The ATHERAS PROJECT team is an artistic and intellectual movement that explores the limits of human intervention in the natural landscape. It approaches public space as a place of memory, experience, and collective identity in a dangerous transition. Following two successful events in Athens, Atheras Project Act One & Atheras Project Act Two – I n t e r v e n t i o | Space-Time-Memory , is organizing a group art exhibition in August 2025 in Ikaria:

Art Ikaria – The Atheras Project  

Place and Memory are concepts that inspire artistic creation, enabling artists to express themselves through their work and allowing each of them to tell their own story.

50+ artists with a common theme, but with different approaches and means of expression, create a shared story. Their coexistence and interaction in this group exhibition create a visual dialogue, a conversation of multiple narratives, placing their works in the present with common concerns about the environment, the limits of human intervention in the natural landscape and the cultural heritage of each place, and looking forward to a creative dialogue that flows from the multidimensional dynamic relationships of individuals and groups with the place and its experiences.

The works of more than 50 artists, using different media such as painting, photography, sculpture, engraving, installations, video art, ceramics, mosaics, etc., will be displayed in a large parallel exhibition combining indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as locations in the wider area of Ikaria in the form of an art trail – Ikaria Art Walk – forming the core of a cultural dissemination of ideas and art events. An interactive cultural dialogue between artists, island residents, and visitors to Ikaria.

During the local exhibitions between August 11 and September 6, 2025, Art Ikaria 2025 will be enriched with a program of parallel events scattered throughout the island, hosting events, open studios for artists, live music, and more.

With the participation of:  

Petros Athanasiou, Myrto Axarli, Andreas Vais, Alexandros  Voutsas, Alexia Gaglia, Nikolaos Giannoulis,  Dimitra Gounari, Alexandros Imbrahim ,Rounti Zacharia, Vasiliki Kalogeri , Takis Kaldis, Alkis Kanellopoulos, Stavros Karnakis, Vasilis Karvounis, Ismini Koronidi, Konstantinos Kotorenis, Maria Koumianou, Giorgos Koulpasis, Luis Maly, Marina Markantoni, Panagiotis Maidis, Matina Mavronikola, Anna Meli, Volf Mouyannis, Eleanna Balessi, Rania Mytika, Nikos Nikopoulos, Haris Pamfilis, Vasso Pouridou, Georgia Maria Politi, Georgia Ponirakou, Eni Semini, Christina Sgouromiti, Vasiliki Spanou, Nikos Stenos, Jef Soan, Iraklis Linos Teskos, Nafsika Tzanoulinou, Ioannis Tzaneteas, Petros Tatsiopoulos, Giorgos Tsimpidis, Dimitra Fakarou, Makis Faros, Giorgos Feretos, Marios Fournaris, Thodoris Harizakis, Stamatia Hatzioannou, Gioula Hatzigeorgiou, Hemia

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• Group exhibition (Painting-Sculpture-Installation-Video Art, Mosaic)
• 12.08 – 22.08: Agios Kirikos, ||●16.08 – 30.08: Manganitis ||
• 20.08–27.08: Agios Dimitrios Rachon || ●21.08 -6.09: Armenistis

*Curator: Maria Makeli

• Group exhibition of Photography & Video Art
• 17.08 – 26.08: Therma || ●27.08- 31.08: Perdiki

*Curator: Ioannis Tzaneteas, Ο.art.ath 

PARALLEL EVENTS

• Open Studios: Agios Kirikos – Rounti Zacharia || Armenistis – Kedroi ceramics

|| Nās – Artemis Studio || Agios Dimitrios – Alaxu Padaxu, || Evdilos – Pandora

• 01.09 – 04.09: Exhibition, book presentation, and walking art tour: Agios Kirikos – “From the light of the Aegean to the northern skies,” The life and work of Ikariot artist Nikos Ikari in Ikaria and Germany, by Birgit Urban. Organized by Birgit Urban, Selina Kastania, and Alexia Gaglia.
• 13.08 Live music event: Agios Kirikos – Sevdali: Orestis Hatzinakis
• 10-20-30.08: Secret location Project: O.art.ath. – <my other selves>
• 17.08: Agios Kirikos Square Open design workshop using camera obscura by artist Petros Athanasiou, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• 22.08: Agios Kirikos: Presentation of Nikos Tranta’s book, “Mixed Reality.”

*Admission to all events is free.