Exhibitions

Past

Loop State

EXHIBITION | 16 MAR – 24 APR 2026

Cream Athens in collaboration with D Contemporary, is pleased to present Loop State, curated by Nia Hefe Filliogianni. The exhibition brings together a constellation of artistic practices that explore repetition, recursion, and cyclical transformation as defining conditions of the contemporary moment. Loop State reflects on a paradoxical trajectory in which societies seem to advance toward progress, only to circle back toward the very tensions they sought to overcome.

Overloaded

EXHIBITION | 18 JUL – 18 AUG 2024

Everything Happens So Much.

Cream Athens is delighted to present Overloaded, an exhibition of new works by 20 revolutionary artists, hosted at TAF, The Art Foundation, in the heart of Athens, Monastiraki. Overloaded aims to dive into the profound impact of excessive data flow on our minds, emotions, and perceptions, challenging our fundamental understanding of consciousness.

Cream Athens × TAF SHOP grand opening banner

Cream Athens x T.A.F. Shop

EVENT | 18 JUL – 18 AUG 2024

Support artists - Celebrate the community.

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with TAF SHOP, marking a significant milestone in the art community. The grand opening of TAF SHOP will take place on Thursday, July 18th, coinciding with the launch of our latest exhibition. This partnership brings a unique blend of creativity and commerce to the heart of Monastiraki, offering art lovers and collectors access to affordable, authentic works by 35 Greek and international artists.

Refugee Week

EXHIBITION | 19 JUN – 25 JUN 2023

We are proud to announce a virtual showcase of 8 selected artists in celebration of Refugee Week Greece 2023. Within the showcase, we aim to present works that explore a range of responses to displacement, migration, and diaspora. From photography and painting to sculpture and more, the showcase emphasizes the power of art to evoke emotion and provoke thought.

I AM A VULVA

EXHIBITION | 4 MAY – 7 MAY 2023

I AM SOFT, I AM STRONG. WHAT AM I?

The power of the earth meets the power of femininity and gives birth to dozens of colorful, hand-made ceramic vulvas surrounded by projections and installations with protagonists to be femininities of contemporary Greece. With a pop aesthetic, I AM A VULVA invites us to constantly question what we are. Are we what society and its standards dictate and command us to be?

Open talk with @the.abstract.girl

TALK | 6 MAY 2023

Join us on a journey to explore female sexuality with the social activist The Abstract Girl (Eva Kotta) and have meaningful conversations about shame and fear associated with it. Bringing our attention to vaginal anatomy through open dialogue and artistic representation serves as a form of resistance to patriarchal ideals regarding female worth and sexuality.

Bookings are now closed.

Open talk with @sexethos

TALK | 6 MAY 2023

Join us in this open discussion about gender, identities, shame and sexuality. We will talk about the vast vulva spectrum and the importance of visibility and representation in art, medicine and society in general. During our meeting we will have the opportunity to walk through the artefacts and have a taboo-free discussion about femininity and the vulva in terms of sexuality and sexual education.

Bookings are now closed.

Remedy

EXHIBITION | 22 DEC 2022 – 22 JAN 2023

How to heal, how to stay strong, how to be resilient.

The intense grief and loneliness felt around the world, as well as the pain of ongoing inequity, have become lasting reminders of how much we need each other. Featuring new works by 28 Greek and international artists, Remedy hopes to delve further into the capability or necessity of a constant effort to come closer to our nature.

Building emotional intelligence through art

WORKSHOP | 22 JAN 2023

Where and how do we find time and space for pleasure, feelings, and empathy? With the help of the mental health specialist Lily Peppou and guided by the art pieces within the gallery space, we will let ourselves feel, listen and express our emotions and thoughts by decoding the artworks and unlocking our inner world.

Bookings are now closed.

What do we see when we look at a piece of art?

TALK | 21 JAN 2023

Join us on a creative discussion between 3 Remedy artists, Olga Irene Zafeiropoulou, Vasilis Kampouris, and Christina Papaioannou, the art historian Alexia Pappa, and the mental health specialist Lily Peppou around the commonalities between art and psychology as ways whereby creativity and art viewing can help us live better lives.

Bookings are now closed.

Wintering songs

WORKSHOP | 15 JAN – 21 JAN 2023

Join the artist Eirini Vlavianou in an effort to examine and analyze traditional lullabies in relation to feminist struggles, ethnography, and semiotics. Through a creative manipulation, we will create contemporary struggle cradle songs, casting out our pain and allowing space for our own needs to be heard while ultimately healing our individual and collective body.

Bookings are now closed.

TerreApie

PERFORMANCE | 7 JAN 2023

Join us on a therapeutic ritual performed by the artist Irzzy (Eirini Theodosi) and writer and producer Eleni Stefanou as an adaptation of primordial healing ceremonies of indigenous cultures. In the absence of communal experiences, viewers are invited to witness the artist's healing but to also co-experience and connect through this common therapeutic process.

Bookings are now closed.

Not Applicable

EXHIBITION | 21 MAR – 21 MAY 2021

Challenging the things that are supposed to free us but end up enslaving us.

Not applicable stands for the appreciation of value that is currently not focused on the spotlight of society’s attention. We live in an era where the need to do things quickly doesn’t allow us to pause and reflect. We search for instant gratification, ending up losing control of first-line actions and reactions.

Whipped

EXHIBITION | 3 JUL – 7 JUL 2019

Nowness and issues of contemporary culture.

Inspired by Cream’s origin in Athens, and the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus saying ‘‘everything is in a state of becoming” or in other words “Ta panta rhei”, Whipped is a wonderland-esq exposition of bold nostalgic ephemera aims to playfully guide you through an existential state of self

The Neoprotofeminist Show

EXHIBITION | 22 JUN – 22 AUG 2018

Social issues, feminism, sexuality and gender identity.

What we see in the contemporary social issue scene is expressed through an art movement that is stepping towards the future. With the term 'Neoprotofeminist' we aim to define a new era where the freedom of expression has no limits.