Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
The Museum of Cycladic Art set over forty paintings by Marlene Dumas against fourteen marble figurines from its collection, from 5 June through 2 November 2025.
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues is an exhibition that ran at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens from 5 June to 2 November 2025 in the galleries of the Stathatos Mansion on Vasilissis Sofias. The show set more than forty paintings and works on paper by the South African painter Marlene Dumas against fourteen archaeological artefacts drawn from the museum’s own holdings — the pared marble figurines of the third millennium BC. Dumas painted two monumental vertical canvases, Old and Phantom Age, for the occasion.
The exhibition was curated by Douglas Fogle, working closely with the artist, and presented solely by the museum. The Museum of Cycladic Art was founded by Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris in 1986. The Stathatos Mansion is an 1895 neoclassical house designed by Ernst Ziller.