The exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece from 24 March to 23 May is based on the costume collection of the "Vassilios Papantoniou" Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation. It is comprised of a wide range of museum-grade clothing from the 18th to the 21st century, including masterpieces by designers/couturiers known the world over, such as , Christian Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier and others, as well as internationally renowned Greek designers, such as Jean Dessès, Sophia Kokosalaki and others.

The exhibition "Moscow. 21st century" is being present by the Cultural Institute of Moscow "Moscow City Museum," in cooperation with the Museum of the City of Athens-Vouros-Eftaxias. The exhibition will familiarise Athenians with modern Moscow as seen through photographs from the Moscow Museum. It is the museum's largest and most important collection, consisting of 70,000 photographs. The exhibition will run from 18 March to 18 April at the Museum of the City of Athens-Vouros-Eftaxias.

The Breeder Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Athens, Greece by Iranian photographer Shirana Shahbazi from 14 March to 24 April. Inspired by old masters, Shahbazi stages and rearranges still lifes, which she photographs and develops in spatial installations in combination with other photos. Motifs such as skulls, shells, butterflies and fruit are featured often in Shahbazi's work. The artist removes these symbols from their usual context and allows their pictorial quality to assume greater prominence.

Comicdom Con Athens, a celebration dedicated to comics, invites friends of the Ninth Art and all those who would like to know more about the magical world of printed pop culture to attend this year's event. It is being held at the Hellenic American Union from 16 to 18 April in Athens, Greece and will feature three days of penciling events, showings, workshops on scripting and illustration, a bazaar of comics from Greek shops and publishers and the Comicdom Awards, the only comics awards for Greek creators.

The thematic exhibition entitled "Faces of Modernism: Painting in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, 1910-1940," being staged by the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest, the National Gallery-Bulgarian Museum of Fine Arts in Sofia and the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, is taking place from 12 March to 9 May at the B & M Theocharakis Foundation in Athens, Greece.

Kalfayan Galleries in Athens, Greece will present a solo exhibition by Tassos Pavlopoulos titled "Raptomihanika," loosely translated as "sewing mechanics." Always provocative and caustic, Pavlopoulos through his work alludes to both artists of the past, such as Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci, and to artistic movements of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism. The show will run from 23 March through 8 May at the Kalfayan Galleries in Athens, Greece.

Photographer Alexandros Lambrovassilis and journalist Achilleas Peklaris, both living in New York, come face to face with 150 different faces - all citizens of New York. Peklaris interviews them in a friendly fashion, while Lambrovassilis takes an environmental portrait, allowing the participants to select the location and placing them in what they consider to be their natural environment. Don't miss this interesting exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece from 24 March to 18 April.

The Antonopoulou Art Gallery presents the fourth solo exhibition by photographer Yiorgis Yerolympos titled "Road Trip: USA.16994.61." Yerolympos will present photographs he took while driving through cities and landscapes of the United States. This long journey was completed in February and March 2008 on a Fulbright scholarship. The show will run from 23 March to 29 April at the Antonopoulou Art Gallery in Athens, Greece.

The Alex Mylonas - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Dimitris Antonitsis present the exhibition Celebration at the museum in Athens, Greece from 13 March to 9 May. The exhibition will feature works by Greek artists from Greece and abroad which have been shown at the Sachtourio High School on the island of Hydra as part of Antonitsis' Hydra School Projects.

Dassera Art Space presents a show by British artist Matt Jordan from 12 to 31 March. Using clear colours, distinctive graphics and plenty of humour, Jordan presents critical social themes in a light-hearted way which is above all "British." Don't miss this interesting exhibition by Matt Jordan at Dassera Art Space in Athens, Greece. It is the first time that his work is being shown in Athens, at Dassera Art Space.

A solo exhibition by American artist  titled "Salto Mortale" is being presented for the first time in Athens, Greece from 25 February to 8 April at the Bernier-Eliades Gallery. Lieberman's work is not identified with one particular medium. The artist usually conceives of an idea and then seeks the ideal medium to express it. The result is that his work is characterised by a combination of media and techniques: collage, sculpture, painting, installations and digital media.

