ALL ABOARD | Contemporary art exhibition at the International Airport of Athens, Greece
curator | concept design | texts: Kostas Prapoglou | Artefact Athens
Venue: EXPRESS FACILITY, Athens International Airport *
OPENING: WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER 2025 | 19.00 - 23.00
Exhibition duration: 09.10 - 09.11.2025
Opening times/days: Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday: 12.00 - 19.00
Free admission | Upon presentation of ID or driving license or passport
The non-profit cultural organization Artefact Athens presents the contemporary art exhibition all aboard, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, taking place at the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” between the 9th of October and the 9th of November 2025.
Athens becomes the focal point of a bold artistic project, all aboard, featuring 40 artists from different generations and countries, marking the first project in Greece – and among the very few worldwide – where a large-scale contemporary art exhibition is realised inside an operational airport. The chosen site is the Express Facility, a terminal building located parallel to the airport’s western runway.
The airport, both a geographical and psychological crossroads, is transformed into a domain of experience. Narratives of departure, passage and return are inscribed in its waiting halls and corridors. Anticipation operates as a transitional state without beginning or end, where time gains elasticity and art expands consciousness.
Greek and international artists present installations, sculptures, videos, paintings and performances that bring life to the building as an “archive of suspended intentions”, turning it into a field of reflection. The sound of aircrafts and the airport announcements construct a poetic substrate, entering into dialogue with the works and underscoring the traveller as a fragmented entity, quantified and under constant “reading”.
The exhibition is not about the destination, but the in-between. It explores the journey as an allegory, as an inner trajectory where identity is reconstituted, space becomes a field of memory and art invites the visitor to reconsider their position not as a passenger but as a co-creator of an existential realm.
This exhibition puts Athens on the international cultural map, by reimagining a public infrastructure building as a vessel for dialogue between artistic practice, society and public space.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Anna Ampariotou, Anna Antarti, Klitsa Antoniou, Alexandra Athanassiades, John Baldessari, Robert Cahen, Lizzie Calligas, Susan Daboll, Maya Derren, Arianna Economou, Olafur Eliasson, Aikaterini Gegisian, Irini Gonou, Theofilos Hadjimichael, Michal Heiman, Elia Iliadi, Annita Kalimeri, Vassilis Karakatsanis, Jenny Marketou, Barbara Mavrakaki, Michail Parlamas, Ada Petranaki, Lea Petrou, Lina Pigadioti, Yulia Pinkusevich, Ismini Samanidou, Evi Savvaidi, Ridley Scott, Dimitra Skandali, Nadia Skordopoulou, Jesse Leroy Smith, Marianne Strapatsakis, Tonoptik, Nikos Tranos, Claire Tsalouchidis - Hadjiminas, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Francesca Woodman, Sofia Zarari, Rosa Zeidan, Eleni Zouni.
