Λέσχη Ακρόασης | Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Pride and Contempt)

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center has spent the spring with a phrase wrapping the National Library facade: "Watch the moment when pride becomes contempt." On Thursday 18 June 2026 from 19:30 to 21:30, the third of four Listening Club sessions opens the conversation around it.

The series accompanies Untitled (Pride and Contempt), Barbara Kruger's first solo exhibition in Greece — thirteen new site-specific works produced for SNFCC's public spaces, anchored by the 90-metre mural across the National Library. Kruger has been building her vocabulary of bold capitals on red since the late 1970s; this is the first time she has worked at this scale in Greek. The Listening Club is positioned by SNFCC as a parallel axis to the exhibition — a moderated room where the visual aphorisms get unpacked alongside curated listening material.

Expect adults who have already walked the grounds, came back with notes, and want to talk about what Kruger does to the eye. The sessions skew toward exhibition regulars — art historians, designers, gender-studies readers, the crowd that spent the spring decoding "pride becomes contempt" on the library wall. Not a lecture; a structured conversation in Greek.

| Aspect | Details | |--------|---------| | **Setting** | SNFCC interior space, set up for moderated discussion | | **Vibe** | Reflective, conversational, working through the show together | | **Format** | Listening + moderated discussion, in Greek | | **Access** | Open admission, first-come-first-served, adults only |

The format combines guided audio with room conversation — moderators move between Kruger's text-image works, the cultural history she draws on, and the questions her phrases ask of contemporary Greek viewers. Sessions are designed as standalones: you do not need to have attended the 7 May opener or to return on 9 July and 24 September. Each session reframes the exhibition from a slightly different angle.

If you want a quiet solo walk through the show, come on a different day — the Listening Club is built for collective unpacking, and the room caps. But if you have already seen Pride and Contempt and want a structured way to keep thinking with it, this is the format SNFCC has built around the exhibition.

SNFCC is accessible by tram and bus along the coastal corridor, with the main entrance off Syngrou. Arrive 15-20 minutes early: admission is first-come-first-served and seats fill before the 19:30 start. The exhibition itself stays open until 1 November, so you can walk the grounds and revisit specific works before the session. No ticket, no booking — show up and queue.

Two more sessions follow this one before the exhibition closes, with the 24 September date the last chance to take the show apart with a room.