
The Athens Dialogues
Conceived and moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Athens Dialogues is an evening of interviews, conversations, performances and screenings exploring the critical and creative connections between antiquity and contemporary art. The event will bring together a diverse group of practitioners, who reflect on how they use antiquity as a toolbox in their research and artistic […]

DESTE AT ART ATHINA 2017
The DESTE Foundation’s booth at the 22nd edition of Art Athina offers a presentation of 1968. Published in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s TOILETPAPER, and named after a year that was pivotal for architecture and design, 1968 takes center stage and offers an unorthodox, kaleidoscopic overview of some of the most iconic furniture […]

DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1999-2015
On the occasion of the 18-year anniversary since the 1st DESTE Prize, the DESTE Foundation is organizing an exhibition with works by the nine recipients of the Award from 1999 to 2015 together for the first time. The exhibition, entitled DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1999–2015, is to open at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens on […]

Liquid Antiquity
The DESTE Foundation is happy to announce the upcoming project entitled Liquid Antiquity. Conceived by Brooke Holmes, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University, this project is a critical reflection on the fluid and open-ended relationship between antique and contemporary art. Liquid Antiquity includes a book, co-edited by Holmes […]

Guided Tour of “George Lappas – Happy Birthday”
Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 12:00 at the Benaki Museum, Main Building (1 Koumbari Street, Athens 106 74) The guided tour will be conducted in Greek by the exhibition’s curators, Polina Kosmadaki, Afroditi Liti, and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis. For more information on the show, please click here.