Exhibition “Alexis Akrithakis. Journeys in Frames”

In collaboration with the Akrithakis Archive, Athens International Airport presents the exhibition “Alexis Akrithakis. Journeys in Frames”, from March 10 to September 1, 2026.

Alexis Akrithakis's “Stories” are an important part of his work (“oeuvre”). They unfold like small journeys, combining drawing, painting, or constructions with narration. Images follow one another, forming a world where drawing, colour and narration coexist without hierarchy. Airplanes, ships and cars move through vague landscapes, laden with symbols — hearts, arrows, shapes — that seem to belong more to memory and emotion than to geography. 

The exhibition presents enlargements of the Stories “A Sun and a Bird” and “Bows, a Boat, a Little Heart and Bows”, as well as the collectible original of the book “AKRITHAKIS - Three Stories”. The video features images from works dedicated to his daughter, recurring rhythmically, where repetition transforms the narrative into a silent record of the bond between image and memory. Akrithakis’s art moves between experience and imagination, with a direct, personal and deeply human expression.

Alexis Akrithakis (1939 – 1994)
   
Alexis Akrithakis was born in Athens in 1939. He lived in Paris between 1957 and 1961, while from 1968 to 1970 he stayed in Berlin with a scholarship from the German state (DAAD). His work includes drawings, paintings, constructions and books, and is characterised by a direct, personal visual language that combines lived experience with the imaginary. He passed away in Athens in 1994.

Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been presented in 1997 at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, in 1998 at the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutzos Museum in Athens, in 2003 at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, while the retrospective “Alexis Akrithakis. A Line Like a Wave.” is currently on view in 2026 at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

The exhibition is open daily on a 24-hour basis.