Past
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Emily Ludwig Shaffer | An Island Refrain
29 Jul - 15 Sep 2021 Dio Horia Residency “Statues”, Shaffer observes, “are the remnants of cultures that embody so much of how a society sees its people”. The exhibition continues the artist's signature motif of archi-sculptural forms presented in surrealistic arrangements redolent with an air of de Chirico-esque spatial metaphysics updated from a perspective of a contemporary sensuality... Read more -
BUMS | curated by SKIP Gallery
12 Jul - 31 Aug 2021 Dio Horia Residency Throughout art history, as a representation of strength or voyeuristic eroticism; from Michelangelo's frescoes, Velasquez’s 'Rokeby Venus’ to Vallotton’s notorious ‘Study of Buttocks’, bums have been a universal and accepted subject, but rarely have art shows dedicated themselves to the subject alone. Participating artists : Aggtelek, Sports Banger, Markus Birdman,... Read more -
Javier Calleja | DROP BY DROP
1 - 31 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Borrowing the title from an expression that stands for slow and steady yet unstoppable progress, Drop By Drop continues the artist’s subtle but focused and persistent development of his practice. Tirelessly moving through the art world “step by step” and consistently making connections between his humble beginnings and the recent... Read more -
Pablo Benzo | Some Velvet Morning
Residency 12 Jun - 9 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Chilean painter Pablo Benzo joins Dio Horia for a residency in Mykonos, leading into his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Some velvet morning includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s still life through cubism and abstraction series and opens on June 12th in the presence of... Read more
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Alexander Ruthner | Volume 1
12 Jun - 9 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Austrian visual artist Alex Ruthner returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition with Dio Horia Gallery. The exhibition Volume I is the result of 109 works produced over the course of the pandemic and will be opening on June 12 in the presence of the artist.... Read more -
Jason REVOK | Descending
17 Aug - 15 Sep 2020 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Jason REVOK’s solo exhibition, Descending,in the gallery’s main space in Mykonos. The exhibition includes paintings from the artist’s spirograph series. The exhibition explores the spiraling loop patterns of the works and through them,observes the current moment in our society of descending into a... Read more -
Chris Akordalitis | Between Worlds
10 Jul - 13 Aug 2020 Dio Horia Residency Cypriot visual artist Chris Akordalitis returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition ‘Between Worlds’ will be opening on July 10. The artist will be present online via Instagram live. Chris Akordalitis’s artistic practice consists of oil paintings and ceramics. He studied in... Read more -
Tatiana Zagari (Pottati Pottato) | Sometimes I Cry at Work
23 Jun - 22 Jul 2020 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to announce Sometimes I Cry at Work, an exhibition of new ceramics by Greek artist Tatiana Zagari (Pottati Pottato). For the past five years and till recently, only in the privacy of her studio, Pottato has been experimenting with the medium looking for ways to... Read more
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Amir H. Fallah | Worlds Apart
Residency 23 Aug - 30 Sep 2019 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Amir H. Fallah’s solo exhibition Worlds Apart in Mykonos. The exhibition Worlds Apart includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s series that explore the diverse immigrant community living in America. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece and the... Read more -
Joakim Ojanen | Island
Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency Swedish visual artist Joakim Ojanen returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Island is the result of the artist’s residency with Dio Horia (November 2018) and will be opening on July 25 in the presence of the artist. Joakim Ojanen’s artistic practice... Read more -
Sam Friedman | Days of Kindness
Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency American painter Sam Friedman returns to Dio Horia for a residency on Mykonos, leading into his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Days of Kindness includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s Landscape Paintings series, and opens on July 25th in the presence of the artist. Sam... Read more -
Spyros Aggelopoulos | Donut Factory
25 Jul - 16 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Greek visual artist Spyros Aggelopoulos with the gallery at its Mykonos location. The exhibition Donut Factory includes paintings, puppets, a shadow-theatre installation and a video, and will be opening on July 25 in the presence of the artist. Spyros... Read more
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Javier Calleja | Those Little Things
Residency 28 Jun - 24 Jul 2019 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Javier Calleja’s solo exhibition Those Little Things in Mykonos. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece and the result of his month-long residency at Dio Horia in June 2019. The exhibition is opening on June 28 at 20:00, in the presence... Read more -
