\u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 holds the national collection of contemporary Greek art as well as work by international contemporary artists. As a museum that was founded in 2000, it highlights art of the 21st century, though it also collects Greek art of the post-war era that is representative of the basic stages in the development of the avant-garde in the country and abroad. The focus is on conceptual art as well as works of a socio-political orientation. There are over 1400 works in the collection to date.<\/p>\n
The future collection policy under the new artistic direction of Katerina Gregos will maintain core socio-political character of the collection and will continue systematically enriching the collection with Greek artists of dierent generations, oering multiple perspectives across the genealogies of the country\u2019s political and cultural life, but also the tools to understand and place them in relation to the ever-changing international context.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the new collection policy will take into consideration Greece\u2019s position in the southeastern edge of Europe, bordering Turkey and within the Balkans, its proximity to the Middle East and North Africa. This makes \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 uniquely positioned to become a leading museum in the region and one that reects the rich multicultural, historic and socio-political universe of the Mediterranean, Southern Europe and the former Levant. Many parts of the region continue to be terra incognita as a result of Ottoman occupation, long-standing resulting conicts, geo-political tensions and power struggles which have played out in a battle between master and marginalised narratives, with many stories sidelined by predominant narratives of nation-building and progress. Today, new, more diverse and inclusive narratives need to be brought forward, including ones that reect the roots of Greece\u2019s own tumultuous history and the cosmopolitanism of its diaspora. \u039cyths need to be dismantled and minority voices heard. The museum\u2019s future acquisitions policy will be based on these axes.<\/p>\n
The entirety of a museum collection can never be permanently on show, as its size invariably exceeds the available exhibition space. Changing the presentation of the collection is necessary to renew the works, to showcase those that have not been seen before, and to demonstrate that a museum, as well as its collection, are lively entities, and not moribund apothecaries of the past. Moreover, as history is neither xed, nor singular, the acquisitions policy of a museum of contemporary art should reect this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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