Deste Foundation

We are pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition titled Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation, a survey of Gen X artists from the Dakis Joannou Collection.

The show will be on view at the DESTE Foundation in Athens, starting on June 11th.

✨ More information, will follow soon! ✨

📷 Video still: Douglas Gordon - Monument for X (1998)

◽️ Exhibition on view ◽️

Andra Ursuţa, "Apocalypse Now and Then"

Ursuţa draws from the visual language and displays strategies of archaeological museums to invent faux-historicist artefacts belonging to a defunct civilization whose relics seem to speak to the anxieties of our present. "Apocalypse Now and Then" plunges viewers into a truncated historiography where passingly familiar ancient tropes, grotesque votives, and scarred bronze figures hover between archaeology and fiction. The DESTE Foundation’s Slaughterhouse—a former abattoir perched above the sea—becomes a stage for Ursuţa’s monumental yet spectral figures. Installed both inside and outside the Slaughterhouse, the show transforms the space into a notional museum.

📍At the DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra

🗓 Duration: June 24, 2025 - October 31, 2025

🕛 Opening Hours:
Daily 11:00-13:00 & 18:00-21:00
Tuesday closed

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Installation view
📷  Dario Lasagni

© Andra Ursuţa
Courtesy the artist; David Zwirner; Ramiken