Dio Horia

Dio Horia Dio Horia is an art gallery based in Acropolis, Athens, primarily focusing on young emerging artists

Η γκαλερί Δύο Χωριά ιδρύθηκε το 2018 από την Μαρίνα Βρανοπούλου, με στόχο να αποτελέσει έναν χώρο με ελληνικές ρίζες και διεθνείς προδιαγραφές, που
συσπειρώνει καλλιτέχνες και κοινό. Κάτι σαν salon του 18ου αιώνα, όπου η συνεύρεση των ανθρώπων και η ανταλλαγή απόψεων έχει και τη μεγαλύτερη σημασία απ’ οτιδήποτε άλλο, επικεντρώνοντας σε νέους ανερχόμενους καλλιτέχνες από μικρές αναπτυσσόμενες χώρε

ς. Το όνομα «Δύο Χωριά», εμπνέεται από τη μονογραφία του Έλληνα αρχιτέκτονα, Άρη Κωνσταντινίδη: «Δύο "χωριά" απ' τη Μύκονο», συμβολίζοντας μεταφορικά την γκαλερί και το πρόγραμμα καλλιτεχνικής φιλοξενίας.

Ξεκινώντας το 2015 από μία πλατφόρμα τέχνης στη Μύκονο και τη Δήλο, που κάλεσε καλλιτέχνες από όλο τον κόσμο, να ζήσουν και να παράγουν στο λίκνο του Κυκλαδίτικου πολιτισμού, τα Δύο Χωριά συντηρούν έκτοτε ένα διεθνές πρόγραμμα, με εκθέσεις και δημοσιεύσεις καταξιωμένων και νέων καλλιτεχνών, που παρουσιάζονται για πρώτη φορά στη χώρα μας, εκπροσωπώντας νέα ρεύματα της σύγχρονης τέχνης στην Ελλάδα και εξασφαλίζοντας σε μυημένο και μη κοινό και εκκολαπτόμενους καλλιτέχνες μια μοναδική ευκαιρία, που πιθανόν δεν θα ήταν άμεσα προσβάσιμη.

Σήμερα, επτά χρόνια από την ίδρυσή τους, τα Δύο Χωριά μετακομίζουν στην Ακρόπολη, δύο μόλις λεπτά από το Μουσείο της Ακρόπολης, στη θέση μίας αστικής έπαυλης της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας (4ος αι. μ.Χ.), επιστρέφοντας ξανά στις ρίζες, πίσω στην πηγή της δημιουργικότητας. Ο νέος χώρος στεγάζεται σε ένα καινούργιο, βιομηχανικής αισθητικής κτίριο, με αρχαιοελληνικά ευρήματα στον κεντρικό εκθεσιακό όροφο, καθώς και βυζαντινές ψηφίδες στην αυλή του, σε μια απροσδόκητη μείξη του ελληνικού και του διεθνούς, του παλαιού και του σύγχρονου.

Τα Δύο Χωριά στην Ακρόπολη ανοίγουν τις πόρτες τους στις 18 Ιουνίου. Τα επίσημα εγκαίνια του νέου μας χώρου θα πραγματοποιηθούν το Φθινόπωρο του 2022. Το project space της γκαλερί στη Νέα Φιλοθέη, θα παραμείνει ενεργό και θα λειτουργεί ως δεύτερος εκθεσιακός χώρος και γραφεία της γκαλερί.

