The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art is a museum of

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. It houses a notable collection of artifacts of

Cycladic art The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BCE. Along with the Minoan civilization and Mycenaean Greece, the Cycladic people are counted among the three major Aegean cultures. Cycladic art there ...

. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the

Cyclades islands The Cyclades (; el, Κυκλάδες, ) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The nam ...

of the

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. The Museum's main building, erected in the centre of Athens in 1985, was designed by the Greek architect Ioannis Vikelas. In 1991, the Museum acquired a new wing, the neo-classical

Stathatos Mansion The Stathatos building (''Megaron Stathatou'') is a neoclassical villa on the Vasilissis Sofias Avenue. It was built in 1895 by the Saxon-Greek architect Ernst Ziller for the Stathatos Family. History The house was donated by the Stathatos fam ...

at the corner of

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and Herodotou Street. The museum has housed temporary exhibitions of some of the most important Greek and international modern and contemporary artists. * October 2002 - February 2003:

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...

- ''Myth and Singularity'' * April 2006 - July 2006: Caravaggio - ''Caravaggio and the 17th Century'' * November 2006 - January 2007: - ''Itineraries through light and colour'' * October 2007 - January 2008: El Greco - ''El Greco and his Workshop/El Greco y su taller'' * June 2009 - September 2009:

Thomas Struth Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his ''Museum Photographs'' series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives ...

* September 2009 - October 2009:

Palle Nielsen Palle Louis Nielsen (8 August 1920 – 5 September 2000) was a Danish illustrator and graphic artist. Considered to be one of the masters of his times, his works include drawings, watercolours, woodcuts and linocuts. Biography Born in Copenha ...

''Man, Dream and Fear - Orpheus and Eurydice Through the Eyes of Palle Nielsen'' * May 2010 - September 2010:

Louise Bourgeois Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...

- ''Personages'' * April 2012 - September 2012:

Jannis Kounellis Jannis Kounellis ( el, Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Life and work ...

* May 2012 - October 2012:

Ugo Rondinone Ugo Rondinone (born November 30, 1964) is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media—most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound installation— ...

- ''Nude'' * October 2013 - January 2014:

Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenb ...

- ''Martin Kippenberger: A cry for freedom , '' Organized by NEON * October 2015 - January 2016:

Mario Merz Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Life Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the ''Giustizia e Libertà'' antif ...

- ''Numbers are prehistoric , '' Organized by NEON in collaboration with Fondazione Merz * March 2016 - May 2016:

Wols Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstracti ...

and

Eileen Quinlan Eileen Quinlan (born 1972 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a self-described still-life photographer who shoots with medium format and large format cameras. An art critic for '' Art in America'' likened her style to that of Moholy-Nagy and James Wel ...

- ''Always stars with encounter , Wols / Eileen Quinlan'' * May 2016 - October 2016:

Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly c ...

- ''Ai Weiwei at Cycladic: The subversive artist Ai Weiwei for the first time in Greece'' * May 2017 - September 2017: ''

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...

and Greek antiquity , '' Part of the Divine Dialogues exhibition series * November 2017 - February 2018: Mike Kelley - ''Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude'' , Organized by NEON * June 2018 - October 2018:

George Condo George Condo (born 1957) is an American visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City. Early life Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He studied art history and music ...

- ''George Condo at Cycladic: The first major solo museum exhibition of the American artist George Condo in Greece'' * July 2018 - October 2018: Paul Chan ''- Paul Chan , Odysseus and the Bathers'' , Organized by NEON * June 2019 - October 2019 : '' Picasso and Antiquity - Line and clay , '' Part of the Divine Dialogues exhibition series * November 2019 - March 2020:

Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedaba ...

- ''Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses , Organized by NEON'' File:Museum of Cycladic Art - Female Figurine2.jpg, Cycladic figure

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Cycladic Art The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BCE. Along with the Minoan civilization and Mycenaean Greece, the Cycladic people are counted among the three major Aegean cultures. Cycladic art there ...

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