Ursuline School, Loutra and Zareifeios Vocational School, Chora, Tinos

The event will take place from July 19 to August 31, 2025.

Art exhibition “In Their Footsteps… 127 Years Later,” July 19 to August 24, 2025.

Zareifios Vocational School

The Virtual Museum of Tinos (EMT), as part of the Ministry of Culture’s program “All of Greece One Culture, 2025,” presents the multifaceted action “In Their Footsteps… 127 Years Later,” dedicated to the preservation of the weaving art of Tinos and specifically to the Zareifeios Vocational School of Tinos and its revival today through works of contemporary visual creation. The exhibition presents a convergence of art and memory in a creative dialogue that brings past and present together through contemporary artistic approaches. The program of the action includes exhibitions, lectures, art workshops, as well as screenings of research videos curated by EMT, which will take place in historic venues of the island – the Ursuline School, the Zareifeios Vocational School of Chora, and the Weaving Workshop of Pyrgos.

Iraida Cano

The exhibition is inspired by contemporary reflection on collective memory and its transformations in space and time, approaching weaving as a living cultural practice and means of creative expression, through the historical prism of research in the present. The artists utilize traditional materials and techniques, enriching them with contemporary media, to highlight both the element of memory and contemporary social and environmental issues through a fresh, dynamic visual discourse.

Vally Nomidou

The curator of the exhibition, Louisa Karapidaki, notes: ‘The participating artists, renowned in the visual arts, create with their works an informal conversation between contemporary art creation and traditional weaving techniques. They use a variety of materials and “interweave” with yarns, papers, fabrics, wires, LED cables and painterly interventions. In the diverse artistic manifestations of their personal plastic aesthetics and narrative, they conceptually refer to the symbolic dimension of the social memory of material culture and highlight the timeless value of hand-weaving.”

Annita Argyroiliopoulou

In alphabetical order, the artists participate:

Eozen Agopian – Anita Argyroiliopoulou – Iraida Cano – Marigot Kassis – Vally Nomidou – Spyridoula Politi – Konstantina Silikou – Vivetta Christouli

Production and organization: the Virtual Museum of Tinos (EMT)

Exhibition Organization: Ministry of Culture – All Greece is one Culture 2025

Under the auspices of the Municipality of Tinos

PROGRAM 

• Saturday 19 July, Opening of the Art Exhibition, School of Ursulines – Loutra, 19:30

Visiting Hours: 11:30-13:30 | 18:30-22:00 (daily)

• Sunday 20 July, Guided Tour, Virtual Museum of Tinos (EMT), 11:00

Visit Hours: 10:30-14:30 (daily except Tuesday)

• Sunday, July 20, Tribute to the Weaving Art of Tinos, Zareifeios Weaving School, Chora, 19:30

Exhibition duration: 7/20 – 8/31, Visiting hours: 10:00 – 15:00

• Monday, July 28 and Tuesday, July 29, Weaving Art Workshop for children, Zareifeios Weaving School, Chora, Ages: 9 – 12 years, Workshop duration: 11:30 – 13:00

• Monday, August 4, Tour of Weaving in Exo Meria, Pyrgos, 19:00

Bus departure from Chora Tinos (KTEL station): 18:00

• Monday, August 11, Presentation of children’s workshop works, 19:00, Exhibition duration: 8/11 – 8/31

  Lecture: Traditional Embroidery of Tinos, 19:30, Zareifeios Weaving School

• Saturday, August 24, Last Day of Exhibition with Video Presentation “Evolution of Weaving – The Weaving Mills of Tinos,” produced by EMT, Ursuline School, Loutra, 19:30

• Sunday, August 31, Presentation of the Documentation of the Action “In Their Footsteps… 127 Years Later,” Virtual Museum of Tinos, 19:30

• The documentation will be available at EMT until 9/30

Konstantina Sylikou