The Athens Video Art Festival, Greece's biggest festival of digital arts and new media, will take place from 7 to 9 May 2010 at Technopolis of the City of Athens. The Athens Video Art Festival is Greece's official festival on video art while catering to people from the full spectrum of creativity. Through its versatile action, the Athens Video Art Festival constitutes a means of promotion and a link between the artists and the audience inside and outside Greece.

The Opening Ceremony of the Athens Olympics is back through an extensive exhibition dedicated to the people who made it possible: the 7,000 volunteers. The exhibition will feature costumes, artefacts, photos and videos from the preparations for the Opening Ceremony in 2004. The exhibit is on through 29 March at the National Glyptotheque (Army Park, Goudi).

A major exhibition focusing on this important Greek artist, Yannis Tsarouchis, is being staged to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth at the Benaki Museum. This is the first retrospective of Yannis Tsarouchis' works in Athens, and its goal is to showcase representative works from all periods of the artist's output. The exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece will run from 19 December until 14 March.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, best-known for his black-and-white photographs of the landscapes and national parks of the United States. His exceptionally sharp and impeccably high-quality images record the magnificent beauty of the American wilderness. An exhibition with Ansel Adams' works will be presented at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece from 5 March to 30 April.

The Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre will host a major visual arts event in Athens, Greece starting 22 February. The "Μiró of Majorca" exhibition will be held in cooperation with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Teloglion Foundation of Art and the Pilar I Joan Μiró Foundation in Majorca and will be presented at the Hellenic Cosmos "Theatron" until 30 May.

A grand-scale and fascinating exhibition devoted to Eros and the various forms he took in antiquity is being presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art through 5 April. The show features 270 exhibits from 50 archaeological museums in Greece, Cyprus, Italy and France. Among the exhibits are marble statues, bronze figurines, images on ceramic vessels and jewellery dated from the 6th century BC to the 4th century BC.

"Giorgos Savakis: Images of Old Athens" is a retrospective exhibition of work by the well-known folk artist being staged at the City of Athens Technopolis. Sources of inspiration for the work include the childhood memories of the Athenian artist, his experience of everyday life in the early 20th century, as well as the history of Greece, as he depicts landscapes, folk celebrations, traditional costumes, characters and highlights from life in old Athens.

Kalfayan Galleries in Athens will present an exhibition of new works as well as works from earlier periods by Constantin Xenakis from 18 February to 20 March. Internationally recognised, Xenakis is one of the most important contemporary Greek artists. Born in Cairo in 1931, he settled in Paris in 1955 where he rapidly became involved in avant-garde trends such as abstract expressionism.

The Gagosian Gallery in Athens, Greece presents an exhibition of linocuts created by Pablo Picasso between 1959 and 1963. The show will run from 28 January to 10 April. Picasso never stopped experimenting with various engraving techniques, including lithography, copperplate, drypoint and monotypes. The Gagosian exhibit will focus on the famous artist's work with linocuts.

AMP presents the group exhibition Supernature: an Exercise in Loads, bringing together more than 20 artists to showacase their works. The exhibition Supernature: An Exercise in Loads is based on the encounter with the first gym in Athens to specialise in competitive bodybuilding. Owned by highly esteemed pioneer of Greek bodybuilding Spyros Bournazos, the gym constitutes a unique hybrid of formal qualities. Don't miss this interesting exhibition, from 10 February to 31 March at the AMP Gallery in Athens, Greece.

The Herakleidon Museum in Athens, Greece presents the exhibition "The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas," which will be on show from Nov. 27 until April 25. The exhibition presents all 74 bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas, including his most important one, "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years." These bronzes are on loan to the museum from the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece presents a retrospective exhibition by Chronis Botsoglou, one of the most important Greek post-war painters, from 28 January to 18 April. The exhibition constitutes the largest retrospective of the artist held to date, including more than 170 works: paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, engravings, digital pictures and illustrations that span a period from the 1950s until today and are brought together for the first time.

