The Silences of the City
OTE Art Windows (33, Karolou Dil & Ermou, Thessaloniki)
12 – 26 July 2026

The OTE Art Windows host the exhibition Foti Kllogjeri, titled “The Silences of the City”, throughout July.

Cities are not shaped solely by streets, buildings, and people. They are also shaped by what remains when these cease to function as events and become lived experience. In this series, the urban environment does not appear as a landscape but as a psychological trace. The figures are incomplete, the signs fragmentary, and the architectural elements unstable, because they do not describe reality itself but the way it is inscribed in memory. Painting becomes a process of condensation, where everything superfluous is removed and only what resists oblivion remains. The silences of the title do not signify the absence of life. They mark the point at which the city ceases to be a place we inhabit and becomes a place we carry within us.

Foti Kllogjeri is an Albanian painter who lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and has developed a distinctive visual language centered on the contemporary urban condition, the human presence, and the multilayered experience of everyday life. Since 2015, he has presented twelve solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions, international events, and major art fairs across Europe and Asia, including Fabriano in Acquarello, the London Art Biennale, Art Athina, and the Art Thessaloniki International Fair. His work has received significant international distinctions, including First Prize at the IWS India Plein Air Festival (2023), First Prize at the IWS Indonesia International Competition (2022), and the Royal Talens Award at the IWS Varna International Watercolor Triennale (2022). He has served as Vice President of the Association of Visual Artists of Northern Greece (SKETVE), is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EEETE), and a founding member of the ARC – Art Revisited Collective. His works are included in permanent public installations and private collections, reflecting a consistent artistic practice with an active international exhibition presence. More information is available on his website HERE.

The OTE Art Windows programme is curated by Giannis Argyriadis.