THE D. DASKALOPOULOS COLLECTION continues its commitment to making contemporary art accessible to wider audiences through a series of new donations to four museums in Greece and Scotland. Through these donations, the Collection further supports the growth of public museum collections, with works by leading contemporary artists, promoting the visibility of contemporary Greek creativity within the international cultural sphere.

The new donation comprises a total of 51 works for three museums in Greece, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, MOMUS – Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, and the National Gallery of Greece. In addition, three works will be donated to the National Galleries of Scotland.

Through this new donation from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, the museums of art in Athens, Crete, Thessaloniki and Edinburgh join an international network of museums that have received works from the Collection. This initiative seeks to ensure the long-term preservation of the works while sustaining an ongoing dialogue with the art of the future.

The National Gallery of Greece receives 29 works of modern art by leading Greek artists. These works are significant as they reflect the beginning of Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s collecting activities and served as the catalyst for the subsequent formation of one of the most significant international private collections of contemporary art, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection.

This new addition will significantly enrich the National Gallery’s collection with works by Greek artists from the 1960s through to the 1990s – three exceptionally productive decades for Greek visual arts. The selection brings together works by important Greek artists, who laid the foundations for and connected Greek artistic production with international postwar avant-garde movements, thereby shaping the development of contemporary art in Greece.

The donation to the National Gallery includes works by Greek artists Io Angeli, Konstantinos Andreou, Spyros Vikatos, GeorgeVorres, Kostis Georgiou, Apostolos Yayannos, Giorgos Golfinos,Christos Karas, Costa Coulentianos, Yiannis Maltezos, Christos Sarakatsianos, Aristotelis Solounias, Yiannis Spyropoulos, ThanosTsingos, Alekos Fassianos and Yiannis Psychopedis. Furthermore, this new donation from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection enriches the collections of three museums of contemporary art: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete receives three works by the artists Nobuko Tsuchiya, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, and Nana Sachini. And MOMUS – Museum of Contemporary Art receives 16 worksby the artists Jay Heikes, Subodh Gupta, Seth Price, JoshTonsfeldt, Kelley Walker, Elias Kafouros, Haluk Akakҫe, Catharina Van Eetvelde, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Alex Hubbard. The donation of these specific works forms a dialogue with existing works and series of works held by the museums and reinforces the international orientation of their permanent collection.

The National Galleries of Scotland will receive three works, including by Mike Kelley and Bruce Nauman, which were featured in the 2013 exhibition From Death to Death and Other Small Tales, as well as a work by Greek artist Margarita Myrogianni. In line with the vision behind the D.DaskalopoulosCollection Gift, the inclusion of works by Greek artists within the Collection’s museum donations reflects a commitment to promoting contemporary Greek creativity and increasing its visibility on the global cultural stage.

For more than 35 years, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection has served as a guardian of art and human creativity through an open lending policy, reflecting the collector’s belief that art achieves its greatest meaning when shared with the widest possible audience. As a result of this vision, the majority of the Collection – more than 350 works – was donated to four major museums (EMST, Tate, the Guggenheim Museum in New York ,and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in Chicago) in 2022. In 2025, 6 works were donated to the Guggenheim Bilbao,and this practice continues with other major cultural institutions.

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