the graphic design approach, with the selection and placement of a word or message. AKTO Academy enables children and teenagers to cultivate imagination and self-confidence through Art and Design workshops, bringing them closer to the creative world in a hands-on way. The goal is to create using basic principles of Composition and Visual Communication, experimenting with stylized painting, collage, and graphic design elements.
    Ages: Primary School
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 14:30–15:30 | I Want an Acropolis View
    Design and Implementation: Maria Zygomala, Visual Artist
    Description: Athens was built in a circular manner around the sacred rock of the Acropolis, which remains the city’s reference point from antiquity to today. The Acropolis and Parthenon are not just monuments; they are the gaze and soul of Athens. Houses with Acropolis views are considered unique and highly sought after. The desire for a “view” is not only aesthetic or luxurious but a deeper human need to connect daily with the symbol of the city’s history, identity, and light. This project starts from that need: even when the physical view is absent, the Acropolis lives in memory, imagination, and the hearts of Athenians.
    Ages: 5–12
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 15:00 – 16:30, 16:30 – 18:00 | When Acrylics Meet Mediums: Techniques for Intensity, Texture, and Depth by Art & Hobby
    Design–Implementation: Dimitris Pardakis, Visual Artist
    Description: Athens hides countless images for artistic exploration—from the city’s vivid color contrasts to the details of everyday life. In this workshop, participants will work with acrylic paints and discover firsthand the role of mediums, the special materials that enrich the possibilities of acrylic painting. Through experimentation, they will explore how different mediums can alter the texture, transparency, depth, or gloss of the paint, offering new dimensions in depicting the urban landscape.
    The workshop is intended for teenagers and adults who wish to expand their techniques and explore new ways of using acrylics.
    Ages: Teenagers and adults
    Maximum participants: 15

 

  • 15:30–16:30 | Sweet Athens City
    Design and Implementation: Arkki
    Description: What would Athens look like if built from sweets and cookies?
    We invite you to Arkki’s sweetest workshop! Learn how a city is built and functions, identify its key elements, and construct your own Athens with the sweetest building materials!
    Workshop goals: foster creativity and imagination, familiarize children with basic architecture and urban planning concepts, encourage collaboration and teamwork, and of course… have fun!
    Arkki (Architecture School for Children & Youth) is an educational organization offering pedagogy through Architecture. Founded in Finland in 1993, it is the most innovative, unique educational program in Europe & Asia, expanding worldwide. At Arkki, we aim to inspire children regarding their environment, fostering them as active citizens of tomorrow. In workshops, children experiment, design, discover talents, and develop 3D perception, mathematical thinking, and communication skills.
    Ages: Kindergarten
    Max participants: 20

 

  • 15:30 – 16:30, 17:00 – 18:00 | With a Marker in Hand: Sketching Athens with Art & Hobby
    Design–Implementation: Konstantinos Ladas, Fine Arts Graduate
    Description: Athens is revealed through its lines, details, and colors. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to basic principles of drawing and experiment with Promarker, special markers known for their vibrant color output and smooth blending. Through observation exercises and hands-on practice, they will learn how these tools can be used for shading, gradations, and highlighting details, while capturing scenes and elements of the city. In doing so, they will explore how drawing can convey atmosphere and emotion. The workshop is aimed at teenagers and adults who wish to develop their creativity through drawing.
    Ages: Teenagers and adults
    Maximum participants: 15

 

  • 16:00–18:00 | The Athenian Chiaroscuro
    Design and Implementation: Eirini Zaimi, Visual Artist
    Description: Light as geometric reflection. We will embroider the contrast of light and shadow of city buildings through photographic representations. An Athenian chiaroscuro.
    Ages: 8+
    Max participants: 8

SUNDAY 21.09.25

 

  • Free Activities
    12:30 – 18:00: Deconstruct the Art
    12:30 – 16:30: Athens for All

 

  • Artistic Workshops

 

  • 12:30–13:30 | Ancient Athens on Me
    Design and Implementation: Kiddoz
    Description: Children will get the chance to explore symbols and iconic elements of ancient Athens and transfer them… onto their heads and beyond! With the Kiddoz team, they will create their own headband/crown or jewelry, decorating with pieces of paper they first designed and cut: from the Parthenon and Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian columns, to owls, statues, olives, and amphorae. The result will be a wearable, original work of art combining imagination, history, and playful creation.
    Kiddoz is a creative brand designing children’s accessories, inspiring imagination, play, and style. Through workshops and collections combining design and craft, children can express themselves and create unique objects.
    Ages: 4–12
    Max participants: 20

 

