Past
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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
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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 -
Mira Dancy | See-Thru Palm
Solo Show 17 Jun - 16 Sep 2023 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia is pleased to present Mira Dancy’s 'See-Thru Palm', a solo show by the Los Angeles-based artist known for figurative paintings and site-specific installations incorporating plexiglass and sand elements. 'See-Thru Palm' will include a new group of paintings, large format ink drawings, as well as textual and vinyl window... 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
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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
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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 -
Amir H. Fallah | You Can't Teach What You Don't Know
7 Sep - 4 Oct 2021 Dio Horia Gallery The Iranian American artist Amir H. Fallah presents his first solo exhibition ‘You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know' in Athens. Dio Horia Gallery announces the solo exhibition of Amir H. Fallah titled You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in... 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 -
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
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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 -
Spyros Aggelopoulos | Δε Laundry Basket
19 Mar - 11 Apr 2021 Dio Horia Gallery The second solo show by artist Spyros Aggelopoulos with Dio Horia gallery opens its doors in Athens on 19 th of March. The exhibition titled Δε Laundry Basket [The Laundry Basket], includes new paintings, sculptural installations and an experimental silent movie that as a whole construct the artist’s universe as... 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
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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 -
Tatiana Zagari (Pottati Pottato) | Sometimes I Cry at Work
23 Jun - 22 Jul 2020 Dio Horia Gallery Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to announce Sometimes I Cry at Work, an exhibition of new ceramics by Greek artist Tatiana Zagari (Pottati Pottato). For the past five years and till recently, only in the privacy of her studio, Pottato has been experimenting with the medium looking for ways to... 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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
Build your own house
27 Jul - 22 Aug 2017 Dio Horia Gallery The idea for the group show Build Your Own House derives from the Athenian middle class interiors. Comprising the inner part of the apartment building which was the regnant architectural element in the city’s urban landscape from the 50s until the late 90s, these pods followed an aberrant architecture, based... Read more
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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 -
Greek Gotham
Group Exhibition 29 Jul - 28 Aug 2016 Dio Horia Gallery Conceived and curated by Maria Brito, “Greek Gotham” will open on July 29, 2016 at Dio Horia on the island of Mykonos and will run for four weeks. Dio Horia is a new contemporary art gallery dedicated to the exploration of the dialogue between contemporary art and culture in Greece... 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
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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
