A new contemporary art exhibition titled “Related Stories” debuts today in Athens, bringing together the work of three Greek artists with distinct visual languages and creative approaches.
The exhibition will run from May 22nd through July 12th, 2026, at the Museum of Folk Art and Tradition “Angeliki Hatzimichali,” a cultural institution housed in Athens’ historic Plaka district.
The exhibition presents a wide range of media, including photographs printed on handmade paper and velvet, graphite drawings, ink works on fabric, polyptychs, artist books, paintings and ceramic art objects. Together, the works create a multilayered visual dialogue centered on materiality, gesture, transformation and the traces left behind by memory and experience.
Installed inside the Museum of Folk Art and Tradition, the exhibition creates an organic conversation between Greece’s folk cultural heritage and contemporary artistic expression.
The exhibition is curated by Stavroula Pisimisi, folklorist and head of the Museum of Folk Art and Tradition “Angeliki Hatzimichali.”
Three artists, three distinct approaches
Artwork by Eleftheria Kousiaki.
Eleftheria Kousiaki, who was born in South Africa and now lives and works in Athens, studied photography in Athens. Her artistic practice draws connections between nature and interior emotional landscapes. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Hourglass, artwork by Kostas Nikakis.
Athens-based visual artist Kostas Nikakis, a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, builds his work through processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. Drawing from fragments of memory and recurring forms that resist full explanation, his practice exists between observation and abstraction, creating fields of quiet tension where images continuously emerge and disappear.
Transcriptions, artwork by Efi Tsoulouchopoulou.
Efi Tsoulouchopoulou, a graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, also lives and works in Athens. Her work explores memory, lived experience and the contemporary reconstruction of human experience. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally and has received distinctions abroad.
The exhibition officially opens Friday, May 22, at 7 p.m. Admission is free to the public.
