Event Type Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts
December
202502Dec19:0021:30Mikis Theodorakis 100 Years | Homage Concert at ACGat Pierce Theater19:00 - 21:30
Event Details
When: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 19:00-21:30 Where: Pierce Theater, The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Str., Aghia Paraskevi, Athens Organized by: Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Deree
Event Details
When: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 19:00-21:30
Where: Pierce Theater, The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Str., Aghia Paraskevi, Athens
Organized by:
Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece
Featuring:
Kostas Triantafyllidis (voice), Tatiana Papageorgiou (piano, musical direction), Thanassis Vassilas & Yannis Matsoukas (bouzouki), an orchestra of distinguished soloists, and young singers from the Deree Music Program. Choral and vocal coaching is by Effi Minakoulis and Maira Milolidaki.
About the event
In 2025, Greece commemorates the centenary of the illustrious composer Mikis Theodorakis, a pivotal figure in the country’s post-war cultural history, as highlighted by the Culture Ministry’s dedication of the year to him. The Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of the American College of Greece will host a Homage Concert honoring his legacy. The concert will showcase a blend of distinguished professional musicians and longtime collaborators of Theodorakis alongside talented young performers from the Deree Music Program. The renowned singer Kostas Triantafyllidis will lead the performance, accompanied by pianist Tatiana Papageorgiou and bouzouki soloists Thanassis Vassilas and Yannis Matsoukas—all three close artistic associates of Theodorakis. The program will feature a selection of Theodorakis’ renowned songs and film scores, demonstrating the global resonance of his work, with his melodies have been sung in dozens of languages worldwide by artists such as the Beatles, Edith Piaf, Shirley Bassey, Albano, Milva, Livaneli, Arja Saijonma and Joan Baez. The evening will be a moving celebration of Theodorakis’s universal messages of freedom, peace and solidarity through music.
The concert is open to the public with free admission.
Registration is recommended. Please register below to confirm your seat.
For further information, please contact [email protected]
Event Details
Pause, Fragment, Fold Curated by Dr. Giorgos Kontis Coordinated with Jennifer Nelson Opening: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 18:00 - 21:00 Exhibition duration: 10 December, 2025 - 31 January, 2026 Opening
Event Details
Pause, Fragment, Fold
Curated by Dr. Giorgos Kontis
Coordinated with Jennifer Nelson
Opening: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 18:00 – 21:00
Exhibition duration: 10 December, 2025 – 31 January, 2026
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 15.00-19.00 Saturdays: 12.00-16.00
Closed between 22 December and 6 January
Where:
ACG Plaka Building, 17B Ipitou St, Plaka, Athens
Organized by:
The Visual Arts program at the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Deree – The American College of Greece
About the exhibition
Pause, Fragment, Fold presents the outcome of a collaborative process between students from the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The American College of Greece, the Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences at the University of Ioannina, and the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton. Through a series of workshops, the students examined authorship, collective work, and dialogic artistic practice while also engaging with the ACG Art Collection. The exhibition foregrounds the fragment as a conceptual locus for rethinking form, narrative, and the conditions under which meaning emerges.
Engaging with the Kantian notion of schematism—the process through which a schema (form, shape) enables a concept to become sensible—the exhibition probes the conventional understanding that the schema follows the concept, serving not as its representation but as its vehicle. Pause, Fragment, Fold proposes an inversion of this trajectory: What if form were to precede concept? What if a schema were to arise first, not as a product of thought but as an open entity awaiting association, narrative, or conceptual articulation? Within this reframed logic, the fragment functions as a remnant or trace—seemingly empty, yet resonant with latent meaning. It is a shard of suspended stories, a part that gestures toward a possible whole without ever fully resolving into it. The fragment remains paused: incomplete but not inert, provisional yet charged with the potential to host new narratives and new conceptual formulations.
The exhibition further draws on Deleuze’s notion of the fold, positioning the fragment not as a discrete or isolated piece but as a point of continuous inflection. Here, the fold marks a moment within an ongoing development of form, where part and whole are not fixed oppositions but states that twist into and out of one another. A fold embodies both pause and movement—a holding pattern on the threshold of transformation.
Through works that test these conceptual thresholds, Pause, Fragment, Fold invites critical reflection on how meaning is produced, deferred, or reconstituted within artistic practice. By foregrounding the fragment as both vessel and rupture, the exhibition opens a space in which to reconsider the temporal and material conditions that shape creative processes today.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
For further clarifications, please contact [email protected]
Participating artists:
Maria Adamidou, Konstantina Chatzouli, Evi Chondri, Elen Demirian, Nefeli Dimou, Maria-Louisa Dollete, Anna Giakoumakatou, Margarita Giannakopoulou, Xenia Giannoulatou, Theodoros Gkolas, Foivi Kainourgiou, Aristi Kouri, Anna Livieratou, Martha Marinou, Katerina Milesi, , Kostas Papapetros, Ioannis Sarris, Konstantina Sidera, Georgios Theodorakakos, Aggeliki Tsantila, Christina Tsaprailis, Veronica Vergou, Natalia Zara, L2 & L3 Winchester School of Art Fine Art Students (Painting, Sculpture & Printmaking), and selected works from the ACG Art Collection.
