Events, Exhibitions, and other organizations
Paris Kapralos | Art Curator | Greece
Curations, events, concepts, collaborations: Traces & Frameworks
This page presents the exhibitions, projects, and initiatives curated, organized, or collaborated on by Paris Kapralos throughout his career in art to date. The sections cover a wide range of forms and activities: from solo and group exhibitions, participation in international events and art fairs, to thematic series and special projects. This body of work is not merely a record of activities but a reflection of an ongoing quest for meaningful dialogues with art and its creators, a pursuit that continues, evolves, and is constantly renewed.
Curating Solo Exhibitions
The Persistence of the Gaze, Eva Anastopoulou, organized by ARTgrID, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
In the Season of Persephone, Olga Barmazi, organized by ARTgrID, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
Inner Landscapes, Ilias Kasselas, organized by ARTgrID, Alma Mater, Athens 2024
Horizons, Foti Kllogjeri, organized by ARTgrID, Alma Mater, Athens 2024
Of the Senses and Hallucinations, Eleni Karnezi, organized by ARTgrID, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Akrasia, Aliki Rigou, organized by ARTgrID, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Parallel, Amalia Koronaki, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
On the Branch, Kostas Michos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
The Distance Between Us, Foti Kllogjeri, Technospace, Athens 2022
Theodoros Kemidis: Retrospective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Unanimous Moment, Ilias Kasselas, Technospace, Athens 2022
Selfie, Christina Michalopoulou, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2019.
Parallel Journeys, Olga Kotsirea, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2019.
Macrocosm, Pinelopi Volterra, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2019.
Transcendental Realities, Chrys Roboras, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2018.
Necessary Conditions, Orestis Diamantis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2017.
Lost Happiness, Valentini Mavrodoglou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2017.
The Metro in Thessaloniki, Foti Kllogjeri, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2017
Parallel Nonexistence, art installation by Kaliánthi Vogdopoulou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2017
Michalis Tsinoglou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Crossing Borders – Becoming European, installation by Elena Efeoglou, Lecturer at the Photography Workshop, School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia (Florina), Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016
The Other City, Foti Kllogjeri, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Chapter 50, Albena Mihaylova, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Free Formation, Kamen Tanev, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Emerging Forms, Andrej Mitevski, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Ioannis Asteriou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
From Light, Orestis Diamantis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2016.
Place, Time, Man, Kostas Karathanasis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015.
Valentini Mavrodoglou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015.
Je suis non Charlie Hebdo (=I am not Charlie Hebdo), art installation by sculptor and professor at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Giorgos Tsaras, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015.
Memories, Odysseas Tosounidis, sculpture installation, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2014
Giorgos Salpigkidis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2014.
Nikolas Antoniou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2014.
Pinelopi Volterra, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2014.
Virus, Simis Gatenio, Myrό Project Room, Thessaloniki, 2014.
Retrospective of Konstantinos Palian, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013.
Fading Away, installation by Anna Maria Smyrnaki, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Dimos Kipouros, Myrό Project Room, Thessaloniki, 2013.
Eutopia, Konstantinos Mennis, Myrό Project Room, Thessaloniki, 2013.
Giorgos Kormpakis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013.
Foteini Chamidieli, Myrό Project Room, Thessaloniki, 2012.
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Exhibition Documentation
(exclusive collaboration on the conceptual theme of the exhibition and writing of the documentation text)
The Colors of the Wind, solo watercolor exhibition by Foti Kllogjeri, Evdoxio Cultural Center, Milies, Pelion, 2025
Alexithymia, group exhibition – participation of the “Technospace” art gallery at Art Athina 2021, Athens, 2021.
Light & Shadow, solo exhibition by Manolis Pente, Patmion, Patmos, 2021.
Urban Entropy, solo exhibition by Foti Kllogjeri, Technospace, Athens, 2020.
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Organization & Curation of Participations
Exhibition Booth of Chili Art Gallery at the 7th Art Thessaloniki International Art Fair, TIF HELEXPO, Thessaloniki 2024
Exhibition Booth of Chili Art Gallery at the 4th Art Thessaloniki International Art Fair, Thessaloniki 2019.
Exhibition Booth of IWS Globe (International Watercolor Society) at the 4th Art Thessaloniki International Art Fair, Thessaloniki 2019.