On 14 January, Kalfayan Galleries will present an exhibition of drawings and sculpture by Giannoulis Halepas. The exhibition is one of a series of shows that Kalfayan Galleries organise periodically featuring important Greek artists. Best known for his sculpture Sleeping Woman, which is located in the First Cemetery in Athens, Greece and which he created in 1877 at a young age, Halepas (1851-1938) is one of Greece's most important sculptors. The exhibition will run until 13 February.

An exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece will present books written by Greek and foreign travellers who toured Greece during the first half of the 20th century (1900-1950) and recorded images of towns, villages, monuments and everyday life in Greece. The books are illustrated either with sketches or photographs, the new and realist medium of that era, and feature images that are lost or are slowly being forgotten. The exhibition will run from 5 to 21 February.

The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece is staging the second annual exhibition and auction benefit with works of contemporary art, the profits from which will go towards the philanthropic project of Athens Pride. The 18 artists who have generously donated important works are among the most established on today's Greek art scene. The exhibition will last from 2 to 13 February and the auction will take place on 6 February (20:00-22:00) at the Breeder Gallery.

The Goethe-Institut in Athens, Greece will present the photo exhibition titled "Berlin, November 1989" from 21 January to 12 February, focusing on the opening of the Berlin Wall as experienced by 14 photographers in East and West Germany. Images immortalise intensely experienced moments and events, experiences shared with others. What sets this exhibit apart is the fact that the photographers have transformed the reality of Berlin's November 1989 into images in such diverse ways.

An exhibition at the Benaki Museum of images, objects and sounds that bring to life the climate and memories from that captivating yet difficult decade in Greece. The exhibition material is organised along two main lines: life in society and the musical panorama of the era. Don't miss this remarkable exhibition about the Sixties at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece from 17 December until 10 January.

A new exhibition at the Benaki Museum presents the 50 most significant buildings built in Norway in the five years from 2000-2005; it is the seventh such exhibition since 1978, when the Norwegian Museum of Architecture (which is now part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) organised the exhibition "10 years of Norwegian Architecture" for the first time. The show will be on at the Benaki Museum at the Pireos Street Annexe from 16 December to 10 January.

The terrible twosome, Gilbert & George, return to Athens five years after their last show at the Bernier Eliades Gallery and two years after their epic retrospective at the Tate Modern, the biggest solo exhibition in the history of the museum. The Bernier Eliades Gallery presents a selection of works from the latest and single largest body of work ever by Gilbert & George - the Jack Freak Pictures - from 19 November to 9 January.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum will present a pioneering exhibition titled Warhol/Icon: The Creation of Image from 6 October to 10 January. The exhibition features important portraits from all phases of Andy Warhol's career, forming a criticism of the modern obsession with fame, a concept that had fascinated Warhol and which is evident at the centre of his work.

Qbox gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Athens titled The Sleepers by Daniel Barroca. In 2008, the artist purchased an 8mm film called Kreta from a second hand shop in Berlin. This propaganda film depicts the Nazi invasion of the island of Crete in 1941. In his solo exhibition, the artist presents four videos resulting from the process of cutting and dismantling the original ‘narrative' structure of the film in his aim to find a different point of view over the old original footage.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art will present for the first time in Greece a retrospective exhibition featuring the work of the American artist and pioneer in the media arts field, Mark Amerika, from 22 October to 3 January. The first presentation of his work in Greece took place within the framework of EMST's online exhibition titlted e-critures (2008).

The National Museum of Contemporary Art for the first time in Greece is staging a retrospective exhibition of the Iranian artist Y.Z. Kami, titled Beyond Silence. The exhibition will be launched on 22 October and run through 10 January. The show will present Kami's large-scale paintings created since 1990, which are the epitome of his artistic career. The works included in the exhibition - paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs and collages - will be shown in two sections.

