Art News | October's must-see exhibitions

From Athens and Thessaloniki to Milan: 5 reasons to capable your docket with art

• By Chrysa Kakiori

all aboard — Athens International Airport

The each aboard accumulation “takes off” creation astatine Athens Airport. Curated by Kostas Prapoglou, 40 artists acceptable up installations, videos, sculptures and actions wrong the Express Facility, adjacent to the occidental corridor, transforming waiting into an acquisition and the airdrome into an “archive of suspended intentions”. It is 1 of the fewer large-scale projects internationally that situation to harvester space-flow-spectator, with the dependable of departures becoming a poetic substrate. A indispensable for those who privation to spot however the in-between clip of question acquires aesthetics and meaning. From October 9 to November 9.

Protolea — Benaki Museum / Piraeus 138

The Benaki Museum “reads” the aboriginal writings of eleven starring Greek artists (Vassiliou, Ghika, Tsarouchis, Moralis, Tassos, Katraki, Spyropoulos, Kontopoulos, Mytaras, Gaitis, Chrysa Romanou). The accumulation maps ideas and motifs that were calved successful the archetypal works and took basal successful their mature, recognizable language. It is an indispensable acquisition successful the “anatomy” of creator development: however a gestural trace, a colour system oregon a thematic obsession are transformed into a signature. A model accumulation for creation lovers and professionals, with coagulated documentation and a wide curatorial goal. From October 2 to January 11, 2026.

Ancient Greece — Theme Park, Thessaloniki (THEXI HELEXPO)

The blockbuster accumulation by Sotiris Tsafoulias, with humanities curation by Thanos Veremis, travels to Thessaloniki aft palmy stops successful Budapest and Athens. The archetypal taxable parkland with faithful replicas from the Archaeological Museum, is an impressive, interactive, immersive acquisition dedicated to Ancient Greek Civilization. In 3,000 sq.m. Sparta, Athens, Macedonia, Troy and Thermopylae travel to life. Technology, subject and inventions, successful a operation of faithful replicas of statues and immersive storytelling for young and old.

It is not a classical exhibition, but a thematic situation with an acquisition character, utile for schools, but besides for adults who privation an “accessible” introductory panorama of the past world.

Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore — Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giorgio Armani is the thread that runs done this exhibition: contiguous until the past weeks of his life, helium worked connected the enactment and statement of the garments himself, tried connected compositions, edited details. After his death, connected September 4, 2025, the task was transformed into a tribute to the 50th day of the house, with an elegant farewell amusement successful the Brera atrium with friends and collaborators, which seemed similar a bow to “Re Giorgio”.

At the Pinacoteca di Brera, much than 120 of his creations are placed among Caravaggio, Raphael, Bellini, revealing however Armani's refined neutrality and airy tailoring tin beryllium work arsenic a taste connection successful the depository space. Fashion does not "invade" the paintings, but converses with them, arsenic if they stock the aforesaid palette of airy and shadow. Until January 11, 2026, a bully crushed to question to Milan.

UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - Online

UNESCO presented connected September 29 successful Barcelona, ​​a integer depository of stolen taste goods, aiming to rise consciousness and repatriate them. Designed by award-winning designer Francis Coré and funded by Saudi Arabia, the task is organized into “rooms” (Auditorium, Stolen Objects Gallery, Return & Restitution Room) and collaborates with Interpol and planetary databases.

An acquisition instrumentality for the wide nationalist — and a invaluable assets for journalists, researchers, museologists. The innovative integer inaugural allows the nationalist to browse 3D representations of works that person been mislaid to looting and amerciable trade. A unsocial initiative, it is precisely the benignant of innovation we privation from planetary organizations, astatine a clip erstwhile organized transgression networks dominate.