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What's on: 6 Oct to 8 Nov 2026
Parties, art, photography, food, concerts and free nights. Each event links to its official page and tickets.
| Sat 19 Sep – Sun 8 Nov | Mustafah Abdulaziz – WATER (outdoor photo exhibition) 🖼️ Exhibitions An open-air photography show around the perimeter of Stavros Niarchos Park. It shows the long-term project WATER by the Berlin-based American photographer, about people's relationship with water and climate change. |
| Tue 22 Sep – Fri 9 Oct | Farida El Gazzar – 'Zolotas x Kalfayan' (ArtRove Athens Parcours) 🖼️ Exhibitions Kalfayan project in a jewellery store, part of the ArtRove parcours. |
| Thu 24 Sep – Sat 31 Oct | Margarita Myrogianni – 'Iasonos Street, Metaxourgeio' + Andreas Lolis – 'Backyard' (Feeder) 🖼️ Exhibitions Current shows at the gallery that anchors Metaxourgeio. |
| Thu 24 Sep – Sat 31 Oct | Dimitris Neveskiotis – 'We were never really here' 🖼️ Exhibitions Solo painting show. |
| Thu 24 Sep – Tue 10 Nov | Tasos Vrettos – ?Trees Dance! 🖼️ Exhibitions A solo photography show of trees photographed on walks across Greece, with no digital editing. The trees turn into blurred bodies in motion. It is in a small gallery in Mets. ⚠ listing only: double-check Listings disagree on the end date (10 Oct or 10 Nov); the gallery's site gives none. |
| Sat 26 Sep – Sat 5 Dec | Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – clinamen 🖼️ Exhibitions Sound installation by the French artist. |
| Wed 30 Sep – Sun 1 Nov | Malvina Panagiotidi – 'Lex Hortorum: The law of the garden' (The Breeder off-site) 🖼️ Exhibitions Group show of 13 artists curated by Eleni Koukou for The Breeder. Open Wednesdays and Sundays only, 18:00–21:00. |
| Wed 30 Sep – Wed 30 Dec | Maria Jole Serreli – 'What Remains, What Changes' 🖼️ Exhibitions Stone, ceramics and textile works. |
| Wed 30 Sep – Sun 11 Oct | 32nd Athens International Film Festival 🎪 Festivals Independent film festival. |
| Thu 1 Oct – Tue 17 Nov | Elina Belou – 'Life of a Sunflower' 🖼️ Exhibitions Solo show. |
| Thu 1 Oct – Sat 7 Nov | Rika Pana 'Works 1969–1974' / Tamara Henderson 'Seasons End' / Veronika Hapchenko 'Scherzo' 🖼️ Exhibitions Three-show autumn programme in the Piraeus gallery district. Open Tue–Sat 12:00–20:00. |
| Thu 1 Oct – end of Dec | Ostracism – Ostrakon II: From Ancient Athens to Contemporary Forms of Exclusion 🖼️ Exhibitions 40 contemporary artists respond to ancient ostraka and modern 'cancelling'. |
| Fri 2 Oct – Sat 31 Oct | Jonathan Monk – first solo show at Callirrhoë 🖼️ Exhibitions Conceptual appropriation work by the Berlin-based British artist. |
| Fri 2 Oct – Wed 4 Nov | A Different Europe – Takis Tloupas 🖼️ Exhibitions 1950s–60s European travel photographs, many shown for the first time. |
| Sat 3 Oct – Fri 13 Nov | Così, distanti, ci veniamo incontro. Geografie di prossimità (Italian–Greek group show) 🖼️ Exhibitions A contemporary art show for the AMACI Day of Contemporary Art, pairing Italian and Greek artists who live between the two countries. It includes painting, photography, video, installation and performance on the Mediterranean, travel and migration. |
| Wed 7 Oct · 20:30 | Quatuor Modigliani – Beethoven 200 cycle opener 🎻 Classical & opera French string quartet plays Beethoven Quartets No. 6 and No. 16 and Kryštof Mařatka's Amedea. This concert opens Megaron's year-long Beethoven 200 cycle. |
| Thu 8 Oct · 20:30 | Athens State Orchestra – Season opening concert (Beethoven year) 🎻 Classical & opera Season opener with Lukas Karytinos, Alexandra Conunova and Hannah Jiwon Kim. There is a pre-concert talk at 19:30. |
