‹🖼️ Galleries & art spaces›
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Gazi, Kerameikos & Metaxourgeio
🖼️ 27The Breeder
Leading contemporary art gallery founded in 2002 by Stathis Panagoulis and George Vamvakidis, growing out of The Breeder magazine. It is in a converted 1970s ice-cream factory and shows Greek and international artists at major fairs.
Exarchia, Omonia & north centre
🖼️ 42Ninetto Gallery
Contemporary gallery co-founded by Romain Bitton and Fred de Schonen in a former apartment, so a visit feels like a collector's home; it shows international and Greece-based artists, often their first exhibitions.
🖼️ 43Romantso
A creative hub in the former printing works of 'Romantso' magazine. It combines a start-up incubator, artist studios and residencies with a café-bar and a busy programme of exhibitions, parties and concerts.
Kolonaki & Lycabettus
🖼️ 56Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery
Contemporary art gallery founded in 2013 that represents about 15 established and emerging, mostly Greek artists, with around seven solo shows a year.
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🍸 7Booze Cooperativa (K.O.T.E.S.)
🍺 beer €8
A multi-level arty bar and cultural space with galleries and a performance basement, open from late morning. By day people come for coffee, chess and backgammon, and at night it turns into a loud bar with indoor smoking. Founded in 1989 in a neoclassical building, it has also been the headquarters of K.O.T.E.S., a tongue-in-cheek smokers' party, since 2018.
🍸 10TAF - The Art Foundation
A courtyard café-bar in an art complex with galleries and a shop, in 1870s residential buildings around a tree-filled courtyard. Coffee by day, beers and simple cocktails at night, with an arty young crowd and underground music. It has run since about 2014.