Situated on the fringe of the Athens Archaeological Park, within the historic Thission area, the Museum Alex Mylona, which was founded in 2004, provides visitors with a rare journey into contemporary art through the work of the Athenian sculptress Alex Mylona and periodic contemporary art exhibitions.
Alex Mylona was born in Athens in 1923. In 1945 she attended the Athens School of Fine Arts where she studied sculpture under the supervision of Professor Michalis Tombros. Alex Mylona participated in a number of international exhibitions, while she also represented Greece at the 30th Biennale in Venice, the International Fair of Montreal in Canada (1967) and various Biennale exhibitions in Brussels, Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Budapest. In 1986 the Greek National Gallery granted Mylona its showrooms for a retrospective exhibition.
In 2007, Museum Alex Mylona was donated to the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), and has been the Athenian annex of the MMCA since then. MMCA is the first museum of contemporary art in Greece, founded in 1979 by a group of visionary citizens of Thessaloniki. Its permanent collection is based on the Alexandros Iolas donation.
The museum organizes contemporary art exhibitions, educational programmes, musical and theatre performances, other events including lectures, discussions on subjects related to aesthetics, art history and the organization of museums and collections, book presentations and art projects, meetings with artists, happenings and bazaars.
The Museum also houses an art shop, visitors can find a plethora of art objects such as works of painting, engraving, sculpture, silk screens, design objects, jewellery etc. Also, art books for grownups and children and of course all the editions of both museums. The art shop is one of the main sources of funding for the museum activities.
Denys Zacharopoulos is the artistic director of both MMCA and MAM.
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