A comprehensive presentation of some of the artists that Dakis Ioannou has been collecting in depth over the past few years, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost showcases ambitious works, signature pieces and new productions by, among others: Pawel Althamer, Paul Chan, Urs Fischer, Katharina Fritsch, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Kiki Smith, Seth Price, Kara Walker, Franz West and Andro Wekua. The exhibition will be on display from the beginning of May to the end of December at the Deste Foundation in Athens.

The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation presents the exhibition Alekos Fassianos - Tassis Papaioannou: Colour and Light in Painting and Architecture, which will be open to the public from 24 September to 13 December. The coupling of painting and architecture, masterfully achieved by the highly acclaimed painter Alekos Fassianos and the well known professor of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, Tassis Papaioannou, represents the central axis of this exhibition that functions on many levels.

The Benaki Museum is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the squares of Europe, to run from Nov. 6 to Dec. 6. As the square is the focal point of urban life and an integral part of a city's identity, the show on squares focuses on the history, the current condition and the preservation of their importance in the present and future. About 60 of these squares are featured through photographs, plans and original material.

The exhibition by Belgian expressionist James Ensor at the Benaki Museum presents to the public the collection of engravings belonging to the KBC Bank of Belgium. Ensor is considered a forerunner of Flemish expressionism. He expresses the charm, contrasts, faith and traditions of the society in which he lived. A solitary and mainly pessimistic artist, his works show him to be an admirer but also a harsh critic of absurd reality. Ensor's exhibition will be on at the Benaki Museum from 30 September to 1 December.

The position held by women in ancient Athens will be the focus of the exhibition Worshipping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens, being presented from 20 July to 30 November at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. This exhibition, which has already been shown at the Onassis Cultural Centre in New York, consists of 155 rare archaeological artifacts from the NAM, the Louvre and Vatican museums, the British Museum and the New York Metropolitan Museum, as well as other major institutions.

The Herakleidon Museum has been showing the fourth and final phase of the M.C. Escher exhibition "From Drawing to Masterpiece" since August, highlighting the way the artist used colour in his work. This fourth phase, "Escher in Colour," will be on display until November 15.

The Benaki Museum presents a photography exhibition by Tassos Vrettos from 5 to 15 November. Vrettos has photographed the cinemas of Athens, both historical and centrally located ones and those on the city's outskirts, in addition to art cinemas, multiplex theatres with audiences of varied age and psychographic characteristics and the unique phenomenon of the outdoor summer cinemas. These photos show a desire not only to record but to float through the ambience of a movie theatre and dive into the film experience.

The Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the Danish Institute in Athens and the Vejle Kunstmuseum, present an exhibition with selected works of the Danish graphic artist, Palle Nielsen (1920-2000), from 22 September to 25 October. The exhibition will feature well known works by the master Danish artist of the 20th century, executed in various techniques, such as drawing, watercolour, wood engraving and linocut.

The Hellenic American Union is presenting an exhibition by Mark Titchner, considered to be one of the most established young British artists. Titchner was nominated in 2006 for the Turner Prize, Britain's most influential contemporary art award. He has presented many solo exhibitions and has participated in several group exhibitions in Britain and abroad, including a participation in the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. His exhibition will be open from 21 September to 21 October at the Hellenic American Union.

The Benaki Museum presents an exhibition in Athens Greece with the works of Dimitris Soulas, photojournalist and Greek emigrant, from the period 1967-1974, when he worked in Munich. The exhibition will take place from 19 September until 18 October. Soulas, who successfully handled almost all forms of reportage, worked with the Associated Press and with most of the major newspapers and magazines in Germany.

The Benaki Museum presents an exhibition dedicated to the painted oeuvre of artist Stavros Baltoyiannis. The main body of the exhibition is made up of the major themes which have engaged the artist, including the female nude, portraits and landscapes. His creative output, characterised by the use of hot wax painting, or encaustic painting, follows abstract trends and is distinguished by its sparing use of expressive media, while the artist makes an effort to combine tradition with new concepts. The exhibition will run from 16 September to 25 October.

On June 11, the National Museum of Contemporary Art will inaugurate heart in heart, a large-scale exhibition in which 23 artists participate with paintings, sculpture, installations, drawings, photographs, videos and web art from the museum's collection. Most of the works are being presented for the first time. Occupying the entire exhibition space of the museum, housed in the Athens Conservatory building, the exhibition will last for four months.

