Exhibitions

Katelyn Ledford | Tired Illusions

Residency | Solo Show 16 Oct - 18 Nov 2024 Dio Horia Residency In Tired Illusions, Katelyn Ledford’s still life subjects trek the globe for authenticity and truthfulness in the 21st Century. Athens, 7 October 2024 — Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Katelyn Ledford’s solo exhibition Tired Illusions in Athens. The exhibition Tired Illusions includes paintings and three-dimensional works from the... Read more

Elias Kafouros | Impersonal Trainer

Solo Show 13 Jun - 25 Aug 2024 Dio Horia Gallery IN LIEU OF A PRESS RELEASE Throughout the summer, Dio Horia Gallery is presenting a large-scale solo exhibition of Greek artist Elias Kafouros titled “Impersonal Trainer.” The exhibition was partly co-curated by fellow visual artist Dora Economou, who has also authored the text that follows. This will be Kafouros’... Read more

Dora Economou | Gigantic

Solo Project 13 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 Dio Horia Gallery DORA ECONOMOU | GIGANTIC Sculptural Installation 13 June – 20 July, 2024 I could summarize my artistic practice in two short sentences: I like to travel and to make things with my hands. Mostly to fold papers or fabrics. So, after seeing the modern Atlantic Rainforest on the outskirts... Read more

Ally Rosenberg | Muscle Memory

Solo Show 6 Apr - 11 May 2024 Dio Horia Gallery ALLY ROSENBERG | MUSCLE MEMORY True Myths of Ego and Masculinity Dio Horia Gallery is happy to present Ally Rosenberg’s 'Muscle Memory', the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view at our Acropolis space April 06 – May 11, 2024. Published on the occasion, an anthology of the... Read more

Laure Mary {Couégnias} | Spleen

Solo Show 20 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is happy to present Laure Mary’s 'Spleen', the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. 'Spleen' beckons viewers to momentarily escape reality and immerse themselves in a dreamlike realm, akin to a gentle stroll through an imaginary and exquisitely intimate space. Laure Mary stands out as an... Read more

The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas) | Strange Fruits

Solo Show 1 Nov 2023 - 9 Jan 2024 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is delighted to introduce 'Strange Fruits', an exhibition by The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas), marking their debut as represented artists with the gallery. ‘Strange Fruits’ comes shortly after their monumental museum exhibit held last season at the Onassis Stegi. Greek D.I.Y pioneers The Callas, consisting of... Read more

Waiting for the Sun

Group Presentation 17 May - 10 Jun 2023 Dio Horia Gallery A longing for something amazing to come is almost as fulfilling as the actual event; In anticipation of Summer 2023, full of lazy days, restless nights, salt in our hair and the beach, Dio Horia showcases a tribute presentation featuring a curated selection of works by our Greek roster of... Read more

Iliodora Margellos | Histonas (Room of Webs)

Solo Project 6 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to present Iliodora Margellos’ ‘Histonas (Room of Webs)’, a solo project showcasing a total of thirteen new works by the Greek-Swiss artist, on view at Dio Horia Acropolis Annex, April 06 – May 06, 2023. While in Classical Greece, women used to spend most of... Read more

Maja Djordjevic | Theatre of Memories

Solo Show 4 Feb - 28 Mar 2023 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to present Maja Djordjevic’s ‘Theatre of Memories’, a solo exhibition featuring an exciting mix of 8 free-standing paintings and 6 video works by the Serbian artist, on view at Dio Horia Gallery, Acropolis, February 04 – March 14, 2023. Published on the occasion, a catalogue... Read more

Amir H. Fallah | A Natural Selection

Solo Show 17 Sep - 17 Oct 2022 Dio Horia Gallery The exhibition ‘A Natural Selection’ will be the first cohesive presentation of Amir H. Fallah’s exploration of a new medium: stained glass. Stained glass is an ideal medium to discuss themes of natural vs. manmade, as these works incorporate LED lighting, creating an artificial simulation of nature indoors. What is... Read more

Selma Parlour | Warp & Weft

Solo Show 17 Sep - 26 Oct 2022 Dio Horia Gallery Selma Parlour is a prolific award-winning artist known for her oil paintings that look as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. Born in Johannesburg and living in London, Parlour is known for her luminous color, shaded bands, diagrammatic space, and haptic surfaces, as well as her abstract-paintings-of-photography's-installation-shot-of-abstract-painting. The artist's... Read more

