{"id":94211,"date":"2026-02-02T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=94211"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:05:29","slug":"niki-kanagini-an-ode-to-things-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/niki-kanagini-an-ode-to-things-retrospective","title":{"rendered":"AN ODE TO THINGS. NIKI KANAGINI. RETROSPECTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. Retrospective <\/em>revisits the work of one of the most significant Greek female artists of the post-war era, Niki Kanagini (1933\u20132008), in order to offer a comprehensive re-examination of her artistic practice and pay tribute to one of the most singular female voices of the latter part of the twentieth century in Greece. The exhibition brings together a diverse body of work, spanning four decades: from her large-scale tapestries first shown at the 5th Biennale Internationale de Tapisserie in Lausanne (1971) and her first solo exhibition at the Iolas-Zoumboulakis Gallery (1976), to her immersive, participatory installations. The exhibition seeks to reintroduce the critical dimensions of the artist\u2019s work, such as her engagement with the language of modernism and the relationship between the applied and fine arts, her systematic exploration of writing as a visual medium, and her investigation of gender identity and experience, as well as of the participatory and sociological implications of art.<\/p>\n

The exhibition takes its title \u2013 An Ode to Things \u2013 <\/em>from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda\u2019s (1904\u20131973) eponymous poem, which was found among the artist\u2019s personal papers and was likely a source of inspiration for her. The poem\u2019s closing lines \u2013 many things conspired to tell me the whole story. Not only did they touch me, or my hand touched them: they were so close that they were a part of my being<\/em> (trans. Ken Krabbenhoft) \u2013 <\/em>speak to Kanagini\u2019s almost obsessive inquiry into the microcosms of mundanity and the myriad things populating them, serving as repositories of memory, time, and identity. This exhibition at \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 ventures beyond a mere exploration of the formal transformations of objects in Kanagini\u2019s work and instead focuses on key areas of her artistic practice: the performative character of her work, its multisensory quality, and the manifold ways in which it related to diverse contexts \u2013 gendered, (inter)cultural, and social. The exhibition has been designed as a holistic experience addressed to \u201cpotential viewers and readers,\u201d as the artist herself would describe them in some of her Manuscripts.<\/em><\/p>\n

An Ode to Things<\/em> also presents, for the first time, seminal works from a promised gift of the artist\u2019s family to \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is produced by EM\u03a3\u03a4. It is curated by EM\u03a3\u03a4 curator Tina Pandi. The exhibition design is by architect Yannis Arvanitis.<\/p>\n

Opening: Thursday 2 April at 19:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. Retrospective revisits the work of one of the most significant Greek female artists of the post-war era, Niki Kanagini (1933\u20132008), in order to offer a comprehensive re-examination of her artistic practice and pay tribute to one of the most singular female voices of the latter part of the twentieth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":94230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94211"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95390,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94211\/revisions\/95390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}