Image: Benaki Museum, Santirvan, Drama
The Benaki Museum is presenting ‘Yannis Pappas: My Diary’ (‘Το ημερολόγιό μου’), an exhibition devoted to the sculptor that brings together sculptures, paintings and drawings at Santirvan in Drama, with free admission. According to the museum’s August 2026 newsletter, the presentation is installed both inside Santirvan and in the building’s newly landscaped outdoor area, extending the exhibition beyond the interior rooms into the surrounding historic site.
The show is described as covering a broad spectrum of Pappas’s artistic production across his lifetime and its different stages. The museum’s notice frames the exhibition through a sequence of places and periods — Paris, Athens during the Occupation, Alexandria and Athens — indicating the geographic and historical range associated with the artist’s career. No further curatorial detail is provided in the source material, but the emphasis is clearly on breadth and on the unfolding of a long practice rather than on a single medium or phase.
The announcement appears in Benaki Museum’s “Day-to-day in the Museum” newsletter for August 2026, under the heading “The Museum Travels,” which groups exhibitions in Greece and abroad that feature works from the museum’s collections. In this case, the source identifies the Yannis Pappas exhibition as one of the summer listings. The newsletter also notes that the Benaki Museum is participating in other exhibitions elsewhere, but those additional projects are separate from the Pappas presentation and are not part of this story.
Yannis Pappas is identified in the notice as a sculptor, and the exhibition’s inclusion of sculpture, painting and drawing suggests an overview of the different forms his work took over time. The use of both indoor and outdoor display areas at Santirvan implies a varied installation, with the historic building and its recently arranged garden functioning together as the setting for the presentation. The museum’s wording does not specify a checklist of works, nor does it name a curator or companion publication.
The only verified venue information in the source material is Santirvan, Drama. The newsletter gives the closing date as “until 15.11.2026,” while the museum’s own event page sets the run at 17 June to 15 November 2026, following an opening on 16 June 2026. The source also does not provide further institutional background on Santirvan beyond describing it as a historic building with a newly landscaped exterior area.
The Benaki Museum, based in Athens, uses its newsletter to track exhibitions and loans involving its collections and related collaborations. Within that context, the Yannis Pappas exhibition is presented as a museum initiative extending beyond the capital and into another Greek city, with the artist’s work spanning multiple media and stages. The newsletter entry ends with the venue and closing date: Santirvan, Drama, until 15 November 2026.
