It is a gamble to take on the leadership of an arts organization that for the past three decades has been led by a man closely associated with it and gradually leading it into a new era.

OUR Sirago Chiara however, he took over its management National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum over the past four months, when her predecessor, Marina Lambrakis-Plaka died with a vision to take the organization a few more steps forward, as seen in the press conference held on the morning of 31 October regarding the design and program of the Gallery in in 2023 and 2024.

Over the years, the Gallery has undergone many changes, as we saw in the video with a brief overview of its history at the press conference. “The history of the Gallery goes hand in hand with the history of modern Greece,” commented the Minister of Culture. Lina Mendoni in his short greetings from Nicola Jatromanolaki, Deputy Minister of Contemporary Culture, to in turn emphasize the intention of the ministry to act as a “custodian” in this new era of organization, whose main responsibility is to provide the Gallery with the necessary tools for its work.

Then the speech turned to sirago chiara, who detailed the Gallery’s future plans, noting from the outset that her concern since taking up this new position has been to listen to and take into account all people who are part of the Gallery from their respective positions, not just the “main characters” who have been through it over the years.

The purpose of the Gallery is to move along the following axes: “Inclusion – Sustainability – Social Permeability – Public Accountability – Discrimination – Synergy – Pluralism”.

What can we expect in the next period, given the above 7 principles that govern the operation of the Gallery?

With regard to periodicals, the report Konstantinos Parthenis. Ideal Greece of his painting. Gallery visitors will have the opportunity to see up to March 2023, as it will get an extension.

By the beginning of the new year and especially for January 13, 2023 a scientific meeting is expected with the central theme of the impact he has had theosophy in the visual arts, while in February one will be presented theater show who will deal with his artistic attitude over time Constantine Parthenis.

Collaboration with the Film Archive of Greece

Her spring 2023, The gallery will also open its horizons for the seventh art, as it is being prepared in collaboration with Film library of Greece a report titled “City Experience” which will examine the changes in the urban landscape in the decades of the 50s, 60s and 70s, as they were captured in cinema not only by experimental and artistic domestic creators, but also through the so-called popular commercial cinema, in an open dialogue with the visual art.

And if anything 2024 still seems relatively far away, the Gallery has already put forward the first project in a year. This time it is an international exhibition with a central theme democracy, on the occasion of the completion of half a century of serene parliamentary life in our country. A condition to be studied alongside the reality of the time in the European south and in countries such as Portugal and Spain, with a focus on the experience of this political and social transition and the role of artists in it.

With regard to the permanent collections of the Gallery, the concepts diversity and inclusion from that point on, they will begin to represent stronger values, while the focus will be on new museum experiences that are more about empirical perception, and not necessarily about the chronological presentation of works.

The first steps towards this new era have already been taken: h Sculpture cabinet in Gaudí he is expected to be back in action by Wednesday, February 11, Library and Archives The galleries have already become available to the public. In 2023, a large-scale project of its Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller.

With regard to the experiential perception of the museum, the Gallery is organizing a new program next year. “Collection as a laboratory”, while the program “In-between space” seeks to place a burden on both “inside” and “outside”, not only spatially, but also meaningfully, with a new cycle of exhibitions.

Cyragos Ciara is committed to strengthening and stimulating the relationship between the central gallery and its affiliates. So in Commandery Gallery in Sparta we will see the exhibition in 2023 “Friends and Neighbors” who seeks to make his actions an organic part of the local community, while in Kapralos Museum in aegina tutorial will work “Following the traces of antiquity in the work of Christos Kapralos”. Appendix Nafplio there is already a permanent exhibition “Struggle for Greek Independence” which is to be enriched, and for its addition Corfu it is planned to strengthen its infrastructure. Finally, in Institute of Modern Greek Art there will be an exhibition-tribute to Art Athina.

To educational sector, The National Gallery is preparing programs aimed at preschool age, but also to refugee groups for their reintegration in cooperation with the cross-cultural center “Piksida”. Gallery visitors who do not speak Greek will also be invited to excursions in English.

And since the key to extroversion in such a debut is communication, the Gallery has also launched her new website and now also presenting the series 3 minutes video which will concern its periodic report.

The new era of the National Gallery has already begun. After all, the press conference ended with a tour of new hall of Western European art, who are subject to 47 projects, made from the 14th to the 20th century. Among them, two “stolen” paintings, which have again become available to the public, undoubtedly stand out: “Woman’s Head” from Pablo Picasso, which was stolen in 2012 and tracked at the end of 2021, but also “Windmill Stutter” from Piet Mondrian.