The photography exhibition by Dimitris G. Louzikiotis titled “Athos Thyravloi Stomen” opens on Monday, July 28, 2025, at the Iersissos Cultural Center.

This is a single-theme exhibition of forty-five works, featuring doors and windows from buildings of Mount Athos, on which the artist worked from the early 2000s until around 2009. The exhibition was presented at the exhibition space of the Athonite Center in March 2018 and has since traveled to cities in Greece and abroad.

From the project, the eponymous photographic album was published in 2016 (published by “Chartodeto”). In the introduction of the album, among other things, Phaidon Chatziantoniou writes: “..the photographic work of Dimitris Louzikiotis… preserves a representative collection of doors and windows, some of which no longer exist. Born out of necessity, carriers of memory, evidence of skills and culture, doors and windows belong among the most vulnerable—and, ultimately, expendable—elements of a place’s architectural history. And let us always keep in mind, as door-watchers, that just as the eyes are the mirror of the soul, so too do the doors and windows testify to the unseen core of the life they define and guard, and for this reason, they deserve our attention, respect, and love.”

Opening: Monday 28 July 2025 at 19:30. The exhibition will be forwarded by: 

• Nikos Mertzimekis, PhD Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos

• Phaidon Chatziantoniou, Architect / Restorer
• Ιoannis Lampros, Philologist/ Author

• and the director of the Athonite Center, Anastasios Ntouros

Exhibition Duration: 28 July 2025 till 14 September 2025

Venue: Center of Culture of Ierissos, Vas. Konstantinou & Vas. Georgiou, Ierissos 630 75, Phone: 2377 021130

(Hours of operation: Daily: 10:00-15:00 and Saturday 18:00-22:00, closed on Sundays)