‘Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues’ by Joe Fyfe
December 2025
This smallish, elegant museum in an old mansion on an Athens boulevard has an ongoing program of monographic exhibitions of internationally recognized artists. In every recent case, the artists received their first museum show in Greece here. In each the context afforded new insights into the artist’s output.
In 2023, the Greek independent curator Dimitrios Antonitsis and the American Brice Marden organized Brice Marden and Greek Antiquity that drew comparisons between general notions of the antique, selections from the permanent collection and Marden’s paintings, drawings, prints, collages and notebooks. Last year, the museum presented Cindy Sherman at Cycladic: Early works. The American artist’s photographic output has virtually no foundation in canonical artworks from any period in world history, let alone the antique.
