Eleni Koroneou Gallery was founded in 1988 in Athens by owner Eleni Koroneou and is located near Akropolis.

In the last few years the Gallery exhibited photographic works by Axel Hütte, Michael Schmidt, Larry Clark, Gregory Crewdson and by Greek artists such as Christina Dimitriadis and Alexandros Georgiou. The Gallery has shown particular attention to painting with shows by well-known and respected contemporary art figures such as Helmut Middendorf, Martin Kippenberger, and Christopher Wool, Charline von Heyl as well as by younger emerging artists, as Michel Majerus, Torben Giehler, Matthew Antezzo and Lila Polenaki.

Eleni Koroneou organized during the years historical solo shows such as Michael Schmidt’s (1990) with “Waffenruhe”, Martin Kippenberger’s (1993) with “M.O.M.A.S”, and Michel Majerus’ (1998) with “Never Trip Alone…” and important curatorial projects such as the “Supershadows of Understatement” curated by Marin Kippenberger with Christopher Wool, Uli Strothjohann and Katherina Würtle. The gallery artists have exhibited widely in museum and public spaces and have been included in important international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta and Istanbul Biennale.

Eleni Koroneou has followed a consistent and demanding program in Greece, with commitment and a sense of responsibility, as until recently there were no public contemporary art spaces in Athens. Along with the other few serious contemporary galleries we took on the role of education and promotion of contemporary art in Greece. After many years of hard work we feel proud to acknowledge our contribution not only to an ever increasing interest from the general public, but also to an increasing number of collectors, who we initially introduced to contemporary art, and have been collaborating with for many years.

Since 1992 the Gallery has participated in numerous international art fairs, including Artforum Berlin, Art Brussels and Arco Madrid and has also supported the local art fair of Greece Art Athina since its constitution.

Eleni Koroneou Gallery
30, Dimofontos Str., & Thorikion, 11851 Athens
Tel/Fax:  (+30)210.92.44.271
Mobile:  (+30)69.32.600.376

E-mail: info @ koroneougallery.com

Opening hours: Thursday- Friday: 12.00 - 20.00
Saturday: 12.00 - 16.00
Getting to the Gallery
By Metro: Keramikos or Thision station

DESTE PRIZE 2009

ELENI KORONEOU ANNOUNCEMENT

Eleni Koroneou and Alexandra Ikonomou 

are proud to announce that the DESTE Prize 2009

has been awarded to the artist of the Gallery Eirene Efstathiou.

Eirene Efstathiou explores found images, treating them at times as historical annotations 

or interpretations of History, at others as documents that serve to refute it. Her painting 

practice is inspired by her many sources, which include amateur videos, photographic images 

from the media, private archives, movie stills, etc. Efstathiou is interested in the possibility of 

mediation offered by the act of mimicking the style of such material. She perceives the decay 

and dissolution of the image, an inevitable result of the changes to which it is subjected, as a 

vehicle for describing the mediated character of memory itself and of nostalgia. By selecting, 

altering and finally painting these images, she creates a subjective space where the 

boundaries between these practices are blurred. 

DESTE Prize 2009 Jury:  

Dakis Joannou – President, The DESTE Foundation. 

Lisa Phillips – Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – President, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L' Arte, Turin

Jeffrey Deitch - Deitch Projects, New York

Thomas Struth – Artist.     

 

Eleni Koroneou Gallery

Dimofontos 30 & Thorikion 7

11851 Athens

Tel. +30 210 34 11 748

[email protected]

www.koroneougallery.com