| Thu 8 Oct – Sun 31 Jan ’27 (opening Thu 8 Oct) | Danae Stratou: AFALES | NAVELS 🖼️ Art openings Site-specific installation in the concert hall's industrial service yard. |
| Thu 8 Oct · 23:00–02:00 | SONOTOPIA: Athens Dubs w/ K.atou & Jay Glass Dubs 🪩 Parties & clubs Dub and soundsystem night with Jay Glass Dubs. |
| Fri 9 Oct · 21:00–04:00 | Borderline Festival (STEGI.RADIO) 🎪 Festivals Three stages: Ricardo Villalobos with the NYC collective ReSolute, Nightmares on Wax, Yasmine Hamdan, Σtella, DJ-HOTLINE 333 and others. Tickets €10–30, with a free shuttle bus. One source mentions a 2-day format, but the official listing gives Oct 9 only. |
| Fri 9 Oct · 22:00–04:00 | SONOTOPIA: Steppaz & Bass (Klinical, Insomniac, Cryogenics) 🪩 Parties & clubs Drum & bass and bass-music night. |
| Fri 9 Oct | TROPISM w/ Umwelt 🪩 Parties & clubs Electro and techno with the French DJ Umwelt. ⚠ listing only: double-check |
| Sat 10 Oct · 23:59 | Coma x SMUT w/ DJ Nobu, Rrose, JERM 🪩 Parties & clubs All-night techno marathon at the queer-led club. It has a safe-space policy and a no-camera rule. ⚠ listing only: double-check |
| Sat 10 Oct | 20 Years Urban Danja w/ Current Value 🪩 Parties & clubs Drum & bass anniversary night with Current Value, Breacz, Insom, Type Zero and Unified Method. Entry from €15. The organisers' ticket page says this event was cancelled. |
| Sat 10 Oct · 14:00–22:00 and Sun 11 Oct · 11:00–22:00 | Printed* Athens Art Weekend (4th edition) 🎪 Festivals Free DIY print fair with 60+ artists: screen printing, illustration, zines and independent publishing, plus live printing. |
| Mon 12 Oct · 20:30 | Opera Gala with Eleonora Buratto 🎻 Classical & opera Arias, duets and choral pieces by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Cilea. |
| Wed 14 Oct – Sun 24 Jan ’27 (opening Tue 13 Oct · 20:00) | Cahiers d'art 100 years. Through the collections of the Benaki Museum 🖼️ Art openings About 60 works from Christian Zervos's collection (Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Giacometti, Brancusi and others) for the journal's centenary. |
| Wed 14 Oct and Wed 21 Oct (Wednesdays) 14:00–17:00 | Bostani organic producers' market ✨ Other Small weekly afternoon market of fresh organic produce sold by the growers themselves, inside the Kypseli market. Within the window it runs only on Wednesday 14 and Wednesday 21 October, 14:00–17:00. |
| Wed 14 Oct – Sat 17 Oct | Noisy Words 2026 – festival of sound, noise and words 🎪 Festivals The Goethe-Institut's experimental noise and voice festival, with concerts every night at 9pm: Annette Krebs (14 Oct, KET), Audrey Chen (15), The Answer Is No (16), Hannah Silva's 'Crow, Pirate, Fly' (17, 8pm) and Point Contact (17). A free workshop showcase with Guildhall School artists is on 16 Oct at 8pm. |
| Thu 15 Oct – Sun 18 Oct | ORACLE – Łukasz Twarkowski ✨ Other Immersive theatre and video piece about Alan Turing and AI, with a club-like aesthetic. A masterclass by Twarkowski follows on Oct 17. |
| Thu 15 Oct – Sat 31 Oct | Athens Palestine Film Festival 🎪 Festivals Palestinian cinema across three venues: Trianon first, one night at EMST, and a closing weekend at Onassis Stegi. |
| Fri 16 Oct · 22:00 | Late Night with the Athens State Orchestra 🎻 Classical & opera Late-night concert with a 'night' programme, conducted by Panagiotis Diamantis, with Pacho Flores (trumpet) and Alekos Vretos (oud). |
| Sat 17 Oct · 21:00 (doors 20:45) | Aphrodite HGW live at Romantso 🪩 Parties & clubs Three-hour live drag show with Arse Elektronika and guests. |