Concept & Curation of Group Exhibitions
Summertime, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Nameless Journeys, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
Invisible Hopes, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
Tempus Fugit, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Mater Mundi, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
Silence, Voice, Resonance, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Threshold: Between Light and Shadow, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Palimpsests of Memory, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Kinaesthesia, EPsilon Art Gallery, Loutraki, Corinth, 2024
Summertime, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Oculi Inquisitivi: Investigative Glances at the City’s Shadows, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2024
New Symbols 3, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
Anthropogeographies, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
The Poetics of Art, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Behind the Masks of Utopian Joy, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Transitions & Passages, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
Happiness Beyond Limits, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Persistence, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Visual Anthropology, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Chili Bazaart 2023, organized by ARTgrID, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
SKG Bazaart 2023, organized by ARTgrID, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2023
Before the Last Halcyon Days, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
The Visible and the Invisible, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Polity & Eutopia, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Gesture and Symbolism, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Terrain Vague – Transitional Landscapes, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Face, Image, Form, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Man in the Cities, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Contemporary Visual Artists 2, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2023
New Normality 2, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Contemporary Visual Artists, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
New Symbols 2, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Ephemeral Homelands, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
SKG Bazaart, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
The Aspect of Things, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Archetype & Conjecture, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
A Time of Silence, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
The Textures of Time, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Eutopia, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Exhibition Booth of Chili Art Gallery at the 5th Art Thessaloniki International Art Fair, Thessaloniki 2021
Ideal Forms, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2021
NEW NORMALITY, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2021
The Form as a Trace of Collective Memory, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2021
Color in Water III – Sea & City, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2020
The Artist’s Freedom, Arte Visione, Athens 2020
The Inner Self, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, ps[υ]art-therapy gallery, Athens 2019
ARC Portfolio Review – Athens, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2019
Man, Symbol, and Myth, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, My Art Box / Technospace, Athens 2019
Representation & Abstraction: Elective Affinities, Arte Visione, Athens 2019
Human Trace, exhibition on the influence of Art, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2019
Words of Images, exhibition on the poetics of Art for World Poetry Day, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2019
Places Without Feelings, 12 visual artists in dialogue with the poem of the same title by G. Alisanoglou, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2019
PSY – 4 Moments: Dialogue of Art with Images of the Soul, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2014
In Marble & Color, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2015
New Greek Printmaking 1, contemporary printmaking exhibition with auction of selected works at the opening, supported by Myrό Antiques House, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2015
In Your Face, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2014
Body, contemporary art exhibition on the nude body, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2012
Man in the Cities, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2011
Exhibition Series
Ink on Paper
(Series of exhibitions promoting contemporary art forms using ink on paper, such as ink painting & drawing, printmaking, and special techniques, under the namesake initiative. Discover more HERE)
Ink on Paper 10, organized by ARTgrID, Alma Mater, Athens 2024
Ink on Paper 9: …run faster than decay, organized by ARTgrID, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
Ink on Paper 8: The writings of art, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Ink on Paper 7 – Northern Shades, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2023
Ink on Paper 6, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Ink on Paper 5, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, Winter 2022
Ink on Paper 4, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, Autumn 2022
Ink on Paper 3, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
Ink on Paper 2, The Attic Gallery, Corfu 2021
Ink on Paper 1, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2021
Ink on Paper, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Color in the Water
(Series of exhibitions for the promotion of contemporary watercolor and the familiarization of the wider public, part of the namesake initiative. Discover more HERE)
Color in the Water 11: Spring, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Color in the Water 10: Heterotopia, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024
Color in the Water 9: Epoché, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2024
Color in the Water 8: Autumn Transformations, Luminous Eye, 2023
