https://livingroomathens.com Living Room Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:39:18 +0000 https://livingroomathens.com en https://livingroomathens.com/Current-Exhibition Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:39:18 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Current-Exhibition Current Exhibition Visiting hours&nbsp; Thursdays + Fridays 18-21:00 Saturdays 13-18:00 + by appointment <img width="10000" height="5625" width_o="10000" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5775c87f2cd6ed93ead81f8058b558cd265986365f029ec78c8eb3a58cb2f67/WinterNights_HeroWebsite.jpg" data-mid="251881627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5775c87f2cd6ed93ead81f8058b558cd265986365f029ec78c8eb3a58cb2f67/WinterNights_HeroWebsite.jpg" /> Winter Nights brings together Norwegian, Greek and Icelandic artists in an exploration of seasonal rituals, animist worldviews and ecological memory. Curated by Eleni Riga, the international exhibition considers the meeting point between Nordic and Southern animisms, reflecting on climate change and ecological grief. The exhibition was first presented at BO (The Association of Visual Artists Oslo) and at Femidomen in September–October 2025 with the support of Arts and Culture Norway and the Norwegian Embassy. It takes its title from Vetrnætr, the pre-Christian Nordic ritual marking the transition into winter. Traditionally held after the harvest, the gathering offered a final moment of communal exchange before the darkness and cold winter. It served both practical and spiritual purposes: strengthening social bonds and solidarity, while acknowledging relationships with the land, ancestors and other-than-human forces. Exactly one year afterwards, for the presentation at the Living Room, the exhibition expands beyond winter itself to reflect on cyclical time, seasonal transformation and our relation with nature. It looks toward traditions and knowledge shaped by humanity’s repeated encounters with ecological crises and examines what they might offer today. The next chapter in Iceland has started with the research trip of Eleni Riga and Eva Ísleifs in collaboration with A-DASH supported by Culture Moves Europe and The Fjarðabyggð Cultural Center. Participating artists: Marthe A Andersen Tasos Gkaintatzis Úna Hamilton Helle Miriam Hansen Eva Ísleifs Maria Nikiforaki Viktor Pedersen Sarah Sikorie Elektra Stampoulou Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel Curated by Eleni RigaProduced by A–DASH &amp; Living Room. Finissage10/10/2026 the exhibition will remain open until 21:00 with a curatorial tour at 20:00 Duration: 17/09-10/10/2026 Visiting hours: Thursday + Friday 18:00-21:00 Saturday 13:00-18:00 or by appointment. The exhibition is supported by: Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture OCA – Office for Contemporary Art NorwayThe Norwegian Embassy in Athens The Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen Icelandic Art Center Transeuropa [PRESS KIT] <img width="1047" height="304" width_o="1047" height_o="304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c01fc5f5ef7f774be4b11e741fb8a0c40d013fd7521cdf3c9247b41facd973d/Ministry-of-culture-GR.png" data-mid="251881800" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c01fc5f5ef7f774be4b11e741fb8a0c40d013fd7521cdf3c9247b41facd973d/Ministry-of-culture-GR.png" /> <img width="4000" height="819" width_o="4000" height_o="819" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0f3b791e8ee09937f77c221333161227047aec561cf431181f33a299552ef9f/oca_logo_positive_rgb-1.png" data-mid="251881806" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0f3b791e8ee09937f77c221333161227047aec561cf431181f33a299552ef9f/oca_logo_positive_rgb-1.png" /> <img width="1800" height="472" width_o="1800" height_o="472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c72236bb5e01bcd6bcf6350efdf9b183514f241f946dbec453e136101d6dfda3/EMB_Standardlogo_Athens_ENG.png" data-mid="251881822" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c72236bb5e01bcd6bcf6350efdf9b183514f241f946dbec453e136101d6dfda3/EMB_Standardlogo_Athens_ENG.png" /> <img width="300" height="90" width_o="300" height_o="90" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13b5a220e4061bb80b090985410c76d0ab2cb3381d047d1b5702e9b0a9de8907/KAU_EN_SCREEN_RGB.svg" data-mid="251905845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/13b5a220e4061bb80b090985410c76d0ab2cb3381d047d1b5702e9b0a9de8907/KAU_EN_SCREEN_RGB.svg" /> <img width="1677" height="455" width_o="1677" height_o="455" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5cd49c979fb6cef68b7b3f8def8fc87caae20e4fdbd0ec365e83da023547479/000IAC_RGB-pos-english.png" data-mid="251881807" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5cd49c979fb6cef68b7b3f8def8fc87caae20e4fdbd0ec365e83da023547479/000IAC_RGB-pos-english.png" /> <img