| Sat 17 Oct – Sun 18 Oct | Athens Art Book Fair (7th edition) 🖼️ Art openings Independent publishers, artists' books and zines. |
| Sat 17 Oct – Sun 18 Oct | Wine & Art Festival 6.0 🎪 Festivals Two-day walk-around tasting with about 70 small Greek wineries and 600+ wines, set inside a group art show of about 70 artists in an old hotel building on Athinas Street. Talks and seminars run through both afternoons. |
| Sat 17 Oct · 20:00 | Eleusis presents VSSLS, Gatsio 🪩 Parties & clubs Free techno night at a small music studio in Piraeus, part of its October series on a Funktion-One system. VSSLS plays raw 90s techno with breakbeat and jungle influences. |
| Sun 18 Oct · 20:00 (Ambarchi on at 22:00) | POROSI 05: Oren Ambarchi live (+ Tropical Geometry, Savvas Metaxas) ✨ Other Experimental guitar and electronics show at the artist-run space. |
| Sun 18 Oct · 17:30 | Street Outdoors at KLAKAZ 🪩 Parties & clubs The Street Outdoors soundsystem crew, known for Athens's free street parties, takes over KLAKAZ in Monastiraki for a Sunday session from 17:30 to 01:00. Lineup: Street Outdoors, Poor J'Darr b2b Elbarto, Bill Selfer, Koutou. ⚠ listing only: double-check |
| Tue 20 Oct – Thu 31 Dec | Couleurs de la Méditerranée / Χρώματα της Μεσογείου (photo exhibition) 🖼️ Exhibitions A photography exhibition from the GrandPalaisRmn series, made with the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie for the 200 years of photography. It hangs in the French Institute's bistro. |
| Tue 20 Oct · 19:00 | Opening: Jenny Marketou – Fairground of Earthed Stories 🖼️ Art openings A public evening opening of Jenny Marketou's new sculpture for the Finnish Institute's garden in Makrygianni. It draws on Pallasmaa's 'Animal Architecture' and the institute's digs in Thessaly, and is meant to weather and change in the garden. |
| Wed 21 Oct · 20:30 | Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst 🎻 Classical & opera Part of Megaron's 'Great Orchestras – Great Performers' series. |
| Wed 21 Oct · 19:30 | CinéClub: Pacifiction (Albert Serra) – carte blanche to Elina Psykou ✨ Other A free screening of Albert Serra's 165-minute 'Pacifiction', a hypnotic political thriller set in Tahiti, with Greek subtitles. Director Elina Psykou introduces it as part of her autumn carte blanche; the next screening is Caché on 18 Nov. |
| Thu 22 Oct – Sun 25 Oct | Agora Flavors Festival 🎪 Festivals Four-day producers' market in the arcade of the Kypseli municipal market: small Greek producers of olive oil, cheese, pasta, herbs, wine, spirits and honey, with live cooking and tastings with chefs. Sunday 25 Oct (World Pasta Day) has pasta-themed activities. |
| Thu 22 Oct · 20:30 | André Manoukian & Dafni Krithara – concert (Music and Peace evening) ✨ Other A 30-minute piano-and-voice concert by French pianist André Manoukian and Franco-Greek singer Dafni Krithara, with excerpts from 'L'Ange à la fenêtre d'Orient'. Wine is served in the courtyard afterwards. A panel discussion comes first, from 19:00; skip it and arrive for 20:30. |
| Thu 22 Oct · 18:00 | VULCAVINO – Italy and Greece between wines and volcanoes (guided tasting) ✨ Other A guided tasting of four volcanic-terroir wines from Pantelleria, Vulture, Santorini and Limnos, led by sommelier and winemaker Massimiliano Marchesi. It is part of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World. |
| Fri 23 Oct · 20:30 | Athens State Orchestra – Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde 🎻 Classical & opera Mahler's The Song of the Earth. Pre-concert talk at 19:30. |
