Miltos Golemas – Plateau
Zoumboulakis Galleries | January 22, 2026- February 22,2026
Zoumboulakis Galleries mark 20 years of collaboration with Miltos Golemas with Plateau, a new solo exhibition opening today. The show brings together large-scale oil paintings inspired by the artist’s homeland—landscapes that move beyond description to function as deeply personal statements.
Art historian and curator Christoforos Marinos describes Plateau as “a self-portrait; the portrait of a restless, talented, and mature artist,” noting that Golemas himself sees this body of work as the first in which “the work is me.” The landscapes unfold like musical compositions, charged with passion and inner tension, yet marked by balance and hidden harmony. “These are landscapes to sit and meditate before,” Marinos writes, works that assert their presence and invite long contemplation.
Familiarity with Infinity 2024-2025, Oil on canvas, 171 x 234 cm/ Miltos Golemas
Poet and translator Krystalli Glyniadakis echoes this sense of intimacy, describing Golemas’ paintings as places of refuge—an “eternal and multi-coloured childhood” where even storms feel familiar and manageable. In their fluid brushwork and focus on sensation rather than depiction, she likens them less to expressions of trauma and more to Monet’s water lilies: impressions of lived experience rather than fixed images.
Andreas Finch – On the Wings of the Winds: Athenian Kiosks
Athens Municipal Arts Center | January 22 – February 22, 2026
Artist Andreas Finch, widely known as Finch of Athens, presents On the Wings of the Winds: Athenian Kiosks in collaboration with Art Place – Kyriakos Petalidis Gallery. Hosted at the Athens Municipal Arts Center and supported by the City of Athens’ cultural organizations, the exhibition runs from January 22 to February 22.
The show traces the social, architectural and folkloric history of Athens’ kiosks through 20 three-dimensional works of varying scale, each based on archival photographic material. The result of long-term research, the exhibition charts the evolution of the city’s kiosks from the early 20th century to the present day.
From the polygonal kiosks of Syntagma Square seen in vintage postcards, to the first “Minion” at Chavteia, the “Muses” of Omonia Square, the famous “Koutalas” kiosk in Glyfada, and even the kiosk that collapsed on Panepistimiou Street during metro works in 1997, Finch’s sculptural reconstructions map a parallel history of everyday Athenian life.
The exhibition concept will be presented during the opening by writer Thanasis Kappos, journalist Elena Dakoula, curator Kyriakos Petalidis and the artist himself. Admission is free.
Chiara Souganidou – Vis Motrix
Contemporary Athens | January 22 – February 7, 2026
At Contemporary Athens, Chiara Souganidou presents Vis Motrix—Latin for “driving force”—a solo exhibition opening tonight at 7 p.m., with a celebratory party to follow on Saturday, January 24.
Souganidou exhibits medium- and large-scale abstract works created through an open, process-driven approach. Industrial liquid paints, acrylic pastes, papers of varying textures and canvases form a visual field in which material leads the way, rather than serving a predetermined image. Painting emerges as an inner impulse, a force generated through gesture itself.
As critic Giorgos Mylonas observes, Souganidou’s painting “moves from the inside outward,” guided not by intention but by the flow and resistance of materials. Her work belongs to a rare lineage of artists who treat painting as both an intellectual act and a physical practice. Eschewing spectacle, she allows each piece to resolve itself through process, humility and time.
Despite its deeply personal language, Vis Motrix communicates with striking clarity. It is not a locally bound or overtly expressive practice, but one that carries the essence of the act of painting—recognizable and resonant wherever it is encountered.