The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN will take place from 15 June to 4 October. The exhibitions and events of the biennale will unfold along the coastline of Palaio Faliro in various buildings and public spaces. It is designed as a large-scale, multi-faceted contemporary art event, with several exhibitions, activities, music and theatre performances, film screenings and symposiums, with the participation of more than 100 international artists.

The Deste Prize was established in 1999 and is awarded every two years to a Greek artist living in Greece or abroad. The prize aims to showcase the work of a new and emerging generation of artists and it is an integral part of the Foundation's policy for supporting and promoting contemporary art in Greece.

ReMap 2 is an international platform of contemporary art running parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennale (June 16 to October 4). ReMap 2 takes place in the culturally diverse and dynamic districts of Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM) in downtown Athens. ReMap 2 offers a rich web of more than 40 cultural events and art happenings, including exhibitions, open-air and site-specific installations by Greek and international galleries, independent curators, art groups, architects and ΚΜ residents.

The National Historical Museum in Athens Greece is presenting an exhibition of monumental touring journals. These journals, which were written from the 16th to the 19th century, record the impressions of European travellers touring the Hellenic world and the Near East. The exhibition continues until 30 September and is open to the public daily, except Monday, from 9:00 to 14:00.

The Vakalo School of Art and Design will present an exhibition at Technopolis in Athens Greece titled City Reality Show. The exhibition will present ideas, dilemmas and questions about the phenomenon of modern cities, examining human relationships as well as political, social and economic functions. Don't miss the City Reality Show at Technopolis from 15 to 19 September.

Drawings by famous Italian director Federico Fellini will be exhibited for the first time in Athens, at the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music. Even though the public is familiar with most of the great director's films, it often ignores the fact that Fellini collaborated with various magazines as a cartoonist before he became involved with the film industry. Throughout his lifetime, he never lost his love of drawing, either figures for his films or depictions of his numerous and strange dreams.

The Museum of Cycladic Art presents the first solo show in Athens of one of the most celebrated artists of our times working in the medium of photography from 16 June to 14 September. Since the late '70s, Thomas Struth has been known for his architectural and urban photographs, portraits, landscapes and museum interiors. Struth's work has been exhibited widely all over the world.

From 5 June to 20 September, the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music in Athens will host the exhibition The Dynamics of the Image, presenting the work of 14 renowned contemporary Greek artists whose works reveal numerous and representative aspects of contemporary Greek art.

Based on the Byzantine and Christian Museum's permanent collection, "Refugee Heirlooms," this exhibition explores the link between the objects and the people. Irrespective of their current status -- whether exhibits in state museums, in temples or on private premises -- these treasures from Asia Minor function as symbols of memory and identity, as many associated with them have attested.

This exhibition marks the first time the George Gonticas Collection goes on display. This is an important collection, recently donated to the Benaki Museum, and is the only recorded group of pieces of Pre-Columbian Art in Greece. It includes ceramic vessels, idols, stone objects and tools. Both the exhibition and the collection focus on cultures of the Andes (Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico), which feature common acts of worship and many common technological elements. It will be on display at the Benaki Museum until 30 August.

An exhibition by the group AFI at the Benaki Museum will present creations inspired by the objects of the museum's permanent collections under the title Upside Down. Their works can stand on their own as exemplary artistic entities, as they project their aesthetic integrity publicly and provocatively. The show will be held at both the Peiraios Street Annexe and the main museum building from 27 April to 14 September, in the form of interventions throughout the exhibition areas of the permanent collection.

The third phase of the exhibition "From Drawing to Masterpiece," highlighting the "Unknown Escher," of M.C. Escher's work has now been installed at the Herakleidon Museum in Athens. The third phase will be on display until August 2. All of the works of Phase III are being exhibited for the first time in a museum environment.