Color in the Water 7: Summer Leisure, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023
Color in the Water 6: Transitional Spaces, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
Color in the Water 5: Secret City, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
Color in the Water IV – The Ship Without a Rudder, The Attic Gallery, Corfu, 2020
Color in the Water 3 – Sea & City, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2020
Color in the Water 2, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2020
Color in the Water, contemporary watercolor exhibition, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2019
New Symbols
(Initiative by Art Curators Iason Kairofilas & Paris Kapralos in collaboration with members of the ARC – Art Revisited Collective, aiming at an open dialogue on symbols and semiotics in Contemporary Art, launched in 2020. Discover more HERE)
New Symbols 4: IKIGAI, Alma Mater, Athens 2025
New Symbols 3, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
New Symbols 2, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
New Symbols, Arte Visione, Athens 2020
New Normal
(Series of exhibitions “New Normality,” organized by ARTgrID under the curatorship of Paris Kapralos, aiming to explore through art the social, environmental, and psychological changes that have transformed the human experience in the 21st century)
New Normal 4: The Silence of Nature, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
New Normal 3: Ghost in the Machine, co-curated with Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
New Normal 2, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022
New Normal, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2021
Infinite Forms
(Annual exhibition series focusing on the exploration and promotion of creative reuse – upcycling)
Infinite Forms 3, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025
Infinite Forms 2: Metamorphoses, co-curated with Iason Kairofilas, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
Infinite Forms, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Collaborations on concepts lead to various events & exhibitions
They All Call You a Statue, I Call You a Woman, co-curated with Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024
ATH Xmas Bazaart, co-curated with Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Freedom & Creativity, co-curated with Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Summertime, co-curated with Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023
Our Memories Unite Us, international symposium and exhibitions of the International Watercolor Society (IWS) with 80 artists from 23 countries, co-organized with IWS Greece & Myrό Gallery, part of the Municipality of Kalamaria festival commemorating the 100 years since the Asia Minor Catastrophe — “One Sea of Memories and We All Became One,” Gate A and Former Kodra Camp Park, Thessaloniki 2022
Contemporary Visual Artists, exhibition & auction, concept by Paris Kapralos, organized by Myrό Auctions, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
SKG Xmas Bazaart, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022
The Attic Bazaart, curated by Sasha Chaitow, The Attic Gallery, Corfu, 2021
All That Unite Us, Athens exhibition of the joint project between IWS Greece and IWS Kosovo (Athens & Pristina 2021–22), organized by IWS, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2021
Before the Last Halcyon Days End, environmental art action & exhibition, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2021
What Will People Say?, exhibition — first public presentation of the Artists4Art initiative involving audience participation in the artistic process, concept by Kaliánthi Vogdopoulou, curated by Paris Kapralos, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2020
Terhi Ekebom & Sebastian Boulter: This Side, joint exhibition — dialogue between installation and visual works, curated by Paris Kapralos, co-organized with the Cultural Section of the Danish Embassy in Athens, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2020
Art in Babel, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, curated by Kaliánthi Vogdopoulou, coordinated by Paris Kapralos, Chalkos Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2019
Chili Bazaart, curated by Valentini Mavrodoglou, coordinated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens, 2019
Feelings Without Places, co-organizer Giorgos Alisanoglou, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2019
Kaleidoscope, organized/co-curated by Sasha Chaitow, The Attic Gallery, Corfu, 2019
U-Topos / Man the Measure of All Things, co-curated with Kaliánthi Vogdopoulou, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, 3rd Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, Thessaloniki, 2018
Searches: Fairy Tales & Enchantments, joint exhibition — dialogue between painters Christina Zygouri & Kostas Mennis and sculptor Odysseas Tousounidis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015
Meet the Artist 5 – Springtime, unmediated exhibition of visual artists and crafts, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015
Greek Marble Initiative, exhibition of 27 sculptors from around the world, organized by Myrό Antiques House and Stavros Myronidis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2014
Retrospective Tribute to Painter Daniil Daniil, curated by Marilena Charisi, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Printmaking in the Sun, 15-year retrospective of the “Helios” Printmaking Center through works of founders, graduates, and students, curated by Dimitris Karlafotopoulos, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Meet the Artist (Again), unmediated exhibition of visual artists and crafts, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Eikos: Art as Representational Conjecture, co-curated with painter Dimos Kipouros, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2013
Watercolour International, international watercolor exhibition, curated by Giorgos Politis, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2012
Moments from the Future, original project presenting free work of 14 very young visual artists — recommended without reservation by co-curators/co-organizers Paris Kapralos (as Artistic Director of Myrό Gallery) and Lola Nikolaou (the longest-active gallery owner in Thessaloniki) as artists destined for a remarkable career, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2012