Exhibition Production:
Ana S. González Rueda, Katerina Milesi
Graphic Design:
Katerina Milesi
Visual Arts assistant:
Ioannis Sarris
Special thanks to Dean Helena Maragou, Niki Kladakis, Dr. Mary Cardaras, Ioanna Papapavlou, Dr. Christina Mamakos, and Maria Lalou.
Thanks to Niky Theodorou for logistical assistance, Maria Petrou for artwork conservation, George Papastogiannoudis and Nikolaos Fronimos for the Marketing and PR of the exhibition, Michalis Orontis and the security team, George Kyrodimos, John Fetalidis, Victor Zafeiropoulos, as well as Haris Gialelis, Christos Mantzios, Antonis Kontopoulos, Dimitris Fakinos, Stavros Theofilou, Vasilis Palaiogiannis, Manolis Sideris, Stelios Teloniatis, Giannis Gerakellis, John Poulakis, Stavros Karadimitriou, Alekos Potamianos, Giannis Kontopoulos and Takis Moschidis for the technical support.
January
Event Details
Pause, Fragment, Fold Curated by Dr. Giorgos Kontis Coordinated with Jennifer Nelson Opening: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 18:00 - 21:00 Exhibition duration: 10 December, 2025 - 31 January, 2026 Opening
Event Details
Pause, Fragment, Fold
Curated by Dr. Giorgos Kontis
Coordinated with Jennifer Nelson
Opening: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 18:00 – 21:00
Exhibition duration: 10 December, 2025 – 31 January, 2026
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 15.00-19.00 Saturdays: 12.00-16.00
Closed between 22 December and 6 January
Where:
ACG Plaka Building, 17B Ipitou St, Plaka, Athens
Organized by:
The Visual Arts program at the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Deree – The American College of Greece
About the exhibition
Pause, Fragment, Fold presents the outcome of a collaborative process between students from the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The American College of Greece, the Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences at the University of Ioannina, and the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton. Through a series of workshops, the students examined authorship, collective work, and dialogic artistic practice while also engaging with the ACG Art Collection. The exhibition foregrounds the fragment as a conceptual locus for rethinking form, narrative, and the conditions under which meaning emerges.
Engaging with the Kantian notion of schematism—the process through which a schema (form, shape) enables a concept to become sensible—the exhibition probes the conventional understanding that the schema follows the concept, serving not as its representation but as its vehicle. Pause, Fragment, Fold proposes an inversion of this trajectory: What if form were to precede concept? What if a schema were to arise first, not as a product of thought but as an open entity awaiting association, narrative, or conceptual articulation? Within this reframed logic, the fragment functions as a remnant or trace—seemingly empty, yet resonant with latent meaning. It is a shard of suspended stories, a part that gestures toward a possible whole without ever fully resolving into it. The fragment remains paused: incomplete but not inert, provisional yet charged with the potential to host new narratives and new conceptual formulations.
The exhibition further draws on Deleuze’s notion of the fold, positioning the fragment not as a discrete or isolated piece but as a point of continuous inflection. Here, the fold marks a moment within an ongoing development of form, where part and whole are not fixed oppositions but states that twist into and out of one another. A fold embodies both pause and movement—a holding pattern on the threshold of transformation.
Through works that test these conceptual thresholds, Pause, Fragment, Fold invites critical reflection on how meaning is produced, deferred, or reconstituted within artistic practice. By foregrounding the fragment as both vessel and rupture, the exhibition opens a space in which to reconsider the temporal and material conditions that shape creative processes today.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
For further clarifications, please contact [email protected]
Participating artists:
Maria Adamidou, Konstantina Chatzouli, Evi Chondri, Elen Demirian, Nefeli Dimou, Maria-Louisa Dollete, Anna Giakoumakatou, Margarita Giannakopoulou, Xenia Giannoulatou, Theodoros Gkolas, Foivi Kainourgiou, Aristi Kouri, Anna Livieratou, Martha Marinou, Katerina Milesi, , Kostas Papapetros, Ioannis Sarris, Konstantina Sidera, Georgios Theodorakakos, Aggeliki Tsantila, Christina Tsaprailis, Veronica Vergou, Natalia Zara, L2 & L3 Winchester School of Art Fine Art Students (Painting, Sculpture & Printmaking), and selected works from the ACG Art Collection.
Exhibition Production:
Ana S. González Rueda, Katerina Milesi
Graphic Design:
Katerina Milesi
Visual Arts assistant:
Ioannis Sarris
Special thanks to Dean Helena Maragou, Niki Kladakis, Dr. Mary Cardaras, Ioanna Papapavlou, Dr. Christina Mamakos, and Maria Lalou.
Thanks to Niky Theodorou for logistical assistance, Maria Petrou for artwork conservation, George Papastogiannoudis and Nikolaos Fronimos for the Marketing and PR of the exhibition, Michalis Orontis and the security team, George Kyrodimos, John Fetalidis, Victor Zafeiropoulos, as well as Haris Gialelis, Christos Mantzios, Antonis Kontopoulos, Dimitris Fakinos, Stavros Theofilou, Vasilis Palaiogiannis, Manolis Sideris, Stelios Teloniatis, Giannis Gerakellis, John Poulakis, Stavros Karadimitriou, Alekos Potamianos, Giannis Kontopoulos and Takis Moschidis for the technical support.