width="2691" height="1297" width_o="2691" height_o="1297" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64cca0a8f8fae988d74e307b05dbff249a9520462f00f08ba2e9e90c1b06cbf2/EA_logo_std_B-W_RGB_INTERIM.png" data-mid="251881815" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64cca0a8f8fae988d74e307b05dbff249a9520462f00f08ba2e9e90c1b06cbf2/EA_logo_std_B-W_RGB_INTERIM.png" /> <img width="6220" height="2454" width_o="6220" height_o="2454" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a580b4340fe5052d1ed59480be4cb53a18b9d165e9cc65001e2b097458b4d163/A-DASH_LOGO.jpg" data-mid="251881823" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a580b4340fe5052d1ed59480be4cb53a18b9d165e9cc65001e2b097458b4d163/A-DASH_LOGO.jpg" /> https://livingroomathens.com/Upcoming-Exhibition Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:08:40 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Upcoming-Exhibition Previous exhibitions ↓ https://livingroomathens.com/Finding-Balance-front Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:27:04 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Finding-Balance-front Finding BalanceCaptain Stavros 13.6-12.7.26 <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d6f0e3297223b50db2bc8bb938a51c87ed0497181b2b6e383495e7bde455afc/Finding-Balance-Web-Cover.jpg" data-mid="250369371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d6f0e3297223b50db2bc8bb938a51c87ed0497181b2b6e383495e7bde455afc/Finding-Balance-Web-Cover.jpg" /> Childhood often carries an illusion of invulnerability. Surrounded by caregivers, protected by the limited knowledge of what loss, pain, and mortality is, one experiences the world through a sense of relative permanence. Yet, adulthood announces itself through moments of rupture. The illness of a parent for example provokes the realization of bodily fragility and creates a sudden reversal of roles within a family: the receiver of care becomes the giver. And suddenly, the child of the family finds themselves caring for those who once cared for them. At the same time, the numerous world crises they may experience from a young age condemn them to an early and hasty maturity, leaving them with the numb feeling of too many responsibilities too soon, and with childhood and adolescence years not lived as they were meant. See more ︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/Minimal-Effort-Front Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:17:40 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Minimal-Effort-Front Minimal Effort Group exhibition 25.4-9.5.26 <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae833940f8ab6261f69b11ea0105cb51861990c2e47f1982c643f691e89dfe65/MinimalEffortThumbnailRGB.jpg" data-mid="249207127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae833940f8ab6261f69b11ea0105cb51861990c2e47f1982c643f691e89dfe65/MinimalEffortThumbnailRGB.jpg" /> The Minimal Effort project began to take shape, both conceptually and aesthetically, in the summer of 2024, initiated by curator Elli Leventaki and visual artist Dimitris Kontodimos, with the aim of organizing a group exhibition centered on artworks-gestures as alternative methods of artistic production and expression. Starting from Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, but also taking into account more recent examples, such as Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the exhibition draws on the logic of ready-mades and conceptual interventions, not as artworks that are “easy” to create, conceive, or select, but rather as pieces that can convey a wide range of meanings in a concise manner.This endeavor aims to take a critical stance toward practices such as intensification, flexibilization, and overwork, which are often promoted as healthy in contemporary Western societies. By contrast, concepts such as “pause” or “standstill” tend to carry negative connotations or are even perceived as a kind of luxury today. This social condition significantly influences artistic production at all levels, because there is no art without so-called “laziness”, as creative people always need time to reflect, experiment, fail, and start over from the beginning… See more ︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/Collectif-MASI-Front Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:53:16 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Collectif-MASI-Front Collectif MASINo Scrap No Dream 19.2-14.2.26 <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a38715e1fa7033d6548765ffaa8e69e853cdc17228e858421d3720dff2b8c31/Untitled-3.jpg" data-mid="246564848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a38715e1fa7033d6548765ffaa8e69e853cdc17228e858421d3720dff2b8c31/Untitled-3.jpg" /> You go through the day collecting your Freudian ‘day residues’ - fragments of memories, experiences and thoughts - which come together in a dream the following night, creating a new narrative, and a new experience. In a similar way, the exhibition No scrap no dream gathers scraps of materials from the street that come together in a new narrative, a dream state of the wanderer, who, after a long day in the city, repurposes all these scraps to interchangeable goods. Wandering through the city of Athens, one comes across plenty of kiosks - περίπτερα. Many remain active and full but bound to disappear, while others stand out, empty, like relics. Around them, construction materials of different generations accumulate in the dumpsters of renovation and demolition sites. This imagery leaves the subconscious with a sense of fragmentation and abundance of matter. As a miniature reflection of the broader financial system they are part of, periptera create circles of interaction around them in their most minimalistic version… See more ︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/BTS-front Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:12:26 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/BTS-front Beneath the Surface: Material Stories of Displacement Group exhibition 17.1-1.2.26 <img width="750" height="750" width_o="750" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/398da43dd496e6fbee4e48d681b183a0e4e851679066e83611b3c2340eca9fc2/IMG_6120-1.png" data-mid="244825862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/398da43dd496e6fbee4e48d681b183a0e4e851679066e83611b3c2340eca9fc2/IMG_6120-1.png" /> The exhibition brings together nineteen artists whose works confront displacement not only as a political reality, but as an intimate, lived condition. Displacement settles into the grain of everyday survival ~ into the textures we touch, the gaps in language, the things we carry with us and the things we are forced to leave behind.The artists in this exhibition hold space for these contradictions: presence and absence, belonging and estrangement, memory and forgetting. Their works do not seek closure. Instead, they offer a material reckoning ~ an unfolding conversation shaped by objects, gestures, and the silent testimonies of matter.This narrative is incomplete by design. It forms slowly, like a shoreline rewritten by each tide. We build, unbuild, and build again. Each piece asks:What remains when home is gone?What does the body remember when memory dissolves?What we know is this: materials remember. They fray, resist, absorb, endure. In their quiet language, they reveal traces of who we are and who we are becoming. This exhibition listens to that language ~ one of resilience, rupture, and the fragile architectures of belonging. See more&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/Marlene-front Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:46:40 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Marlene-front Marlene Heidinger The Line We Cross 8.11-23.11.25 <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b441fad8e86d86ec85599073cb5ac8d87426c2dd006c0635a7b1f761e5b2a37/website-icon.jpg" data-mid="246564862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b441fad8e86d86ec85599073cb5ac8d87426c2dd006c0635a7b1f761e5b2a37/website-icon.jpg" /> Marlene Heidinger (1996, Vienna) is a painter, curator, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She pursued studies in painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. In June 2024, she earned her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (“/ecm”) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her master’s thesis, “When Artists Curate: From the Studio to the Exhibition Space,” explored curatorial strategies employed by artists, focusing on the use of the studio as an exhibition space. This work reflects her broader interest in curating as an extension of artistic practice.Marlene Heidinger (1996, Vienna) is a painter, curator, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She pursued studies in painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. In June 2024, she earned her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (“/ecm”) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her master’s thesis, “When Artists Curate: From the Studio to the Exhibition Space,” explored curatorial strategies employed by artists, focusing on the use of the studio as an exhibition space. This work reflects her broader interest in curating as an extension of artistic practice. See more&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/We-Were-Always-Here-Front Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:21:43 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/We-Were-Always-Here-Front We Were Always Here Group Exhibition 17.5-17.6.25 <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcc9bd2e08438c4a8620b02f4f29223bc622170e78252f671477723cdf6f73e1/Website-icon.jpg" data-mid="246565019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcc9bd2e08438c4a8620b02f4f29223bc622170e78252f671477723cdf6f73e1/Website-icon.jpg" /> Having recently relocated to a larger space, Living Room now functions not only as an exhibition venue, but also as a home for artists’ studios ~~ a shared environment where works develop side by side and dialogue is built.Our first group exhibition celebrates that spirit of proximity and exchange. Bringing together the approaches of Eirini Tiniakou, Nadja Geer, Maisie Maris, Daphnis Monastiriotis, Riccardo Vitali, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Nikos Katsampanis, Auðunn Kvaran, and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou, the exhibition presents a variety of voices shaped within and beyond the studio walls.Various processes meet in a shared space that equally emphasizes process and outcome, and connection as much as individuality. In the circumstance of this exhibition, we found that each of our individual projects concentrate around the human experience: tracing a journey that begins with the body encountered as the natural element it is, reminding us of the materiality of existence.The exhibition was a part of A Collective of Collectives Festival.@acollectiveofcollectives See more&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/SebastianFront Mon, 12 May 2025 17:17:22 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/SebastianFront Terhi Ekebom &amp; Sebastian Boulter A Gate in the Forest 17.05-17.06.25 <img width="671" height="671" width_o="671" height_o="671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a2f8c72e31d6a5258814d3a590abf625ee0a440e65584550556c0c25c197305/Part_1_small-copy.jpg" data-mid="234699555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/671/i/3a2f8c72e31d6a5258814d3a590abf625ee0a440e65584550556c0c25c197305/Part_1_small-copy.jpg" /> Terhi Ekebom (b. 1971) is an Helsinki-based artist and illustrator. She holds a MA-degree in arts from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and BA-degree in design from the Metropolia (EVTEK) Institute of Art and Design. As an artist, Ekebom is an open-minded experimenter who is at home in the field of illustration, comics, wall painting and installations. She has held several solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in Finland, Brazil, Japan, China and Europe.Sebastian Boulter (b. 1974) is a painter and musician from Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds a MA-degree in painting from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels and secondary education diplomas of music and props making. Since 2000, he has had several solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in Finland, Russia, Baltic countries, Caucasus, Greece and Central Europe.He has worked as an independent curator in collaboration with Tampere City Cultural Affairs, Finland, Artist’s Union of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Finnish Institute in Athens. As a musician, Boulter has made soundscapes for exhibitions and composed music for movies, independent theaters, contemporary dance groups and different ensembles. See more&nbsp;︎︎︎ https://livingroomathens.com/Yoshi-front Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:27:50 +0000 Living Room https://livingroomathens.com/Yoshi-front Yoshi KametaniGood Times 3.5-11.6.25 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe8568268eaee2aecb77b6a0ff4bea314091711f5110666ef96a94ecac6cdd95/yoshiig.jpg" data-mid="234856947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe8568268eaee2aecb77b6a0ff4bea314091711f5110666ef96a94ecac6cdd95/yoshiig.jpg" /> People are expected to keep smiling through situations that shouldn’t be smiled through. Not because it helps, but because there isn’t a clear alternative. In visual language graphics are bright, but messaging is calm. There's always a mascot or a slogan. Imagery of trustworthiness and reliability, such as giving the thumbs up, is becoming a measuring tool for our misery. There’s always a new version of the same emergency. This repetition of events feels like a hook looping in a song you have already heard a thousand times, but you can’t memorize the lyrics. It feels familiar and cozy, and yet you have no idea what it’s talking about.“I see trouble on the way” - but don’t worry, everything’s under control.Yoshi Kametani is an American visual artist working across photography, video, print, and sculpture, currently living and working in Athens. His practice largely reflects on time, destruction, chaos and mortality. At the core of his work is an exploration of entropy, a natural force lending itself to nihilism while embracing the inevitable cycle of rise and decay. See more︎︎︎