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 χώρες. 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.

Less Monday, more summer. More art.We’re back today with Raúl de Nieves’ Venus in Us.For those still in Athens, back in ...
17/08/2026

Less Monday, more summer. More art.

We’re back today with Raúl de Nieves’ Venus in Us.

For those still in Athens, back in Athens, or simply not ready for summer to end — come see us.

Raúl de Nieves
Venus in Us
On view at Dio Horia, Athens

August. Time to clam up. 🐚Dio Horia is taking a little summer break.The gallery will be closed through August 17.Back so...
09/08/2026

August. Time to clam up. 🐚

Dio Horia is taking a little summer break.
The gallery will be closed through August 17.

Back soon, rested and ready for what’s next.

Ally Rosenberg
Clam Up, 2026
Walnut, Jesmonite, paper pulp, cement, brass hinges
40 × 34 × 8 cm

August, Balkan style. 🍷☀️Marina Abramović with a bottle designed by Maja Djordjević at Kafana NYC.Maja Djordjevic KAФAHA...
08/08/2026

August, Balkan style. 🍷☀️
Marina Abramović with a bottle designed by Maja Djordjević at Kafana NYC.

Maja Djordjevic KAФAHA Marina Abramović Institute

August, eventually.There’s something about Chris Akordalitis’ paintings that feels inseparable from summer. Not because ...
06/08/2026

August, eventually.

There’s something about Chris Akordalitis’ paintings that feels inseparable from summer. Not because they depict it literally, but because they hold onto its pace.

The warmth left on sun-kissed skin. The salt in the air. The quiet confidence of slower days. Architecture softened by light, landscapes distilled into memory, and colours that seem to breathe rather than shout.

September (2022) is one of those works that asks nothing of you except to pause. To look a little longer. To remember what it feels like when time stretches.

Chris Akordalitis
September, 2022
Oil on canvas
35 × 25 × 4 cm

“Better Luck Next Time.”A backpack without a journey. A shelter that cannot protect. A vessel for hope, disappointment, ...
02/08/2026

“Better Luck Next Time.”

A backpack without a journey. A shelter that cannot protect. A vessel for hope, disappointment, resilience, and the quiet promise that we begin again.

In Better Luck Next Time (2008), Dora Economou transforms humble, everyday materials into a poignant meditation on what we carry with us—both physically and emotionally. As summer begins to fade into August, the work feels like a reminder that every ending also holds the possibility of another beginning.

On view in Plagues, Dora Economou’s solo exhibition at Dio Horia.

Dora Economou
Better Luck Next Time, 2008
Wooden beams, MDF, fabric, supermarket bag, wire, cardboard, permanent marker & palm leaf
57 × 48 × 18 cm

Dio Horia

Which pair would you live with?Or, dare we say… wear?1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 or 6? —Raúl de Nieves: Venus in UsOn view at Dio Hori...
31/07/2026

Which pair would you live with?

Or, dare we say… wear?

1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 or 6?



Raúl de Nieves: Venus in Us
On view at Dio Horia.

All Is One is composed of countless beaded work gloves, each once shaped by a different life, a different gesture, a dif...
24/07/2026

All Is One is composed of countless beaded work gloves, each once shaped by a different life, a different gesture, a different act of making.

Arranged as a monumental mandala, the work dissolves the boundary between the individual and the collective. Every hand remains distinct, yet together they form a single living body—a meditation on labor, devotion, transformation, and the invisible threads that bind us.

For Raúl de Nieves, these mandalas are reminders that no life exists in isolation. We carry one another’s stories, and together, we create something greater than ourselves.

Raúl de Nieves
All Is One, 2026
Work gloves, glass beads, fabrics, vintage millinery trims
190 × 360 cm (74¾ × 141¾ in)

Venus in Us
On view at Dio Horia.

Join us in Seattle this weekend as Amir H. Fallah takes part in Embracing Ornament: A Conversation with Amir H. Fallah a...
21/07/2026

Join us in Seattle this weekend as Amir H. Fallah takes part in Embracing Ornament: A Conversation with Amir H. Fallah and Charlene Liu, presented by the Henry Art Museum as part of the Seattle Art Fair public program.

Together with artist Charlene Liu and moderated by Henry Senior Curator Nina Bozicnik, the conversation will explore ornament, pattern, cultural hybridity, and the ways visual histories shape contemporary artistic practice. The discussion also comes as Amir works on a major commission for the Henry Art Museum, opening during the museum’s centennial celebrations in 2027.

Saturday, July 25
2:00–3:00 PM
PURE Insurance Theatre, Seattle Art Fair

If you’re in Seattle, don’t miss it.

The Wanderers by The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas)Part sculpture, part relic, part body.Soft Shield (The Wanderers 35) tra...
18/07/2026

The Wanderers by The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas)

Part sculpture, part relic, part body.

Soft Shield (The Wanderers 35) transforms discarded sneakers, clothing, hoods, found objects and cane into a totemic figure that speaks of movement, protection, memory and survival. The materials carry the traces of lived experience, becoming monuments to anonymous journeys and collective identities.

First presented at the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, The Wanderers continues The Callas’ ongoing exploration of transformation, urban archaeology and the poetic potential of the everyday.

The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas)
Soft Shield (The Wanderers 35), 2026
Cane, used sneakers, used & chopped clothes, hoods and baseball hats, found objects, nails, fabrics, spray colors, threads
210 × 30 × 35 cm

Happy Birthday to our beloved Maja Đorđević. ❤️It has been an absolute joy to be part of Maja’s journey since the very b...
15/07/2026

Happy Birthday to our beloved Maja Đorđević. ❤️

It has been an absolute joy to be part of Maja’s journey since the very beginning of Dio Horia. Watching her singular visual language evolve while remaining unmistakably her own has been a privilege.

Today we’re celebrating by revisiting her beautiful conversation and photoshoot for Vogue Adria, where she reflects on her practice, digital aesthetics, and the ever-shifting relationship between the virtual and the physical. (Vogue Adria⁠)
Link: https://vogueadria.com/maja-djordjevic-interview/

Happy Birthday, Maja. We can’t wait for everything that’s still to come. 🎂✨

Address

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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+302109241382

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