Unfolding across two floors of the Benaki Museum, fifteen of Waliszewska’s paintings are placed in charged iconographic tension with objects spanning Neolithic Greece, Classical Antiquity, the Byzantine world, and the modern Greek era. The exhibition pays homage to Greece as the birthplace of figurative, narrative art and as a foundation of Western visual culture – while also tracing its enduring presence in the visual imagination today. Waliszewska’s intense psychological tableaux manifest moments of “irruption”: the sudden, forceful entry of ancient visual tropes into the present.
Aleksandra Waliszewska: Irruption of Antiquity
Benaki Museum, Koumpari 1, Athens 106 74, Greece
From 3rd June 2026 to 27th September 2026
