Onassis Collection

Building bridges between different forms of art, the Onassis Foundation’s hybrid collection ranges from Doménikos Theotokópoulos and Auguste Rodin to Jannis Varelas and Bob Wilson. Greek and international artists across eras, generations, and styles come together to form an open-ended narrative shaped by diversity, inclusion, and non-linearity. Chryssa meets Etel Adnan, Rena Papaspyrou encounters Theo Triantafyllidis, Salvatore Emblema converses with Jannis Kounellis, and Andreas Angelidakis engages in dialogue with Wael Shawky.
The Onassis Foundation’s collection weaves its way into everyday life, transforming the spaces where we live and move. From the Onassis Library and the Onassis Stegi to the Foundation’s offices and the Onassis Hospital, its works unfold in public space, cross borders, and become part of major exhibitions in leading museums in Greece and abroad.
This year, "The Girl Painting" by Yannis Moralis will appear in the upcoming "Protoleia" exhibition at the Benaki Museum (October 2025 to January 2026), while Ioannis Permeniatis’ "The Crucifixion" and "Madonna and Child" traveled to the Palazzo Ducale for the exhibition "Painted Gold", in dialogue with the artistic heritage of Crete and Venice. At the same time, the digital art piece "That Feeling of Not Knowing" by Theo Triantafyllidis is being screened at the Aegean Airlines Business Lounge in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos,” inviting travelers into a moment of silent anticipation through the initiative "The Art of Waiting", on view through November 2025.
The Onassis Foundation’s collection affirms the vital necessity of art in our time—art that is bold, consoling, and redemptive.