Important paintings and engravings from the Alpha Bank Art Collection are included in the exhibition entitled "The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1960 to the Present", which is organized by Alpha Bank and the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), from 11 December 2018 to 3 February 2019, at Warehouse B1 of the Thessaloniki Port Authority. The curators of the exhibition are Irene Orati, Art Historian - Curator of the Alpha Bank Art Collection and Yiannis Bolis, Art Historian - Curator of the MOMus.
The exhibition presents 41 works that outline the evolution of artistic creation over the last 60 years or so and were created by distinguished Greek artists, specifically: Nikos Alexiou, Dimitris Alitheinos, Steven Antonakos, Michalis Arfaras, Yannis Gaitis, Apostolos Georgiou, Maria Giannakaki, Nella Golanta, George Golfinos, Irene Gonou, Maria Ziaka, Irene Iliopoulou, Theodoros, Vlassis Kaniaris, Christos Karas, Marigo Kassi, Nikos Kessanlis, Kostas Koulentianos, Yannis Kounellis, George Lazoga, George Lappas, Tasos Mantzavinou, Jason Molfesis, Yannis Bouteas, Pavlos, Leda Papakonstantinou, Rena Papaspyrou, Dimitris Perdikidis, Giorgos Rorris, Chrysa Romanou, Loukas Samaras, Vasilis Skylakos, Theodoros Stamos, Aspa Stasinopoulou, Takis, Thanasis Totsikas, Kostas Tsoklis, Giorgos Hadoulis, Manolis Charos, Alexandros Psychoulis
The exhibition complements, in a way, the older exhibition, entitled "The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1920 to the Present", which was hosted in 2006 at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Today's exhibition is taking place at a particularly positive juncture, as the merger of the museums that make up the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) was recently completed.
The main objective of this exhibition is to highlight the new image of the Alpha Bank Collection, which has been enriched with significant acquisitions over the last decade. These works, which are presented for the first time in Thessaloniki as works from the Bank's Collection, strengthen the unity of contemporary works and highlight Greek creation from 1960 to the present. The search for works within the Collection that will provide the most complete possible picture, in the future, of these decades is ongoing.
The Alpha Bank Art Collection consists of 5,500 works of modern Greek art: paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, constructions, illustrated books, posters, as well as documentation material. The artworks come from the Collections of the Pisteos, Ionian, Emporiki and Citibank Banks, which were gradually consolidated from 2000 to 2014 and now constitute Alpha Bank, and are regularly presented in traveling exhibitions throughout Greece.
Venue: MOMus_Experimental Center for the Arts
11.12.2018-3.02.2019-extension until March 10, 2019
Tours: every Saturday, at 12:00
Information about the educational program of the exhibition here