THE MEDITATIVE expanses of fields and landscapes in Miltos Golemas’s exhibition “Plateau”, are testimony to the therapeutic power of painting. With colour combinations that excite, and mark-making that is both expressive and impressionistic, Golemas’s works at his current exhibition at the Zoumboulakis Gallery on Kolonaki Square, allow you to step into the magical world of nature. This exhibition also marks 20 years of collaboration between Golemas and Zoumboulakis Galleries. Golemas’s landscapes, mostly works of large dimensions, oil on canvases, are inspired by his homeland. The exhibition runs till February 21.

In the catalogue text, Christoforos Marinos, Art historian and curator writes: “The Plateau is a self-portrait; the portrait of a restless, talented, and mature artist. It is a work that is deeply personal and not at all descriptive. Golemas emphatically declares that this is the first time when he feels that “the work is me”, that what he paints is entirely his own. […]

Indeed, taking a closer look at Golemas’ landscapes, you begin to recognise the similarities to a musical composition, whether it’s chamber music, a symphonic poem, or a song by Pink Floyd. You recognise the passion, the tragedy, the emotional upheavals, the inner peace, the

tranquilly, the balance, and the hidden harmony. You feel the painter’s anxiety and his innate enthusiasm. These are landscapes to sit and meditate on. They are works-existences that impose their presence in a space—attractive works you would want to live with. With the Plateau series-exhibition, Golemas has conquered a peak. Seeking the union between the worldly and the celestial, these works succeed in raising the bar, not only for himself but for Greek painting at large”.

And Krystalli Glyniadakis, poet and translator: “I look at Miltos’ paintings and they sooth my gaze and lull my soul. I am home, in an eternal and multi-coloured childhood steeped in a nature that’s gentle, where everything is well made. Even the storms feel familiar here, manageable, seen through the eyes of a child who looks out of some kind of shelter. The scorch of the yellow summer, the greens of autumn and winter, the blossoming of spring: an ideal state of innocence.

And if I once, naively, saw in Miltos’ depictions of rusty ruins and amber fields a faint echo of the dark meadows and moth-eaten debris of Anselm Kiefer, who captures on canvas the world’s traumas, I now think only of Monet and his water lilies — not for their lack of focus or perspective, of course, but for their free, fluid brushstrokes articulating fleeting impressions, depicting not an image, but the entrancing sensation of pure experience”.

Short Bio:

Miltos Golemas (b. Athens, 1967) started painting with N. Stefou before he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the painter P. Tetsis. His works are part of many private and public collections like, the National Gallery of Greece Collection and the Emfietzoglou Collection. “Plateau” is his sixth solo exhibition following: “Floating docks” Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2006, “Under the Sky”,

Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2011, “Under Construction” Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2017, “Places of Rust and Salt”, Metamorfosi Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2008, “Sunflowers”, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, 2022. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Exhibition Duration: January 22 – February 21, 2026

Zoumboulakis Galleries, 20 Kolonaki Square

Opening hours: Tue., Thu. & Fri. 11.00 – 20.00

 Wed. & Sat. 11.00 – 15.00

 Sundays & Mondays closed

For more info visit the gallery’s site here