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Dio Horia in Athens, Greece, is a gallery for contemporary art and culture, founded in 2018 by Marina Vranopoulou. Dio Horia Gallery aims to be a space with Greek roots and international standards, bringing together artists and the general public. A vision along the lines of an 18th century salon, where meeting people and exchanging views is more important than anything else, Dio Horia primarily focuses on young emerging artists from small peripheral countries, promoting the development and exhibition of their work. Further evolving from an art platform inaugurated in Mykonos & Delos in 2015, inviting international artists to live and produce in the cradle of the Cycladic civilization, Dio Horia has been running an international exhibitions program ever since, organizing shows and publications with established and emerging artists that have not yet exhibited in Greece. Transmitting the new waves of contemporary art, the Gallery secures the educated art audience, the non-initiated art public & art students alike, an opportunity to witness and experience that, at times, would be otherwise unavailable. Specifically, Dio Horia Gallery entertains a desire to revisit the past and unleash inveterate institutional art conventions, by focusing on post digital art, q***r art, female empowerment, NFTs and all that is current and relevant. Besides, through the active participation in a series of prominent international art fairs in all continents, Dio Horia showcases the work of Greek, Cypriot and Balkan artists to the global art world, sharing their culture inscriptions, in a most effective, yet previously unattainable way. Finally, Dio Horia Gallery engages in a series of collaborative projects, developed as a result of associations with artists, curators, non-profit organizations and cultural carriers, in diverse categories, ranging from social, cultural and literary studies, to music and performing arts.

“Dio Horia” name is inspired by Greek architect’s, Aris Konstantinidis, book: ‘Dio Horia from Mykonos’, where the phrase "dio horia" means "two spaces" or "two villages", metaphorically symbolizing the Gallery and its Residency program. Now, 7 years since its very inception, Dio Horia Gallery moves to Acropolis, to be located just a short, 2 min walk from the Acropolis Museum, in the place of a 4th c. AD villa urbana of the Late Antiquity, once again going back to the roots, back to the fountain of creativity. The space is hosted in a contemporary building with industrial aesthetics that features ancient Greek ruins on its main exhibition floor, as well as Byzantine mosaic tesserae on its courtyard, in an unexpected intermingling of the Greek and the international, the old and the contemporary. Dio Horia holds a Project Space in Nea Filothei, as an alternate exhibition space and the Gallery's offices.

✨ Marina VelisiotiLast Resort9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary ArtDrawing from 1990s sci-fi aesthetics, Carl Jun...
29/05/2026

✨ Marina Velisioti
Last Resort
9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art


Drawing from 1990s sci-fi aesthetics, Carl Jung, gaming culture, and speculative futures, Last Resort unfolds as an immersive installation where fragmented bodies, illuminated structures, symbolic forms, and suspended environments become emotional residues of contemporary anxiety, transformation, and collective survival.

Blurring the boundaries between physical and virtual realities, Velisioti constructs a ritual-like atmosphere where sculpture, ceramics, sound, moving image, costume, and installation converge into hybrid experiential landscapes.

Presented as part of everything must change. Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, the work inhabits the architectural structures of HELEXPO, transforming them into speculative portals suspended between memory, desire, chaos, humour, and reinvention.

On view through July 5, 2026
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art


The Callas present The Wanderers and This Is The And at the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Na...
26/05/2026

The Callas present The Wanderers and This Is The And at the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou.

Installed within the industrial architecture of HELEXPO / ΔΕΘ, the works unfold as a fluid environment of movement, improvisation, vulnerability and collective imagination — bringing together sculpture, painting, found materials, sound, language and architectural intervention.

Part of everything must change. Radical Intelligence. Saloniki 9, on view through July 5, 2026.

Installation views from the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.





Eva PapamargaritiThrong, 2021Prints on presto, panama and flag fabric, steel carabiners, safety pins160 × 370 cm63 × 145...
05/05/2026

Eva Papamargariti
Throng, 2021
Prints on presto, panama and flag fabric, steel carabiners, safety pins
160 × 370 cm
63 × 145 5/8 in

Now on view as part of Weak Signal



In Throng, Eva Papamargariti brings together a dispersed crowd — fragments of bodies, surfaces, and skins that seem to assemble and fall apart at once.

Printed fabrics, fastenings, and suspended elements create a shifting field where identity feels worn, attached, and continuously reconfigured. Something familiar appears, but never fully settles.

Her work moves through these in-between states — where the human and its double, the physical and its projection, remain slightly out of sync.

On view now at Dio Horia.

