Nine Greek artists working abroad, gathered at the Hellenic Centre for a sculptural dialogue on displacement, memory and the state of standing between places.
Nine Greek artists who live and work outside Greece showed together at the Hellenic Centre in Marylebone from Wednesday 3 June 2026, in a group exhibition built in sculpture around the experience of standing between places.
Rather than depict migration, the exhibition let the works enact it: shifting materials and unsettled forms carried memory, displacement, humour and adaptation directly into their construction, so a viewer read the condition of moving between places in the object’s own instability. Sculpture stood in for what could not easily be spoken in words: the weight of absence, the elasticity of identity, and the quiet, continuing negotiation of belonging somewhere new without losing where a life began. Humour sat beside vulnerability and resilience beside doubt throughout the nine practices, and none of the works reached for resolution, choosing instead to dwell openly in transition.
Nine artists showed together: Irini Bachlitzanaki, Byron Kalomamas, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, Anna Lytridou, Theodoris Papandreopoulos, Eleni Papazoglou, Eleni Tomadaki, Costas Xanthis and Eleni Zervou, each working from a different point of the Greek diaspora. Zervou’s 2023 work Cerberus Milk supplied the exhibition’s publicity image, one object standing in for a show about becoming rather than arriving.
The Hellenic Centre opened the show with a reception on 3 June, then kept it free of charge, open weekdays from eleven until five, through to 26 June 2026.