Hypnos Project

Main Exhibition "Hypnos Project"

The "Hypnos Project" brings to the public 65 masterpieces of Greek art to the exhibition hall of the Onassis Stegi and to the Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue). Works by contemporary artists, as well as archival data and transcribed examples from local popular culture, in an attempt to not only mutally interract but also transform each other.

Exhibition at the Onassis Stegi opening hours: everyday 12:00-21:00
Exhibition at the Onassis Library opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 12:00-20:00 & Saturday-Sunday 11:00-15:00

Performance by FYTA

A performance by FYTA will take place at the opening of the Main Exhibition, based on the slumber and awakening of the nation and its language.

Performance by Christodoulos Panayiotou

23–24 April | 20:00 | Free admission - It is necessary to book your seat at boxoffice@onassis.org | Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue)

A performance-lecture by Christodoulos Panayiotou, titled "Dying on Stage", in collaboration with the dancer Jean Capeille and the composer and pianist Kyriakos Spyrou. A reflection on the impossibility of representing death on stage.

"The Dead Man" by Georges Bataille | Nova Melancholia Performance

7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-19 May | 21:00 | Age guidance: 18+ | Galaxia & Sfiggos str. (behind the Onassis Stegi building)

An original work based on Georges Bataille’s story "The Dead Man" by the contemporary theatre and performance group Nova Melancholia.

Exhibition and performances' curators: Theophilos Tramboulis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

Insomnia

12 April | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage

With: Kostas Gemenetzis, Hara Tsekou, Kostas Soldatos
Chair: Amanda Mihalopoulou

Hypnos Clinic

19-23 April and 6-10 May | Onassis Stegi | Free admission - Thank you for your interest. The limited number of seats are now reserved.

Τhere will be a ten-day sleep clinic in the Onassis Stegi; participants’ bodily reactions during night sleep will be recorded. In collaboration with doctor/pulmonologist Martha Andritsou, scientific collaborator of Evangelismos Hospital's Sleeping Study Center.

Quatuor Diotima

The celebrated French Quatuor Diotima returns to the Onassis Stegi in the context of the "Hypnos Project" with night as its theme. Diotima will perform "Ainsi la nuit" by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) and "Métamorphoses nocturnes", an early work of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006). The concert will end with a landmark work marking the dawn of twentieth-century music, Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). A work of abstract programme music, without words, it is based on a poem by R. Dehmel.

‘Farewell’: Lecture-Performance with Christiana Galanopoulou

7 & 8 May | 20:00 | Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue) | Free admission - It is necessary to book your seat at boxoffice@onassis.org

Following the "Sleeping Girls" in the secretive paths of their sleep, art historian Christiana Galanopoulou invites us on a journey exploring works of art of different eras in texts, locations, archaeological sites, but also in moments of contemporary reality and people’s stories, thus weaving a narrative about life, what lies beyond, and eternity.

Body: Sleeping, death and resurrection

9 May | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage

Chair: Dimitris Papanikolaou

Polysomnogarden

19 May – 2 June | Daily 15:00-21:30 | Evridamantos & Galaxia str. (behind the Onassis Stegi building) | Free admission

An audiovisual mixed-media installation on representations of the architecture of sleep, using medical data from workshops on the study of sleep (i.e. polysomnography) in real time.

Concept, Planning: Marina Gioti
Sound: Coti K.
Automatic Programming: Thanos Eleftherakos
Lights: Tassos Paleoroutas
Garden Design: Olga Manetta
Scientific Support: Chara Tsekou

Cinemarathon "Let's (not) go to sleep"

13-14 May | 22:00 | Upper Stage

A 24-hour cinemarathon with films and documentaries related to the topic of sleep.
Curator: Elias Fragoulis

six d.o.g.s pyjama party

14 May | 00:00 | Free admission | In all the floors of the Onassis Stegi

DJ sets will take place in all the floors of the Onassis Stegi, from midnight to dawn, in what will be an unforgettable midnight party.

Dreams

16 May | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage

A lecture by psychoanalyst Dany Nobus, Chair of the Freud Museum, London.

The City of the Sleeping

Sound Walk & Sound Installation at the First Cemetary, Athens | 28 May - 19 June | First Cemetary, Athens (29 Anapafseos and Trivonianou st., Mets) | Free admission

Α sound walk and a sound installation at the First Cemetary, Athens, by the visual-arts artist Nikos Arvanitis and the musician Dimitris Kamarotos.

The Theta Series – All-Night Event at the Onassis Stegi

29 May | 22:00 | Duration: till the morning (breakfast is included) | Main Stage

An all-night experiental event will take place at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi by choreographer and Onassis Foundation Fellow Apostolia Papadamaki, in collaboration with composer Trifon Koutsourelis.

Tickets
Full price for all the evening: 15 €
Reduced, Friends, Small groups (5-9 people): 12 €
People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed, Large groups (10+ people): 10 €

Photographic Projections in public buildings in Athens

18 April – 19 June

Artists, dancers, and actors will be photographed while sleeping by Pavlos Fysakis. The photographs will be projected in public buildings in Kafthmonos square, Syggrou avenue and others.
Photographs were taken at the Coco-mat Hotel Kolonaki.

HYPNOS issue

Hypnos Project will be accompanied by an independent bilingual publication on the topic of sleep, which will circulate widely. Academics, specialists, and writers approach the issue of sleep with original ways, each one from his/her own perspective. Together they compose a polyphonic and original anthology, in which sociology co-exists with military studies, architecture with classical philology, short stories with personal testimony.