After Hope | Group Exhibition

Group Exhibition 18 Jun - 20 Aug 2022 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is excited to announce the upcoming group exhibition based on the notion of hope. Drawing parallels with the uncertain period of the 1930s and the 1940s, the group show focuses on the conditions shaping the present, from loneliness and environmental pollution, to capitalism. The curatorial is structured... Read more

Ally Rosenberg | Long Shadows

Residency 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2022 Dio Horia Residency The exhibition includes a new series of sculptures by Rosenberg, the entirety of which were created in Athens during his participation in Dio Horia’s residency program. Long Shadows is a darkly playful exploration of the body, through material, object, image and time. Each of Rosenberg’s sculptural works is seated on... Read more

Aleksandar Todorovic | Brave New Normal World

18 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Dio Horia Gallery Thinking about religious iconography, in particular, Byzantine art and Eastern Orthodox Christianity tradition, as a visual language used to talk about the contemporary political and societal issues from the humanist perspectives, creates a confusing, contradictory paradox. And it’s likely just that baffling aspect, the clash of the sacred and the... Read more

Laure Mary - Couégnias | Time Out

7 Oct - 7 Nov 2021 Dio Horia Residency Time Out, Mary-Couégnias observes, was set in motion with a moment in her Parisian studio when there was “a promise to meet and an invitation to escape”: Alone in this house, emptied since this morning of an imaginary visitor, I watch the solar prism of an invisible window. The heart... Read more

Emily Ludwig Shaffer | An Island Refrain

29 Jul - 15 Sep 2021 Dio Horia Residency “Statues”, Shaffer observes, “are the remnants of cultures that embody so much of how a society sees its people”. The exhibition continues the artist's signature motif of archi-sculptural forms presented in surrealistic arrangements redolent with an air of de Chirico-esque spatial metaphysics updated from a perspective of a contemporary sensuality... Read more

BUMS | curated by SKIP Gallery

12 Jul - 31 Aug 2021 Dio Horia Gallery Throughout art history, as a representation of strength or voyeuristic eroticism; from Michelangelo's frescoes, Velasquez’s 'Rokeby Venus’ to Vallotton’s notorious ‘Study of Buttocks’, bums have been a universal and accepted subject, but rarely have art shows dedicated themselves to the subject alone. Participating artists : Aggtelek, Sports Banger, Markus Birdman,... Read more

Javier Calleja | DROP BY DROP

1 - 31 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Borrowing the title from an expression that stands for slow and steady yet unstoppable progress, Drop By Drop continues the artist’s subtle but focused and persistent development of his practice. Tirelessly moving through the art world “step by step” and consistently making connections between his humble beginnings and the recent... Read more

Alexander Ruthner | Volume 1

12 Jun - 9 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Gallery Austrian visual artist Alex Ruthner returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition with Dio Horia Gallery. The exhibition Volume I is the result of 109 works produced over the course of the pandemic and will be opening on June 12 in the presence of the artist.... Read more

Chris Akordalitis | Fragile Gods

19 May - 13 Jun 2021 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery announces the solo exhibition of Chris Akordalitis titled Fragile Gods in Athens. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in Athens and the second with Dio Horia Gallery. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 19 May at 10 and will run until 15 June. The world... Read more

Elias Kafouros | Push Buttons

16 Apr - 15 May 2021 Dio Horia Gallery The exhibition Push Buttons marks a distinct point of departure and further deepening of Kafouros’ ongoing practice. Drawing from such disparate and wide-ranging points of reference as film, online culture, Renaissance painting, or Buddhist meditation mandalas, Elias Kafouros (b. 1978, Athens, Greece) weaves dizzyingly complex and prodigiously oversaturated compositions that... Read more

Sam Friedman | Island

7 Oct - 12 Dec 2020 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Friedman in Athens, after the artist’s residency and solo show in Mykonos in 2019. The exhibition opens on October 7 and ends on November 15, 2020. The exhibition ‘Island’ is composed entirely of new paintings that focus οn... Read more

Jason REVOK | Descending

17 Aug - 15 Sep 2020 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Jason REVOK’s solo exhibition, Descending,in the gallery’s main space in Mykonos. The exhibition includes paintings from the artist’s spirograph series. The exhibition explores the spiraling loop patterns of the works and through them,observes the current moment in our society of descending into a... Read more

Chris Akordalitis | Between Worlds

10 Jul - 13 Aug 2020 Dio Horia Gallery Cypriot visual artist Chris Akordalitis returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition ‘Between Worlds’ will be opening on July 10. The artist will be present online via Instagram live. Chris Akordalitis’s artistic practice consists of oil paintings and ceramics. He studied in... Read more

