May 20, 2026 – April 2, 2027
The Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection, opens its second exhibition, Everything I Know Is a Borrowed Map, curated by Akis Kokkinos. The exhibition explores the act of collecting as a vehicle to understand whose stories are preserved, whose are on view, and whose are in storage. Questioning inherited systems of classification and the hierarchies imposed by dominant ideologies, this exhibition suggests new liberated ways of approaching knowledge and interpreting the world.
Investigating the tools and methods of museological practices, the exhibition challenges the norms that control how objects, human artifacts and nature’s creations are classified, categorized, and displayed. Through the vitrines and storage grids, these systems shape our perception of history while simultaneously limiting it within fixed dimensions of space and time. mehr
Encased in glass resembling an aquarium, the exhibition is transformed into a vessel that controls and preserves the collection. At the same time, it invokes the aquarium’s condition of constant movement, activating a dynamic ecosystem in which the viewer becomes an active participant. Roles shift, objects become subjects, and storytelling expands beyond imposed boundaries. In this space, visitors are invited to question, erase and rewrite their own “maps” through engagement with the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection.
Bringing together a wide range of materials, from archives and historic maps to works by leading Greek and international artists, the exhibition unfolds across six sections called Marginalia.
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