The project "Culture Industry, Folklore and Clichés" at VOX invites 30 international artists from Greece and Eastern Europe to explore the ways in which the concepts of folklore and clichés interact and suggest new meanings and ideas, separate from the common experiences and thoughts of a specific geographic area. It will take place at VOX in Athens from 12 June to 10 July.

An exhibition based on shadows, shadow theatre and silhouettes will take place from May 23 to 26 June at the New Benaki Museum. Much of the work is based on old and contemporary folk tales and on simple narratives, though the heart of the exhibition is the shadow theatre from Turkey and Greece, and its main character Karagöz (in Turkey) or Karaghiozis (in Greece).

The solo exhibition by German artist Helmut Middendorf will take place at the New Benaki Museum from 29 April to 31 May. Middendorf was born in Dinklage, Germany, in 1953 and studied at the Berlin School of Fine Arts under K.H. Hödicke. His work is characterised by its variety and its attempts to overturn stereotypes, seeking new means of expression in order to startle both viewers and the artist himself.

Rebecca Camhi Gallery will present a solo exhibition by American artist Lily Ludlow, a painter and filmmaker also known as a designer for the fashion brand Imitation of Christ and Somnus. Ludlow will be exhibiting works that cross between the genres of painting and drawing. The exhibition runs from 2 April to 23 May at Rebecca Camhi Gallery in Athens.

Greece's leading international art fair for contemporary art, ART-ATHINA, will take place at the Athens shorefront in the Faliro Pavilion. The Faliro Pavilion is an ideal place to re-connect with contemporary art, while enjoying one of the most beautiful seaside areas close to the centre of the ancient capital city. ART-ATHINA - International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens - was established by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association in 1993 and over the years has become one of Europe's most prominent art fairs.

The Athens Art & Culture Association, in cooperation with AthenStyle Hostel, presents the mixed media exhibition "Movimento Gulliveriano" by Italian artist Mauro Basile. The exhibition will take place at the AthenStyle lounge bar and basement from 30 April to 17 May. Basile's art is also on show at the French gallery Carrè d'artistes, in Aix en Provence, featuring 40 small-format artworks representing his "Gulliverian" creative phase and developed with the collaboration of A. Antonucci and D. Cantore.

The Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) presents for the first time in Athens the new monumental synthetic opus of the international Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, Women without Men, which begun in 2004 and was completed in 2008. The work is inspired by the novel of the same title - banned in Iran - by Iranian writer Shahrnoush Parsipur. The exhibition will run from 18 March through 31 May.

Kostas Tsoklis will present an extensive exhibition of his work with the title Living Painting at the "Scholeio (School)" building on Pireos Street, Athens from 31 March to 31 May. It will be the first time that all of his Live Painting work, created since 1985, will be presented in total. The show is under the auspices of the Hellenic Culture Organisation, the City of Athens and the Municipality of Piraeus.

The Athens Video Art Festival makes an impressive and celebratory comeback this year as the biggest digital arts and new media festival representing Greece throughout the world with the aim of promoting digital culture. The festival has won the support of artists, institutions and audiences who attend every year. Live the experience from 14 to 17 May at Technopolis.

This exhibition is the result of the E. Averof Gallery Collection's 20-year presence in Metsovo, while at the same time it is an opportunity to display the most important paintings of its permanent collection for the first time in Athens Greece. The show is a retrospective of the most important exhibitions and activities which have marked the course of the Averoff Museum and shaped its identity as a museum.

The work of Konstantinos Kerestetzis is now on exhibit at the Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum under the title "Studies at the Prado." This is not the result of an extended period of study, but a visual and creative dialogue between the young artist and his renowned fellow painters. This fascinating exhibition will run from 5 March to 3 May.

An exhibition titled Expectations, by Dutch photographer Ivo Eman, opens 31 March at the Zoumboulakis Galleries and runs through 25 April. The exhibition presents a series of photographs that portray dream-like scenes with lonely people in deserted landscapes, while at the same time suggesting a sense of preordained reality. The angle that the pictures are taken from gives viewers the feeling that they are part of the picture while their composition is intensively theatrical, surreal and humorous as well.