Opening hours:
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday 11:00–19:00
Thursday 12:00–21:00
Saturday 12:00–18:00

We’re excited to share a new public sculpture by Amir H. Fallah, currently on view at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administr...
29/04/2026

We’re excited to share a new public sculpture by Amir H. Fallah, currently on view at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles.

“Two of Me” (2026) was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of the Public Artists in Development (PAiD) Artist Council program.

In Two of Me, the body becomes both structure and story. The figure — assembled from a visual lexicon spanning ancient and contemporary, Eastern and Western, intimate and public — functions as a surface and an archive of change. The work reflects the immigrant experience of living between cultures, holding past and present, assimilation and inheritance, in constant tension.

Botanical patterns wrap the form like both armor and skin, evoking regeneration, resilience, and interconnectedness. As viewers move around the sculpture, the figure shifts, revealing multiple selves coexisting at once — a portrait of identity in flux.

Congratulations to Amir on this important public commission.

Amir H. Fallah
Two of Me, 2026
Acrylic, aluminum, hardware
72 × 52.5 in





• In the Press: WEAK SIGNAL feautered in . Thank you Xenia Georgiadou for featuring Weak Signal and highlighting the exh...
28/04/2026

• In the Press: WEAK SIGNAL feautered in . Thank you Xenia Georgiadou for featuring Weak Signal and highlighting the exhibition’s exploration of a world where what we see can no longer be taken at face value.

Weak Signal brings together artists who examine how images are produced, circulated, and believed in today’s complex technological environment. Across painting, installation, video, and sculpture, the works trace the fragile signals that shape perception—questioning how information, symbols, and visual languages influence what we understand as reality.

From contemporary iconographies to layered visual narratives that echo both historical and digital traditions, the exhibition reflects on how meaning is constructed, transmitted, and sometimes distorted.

We invite you to experience Weak Signal in person and follow these signals as they unfold across the space.

Featured work by .todorovic.artist

📍 Dio Horia, Athens
📅 On view through May 16

Katelyn LedfordWorking Woman, 2024Acrylic and oil on canvas over panel152.5 × 76 × 6 cmIn Working Woman, Katelyn Ledford...
25/04/2026

Katelyn Ledford
Working Woman, 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas over panel
152.5 × 76 × 6 cm

In Working Woman, Katelyn Ledford constructs a portrait without showing a body. Everyday objects stand in as surrogates for identity, carefully arranged to suggest presence, labor, routine, and the quiet performance of professional life. With her distinctive precision and illusionistic painting, she turns familiar materials into something psychologically charged—images that feel both staged and deeply personal.

Ledford’s practice often looks at how identity is built through objects and roles, reflecting the ways contemporary life is shaped by systems of work, visibility, and expectation. Within Weak Signal, the work resonates with the exhibition’s broader focus on images as carriers of information—signals that reveal how we present ourselves and how we are perceived.

Working Woman is part of Weak Signal, now on view at Dio Horia.
A powerful group exhibition bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, and video that speaks directly to the conditions shaping our daily lives today.

Come experience the exhibition in person — the works unfold differently when you stand in front of them.

On view through May 16
Opening hours:
Tue–Wed–Fri: 11:00–19:00
Thu: 12:00–21:00
Sat: 12:00–18:00

Emily Ludwig ShafferRest Stop, 2025Acrylic on canvas132 x 101.5 cm52 × 40 inA nocturnal scene unfolds under a dark sky, ...
23/04/2026

Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Rest Stop, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
132 x 101.5 cm
52 × 40 in

A nocturnal scene unfolds under a dark sky, where color holds the space and the moon is never fully revealed. Black, glittering leaves catch the light like signals in the dark, creating a moment that feels suspended—somewhere between landscape and memory.

In Rest Stop, Emily Ludwig Shaffer builds environments that feel both familiar and slightly off, inviting us to pause and look longer, to notice what appears slowly from within the surface. The work resonates deeply with the atmosphere of Weak Signal, where images behave like fragments of a world shaped by shifting perception and hidden transmissions.

