Journeys in art. Artworks from the Bank of Greece Collection
Saturday, May 24, 2025 - Sunday, November 2, 2025
The chronicle of an Art Collection can involve a number of discernible journeys. In the Bank of Greece Art Collection, creations of an almost 150-year-long artistic trajectory proffer a variety of readings pertinent not only to Art History in particular but also to History in general.
The first journey embarks from Munich School painting of the 19th century to then stretch to seascapes that reach the mid-20th century. The second journey, beginning in the 1920s and the influential novel representations by painters of Greek modernism, leads up to the explorations of pioneering visual artists who establish their activity during the 1960s and 1970s. The third one, which starts from the 1970s and a representational treatment of the landscape and the human form, completes the path towards modern abstraction, which touches our current decade.
Through each timeline, the exhibition reveals aesthetic, ideological and social pursuits of the contextual era. The journey --of Greek art from the 19th century through to the 20th and finally the 21st-- reflects similar or disparate, ephemeral or intertemporal, yet always interesting aspects of Greece's cultural identity.
Charis Kanellopoulou
Doctor of Art History, Scientific Advisor and Curator of the Bank of Greece Art Collection
Information:
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Chalidon str. 98-102
+30 28213 41680
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania
Opening hours:
Mon.-Sat. 10:00-14:00, 19:00-22:00, Sunday closed