“Theraic Rituals”
August 23, 2025 – October 24, 2025
The new solo exhibition by Artemis Chatzigiannaki at the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos” in Vlychada, Santorini
Focusing on the primordial spirit of Santorini, Artemis Chatzigiannaki expands her artistic and research lens to explore facets of timelessness on the Aegean’s most internationally celebrated island.
The exhibition will be hosted at the D. Nomikos Tomato Industrial Museum, an arts, culture, and entertainment hub created by the Nomikos family beside Vlychada beach, repurposing the former factory complex. This multidimensional venue safeguards industrial memory, technical know-how, and the imprint of the local workforce and produce of Theraic soil, pairing them with a contemporary vision of art and intercultural creation through the museum’s cultural arm, Santorini Arts Factory (SAF).
Featuring 15 watercolours, the artist proposes a new way of seeing Santorini’s horizon through the ritual cycles of tradition, labour, local economy, customs, and collective memory. Visitors will encounter aspects of a Santorini that survives not only in memory and oral testimony but also in the contours of its landscape, its ancient earth, its skyline, its wine-growing heritage, its agricultural products, its flora and seasonal rhythms, and an architecture that cuts through the island’s stereotypical image with flashes of authenticity and primeval wisdom.
The exhibition opens on 23 August under the curatorship of archaeologist Lefteris Zorzos and architect Nina Georgiadou, with the contribution of writer and journalist Nikos Vatopoulos. It is held under the auspices of the Municipality of Thira and forms part of the initiative “Santorini 2025: Year of Highlighting and Supporting Authenticity.”
An accompanying bilingual (Greek–English) art calendar for 2026, titled “Santorini,” will be published, featuring twelve works by the artist, a foreword by Mayor Nikos Zorzos, and texts by Nikos Vatopoulos, Lefteris Zorzos, and Nina Georgiadou.
At 19 September 2025, related events will be held in the exhibition space under the theme “The many faces of Santorini through time,” including the presentation of the new 2026 art calendar. Speakers: journalist Nikos Vatopoulos, psychiatrist-psychotherapist Dimitris Georgiadis, and curators Lefteris Zorzos and Nina Georgiadou.