The exhibition under the title EMST Open. EMST as a storyline presented the museum’s story since it first started operating.
The exhibitions, the activities, the educational programs and the move of the museum from space to space defined the museum until its installation at its permanent home.
Through a narration and historical proofs – photographs, videos, posters, banners, leaflets – the audience had the opportunity to travel throughout the museum’s activity and past that formed its present. This exhibition was the base for the creation of this digital Timeline.
Curated by Kassiani Benou
Exhibition Design- Graphic Design: Dimitra Chrona – Schema

The second version of the work by Argyro Chioti and VASISTAS theatre group, a performance-invitation to a mental wandering was presented at EMST, following its first online version.

Curators: Osei Bonsu, Rashid Johnson, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Emily Tsingou, Burkhard Varnholt
Architectural design: Stephania Kallos, Abby Turin (Kallos Turin).

Following its first successful presentation in Athens, Greece and its warm reception in two more Greek cities, Heraklion, Crete and Thessaloniki, the interactive art project Face Forward …into my home traveled for the first time outside Greece and was hosted in Slovakia.
Exhibition curators / Idea-Implementation of the project:
Μarina Tsekou, EMST Education Curator
Ioannis Vastardis, Photographer

The artist’s book and exhibition of representative works from the publication were presented.

The gr design magazine organized the Young Designers Contest for the 5th consecutive year. EMST hosted the event, embracing the activities that promote and support Greek design.

The exhibition was organized in the framework of the new In – Out programme that aimed to present the work of small, active museums all around Greece. The first collaboration was with the Municipal Institution Costas Tsoclis Museum, then in its eighth year of operation on the island of Tinos.

Collaboration with TEDxAthens. The visual artist and photographer Benjamin Von Wong presented a series of hyper-realistic photographs, focused on the current social and environmental issues.

For 5 days, the architectural Game – Puzzle FIX GAME consisted of white squares 7×7 cm, was changing shapes, proposing to the visitors a different way to learn about the FIX building. Based on Dora’s Theodoropoulou book ΦΙΞFIX 120+ YEARS ARCHITECTURE, Takis C. Zenetos- Margaritis C. Apostolidis, Intersection Point at the history of the Building, which was presented at EMST.

It was organized in the context of Athens 2018 World Book Capital of the City of Athens in the Reading room/ Library of the museum, using it for the first time as an exhibition space.
Curated by Anna Mykoniati, Tina Pandi

After the presentation of the exhibition CHINESE XIEYI: Masterpieces from the National Art Museum of China in Athens at EMST in the autumn of 2017, part of the EMST Collection traveled to Beijing. The exhibition comprised approximately 80 works by 40 Greek and international artists. Curated by Katerina Koskina (EMST Director), Co-curated by Anna Mykoniati (EMST Curator)

The second exhibition of the EMST In the World series was realized through the collaboration of EMST with documenta 14 and lasted from April to September 2017. The two organizations collaborated in the framework of Learning from Athens – documenta’s chosen working title – and materialized the intention of EMST to become extrovert and exhibit its collection to the public. As a result, a double relocation occurred: the former Fix brewery became the main exhibition space of documenta 14 in Athens and Fridericianum became the temporary home of part of the museum’s collection in Kassel, where the exhibition titled  ANTIDORON. The EMST Collection presented over 220 works, part of the exhibition of the permanent collection of EMST.

Presentation of works from the EMST collection in dialogue with works from the M HKA collection, following the first exhibition held in Athens.
Edited by: Bart De Baere, Katerina Koskina
Assistant Curators: Stamatis Schizakis, Jan De Vree

Collateral event of the 57th La Biennale di Venezia.
Curated By: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Katerina Koskina,
Dimitri Ozerkov

As part of the celebrations for the International Museum Day 2017.

Collaboration with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in the context of the Year of Cultural Exchanges between Greece and China.

Curated by: Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou, Marina Tsekou

On the occasion of the Press Conference on 16.05.2015, on the occasion of the International Museum Day, EMST activated its Instagram account, @emstathens. Major Greek Instagrammers were invited by the platform itself to photograph the museum’s spaces for the first time and share their photos with #inside_emst.

