The exhibition the garden offers a multimedia portrait of Manolis Baboussis. It comprises old and new works representative of his long career, printed photographs, projected images, drawings, installations, and sound pieces. His poetry, an especially acute type of “poélitique,” runs through the entire exhibition.

Manolis Baboussis, photographer, visual artist, and architect, emeritus professor of the Athens School of Fine Arts, is an unflinching critic of consumer culture and its institutions, even that of the arts. He is a “creator of utopias.”

In 2011, due to Manolis Baboussis’ planning,  organization, and oversight, and with the support of the then Rectorate, the School’s parking area was converted into a garden. In his installation, Baboussis transfers the “parking lot” to the School’s exhibition spaces, while in one room an audio video with the artist’s voice and images of the garden is shown. At the same time, he presents the recent series of photographs view (2022) of trees that grow facing the sea, planted on the island of Kea between 2000-2022, most of them by the artist himself. These photographs represent the “green vein’’ of Baboussis’ life and art.

The exhibition the garden is supported by NEON.