Taking up Space: A Pop-up Exhibition Giving Voice to Women Artists

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the exhibition “Taking up space” will be held in the beautiful neoclassical building at 65 Patission Street.

Taking up space as a woman means recognizing that your voice has value and deserves to be heard. And when women and feminine identities begin to claim their space—both in private and public spheres—the world becomes a little more beautiful, a little more just.

This exhibition is inspired by that. Creative production studio Bouclé, which is organizing the exhibition for the second year, says that “International Women’s Day is a day that has become quite commercialized, escaping from its militant roots and becoming a capricious occasion for promotion and consumerism, flowers and ‘happy birthday‘. So we are here to remind that International Women’s Day is about women’s struggle for equality and to give space and voice to women’s work in the arts.

The exhibition will feature twelve female artists working in a variety of art forms including photography, film, painting, sculpture and textiles, giving visitors the opportunity to engage with a variety of different works and approaches.

The exhibition will run for two days on March 8 and 9 (Saturday 14:00-22:00 & Sunday 12:00-20:00). Music will be provided by different DJs each day, and a bar will be set up for beer and wine.

A percentage of the proceeds from the bar will be donated to the Diotima Center.

The artists

Noura Djuric | Yakinthi | Alexia Psaradeli | Tatiana May | Konstantina Levi | Sasha Mademuaselle | Dora Papanikita | Marilena Kranioti | Marianna Clara Thomadakii | Martha Panagiotopoulou | Annie Riga
Charoula Nikolaidou

A few words about the venue “Taking up space”

The venue is a beautiful neoclassical building in the heart of Athens. It was built in 1923. The size and form of this particular building marked a turning point in the evolving urban landscape of Athens at the time. It is characterized by a fluid style of late eclecticism, and in recent years has been home to the Stavrakos Film School.

A few words about Diotima Center

The Diotima Center is a non-profit women’s organization that has been active since 1989, specializing in gender equality issues. Its vision is to defend gender rights and promote a world of gender justice. Its mission is to provide multifaceted support to women who have suffered gender-based violence and who belong to socially excluded groups (unemployed, single parents, women with low incomes, refugees, immigrants). Its intervention is holistic and aims to prevent and address the consequences of gender-based violence, to strengthen women’s voices and to promote gender equality in all areas of social, political and economic life.

The Diotima Center is the only institution in Greece that provides free specialized legal assistance and representation to low-income survivors of gender-based violence, covering all legal costs.