Caroline Larsen | Cyclades
Residency 24 May - 25 Jun 2019 Dio Horia Residency In recent years, Larsen has developed a signature technique of applying thick layers of paint on the canvas, using not the traditional tools of a painter but by squeezing oil paint through plastic bags. She has deployed this technique to dramatic visual effect and using a wide range of subjects,... Read more -
Despina Stokou | Sticky Watermelon Love
23 Aug - 25 Sep 2018 Dio Horia Residency Sticky Watermelon Love is Despina Stokou’s first solo exhibition in Greece. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, August 23 from 20:00-02:00 with the presence of the artist. Throughout her career Despina Stokou has developed an artistic practice that is based on the unconventional fusion of different public... Read more -
Peter McDonald | This, That and The Other
Residency 23 Aug - 25 Sep 2018 Dio Horia Residency This, that and the other consists of multiple works on paper, works on canvas as well as other found objects that he has collected during his stay in Mykonos. The subject matter of the works exhibited is twofold. On the one hand, some of the works are figurative and portray... Read more
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Raul de Nieves | Today
Residency 31 Jul - 30 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency Today is Raul de Nieves second solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a three-week long residency in Mykonos organized by Dio Horia’s residency program. The gallery will host an opening reception on Tuesday, July 31st from 20:00-02:00 with the presence of the artist. Throughout his career Raul de Nieves has... Read more -
Maja Djordjevic | I Will Find You
6 Jul - 1 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency I Will Find You is Djordjevic’s second solo exhibition at Dio Horia. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, July 6th from 20:00-2:00 in the presence of the artist. Maja Djordjevic creates multi-disciplinary works that look like computer doodles. In reality they are traditional oil and enamel artworks... Read more -
Matthew Palladino | Gigantomachy
6 Jul - 1 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency An opening reception in the gallery will take place on Friday, July 6th at 20:00 in the presence of the artist. The exhibition is called Gigantomachy and featues 4 new watercolor paintings on paper all made in Mykonos during Palladino’s participation at Dio Horia’s residency program. Gigantomachy is the most... Read more -
Todd James | The Gods Are Smiling on Us
Residency 15 Jun - 10 Jul 2018 Dio Horia Residency The Gods Are Smiling on Us is Todd James’s first solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a two-week long residency in Mykonos, organized by Dio Horia’s residency program. The gallery will host a soft opening reception on Friday, June 15th from 20:00-24:00 with the presence of the artist. For The... Read more
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Dancing Goddesses
Group Exhibition 27 May - 20 Jul 2018 Dio Horia Residency Conceived and curated by Marina Vranopoulou the show will open on May 27 on the island of Mykonos at Dio Horia. The exhibition takes as its starting point a catalyzing episode that took place in the island of Delos that transformed the island’s nature and defined its heritage. In Ancient... Read more -
Iliodora Margellos | One Sun For All
27 May - 23 Jun 2018 Dio Horia Residency Margellos’s multidisciplinary work involves drawing, painting, sculpture, site-specific installations, embroidery as well as performance. Her work sits in between figurative and abstract art practices and focuses on the discovery and understanding of the human body in its interaction with nature. The exhibition is entitled One Sun For All and acts... Read more -
Trudy Benson | Infinite Spiral
Residency 27 May - 23 Jun 2018 Dio Horia Residency The gallery will host an opening reception on Sunday, May 27 at 20:00 with the artist present. The spiral is a largely positive ancient symbol representing eternity, change, growth and even the evolution or movement of the universe. The spiral means different things to different cultures. In Greece it means... Read more -
Caroline Larsen | Romance on the Islands
Residency 28 Apr - 24 May 2018 Dio Horia Residency Romance on the Islands is Larsen’s first solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a month long residency in Mykonos, organized by Dio Horia’s residen cy program. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, April 28th from 20:00-24:00. Throughout her career Caroline Larsen has developed a painting practice that... Read more
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Aleksandar Todorovic | Buy It All, Eat It All
25 Aug - 20 Sep 2017 Dio Horia Residency The title of the show “Buy it All, Eat It All” acts as an ironic catchphrase that best depicts the ever growing consuming-obsessed era. It can be perceived as an inverse mantra, that shouts for awareness and criticism through its conceptual repetition. Todorovic brings complex, dystopian narratives to the foreground... Read more -
Raul De Nieves | Thirty3