| Fri 23 Oct · 23:59 | aux: clubnight w/ a.METZ, Adam Des, Cirkle 🪩 Parties & clubs Techno club night with local producer Cirkle. Entry from €15. |
| Fri 23 Oct · 23:59 | Echoes Vol.2 🪩 Parties & clubs Club night with LATE C/O, RAVAR b2b Nosir and R4ST. |
| Sat 24 Oct · 23:59 | VLCT x BOILER HOUSE pres. Biia all night long 🪩 Parties & clubs All-night solo set from Biia, co-hosted by the Boiler House crew. |
| Sat 24 Oct · 20:00 | Eleusis presents Mikee, Aristoo 🪩 Parties & clubs Free techno night in Piraeus with Mikee, one of the longest-running DJs in the Greek techno scene, plus Aristoo. Same line-up was also listed for 10 Oct; check the studio's Instagram. |
| Sun 25 Oct – Sat 14 Nov (most concerts 20:30) | Contemporary Music Days 'Multiple Presents' (GNO) 🎻 Classical & opera 18 contemporary-music concerts curated by Ioannis Angelakis, including a Kurtág tribute (Oct 29), a Ligeti piano duo (Oct 30) and the ERT Choir (Nov 1). |
| Tue 27 Oct · 23:59 to Wed 28 Oct · 12:00 (eve of the Oct 28 holiday) | VLCT ZERO x SIGNAL 12 HOURS w/ Function, Philippa Pacho, BLANKA 🪩 Parties & clubs 12-hour techno marathon, also with Cirkle, Danya, Phil Berg and Toobris. |
| Tue 27 Oct · 22:00 | BODY DOUBLE x VYSSKA 🪩 Parties & clubs Free club night at Romantso on the eve of the 28 October (Oxi Day) public holiday. The Athens duo Body Double (hardgroove, hypnotic techno) plays with VYSSKA, with techno and electro tagged on RA. |
| Thu 29 Oct · 20:30 | Live Fuζion – Greek x French rap night (Hecate x Komä) 🪩 Parties & clubs A rap and hip-hop night presented by the French Institute and run by the Lyon and Athens collectives Hecate and Komä. Live: LUNAR and HOMR plus guests. DJ sets from LECMA, VERY G and TZOUG on two stages. |
| Fri 30 Oct, Sun 1 Nov, Wed 4 Nov, Fri 6 Nov, Sun 8 Nov (run continues to Sat 14 Nov) | L'Orfeo (Monteverdi) – dir. William Kentridge 🎻 Classical & opera GNO season opener and its first-ever L'Orfeo, co-produced with Glyndebourne and the Met. Conductor Konstantinos Terzakis. Usually 19:30; Nov 1 at 18:30, Nov 8 at 20:00. Times: 30 Oct, 4 and 6 Nov at 19:30; 1 Nov at 18:30; 8 Nov at 20:00. |
| Fri 30 Oct – Sat 31 Oct (two shows, start 21:30) | GOAT live ✨ Other Swedish psych/afro-rock collective live. |
| Fri 30 Oct – Sun 24 Jan ’27 | William Kentridge – Imitate the Sleep of Stones 🖼️ Exhibitions Kentridge's first solo show at the museum, curated by Burcu Fikretoğlu: rusted-steel figures and paper-tree silhouettes among the kouroi and funerary monuments, plus drawings and a Pepper's Ghost diorama on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. It opens on the eve of his L'Orfeo at the Greek National Opera. |
| Sat 31 Oct · 20:00 | Orchestra Popolare La Notte della Taranta ✨ Other Salento folk ensemble, including songs in the Griko (Greek-Italian) dialect. |
| Sat 31 Oct · 23:00 | Occult Practices Chapter I 🪩 Parties & clubs DIY Halloween night: Anatolian Weapons, Eleusinia Mysteria, Iliana V., No.Disc and Re/Act. 23:00–06:00, €8, 18+. ⚠ listing only: double-check |
| Sat 31 Oct · 23:00 | Eleusis presents Mikael Delta, Philip Paul 🪩 Parties & clubs Closing night of Eleusis's free October series, with Mikael Delta, a veteran of Greek electronic music (Stereo Nova), and Philip Paul. |
| Sun 1 Nov · 20:30 | Alain Lefèvre plays Gershwin (Athens State Orchestra, cond. Carl St. Clair) 🎻 Classical & opera Bernstein and Gershwin with the pianist Alain Lefèvre. |
| until Sun 1 Nov | Barbara Kruger – Untitled (Pride and Contempt) 🖼️ Exhibitions 13 outdoor works along the Canal and Esplanade, including a 90 m mural on the Library. Free. |