On view now as part of Weak Signal.
Visit us to experience the work in person—its depth, color, and quiet intensity unfold fully only in the gallery space.

Dio Horia
Tue–Wed–Fri 11:00–19:00
Thu 12:00–21:00
Sat 12:00–18:00

Maja DjordjevicMemory of Us, 2025Oil and enamel on canvas130 × 100 cmA quiet interior that feels strangely familiar and ...
18/04/2026

Maja Djordjevic
Memory of Us, 2025
Oil and enamel on canvas
130 × 100 cm

A quiet interior that feels strangely familiar and slightly off. In Memory of Us, Maja Djordjevic continues her exploration of spaces that resemble digital environments remembered from somewhere between memory and screen. Part of her ongoing interest in “backroom” atmospheres, these painted interiors carry a sense of repetition, nostalgia, and subtle unease — places that feel inhabited, yet suspended in time.

Working painstakingly by hand in oil and enamel, Djordjevic translates the visual language of low-resolution imagery into painting. What appears digital at first glance reveals itself, up close, as a slow and physical process — an image reconstructed through patience rather than code.

Also included in the carousel is a recent portrait of the artist from her latest interview with Vogue Adria, offering a glimpse into the voice behind the work and her expanding presence across international platforms.

On view as part of Weak Signal.

Open today (Saturday)
12:00–18:00

Elias KafourosLarge Language Models, 2026Ink on paper130 × 130 cmElias Kafouros presents a new work created for Weak Sig...
15/04/2026

Elias Kafouros
Large Language Models, 2026
Ink on paper
130 × 130 cm

Elias Kafouros presents a new work created for Weak Signal, continuing his long-standing engagement with drawing as a way to think through language, systems, and the passage of time. In Large Language Models (2026), marks gather into a dense visual field, suggesting processes of accumulation — how information is continuously produced, shared, and absorbed.

Without offering fixed narratives, the work leaves space for viewers to form their own readings. References to artificial intelligence, the flow of information we contribute to it, and the different rhythms through which each of us experiences time remain present as underlying conditions rather than explicit statements. As in much of Kafouros’ practice, meaning unfolds gradually, through attention and duration.

On view as part of Weak Signal — we invite you to experience the exhibition in person.

Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11:00–19:00
Thursday: 12:00–21:00
Saturday: 12:00–18:00

Eva PapamargaritiSoft Touch, 2015/2022HD video, color, sound, 6 minNow on view as part of Weak Signal—In Soft Touch, Eva...
09/04/2026

Eva Papamargariti
Soft Touch, 2015/2022
HD video, color, sound, 6 min

Now on view as part of Weak Signal



In Soft Touch, Eva Papamargariti explores the shifting relationship between bodies, screens, and communication — a space where gestures, emotions, and intimacy are increasingly translated into signals.

Her practice often moves between physical sensation and digital space, constructing fluid environments where bodies, interfaces, and objects merge. Rather than presenting technology as something distant or abstract, her work focuses on the subtle, everyday ways technology reshapes how we feel, connect, and perceive ourselves.

Soft Touch reflects on a condition many of us recognize: the screen as a point of contact — not only a surface we look through, but one we touch, respond to, and rely on to communicate presence and emotion. Through layered imagery and text, the work raises questions about how intimacy travels across networks, and how identity shifts between reflection and representation.

Papamargariti’s broader practice often examines hybrid ecosystems — spaces where the digital and the bodily are no longer clearly separate, but continuously influencing one another.

On view now in Weak Signal.

Opening hours this week (Easter week):
Thursday 12:00-21:00

Friday 11:00–17:00
Saturday closed

We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition.

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Lempesi 5-7, Porinou 16
Athens
11742

Opening Hours

Monday 11:00 - 19:00
Tuesday 11:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 11:00 - 19:00
Thursday 11:00 - 19:00
Friday 11:00 - 19:00
Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

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