The Museum of Cycladic Art and the French Institute of Athens are jointly organising three simultaneous exhibitions from 12 March until 26 April as part of the Méditerranée à la carte series: Jean-Luc Moulènes - The Louvre, Aris Georgiou - Montpellier: five minutes stop and Alain Ceccaroli -Shapes of the ordinary - Athens, Thessaloniki.

The second phase of the exhibition "From Drawing to Masterpiece," highlighting the Italian period of M.C. Escher's work, will be presented at the Herakleidon Museum starting January 17. The second phase will be on display for three months until April 18 and includes about 80 works.

Comicdom Con Athens 2009 will take place on 11-12 April in the main building of the Hellenic American Union for another two-day festival dedicated to comics and their creation. This year's festival features workshops on the techniques of scriptwriting and sketching, film screenings, presentations of new Greek comics publications, a bazaar with comic shops and publishing houses, and Comicdom Awards (the only Greek comic books awards).

The 4th Athens Animfest ‘09, Athens annual animation festival, will take place from 2-5 of April at Trianon Filmcenter. Acclaimed European artists and new talents from Greece and all over the World will meet again in Athens to present not only their new works but also some of the older ones from the history of animation.

The non-profit organisation Centre for Applied Industrial Design Science and Society is staging an international exhibition of digital art titled "COMING FROM...Milan-Athens." The exhibition calls for young voices in art, particularly the art of video, to come together in harmony as they forge the film aesthetics of the future, offering new, impulsive, challenging and revolutionary visions. It will take place from 6 March to 6 April at the CAID Centre.

The Hellenic American Union launches its 2009 exhibition programme with a tribute to Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential visual artists of the 20th century. The tribute includes the exhibitions: Joseph Beuys: Hellenic references in his art work from the Museum Schloss Moyland with works by the artist and Delphi is the place to meet: 12 artists on Joseph Beuys with works by Greek and German artists inspired by Beuys' work and ideas.

The spectacular treasures from ancient Colchis, the land to which the Greek hero Jason led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, are being presented in Athens and offer a unique insight into the fascinating ancient culture of the eastern shores of the Black Sea. Visit the exhibition at Athens' Benaki Museum from January 20 to April 6.

"Rituals and Traditional Theatre in Kyoto" will disclose the secrets of Japanese theatre, marvellous costumes and masks, and the spiritual, physical and material efforts that go into organising the annual matsuri ("religious celebrations" in Japanese). Α photography exhibition by Marcella Croce and Andrea Matranga on these celebrations will be presented by the Athens Art & Culture Association.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) presents for the first time in Greece the artistic partnership Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, with their solo exhibition titled Close Your Eyes, beginning from December 18 until March 1. The exhibition is part of EMST's policy of acquainting the audience to new forms and experimental quests of the international artistic creation.

Since its inception in 1995, CheapArt has been both a contemporary organised artistic movement and the only context art gallery in Greece. In collaboration with each artist, exhibitions enable the display of novel works that other galleries and artistic organisations often consider too "high-risk" to exhibit. Currently on display from 14 January to 3 February is large-scale work by Fiona Mouzakiti using oil pastels as her prime medium.

A.antonopoulou.art presents Aliki Panagiotopoulou's first solo show in Greece on Thursday 8th of January 2009.The artist tells a story through drawing. From minutely detailed pencil drawings through to harsh brushstroke paintings, this exhibition is about the complementary relation of opposites as a force that creates change and plurality in the world.

The Cultural Organisation of the City of Athens and 30 participating artists from around the world will present the new international modern art exhibition, Unconfined at the Cultural Centre "Melina" January 7-31. Athens will be the first stop for this art exhibition and future plans include presentations of the exhibit in Japan, Spain, France, Italy and the USA.

With their background in the art field extending significantly over time, including performances under the artistic name The Callas, participations in exhibitions, issuing their magazine Velvet, and the publication of the Athens Map of Contemporary Art, artists Lakis and Aris Ionas present LIPSTICK at AMP as their first solo show on Thursday, 18th of December 2008 until 31st  January 2009.

