Tip of the day – An Unconventional Art Experience in Athens

• February 12, 2025

What’s the most unexpected place you’ve ever attended an art exhibition? In Athens, you can experience one in a three-level underground parking garage—before it even officially opens! With parking shortages being a constant challenge in the city center, new parking spaces are always welcome. But turning one into an art gallery before its grand opening? That’s something you don’t want to miss!

The exhibition “Ephemeral Party” is an original project, inspired by Filippos Tsagridis-Panagopoulos and co-curated with Katerina Hatzi, and highlights an everyday space of public use as a lively field of meeting and exchange of ideas.

It is a group exhibition of 19 artists that includes works of various media and materials (painting, sculpture, video, visual installations, performative actions). Works by older artists intertwine with younger ones to give an insight into the ephemeral, through dreams, time and memories.

A few days before it officially opens, Carco Parking will become an exhibition space for contemporary art, hosting works by well-known Greek artists such as Giorgos Bouzianis and Yannis Tsarouchis. Some performances will even take place in the space, the performance action “Bingo Players” by Yannis Varela, in “dialogue” with the works. In addition to the contemporary art works, the exhibition has also used a poem by K.P. Cavafy, “The Candles”, which deals with the specific theme.

The exhibition is spread over 3 floors and hosts three different themes: the ephemeral of dreams (1st floor), time (2nd floor) and memories (3rd floor). The works are placed in the most unlikely places and the visitor is invited to wander around the Carco Parking spaces and discover them.

Contributors:
Production coordination: Katerina Hatzi.
Lighting.
Photography: Yannis Hadjiaslanis, Penelope Gerasimou
Transfer and suspension of artworks: MoveArt
MoveArt.MoveArt: Vassilis Argyratos, Fotini Fragaki
Art insurance: DAES
Text editing: Christina Petkopoulou
Graphic Design: Ogust
Christina Ogust, Christina Ogust, Christina Ogust, Christina Ogust, Christina Ogust, Christina Ogust: Haris Dimos, Angelos Lokos, Tasos Nikas

Thanks to:
Onassis Foundation, Aliki Lampropoulou and to the lenders who wish to remain anonymous
Christos Zavitsanos, Irini Kalliga, Vassilis Bakasis, Mari Spanoudaki

INFO
Duration of the exhibition:
11 to 17 February, Opening hours: Monday, Wednseday, Thursday, Friday 5-9 p.m., Sat., Sun., Fri. 12-9 p.m. | Free admission

Carco Parking (35 Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, Athens, 106 75 – near the Museum of Cycladic Art)

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