Exhibition by Dimitris Papaioannou
The first monographic exhibition of the Greek director and visual artist Dimitris Papaioannou will run at Onassis Ready in Athens from 4 April to 13 June 2027.
The Exhibition by Dimitris Papaioannou is an art exhibition at Onassis Ready, the Onassis Foundation’s venue at 2 Strati Tsirka in Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens. The first monographic exhibition of his work, it will run from 4 April to 13 June 2027.
Papaioannou, born in Athens in 1964, is a director, choreographer, performer and visual artist. He studied under the painter Yannis Tsarouchis and at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and he founded the Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986. He created the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In 2018 he became the first artist to make a new full-length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
The exhibition will go back to painting and drawing, the practice that came before his work for the stage. It will cover 4 decades and bring together installations, sculptures, drawings, sketches, comics, paintings and archival material. New works commissioned for the exhibition will be shown alongside them.