FRIENDS NON SHOW

Group Exhibition 12 Feb - 20 Mar 2020 Dio Horia Gallery There are various definitions regarding the true or the primary meaning of the word “friend”. The title of the exhibition refers to the simplest etymology/origin of the word that allows someone to be a friend through any time and any way. According to this etymology, anyone who connects with the... Read more

Maja Djordjevic | I Am Always a Different Person

Residency 29 Nov 2019 - 12 Jan 2020 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia gallery announces the first solo exhibition of Serbian artist Maja Djordjevic, in Athens called ‘I Am Always a Different Person’. The exhibition opens on November 29, in the presence of the artist. In her practice, Maja Djordjevic works in painting and sculpture, combining oil and enamel, to weave... Read more

Hulda Guzman | With the Mother

23 Oct - 24 Nov 2019 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia gallery announces the first solo exhibition of Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán in Athens, opening October 23, 2019. The exhibition is organized along with the artist’s participation in the Venice Biennale, where her work is included in the national pavilion of the Dominican Republic and the official Biennale catalogue.... Read more

Joakim Ojanen | Island

Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency Swedish visual artist Joakim Ojanen returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Island is the result of the artist’s residency with Dio Horia (November 2018) and will be opening on July 25 in the presence of the artist. Joakim Ojanen’s artistic practice... Read more

Sam Friedman | Days of Kindness

Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency American painter Sam Friedman returns to Dio Horia for a residency on Mykonos, leading into his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Days of Kindness includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s Landscape Paintings series, and opens on July 25th in the presence of the artist. Sam... Read more

Spyros Aggelopoulos | Donut Factory

25 Jul - 16 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Greek visual artist Spyros Aggelopoulos with the gallery at its Mykonos location. The exhibition Donut Factory includes paintings, puppets, a shadow-theatre installation and a video, and will be opening on July 25 in the presence of the artist. Spyros... Read more

Caroline Larsen | Cyclades

Residency 24 May - 25 Jun 2019 Dio Horia Residency In recent years, Larsen has developed a signature technique of applying thick layers of paint on the canvas, using not the traditional tools of a painter but by squeezing oil paint through plastic bags. She has deployed this technique to dramatic visual effect and using a wide range of subjects,... Read more

Matthew Palladino | Ouroboros

27 Nov 2018 - 10 Jan 2019 The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday, 27 November at 19:00 in the presence of the artist. The exhibition is called “Ouroboros”, and features six new works. For this exhibition, Palladino continues his exploration into the medium of sculptural relief as contemporary painting. While inspired by ancient... Read more

Despina Stokou | Sticky Watermelon Love

23 Aug - 25 Sep 2018 Dio Horia Gallery Sticky Watermelon Love is Despina Stokou’s first solo exhibition in Greece. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, August 23 from 20:00-02:00 with the presence of the artist. Throughout her career Despina Stokou has developed an artistic practice that is based on the unconventional fusion of different public... Read more

Raul de Nieves | Today

Residency 31 Jul - 30 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency Today is Raul de Nieves second solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a three-week long residency in Mykonos organized by Dio Horia’s residency program. The gallery will host an opening reception on Tuesday, July 31st from 20:00-02:00 with the presence of the artist. Throughout his career Raul de Nieves has... Read more

Maja Djordjevic | I Will Find You

6 Jul - 1 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Gallery I Will Find You is Djordjevic’s second solo exhibition at Dio Horia. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, July 6th from 20:00-2:00 in the presence of the artist. Maja Djordjevic creates multi-disciplinary works that look like computer doodles. In reality they are traditional oil and enamel artworks... Read more

Matthew Palladino | Gigantomachy

6 Jul - 1 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency An opening reception in the gallery will take place on Friday, July 6th at 20:00 in the presence of the artist. The exhibition is called Gigantomachy and featues 4 new watercolor paintings on paper all made in Mykonos during Palladino’s participation at Dio Horia’s residency program. Gigantomachy is the most... Read more

Dancing Goddesses

Group Exhibition 27 May - 20 Jul 2018 Dio Horia Gallery Conceived and curated by Marina Vranopoulou the show will open on May 27 on the island of Mykonos at Dio Horia. The exhibition takes as its starting point a catalyzing episode that took place in the island of Delos that transformed the island’s nature and defined its heritage. In Ancient... Read more