  • 13:00 – 14:30 15:00 – 16:30 16:30 – 18:00 | When Acrylics Meet Mediums: Techniques for Intensity, Texture, and Depth by Art & Hobby
    Design–Implementation: Dimitris Pardakis, Visual Artist
    Description: Athens hides countless images for artistic exploration—from the city’s vivid color contrasts to the details of everyday life. In this workshop, participants will work with acrylic paints and discover firsthand the role of mediums, the special materials that enrich the possibilities of acrylic painting. Through experimentation, they will explore how different mediums can alter the texture, transparency, depth, or gloss of the paint, offering new dimensions in depicting the urban landscape.
    The workshop is intended for teenagers and adults who wish to expand their techniques and explore new ways of using acrylics.
    Ages: Teenagers and adults
    Maximum participants: 15

 

  • 13:30–14:30 | The Poster That Speaks Loudly
    Design and Implementation: Jenny Petropoulou, Visual Artist
    Description: A theme connecting art history, mass culture, and the contemporary city. Children will see how it began, evolved, influenced and was influenced by art, and how we arrive at today’s Athens, where posters are everywhere – sometimes creative, sometimes annoying, always interventionist. Children are invited to create their own artistic poster with personal or social content.
    Art, Color & Message on the Walls of Imagination. My Own Poster!
    Ages: 9–12
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 13:30–15:00 | Designing Athens: One Postcard, One Story
    Design and Implementation: AKTO Academy (Eleni Mpouzaki, Ioanna Kazelidou)
    Description: Young artists, starting from a stylized Athens landmark, invent a story and create a postcard for their city. A key detail is the graphic design approach, with the selection and placement of a word or message. AKTO Academy enables children and teenagers to cultivate imagination and self-confidence through Art and Design workshops, bringing them closer to the creative world in a hands-on way. The goal is to create using basic principles of Composition and Visual Communication, experimenting with stylized painting, collage, and graphic design elements.
    Ages: Kindergarten
    Max participants: 10

 

  • 13:30 – 14:30, 16:00 – 17:00, 17:00 – 18:00 | With a Marker in Hand: Sketching Athens with Art & Hobby
    Design–Implementation: Konstantinos Ladas, Fine Arts Graduate
    Description: Athens is revealed through its lines, details, and colors. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to basic principles of drawing and experiment with Promarker, special markers known for their vibrant color output and smooth blending. Through observation exercises and hands-on practice, they will learn how these tools can be used for shading, gradations, and highlighting details, while capturing scenes and elements of the city. In doing so, they will explore how drawing can convey atmosphere and emotion. The workshop is aimed at teenagers and adults who wish to develop their creativity through drawing.
    Ages: Teenagers and adults
    Maximum participants: 15

 

  • 14:30–15:30 | Athens 2225
    Design and Implementation: Maria Mantalena Sofra,Early Childhood Educator
    Description: “Anamesa” comes from the year 2225, where Athens no longer exists as we know it. It was so full of problems that people left… Now it needs the children’s help. In this theatrical play workshop, children become guides and creators: they play with their bodies, improvise, throw away what they do not want, and leave Anamesa a vision of the Athens of the future – a record proving that the city can live again. An interactive adventure full of imagination, laughter, and creation, where children become the creators of the future and Anamesa learns from them.
    Ages: 3–6
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 15:30–16:30 | Sweet Athens City
    Design and Implementation: Arkki
    Description: What would Athens look like if built from sweets and cookies?
    We invite you to Arkki’s sweetest workshop! Learn how a city is built and functions, identify its key elements, and construct your own Athens with the sweetest building materials!
    Workshop goals: foster creativity and imagination, familiarize children with basic architecture and urban planning concepts, encourage collaboration and teamwork, and of course… have fun!
    Arkki (Architecture School for Children & Youth) is an educational organization offering pedagogy through Architecture. Founded in Finland in 1993, it is the most innovative, unique educational program in Europe & Asia, expanding worldwide. At Arkki, we aim to inspire children regarding their environment, fostering them as active citizens of tomorrow. In workshops, children experiment, design, discover talents, and develop 3D perception, mathematical thinking, and communication skills.
    Ages: Primary School
    Max participants: 24

 

  • 16:30–17:00 | Mini Zine
    Design and Implementation: Yanni Spanoudis, Cultural Manager
    Description: Create your own 8-page mini-zine (a tiny magazine) from a single sheet of paper! Using images and text, you’ll experiment with advertisements, cultural materials, and elements of urban pop culture to craft a unique visual message that reflects your perspective. All materials are provided—imagination is the only thing you need!
    Ages: 5–105
    Max participants: 15

 

  • 17:00–18:00 | Happy Fish
    Design and Implementation: Despoina Papadimitriou Pantazi, Visual Artist
    Description: If the whale-fish swallowed our city, but we were happy, what would the whale-fish leave without devouring? Would we be happier without certain things? What would you want the fish not to swallow? What would we want from our city in the fish’s belly? …so that we can create our new city of Athens…where we will live happily! Children use paper fish shapes with painted and cut colored cardboard and inks to create while imagining Athens at its best.
    Ages: 6–10
    Max participants: 15