Ruby Art Gallery launches in Athens with Marilena Kranioti’s “Nuances of the Night”

Do we ever really disappear – or just move differently through the dark? What if death is just another kind of change. With this poetic question, Ruby Art opens its doors in Athens and invites Greek artist Marilena Kranioti to inaugurate the space with her installation Nuances of the Night, curated by Bianca Bauer, former CEO of the Kirchner Museum Davos.

The exhibition marks the beginning of Ruby Art’s first curatorial cycle Stone & Salt (October 2025 – July 2026), a cross-cultural program that unfolds between Zurich and Athens, shaped by collaborations between Swiss and Greek voices.

The exhibition Nuances of the Night

In Nuances of the Night, Kranioti works with metal, light, sound, soil, and organic matter, creating an environment that contemplates death as a threshold rather than an end. Her sculptural language carries the weight, fragility, and elemental force that define Stone & Salt: the cold shine of steel, the slow erosion of rust, the vibration of light and sound – each becomes a metaphor for endurance, transience, and transformation.

Rooted in the study of natural phenomena and metaphysical questions, the installation moves between the material and immaterial, the seen and unseen – inviting the visitor into a space where endings seamlessly connect to new beginnings.

The cycle Stone and Salt

Between October 2025 and July 2026, Ruby Art presents its first curatorial cycle: Stone & Salt. Conceived as an elemental inquiry rather than a fixed theme, it will unfold through five to six exhibitions shaped by Swiss–Greek collaborations. Stone carries weight, endurance, and memory. Salt dissolves, preserves, heals. Together they speak of persistence and erosion, dissolution and transformation.

The cycle weaves the elements of stone, salt, water, fire, and light into a dialogue between the Aegean and the Alps – between endurance and fluidity, presence and disappearance, matter and myth.

Ruby Art

Ruby Art is a cross-cultural space for intimate, visible, and bold creation. Based in Zurich and hosted in Athens, it is conceived as a living organism – part curatorial framework, part physical space. Founded by Bianca Bauer, former CEO of the Kirchner Museum Davos, Ruby Art connects conceptual research and site-specific installations located at the heart of Varnava Square. It’s her most personal project – a response to loss, holding a space of expression between the ground she calls home and the light that inspires her. “Ruby Art emerged from a moment of radical transition. What started as a private reckoning became a public offering – a curatorial practice shaped by tenderness, urgency, and reinvention. This project is not just about exhibitions, it is about reclaiming creative ground after rupture.”
Each exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition available online at rubyart.gr – unique, tangible artworks that keep the threshold low and offer artists a sustainable source of income beyond the exhibition itself.