PROJECTSPACE SLAUGHTERHOUSE HYDRA
In addition to the DESTE Foundation’s regular exhibition program in Athens, a number of events are facilitated outside its premises. In 2008, the Municipality of the Island of Hydra granted DESTE the island’s old slaughterhouse. The recently restored and renovated building retains the features and traits of the past, preserving the original elements of its old identity while serving as a unique exhibition space. Functioning as the DESTE Project Space Slaughterhouse since 2009, every summer the Foundation hosts a series of contemporary art exhibitions on the island, including the assignment of the space to a single artist or team invited to stage a unique, site-specific exhibition.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE PROJECTS
2024
GEORGE CONDO: THE MAD AND THE LONELY
2023
DREAM MACHINES
2022
JEFF KOONS: APOLLO
2021
THE GREEK GIFT
2020
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2019
KIKI SMITH: MEMORY
2018
DAVID SHRIGLEY: LAUGHTERHOUSE
2017
KARA WALKER: FIGA
2016
ROBERTO CUOGHI: PUTIFERIO
2015
PAUL CHAN: HIPPIAS MINOR
2014
PAWEL ALTHAMER: THE SECRET OF THE PHAISTOS DISC
2013
URS FISCHER: YES
2012
ANIMAL SPIRITS
2011
DOUG AITKEN: BLACK MIRROR
2010
MAURIZIO CATTELAN: WE
2009
MATTHEW BARNEY & ELIZABETH PEYTON: BLOOD OF TWO