A landmark exhibition of one of 20th century's greatest artists, Maurits Cornelis Escher, is a must-see in Athens this winter. M.C. Escher (1898-1972): From Initial Drawing to Masterpiece is the most analytic, comprehensive and extensive presentation of the artist ever held worldwide, and gives the public the sense of being in his studio while he was preparing his masterpieces. It can be seen at the Herakleidon Museum until January 11, 2009.

This is a first time presentation in Athens of a one-man show by a Mexican painter in any Greek museum and an opportunity to view a collection that has travelled through Europe, America and Asia with great success. Toledo is now 68 years old and is considered one of the most important artists in Mexico. Throughout his career, Toledo has been constantly present in the art world and now he presents this wonderful collection at the Benaki Museum in Athens until 11th of January.

On the occasion of the celebration of World Day Against the Climatic Change and in the framework of the exhibition "Environment Action '08" the action "Digital Landscape" is taking place from December 8 up to January 16 at Villa Kazouli with the participation of more than 80 artists.

Jacques Lacarrière (1925-2005), author and traveller, was one of the most painstaking observers of Greece.  From 1947 to 1966 he visited Greece many times, drawing inspiration for many books and travel narratives. In his various peregrinations around the country he was always accompanied by his Leica camera, and he took many shots of unusual sensitivity. The exhibition will run from 4th December until 11th January at the New Benaki Museum.

Presenting around 300 works by Koudelka from various periods, this Retrospective gives the audience the opportunity to get a good insight on the contemporary master of photography.The exhibition is organised by Benaki Museum in co-operation with the photographic agencies Magnum Photos and Apeiron.

Organized by the Hellenic Center for Photography, APhF:2008 evolved out of the well established institution of the Center "Month of Photography", an event used to be taking place for the last 20 years in September and which presented a big number of exhibitions by Greek and foreign artists in an equally big number of galleries and other venues in Athens.

Qbox gallery presents Takehitos Koganezawa's first solo exhibition in Greece. Takehito Koganezawa, an artist living and working in Tokyo and Berlin, has developed a diverse art practice united by a minimalist aesthetic. His media work includes drawing, video, sound sculpture and performance. The exhibition, titled "Ephemeral Graffiti", reflects the impressions made on the artist on his one month stay on the island of Kea.

About a year before its official opening, the New Acropolis Museum opens its gates to welcome eighty four pieces of ancient Greek and Roman art that used to be in foreign museums. The antiquities were given over by the Italian President himself, who together with the Greek President inaugurated the exhibition.

From September 30 to December 7, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) hosts eight video installations by David Clearbout, which altogether provide a clear picture on the artist's course from 1996 when he made his first video until now. The exhibition takes place at the Athens Odeon, which will be EMST's temporary premises until the conclusion of works in the museum's premises.

An important figure of the contemporary photography field, Tod Papageorge visits Athens within the framework of Athens Photo Festival 2008, with the solo exhibition "Here and There: Photographs from the Acropolis and Central Park" on at Xippas Gallery from September 25 to November 20.

Ninety works from the famous Costakis Collection, representing all the groups and movements of the Russian avant-guard (1900s-1930s) are on display at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Kolonaki district up to the end of October.

The Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Greece, presents the exhibition ‘From Tiziano to Pietro da Cortona: Myth, Poetry and the Sacred...', held on the occasion of the official visit to Greece of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. A total of 24 paintings travel to Athens from major Museums and Institutions of Italy, seven of them works from the hand of the great Venetian artist Tiziano Vecellio.

In January 2006, the Stanley Foundation commissioned the internationally renowned VII Photo Agency to depict and throw some light onto the contemporary picture of the Arab World and daily life in the Middle East.

Up to the end of August, the Athens Municipal Gallery hosts a major retrospective of Mark Hadjipateras, featuring 200 works out of the 3000 the artists has created throughout his 30 years in the visual arts. The works exhibited range from painting and sculpture to etchings and installations. Of Greek origin, Mark Hadjipateras was born in London and studied in Hammersmith, St. Martin and Liverpool Polytechnic Schools.