Eirene Efstathiou's 'Riot on Mars' at Eleni Koroneou Gallery
Eleni Koroneou Gallery in Athens presents Eirene Efstathiou's solo exhibition 'Riot on Mars,' featuring speculative maps, diagrams, and surveys that blend found images and the artist's own photographs. The works, described as a Space Opera, draw from news, historical archives, 20th-century outer space imagery, and abstract landscapes. They explore motherhood, queerness, plant survival in a warming planet, ruin in public space, eroding civic infrastructure, social unrest, and the vastness of inner and outer space. Handmade using etching, lithography, silkscreen, monotype, painting, and drawing, the pieces emphasize multiplicity and reassembly, mirroring memory and events as palimpsest. Efstathiou, born 1980 and based in Athens, has exhibited widely, including at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (2010), EVA International Biennial (2020), and Benaki Museum (2016). She won the Deste Prize in 2009.
Key facts
- Solo exhibition 'Riot on Mars' by Eirene Efstathiou at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens.
- Works are speculative maps, diagrams, and surveys described as a Space Opera.
- Draws from found images and Efstathiou's own photographs, including news, historical archives, and 20th-century outer space imagery.
- Themes include motherhood, queerness, plant survival, ruin, social unrest, and inner/outer space.
- Techniques: etching, lithography, silkscreen, monotype, painting, and drawing.
- Efstathiou was born in 1980 and lives and works in Athens.
- Selected solo exhibitions: Cove Street Arts (2023), Eleni Koroneou Gallery (2019, 2016, 2014), Irene Laub Gallery (2017), Mot International (2013), National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (2010).
- Group exhibitions include Athens Municipal Art Gallery (2023), NEON organization (2021), EVA International (2020), DEPO Istanbul (2019), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (2018), Fridericianum (2017), Benaki Museum (2016), BOZAR (2014), DESTE Foundation (2014), Andrea Rosen Gallery (2009-2010).
- Recipient of the Deste Prize in 2009.
Entities
Artists
- Eirene Efstathiou
- Judith Allen Efstathiou
- Eduardo Matos
Institutions
- Eleni Koroneou Gallery
- Cove Street Arts
- Irene Laub Gallery
- Mot International
- National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
- Athens Municipal Art Gallery
- NEON organization
- EVA International – Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art
- DEPO
- Athens Conservatoire
- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- EMST
- Fridericianum
- Benaki Museum
- Grossman Gallery School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- BOZAR
- DESTE Foundation
- Action Field Kodra
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland ME
- The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
- Mu.Zee
- Andrea Rosen Gallery
Locations
- Athens
- Greece
- Portland Maine
- Portland ME
- USA
- Brussels
- Belgium
- Limerick
- Ireland
- Istanbul
- Turkey
- Rome
- Italy
- Kassel
- Germany
- Boston
- Thessaloniki
- Ostend
- New York