| Sun 1 Nov – Thu 5 Nov | Athens Bar Week (Athens Bar Show at Technopolis, 3–4 Nov) ✨ Other A week of cocktail events across the city. It opens on Sun 1 Nov with the Top 500 Bars awards at Ploes, 17:00–20:00. Welcome Night is Mon 2 Nov at STOA Culture, 19:00–22:30, with pop-up bars and vinyl DJs, free with a Bar Show pass. The Athens Bar Show is Tue 3 and Wed 4 Nov, 11:00–19:00, at Technopolis, with seminars, masterclasses and bars from around the world. More bar events will be added to the official list. |
| Mon 2 Nov · 20:30 | The Music of Hesperides – τετARTon String Quartet (ASO) 🎻 Classical & opera Chamber concert in the library, part of the Athens State Orchestra season. |
| Thu 5 Nov – Sun 31 Jan ’27 | PEOPLE POWER – Platon 🖼️ Exhibitions The first large retrospective of the portrait photographer Platon, known for more than 30 TIME covers. It has two parts: his portraits of world leaders, artists and activists, and a more personal section on Paros, with the new monograph PLATON PAROS. |
| Fri 6 Nov | HENGE live ✨ Other UK 'cosmic dance' band live. |
| Fri 6 Nov – Mon 9 Nov · 20:00 | Vollmond – Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ✨ Other Pina Bausch dance-theatre piece with a score ranging from Tom Waits to the Balanescu Quartet. Megaron shows limited availability (11 Oct). |
| Sat 7 Nov · 20:30 | MO'FI RECORDS Showcase #1 w/ Franz Scala & Italo Brutalo 🪩 Parties & clubs Italo/disco label showcase. |
| all close Sun 8 Nov | Stathis Logothetis 'Earth to Earth' / Jani Christou 'Enantiodromia' / 'George Lappas. Spotlight' 🖼️ Exhibitions Last chance to see these three: the Logothetis retrospective (~70 works), the Christou show and the Lappas show. 'South by Southeast' and Niki Kanagini continue after the window. |
Recurring nights & things to check closer to the date
- Art Athina: Listed for 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-16, just after the window. official site ↗
- Athens Biennale (8th, 'Stasis/Ekstasis'): Not in 2026. The official site gives 2 Apr – 28 Jun 2027. official site ↗
- Athens Photo Festival: The 2026 edition ran 10 June–26 July at Benaki Pireos 138, so it is not in the window. official site ↗
- Open House Athens: The 2026 edition was 28 March–5 April (spring, not autumn), so it is not in the window. official site ↗
- Athens Design Forum: No 2026 dates found. official site ↗
- NEON: The foundation announced in April 2026 that it is winding down. Its final project, Michael Rakowitz, will be at the Old Acropolis Museum; no date yet. No autumn exhibition. official site ↗ · Rakowitz project ↗
- Six d.o.g.s weekly programme: Open every day with DJs and gigs, but no dated Oct–Nov 2026 listings were found. Check IG @sixdogsgr. official site ↗
- Dybbuk, Boiler club nights: Neither club has its own website; they post nights on RA. No Oct–Nov 2026 dates were confirmed, and Boiler's last RA night found was in May 2025. ↗ · Dybbuk on RA ↗ · Boiler on RA ↗
- Gallery openings: Sylvia Kouvali, Allouche Benias: Sylvia Kouvali's three current shows run to 7 Nov (listed above). Allouche Benias's website no longer works and no 2026 shows were found. State of Concept's Athens space has closed permanently, Hot Wheels closed at the end of 2025, and CURRENT Athens is now an archive. official site ↗ · Allouche Benias (Facebook) ↗
- Athens Marathon weekend: 7–8 Nov 2026: 5 km races on the 7th, 10 km and marathon on the 8th. Runner places sold out in April. Expect road closures in the centre. official site ↗
- Oxi Day public holiday: 28 Oct 2026. Parades, and state museums are free. Oct 27 is a 'pre-holiday' party night, e.g. the 12-hour AUX event. official site ↗ · AUX 12-hour night on RA ↗