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Thirteen site-specific works are installed across the open-air spaces of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center — along the Canal and across the Esplanade — where you meet them on the same paths you would walk anyway.\n\nKruger built her language over four decades: declarative text set in bold type and aimed straight at the reader. Here, for the first time, she has written the work in Greek. A 90-metre wall on the National Library building carries the largest piece, in black, white and green; phrases such as 'EVIL IS GOOD' and 'TRUTH IS A MYTH' land in stark contrast, turning the slogans of power and persuasion back on themselves. The themes — truth, authority, who gets to think for whom — read differently in a public square than they would behind museum glass.\n\nIf you want a quiet, ticketed gallery hang, this is not that: Kruger's work competes with joggers, harbor wind and kids on scooters. But if you want art that argues with you in the middle of ordinary life, walk the Esplanade slowly and read every wall.\n\nThe SNFCC is reachable by tram and bus down at Faliro by the sea; entry is open. Installed since 28 April and built for the season when the Esplanade fills, the show runs through 1 November 2026 — months left, but it belongs to summer.\n\n", "fullDescriptionEn": "Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Pride and Contempt) is the American artist's first solo exhibition in Greece, and it does not sit inside a gallery. Thirteen site-specific works are installed across the open-air spaces of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center — along the Canal and across the Esplanade — where you meet them on the same paths you would walk anyway.\n\nKruger built her language over four decades: declarative text set in bold type and aimed straight at the reader. Here, for the first time, she has written the work in Greek. A 90-metre wall on the National Library building carries the largest piece, in black, white and green; phrases such as 'EVIL IS GOOD' and 'TRUTH IS A MYTH' land in stark contrast, turning the slogans of power and persuasion back on themselves. The themes — truth, authority, who gets to think for whom — read differently in a public square than they would behind museum glass.\n\nIf you want a quiet, ticketed gallery hang, this is not that: Kruger's work competes with joggers, harbor wind and kids on scooters. But if you want art that argues with you in the middle of ordinary life, walk the Esplanade slowly and read every wall.\n\nThe SNFCC is reachable by tram and bus down at Faliro by the sea; entry is open. Installed since 28 April and built for the season when the Esplanade fills, the show runs through 1 November 2026 — months left, but it belongs to summer.\n\n", "fullDescriptionGr": "Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Pride and Contempt) is the American artist's first solo exhibition in Greece, and it does not sit inside a gallery. Thirteen site-specific works are installed across the open-air spaces of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center — along the Canal and across the Esplanade — where you meet them on the same paths you would walk anyway.\n\nKruger built her language over four decades: declarative text set in bold type and aimed straight at the reader. Here, for the first time, she has written the work in Greek. A 90-metre wall on the National Library building carries the largest piece, in black, white and green; phrases such as 'EVIL IS GOOD' and 'TRUTH IS A MYTH' land in stark contrast, turning the slogans of power and persuasion back on themselves. 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This members' guided tour of Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Pride and Contempt) takes you through it on foot.\n\nKruger has spent more than five decades setting blunt declarative text against image to interrogate power, money and who gets to speak. For this exhibition she has made thirteen new site-specific works for the open spaces of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center — her first solo exhibition in Greece, and the first time her statements appear in Greek, language about truth, authority and critical thinking aimed squarely at the present. The works line the Canal and the Esplanade, so Untitled (Pride and Contempt) is not a room you enter but a route you walk, folded into the everyday traffic of joggers, families and commuters crossing the grounds.\n\nThe guided walk supplies the framing the wall text alone withholds: why these phrases, in this public place, in this language, now.\n\nIf you want a hushed, climate-controlled gallery, this is the opposite — it is outdoors, in June, and you read at monumental scale under open sky. But if you want to watch one of the sharpest text artists alive speak directly to Greek passers-by, walk it with a guide. Open to SNFCC members; the exhibition itself runs through 1 November, but this tour is a single afternoon.\n\nThe wall comes down in November; the argument Kruger makes on it is built to outlast the paint.\n\n", "fullDescriptionEn": "A ninety-metre wall of text runs along the National Library of Greece — black, white and red, in Greek, impossible to walk past without reading. 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