Iliodora Margellos | One Sun For All

27 May - 23 Jun 2018 Dio Horia Gallery Margellos’s multidisciplinary work involves drawing, painting, sculpture, site-specific installations, embroidery as well as performance. Her work sits in between figurative and abstract art practices and focuses on the discovery and understanding of the human body in its interaction with nature. The exhibition is entitled One Sun For All and acts... Read more

Trudy Benson | Infinite Spiral

Residency 27 May - 23 Jun 2018 Dio Horia Residency The gallery will host an opening reception on Sunday, May 27 at 20:00 with the artist present. The spiral is a largely positive ancient symbol representing eternity, change, growth and even the evolution or movement of the universe. The spiral means different things to different cultures. In Greece it means... Read more

Aleksandar Todorovic | Buy It All, Eat It All

25 Aug - 20 Sep 2017 Dio Horia Gallery The title of the show “Buy it All, Eat It All” acts as an ironic catchphrase that best depicts the ever growing consuming-obsessed era. It can be perceived as an inverse mantra, that shouts for awareness and criticism through its conceptual repetition. Todorovic brings complex, dystopian narratives to the foreground... Read more

Raul De Nieves | Thirty3

Residency 25 Aug - 20 Sep 2017 Dio Horia Residency Thirty3 is the actual age of the artist. His very own milestone marking various thoughts, desires and memories of what has taken place and what is yet to come. Rethinking the personal, de Nieves underscores the connections with the social/political. His age is used as a starting point to reflect... Read more

Aurel Schmidt | Night Music

27 Jul - 22 Aug 2017 Dio Horia Residency Morphing from organic to geometric, like cells and crystal formations, their structures echo the microcosms of our world and point towards a possibility of a world beyond, that of the metaphysical or mystical. Aurel Schmidt (b. 1982, Kamloops, BC, Canada) is an artist known both for the technically adept execution... Read more

Hulda Guzmán | A Different Architecture

23 Jun - 20 Jul 2017 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia opens its doors to a futurity not yet here with “A Different Architecture”; the solo exhibition of Dominican artist, Hulda Guzman. Captivating and immersive, the dynamics of the pieces lead the visitors to be aware of the never-ending flow of time. Intimate, individual moments are made public; energetic... Read more

Jump Ball

Group Exhibition 3 - 25 Jun 2017 Dio Horia Gallery The exhibition plays with the artists’ reflection upon issues that matter in everyday lives, inspired by life inside but also away from the court. It touches upon the close relationship between art and life turning its focus on basketball; as a popular game, a spectacle but also a locus of... Read more

The Veterans

13 Apr - 22 May 2017 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia gallery is happy to present its first group show, for the 2017 season, titled The Veterans. Fourteen international artists participate with more than 40 artworks that have been chosen on the basis of their medium. The exhibition aims to initiate a discussion about the current importance of the... Read more

Elias Kafouros | Incognito

8 - 25 Jul 2016 Dio Horia Gallery The first component looks into the fluidity of masks as a social lubricant manipulating atten- tion and attribution. Its different functions interfaced through a shared geographical space, Mykonos island, and projected through the digital realm everywhere. The secrecy of celebri- ties, the fake business smiles, the camouflaged paparazzi, the posing,... Read more

Taylor McKimens | Swapping Paint

8 - 25 Jul 2016 Dio Horia Residency As part of Dio Horia’s residency program, Taylor created this brilliant new series during his month long residency in Athens. The show’s title Swapping Paint is about coming together and exchanging ideas, like paint transfer on fenders. McKimens new body of work is a gesture towards his most recent exhibition... Read more

Alice in Crisis

Group Exhibition 27 May - 22 Jun 2016 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia is happy to present the group show Alice in Crisis, curated by art historian Marina Vranopoulou . The aim of the show is to put emphasis on the small occurrences where, ideas, actions and various forms of pleasurable releases occur -even in times like this one where people... Read more

Rallou Panagiotou | Lycra Proper

24 Jul - 20 Aug 2015 Dio Horia Gallery Her work ensues as resolution of the personal, the work of memory, the eccentric conditions of the peripheral - in the form of specific materiality, architectural conditions, consumer products, the mutated misinterpreted emulations of western style- with the unifying notion of junkspace, of what is left when modernisation has run... Read more

Dio Horia in Mykonos

27 Jun - 30 Oct 2015 Dio Horia Gallery The exhibition, as well as the host cultural platform, is under constant transformation; the artworks change often, old works give way to new ones, bringing along fresh perspectives. To this, the art historian Marina Vranopoulou comments, “Dio Horia functions as an ongoing research, a question we are trying to answer,... Read more