Residency 25 Aug - 20 Sep 2017 Dio Horia Residency Thirty3 is the actual age of the artist. His very own milestone marking various thoughts, desires and memories of what has taken place and what is yet to come. Rethinking the personal, de Nieves underscores the connections with the social/political. His age is used as a starting point to reflect... Read more -
Aurel Schmidt | Night Music
27 Jul - 22 Aug 2017 Dio Horia Residency Morphing from organic to geometric, like cells and crystal formations, their structures echo the microcosms of our world and point towards a possibility of a world beyond, that of the metaphysical or mystical. Aurel Schmidt (b. 1982, Kamloops, BC, Canada) is an artist known both for the technically adept execution... Read more -
Build your own house
27 Jul - 22 Aug 2017 Dio Horia Residency The idea for the group show Build Your Own House derives from the Athenian middle class interiors. Comprising the inner part of the apartment building which was the regnant architectural element in the city’s urban landscape from the 50s until the late 90s, these pods followed an aberrant architecture, based... Read more
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Hulda Guzmán | A Different Architecture
23 Jun - 20 Jul 2017 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia opens its doors to a futurity not yet here with “A Different Architecture”; the solo exhibition of Dominican artist, Hulda Guzman. Captivating and immersive, the dynamics of the pieces lead the visitors to be aware of the never-ending flow of time. Intimate, individual moments are made public; energetic... Read more -
Jump Ball
Group Exhibition 3 - 25 Jun 2017 Dio Horia Residency The exhibition plays with the artists’ reflection upon issues that matter in everyday lives, inspired by life inside but also away from the court. It touches upon the close relationship between art and life turning its focus on basketball; as a popular game, a spectacle but also a locus of... Read more -
The Veterans
13 Apr - 22 May 2017 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is happy to present its first group show, for the 2017 season, titled The Veterans. Fourteen international artists participate with more than 40 artworks that have been chosen on the basis of their medium. The exhibition aims to initiate a discussion about the current importance of the... Read more -
Elias Kafouros | Incognito
8 - 25 Jul 2016 Dio Horia Residency The first component looks into the fluidity of masks as a social lubricant manipulating atten- tion and attribution. Its different functions interfaced through a shared geographical space, Mykonos island, and projected through the digital realm everywhere. The secrecy of celebri- ties, the fake business smiles, the camouflaged paparazzi, the posing,... Read more
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Taylor McKimens | Swapping Paint
8 - 25 Jul 2016 Dio Horia Residency As part of Dio Horia’s residency program, Taylor created this brilliant new series during his month long residency in Athens. The show’s title Swapping Paint is about coming together and exchanging ideas, like paint transfer on fenders. McKimens new body of work is a gesture towards his most recent exhibition... Read more -
Alice in Crisis
Group Exhibition 27 May - 22 Jun 2016 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia is happy to present the group show Alice in Crisis, curated by art historian Marina Vranopoulou . The aim of the show is to put emphasis on the small occurrences where, ideas, actions and various forms of pleasurable releases occur -even in times like this one where people... Read more -
Maja Djordjevic | I don’t know you, but I love you
24 Jul - 20 Aug 2015 Dio Horia Residency Maja Djordjevic (b. 1990) belongs to the first generation of children doodling in their computers. A doodle is a simple sketch that depicts either a specific representational image or simple abstract shapes. Typical examples of doodles are sketches found on the margins of school notebooks from students that have lost... Read more -
Rallou Panagiotou | Lycra Proper
24 Jul - 20 Aug 2015 Dio Horia Residency Her work ensues as resolution of the personal, the work of memory, the eccentric conditions of the peripheral - in the form of specific materiality, architectural conditions, consumer products, the mutated misinterpreted emulations of western style- with the unifying notion of junkspace, of what is left when modernisation has run... Read more
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Dio Horia in Mykonos
27 Jun - 30 Oct 2015 Dio Horia Residency The exhibition, as well as the host cultural platform, is under constant transformation; the artworks change often, old works give way to new ones, bringing along fresh perspectives. To this, the art historian Marina Vranopoulou comments, “Dio Horia functions as an ongoing research, a question we are trying to answer,... Read more -
Selma Parlour | Paradoxes of the Flattened-out Cavity
26 Jun - 20 Jul 2015 Dio Horia Residency The paintings in Paradoxes of the Flattened-out Cavity are meticulously rendered through transparent films of oil paint on linen. There are no visible traces of her technique, instead her delicate surfaces appear as though drawn or printed. The literal transparency of colour in these works borrows from the white primer... Read more