Image: Benaki Museum, Athens
Benaki Museum will present recent publications at the 54th Book Festival in Athens, taking place from 4 to 20 September 2026. The museum’s stand will be located at Pavilion 9, at the entrance to the festival in Pedion tou Areos.
Three publication presentations are scheduled for the festival’s Archimedes stage. On 9 September at 7.30pm, the programme will feature Demosthenes Agrafiotis’s ‘Photographic (Re) (Dis) Course 1966–2023’, published by Benaki Museum in Athens in 2026. Giorgos Karelias, editor of the publication, Natassa Markidou and Kostis Antoniadis will speak, with Aliki Tsirgialou moderating.
Later that evening, at 8.30pm, ‘Nelly’s: Readings of Her Work’, edited by Aliki Tsirgialou and published by Benaki Museum in Athens in 2026, will be presented. Dimitris Damaskos, Mathildi Pyrli and Giannis Skarpeλος are listed as speakers; Tsirgialou will moderate.
On 18 September at 9.30pm, the festival will host a presentation of ‘Dimitris Pikionis 1887–1968’ and its English-language edition, ‘Dimitris Pikionis 1887–1968’. Thanasis Moutsopoulos and Giorgos Tzirtzilakis will speak, with Natalia Boura moderating.
