Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth
Through trauma creativity can still emerge. A century after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, it is clear how collective trauma has influenced the Greek contemporary art world.
In a great new commemorative exhibition by the Benaki Museum and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, more than 1,000 exhibits and over 500 photographs and excerpts from personal testimonies of the era’s refugees will be on display. The exhibition is divided into three sections: the glorious days of Asia Minor Hellenism, the ‘Catastrophe’ of 1922 as well as the ‘Exodus’ of refugees and finally a section on how those refugees settled in Greece, integrated into society and the impact they had on it.
Gaze upon hundreds of works of art, ecclesiastical icons, war and personal heirlooms, costumes, jewelry, handicrafts, maps, photographs, archival and cinematographic material, newspapers, letters and postcards and get to know this lost side of Hellenism.
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Price: €12, €15
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Time: Thursday & Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm, Friday & Saturday: 10 am - 10 pm
- Benaki Museum Pireos Annex, 138 Pireos, 118 54
- +30 210 345 3111
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