I am not interested in finding out what art is,
but rather what art is about.
Alexis Akrithakis
Welcome to the Official Website of The Estate of Alexis Akrithakis. The aim of this website is to provide information on the art and life of Alexis Akrithakis, a major figure of Greek post war art.
ALEXIS AKRITHAKIS | ON THE MOVE -
from the Zacharias G. Portalakis Modern Art Collection at the Historical Museum of Crete
The exhibition’s publications include a bilingual, (english-greek) leaflet featuring works by Akrithakis in full-colour, (free of charge), and a full-colour exhibition catalogue available at the HMC shop and the HMC online shop.
Press release:
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Exhibition duration: March 2019 - September 2021
currently on view
13 April — 29 September 2024
MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST
Domstraße 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main
In the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, numerous artists from abroad were working in both the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. Within the framework of grants and bilateral cultural agreements, and alongside migrant workers, exiles, and refugees, they came to a divided Germany during the Cold War to continue working on their art and to collaborate and exchange with other artists. Some were themselves migrant workers who only later became artists.
Memories of people and landscapes, colors, forms, and visual traditions found their way into their works. Fleeing their native countries and living in exile in their new homeland, political conditions as well as daily work and life became their new pictorial themes.
Marginalized within the institutionalized art world due to structural exclusions, the artists nevertheless decisively expanded the discourses on art in both post-National-Socialist Germanys. In doing so, they opened up the possibility of seeing different things and, hence, seeing differently.
The exhibition There is no there there testifies to the richness of their artistic work and the transformative power that works of art can unleash. While what they left behind inevitably changes, the artists directly change the present.
Curated by Gürsoy Doğtaş and Susanne Pfeffer
currently on view
ΕSTIATORIO
at the Benaki Museum MUSEUM OF GREEK CULTURE
1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave., 106 74 Athens
FOR past exhibitions click HERE
ALEXIS AKRITHAKIS | ON THE MOVE -
from the Zacharias G. Portalakis Modern Art Collection at the Historical Museum of Crete
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ PROJECT
The Estate of Alexis Akrithakis is in the process of preparing a catalogue raisonné of the works created by the artist.
As Alexis Akrithakis produced a large amount of works in his career, we would like to invite private and public collectors of Alexis Akrithakis artworks, as well as friends and relatives who own, or have owned, paintings, constructions or any other kind of artwork by the artist to share with us relevant information and photographic documentation.
> We invite you to use our Catalogue Raisonné Collectors form.
> Should you require help with completing the form, please contact us by e-mail at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.be assured that all information provided will be treated strictly confidential.
Thank you so much for your support!
RIGHTS AND COPYRIGHT
The Estate of Alexis Akrithakis holds the full copyright to all Akrithakis works. If you wish to print, reproduce or use such images on the internet, please contact us well in advance of your anticipated project at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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