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Artworks at public space

During the program of 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, many artistic works were created, which have remained in the public space and adorn the city of Elefsina.

MYSTERY 89 ELEFSINA BY NIGHT

Five lighting installations in various parts of the city, which make up a luminous route.

THE HATCHERY

A public sculptural intervention that proposes a poetic interpretation of the underwater habitats inspired by the architecture of oysters.

MYSTERY 6 AS LOVELY AS HERE, IT COULD NEVER BE IN PARADISE

Paradise is “HERE,” and this perspective is the optimism required in the conditions of our times.

MYSTERY 200 MYTHOLOGICAL GARDENS

An empty, deserted and abandoned space was transformed into a fertile garden. In this space, through activations/performances, a revival of the narrative of ancient Eleusis and ancient Greece will be attempted, as well as their interconnection with the recent and modern history of the city.

MYSTERY 144 LEAVE WHAT YOU LOVED ONCE

Asking people to abandon things they once loved.

MYSTERY 69 GREEKIES

Remains of an all-day festival that incorporate intense patterns to a geometric composition and protagonist figures of Mystery 69 Greekies.

MYSTERY 95 EPIPHANY

The Epiphany in-situ installation is set on an Elefsina seafront pier – a place associated with arrival, waiting, and departure.

MYSTERY 118 THROUGH RUPTURE COMES THE FLOW

Through Rupture Comes the Flow is an installation of diverse yet complementary materials that allegorically point to Elefsina’s different historical periods.

ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟ 146 TRANSITIONS TO LIGHT

The Transitions to Light art installation comprises scrolling LED signs placed at select points across the city of Elefsina.

ΜYSTERY 19 VISUAL ARTS INITIATOR II – INITIATION AS METHODOLOGY

Six artists with a strong presence in Greece and abroad came to Elefsina, as part of the Visual Arts (V.A.) Initiator artistic residency program, are inspired by the place and its inhabitants and created works—the fruits of this interchange—highlighting the city’s rare diversity.

MYSTERY 48 PHOTOSYNAXES

Pre-existing and new lighting elements will appear in a novel composition forming an illuminated mural in the area of the IRIS factory.

MYSTERY 4 LIGHT SGRAFFITO

The original lighting installation Light Sgraffito is the result of participatory design in workshops with residents of Elefsina.

MYSTERY 3 ELEFSINA MON AMOUR

From July 7 to September 30, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presented the international group exhibition Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour: In Search of the Third Paradise, curated by Katerina Gregos – Artistic Director of ΕΜΣΤ | Τhe National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

MYSTERY 99 THE ARK – SPHERE – LANDSHIP

In the framework of Mystery 99 The Ark, the art collective TimeCircus from Antwerp traversed Europe on a land ship (the Landship) and arrived at Elefsina, to create a wooden Ark of Eternal Youth.

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Εngravings, writings, inscriptions on the city’s body by all those who once walked here, either literally or by means of dreams.

MYSTERY 0 “HER” (SHE CREATURE)

On 4 February 2023, during the Opening Ceremony of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, from the seabed of the Gulf of Elefsina − this peculiar “Underworld” of the city of Mysteries − a whale rose to the surface and then into the air, casting light to the Upper World in the darkness of the winter.

MYSTERY 77 BEHIND THE THEATER

Andreas Lolis, awakening the memory, overturning the images and with respect for the space, lets the viewer experience his own excavation with two of his works in different parts of the city.

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Dates 17.04.2024—19.05.2024

Venue Old Elefsina Town Hall
39 Nikolaidou & Laskou Str., Elefsina

Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos – Thanos Tsingos

17.04.2024—19.05.2024

From 17 April to 19 May, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos - Thanos Tsingos, an exhibition - tribute to...

From 17 April to 19 May, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos – Thanos Tsingos, an exhibition – tribute to two great artists of Elefsina, the award-winning photographer Vangelis Tsakos and the internationally acclaimed artist Thanos Tsingos at the Old Town Hall of Elefsina. Photographic and painting works, testimonies, publications, exceptional editions and valuable materials, products of extensive research, describe their history and highlight just a small part of the particularly rich but also unique work of the two artists.