THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF GREECE  – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, in collaboration with MOMus – Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection, is currently hosting the anniversary exhibition The World of the Avant-Garde: City, Nature, Universe, Human, marking thirty years since the first major presentation of the Costakis Collection in Greece. The exhibition runs till September 27, 2026.

This exhibition at the National Gallery re-examines the Costakis Collection through the lens of the relationship between humanity and the environment, a theme that constituted a crucial field of artistic inquiry in Russia during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through three thematic sections and a selection of works from the Collection and the Costakis Archive, the exhibition highlights the transition from convention to experimentation, from established norms to utopia, as art engages with the political, ideological, and aesthetic quests of the era.

The exhibition’s three thematic sections—City, Nature, and Universe—explore humanity’s relationship with the constructed world (City), the organic world (Nature), and the unexplored realm (Universe), shedding light on the artistic pursuits of the Russian avant-garde at the intersection of experimentation, technological progress, and utopian vision.

Artists included in the exhibition:

Babichev Aleksei, Bobrov Vassilii, Bubnova Varvara, Chashnik Ilya, Chekrygin Vassilii, Drevin Aleksandr, Ender Boris, Ender Ksenia, Ender Maria, Ender Yuri, Filonov Pavel, Grinberg Nikolai, Guro Yelena, Ioganson Karel, Kandinsky Vassily, Klucis Gustav, Kliun Ivan, Kruchenykh Aleksei, Kudriashov Ivan, Ladovsky Nikolai, Lissitzky El, Malevich Kazimir, Mayakovsky Vladimir, Matiushin Mikhail, Miller Grigori, Miturich Petr, Morgunov Aleksei, Nikritin Solomon, Puni Ivan, Plaksin Mikhail, Popova Liubov, Redko Kliment, Rodchenko Aleksandr, Rozanova Olga, Semashkevich Roman, Sofronova Antonina, Stepanova Varvara, Suetin Nikolai, Sulimo-Samuilo Vsevolod, Tatlin Vladimir, Udaltsova Nadezhda, Vialov Konstantin, Volkov Aleksandr.

For more info, visit the National Gallery’s site here

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