Curated By: Stamatis Schizakis

Curated by: Stamatis Schizakis

Artist of the Month.

Curated by: Anna Kafetsi

Curated by: Daphne Vitali

Work of the Month. Loan from a private collection.

Part of the exhibition SonicTime, Speech/Sound/Silence and of the celebrations for the International Museum Day 2012.

Artist of the Month.

Curated By: Stamatis Schizakis

Coordinated by: Kassiani Benou

The solo exhibition was about the travels of the artist, the experiences and feelings he shared with his “traveling companions”, the people who received his writings, with photographs and paintings.
Curated By: Daphne Vitali

Curated by: Stamatis Schizakis

Curated by: Anna Kafetsi

Curated by: Stamatis Schizakis

New online work commissioned after an open call by the Museum.

Artist of the Month.

Artist of the Month.

Work of the Month.

Curated By: Daphne Vitali

The exhibition consisted of large-scale audiovisual installations, presenting the monumental cinematic
work of the Chinese artist in its entirety.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

Evenings with videos and music at the EMST façade.

Curated By: Daphne Vitali

Artist of the Month.

Work of the Month.

In the framework of the thematic exhibition series Public Space and Social Networks, EMST organised its first open-air exhibition on issues relating to the current ecological concerns.
Curated By: Daphne Vitali

EMST organized the first retrospective exhibition in Greece of the important Iranian artist Y.Z. Kami.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

In the framework of the Cultural Year Greece – China, Organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture.
Οutstanding works by 23 Greek artists of different generations were presented, from the EMST and private Collections.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi
Coordinated by: Elisabeth Ioannides, Stamatis Schizakis

Work of the Month.

The first exhibition to be presented at the EMST Media Lounge.

Curated By: Stamatis Schizakis

The first big presentation of the Young Greek artists.
Curated By: Tina Pandi, Stamatis Schizakis Daphne Vitali

The first solo exhibition of Kimsooja in Greece.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

Showing 187 works by 54 artists, the exhibition attempted to explore the new formal and conceptual trails blazed by Greek artists after the Sixties.
Curated By: Bia Papadopoulou

The exhibition with significant works by fourteen artists from the EMST collection, suggested an interpretational approach of contemporary art along two paths—one through paintings and sculptures and another through installations, painting, photography and video installations.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

In a special space, films by the internationally acknowledged artist Rebecca Horn, which had been recently acquired by EMST, were presented in an program of alternating screenings.
Curated By: Eleni Ganiti

The exhibition comprised 224 paintings and 49 sculptures and installations, acquired by the museum, in the form of purchases or donations, between 2001-2002.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

The mid-career retrospective exhibition of Manolis Baboussis followed 30 years of this significant photographer’s course.
Curated By: Elena Ganiti

Sixty-two works by major practitioners of video art from the EMST permanent collections were presented in an alternating program of projections.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

Key works by contemporary international artists, acquired in 2001 and added in the Photography and New Media sector of EMST, were presented.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

The second exhibition of the Synopsis series. The relation between contemporary art and religion as a unique experience, doctrine, cult, power explored through the works of 13 Greek and international artists.
Curated By: Anna Kafetsi

The presentation of the audiovisual installation The Third Memory, from the collections of MNAM-CCI, at the Centre Georges Pompidou by the contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe, was inaugurated the Works series, which aimed to demonstrate the interpretative approaches and the general preccupations of specific works by contemporary artists as well as commission new, interesting artistic proposals.
Curated By: Christine Van Assche

The first major retrospective of the important artist.
Curated By: Katerina Koskina

The exhibition was organised by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation on the ground floor of the former Fix Brewery, after conversion work had been carried out specifically for the event.

During the same year, the premises were turned over to the Museum as a temporary venue. Anna Kafetsi, PhD in Aesthetics and Art History, was appointed Director of EMST. The Museum initiated its operation, setting out to develop its permanent Collection.