Bernier/Eliades Gallery Gallery in Athens

Thissio · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Bernier/Eliades Gallery operates as an established, internationally oriented program with a longstanding presence in Athens, maintaining a dual structure between its local base and broader European visibility. Located in Thissio, the gallery has developed a curatorial approach that foregrounds dialogue between generations and geographies, often situating Greek and international artists within a shared conceptual framework. Its exhibition program moves fluidly across media, with a consistent emphasis on painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, while also accommodating more research-driven and conceptual practices. Within the context of contemporary art in Athens, the gallery occupies a position that bridges local artistic production with transnational circulation, contributing to a scene that has increasingly expanded beyond its historical boundaries.

The program is marked by sustained collaborations with artists such as Jannis Kounellis, Stephen Antonakos, and other figures associated with post-war and contemporary practices, alongside younger or mid-career artists whose work engages with materiality, spatial intervention, and conceptual inquiry. This continuity reflects a curatorial direction attentive to both historical depth and evolving practices, rather than short-term exhibition cycles. Participation in international art fairs and ongoing exchanges with institutions and collectors situate the gallery within a wider network, reinforcing its role beyond the local ecosystem. At the same time, its activity remains closely embedded in the structure of galleries in Athens, where a relatively compact but active gallery landscape continues to shape the city’s contemporary art discourse through overlapping commercial and experimental trajectories.

Selected Artists

William Kentridge

South African

DrawingFilmInstallation
About

Born in Johannesburg in 1955, Kentridge creates animated films from erasable charcoal drawings, building layered narratives around South African history, apartheid, memory, and political transformation, alongside large-scale installations and opera productions.

Jannis Kounellis

Greek

InstallationMixed MediaConceptual Art
About

Born in Piraeus in 1936 and based in Rome, Kounellis was a central figure of Arte Povera, assembling raw industrial materials — iron, coal, fire, burlap, and live elements — into confrontational environments that interrogate history, labor, and cultural memory.

Gilbert & George

British

PhotographyConceptual ArtMixed Media
About

Duo whose practice treats their own lives as art, producing monumental, grid-format photographic works addressing identity, sexuality, religion, class, and urban existence in a language that is simultaneously provocative and iconic.

Wim Delvoye

Belgian

SculptureConceptual ArtMixed Media
About

Belgian provocateur whose practice blends craftsmanship and irreverence, producing intricate hand-carved tires, neo-Gothic steel structures, and tattooed objects that collapse the boundaries between high art, ornamentation, and popular culture.

Annette Messager

French

InstallationMixed MediaPhotography
About

French artist who weaves together stuffed figures, embroidery, hand-written texts, and photographs into theatrical installations examining the body, childhood, gender, vulnerability, and the uncanny dimensions of domestic life.

Tony Oursler

American

Video ArtInstallationNew Media
About

New York-based artist known for projecting animated and recorded human faces onto sculpted biomorphic objects, creating immersive environments that explore psychological states, media saturation, perception, and the fragmented nature of identity.

Richard Long

British

Site-SpecificSculpturePhotography
About

Pioneer of land art whose practice is rooted in long-distance walking through remote landscapes; Long creates sculptures from naturally found materials arranged in elemental geometric forms, documented through photography, maps, and text works.

Selected Exhibitions

QUALIA

Solo show2026

Martin Belou

About

Third solo at the gallery; an immersive perceptual environment built from found objects, organic fragments, studio-produced elements, and architectural conditions, exploring the subjective and irreducible qualities of lived sensory experience.

InstallationSculptureMixed Media

MAD HOUSE

Solo show2026

Tindara Spartà

About

First Athens solo by the French artist; new paintings and sculptures treating the domestic interior as a disorienting and densely inhabited territory, structured by repeated motifs of tiles, pipes, and corners, with recurring dogs as figures of patient and attentive dwelling.

PaintingSculptureInstallation

The Athens Algorithm

Solo show2025

Charles Sandison

About

Fourth Athens solo; generative computer-projected environments linking ancient Greek philosophy, Ada Lovelace's poetic mathematics, and artificial intelligence in immersive works composed of evolving language, light, and algorithmic structures inhabiting the gallery as living texts.

Digital ArtInstallationNew Media

PETER PAN ALARM! KUNSTLOVE DE LARGE!

Solo show2024

Jonathan Meese

About

Large-scale acrylic and oil paintings assembling hermetic figures from myth, art history, and popular culture — Peter Pan, Alice, Caligula, Flash Gordon — into expansive fantasy worlds in which art is presented as a totalizing, ideologically liberated force.

PaintingMixed Media

Dry Walk

Solo show2024

Richard Long

About

Eighth solo at the gallery; four historic textworks and a new sculpture presented together, offering a concentrated view of Long's practice of walking remote landscapes and transforming those passages into sculptural and linguistic records of movement and time.

Site-SpecificSculpturePhotography

Owls and Chairs

Solo show2023

Robert Wilson

About

Solo environmental installation restaging elements from three of Wilson's theatrical productions — The White Raven (1998), Death, Destruction & Detroit III (1999), and video work KOOL (2006) — transforming the gallery into an associative, image-driven imaginative space.

InstallationMixed MediaPerformance

demons and dew

Solo show2022

Pier Paolo Calzolari

About

Sixth solo at the gallery since 1978; twenty new works combining organic sculptural materials — salt, feathers, clover petals, shells — with raw pigment powders and tempera in saturated color fields that evoke natural light, fire, and transience.

PaintingMixed MediaInstallation

Gallery Overview

Bernier/Eliades Gallery
City
Athens
Area
Thissio
Address
11 Eptachalkou Street, 11851 Athens, Greece
Type
Gallery
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