The Alekos Fassianos Museum has announced the exhibition of its Contemporary Intervention Program, Malvina Panagiotidi: Bucolic Fever. In Dialogue with Alekos Fassianos.
The exhibition presents a newly commissioned body of site-specific works by artist Malvina Panagiotidi, developed in dialogue with a lesser-known yet highly fertile aspect of Alekos Fassianos’s practice: design.
Drawing on extensive research into Fassianos’s archive and oeuvre, Panagiotidi expands the boundaries of his visual language. She transforms the traces of her research into a fluid artistic landscape in which the boundaries between artwork and object, utility and desire, dissolve. Reality is deconstructed and poetically reassembled, allowing a world to emerge in which the everyday becomes a dreamlike trace. Hybrid design works merge human, natural, and imaginary elements, moving between the familiar and the uncanny.
The exhibition is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
The Contemporary Intervention Program is supported by Deloitte and Karavias Art Insurance.
Malvina Panagiotidi: Bucolic Fever
In dialogue with Alekos Fassianos
Curator: Ioanna Piperigos
Exhibition Dates May 28 – October 11, 2026
Artist Biography
Malvina Panagiotidi (b. 1985) lives and works in Athens. Since 2025 she has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Patras. She studied architecture at the University of Thessaly and art at the postgraduate programme “Art in Context” at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. She was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program by ARTWORKS (2018) and the Spyropoulos Foundation Award (2016).
Her artistic practice focuses on the intersections between occult modernism, the function of the imaginary, and uncanny human behaviour found in different sociopolitical contexts.
Currently she is an artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT).
Selected exhibitions include “The Bizarre of the Allure”, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum (2025); “All Dreams Are Vexing”, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT) (solo exhibition, 2024); “Plásmata II”, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina (2023); “Outraged by pleasure”, Nobel Building, Athens (2024); “Mr Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis”, Benaki Museum (2021); “Gone Today, Here Tomorrow”, AnnexM – Athens Concert Hall (2019); “Constellations in the Dirt”, NEON & Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, Kouphonisi Archaeological Collection (2018); “The Equilibrists”, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art & New Museum at the Benaki Museum (2016); “Hypnos Project”, Onassis Stegi (2016); “The Predictions of a One-Night King”, Chalet Society (2015); and “A Monument for the First Homosexual Emancipation Movement”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2015).
She is also a founding member of the group anacolutha (2022) and the artistic research group Saprophytes (2009).
Malvina Panagiotidi is represented by The Breeder gallery.
About the Contemporary Intervention Program
The Contemporary Intervention Program is the museum’s visual arts initiative aimed at supporting contemporary Greek art through a creative dialogue between the work of Alekos Fassianos and contemporary artists. The program invites a contemporary artist to create a site-specific intervention within the Museum, engaging in dialogue with the building, paintings, ceramics, and design works of Alekos Fassianos.
