Show on the visual arts, produced in 2024

"The Era of Images" (2003-2023 ERT) completed 20 years of steady presence and documentation of the contemporary art scene in Greece and abroad. During these 20 years, a national, as well as an international, archive for contemporary art was created, allowing the audience to get acquainted with great artists, major exhibitions, museums, and collectors. Katerina Zacharopoulou, who has been curating, researching, and presenting "The Era of Images" for 20 years, continues to document this exciting and modern world of art. Its messages, quests, and forms are aligned with crucial issues of the era, such as identities, ecologies, collectivities, generations of Greek and foreign artists, and the re-evaluation of their works, the body, the presentation of traditional forms of art within new frameworks and languages, museums, their new goals, painting, sculpture, and moving image through different readings of the World, places, and their history.

The new season of initially 12 episodes focuses on artists and exhibitions that at this moment redefine all these issues, in the way museums perceive their museumological and social role, with new practices and narratives, making tangible the fact of a rapidly changing world.

In an unprecedented retrospective exhibition spread throughout all exhibition spaces of the Benaki Museum at Piraeus 138 and presented in two parts, painter George Hadjimichalis (born 1954) attempted to present a holistic approach of his work and experiences in the field of art. The show presents this great narrative. Katerina Zaharopoulou meets the artist and invites him to a conversation about the artist's entire journey from his traumatic childhood and the loss of his father to the maturity years that produced his large, demanding and time-consuming works which make him one of the most important artists of his generation.