Soft Prints | Chrysanthi Koumianaki 2026

The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music presents Soft Prints, the new jewelry collection by visual artist Chrysanthi Koumianaki, and invites you to a festive evening on the Foundation’s rooftop, featuring music and free admission to the exhibition Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space.

This limited-edition collection of handcrafted silver jewelry is inspired by small everyday findings-shells, seeds, stones, and tiny objects-that the artist gathers during her wanderings, each carrying its own materiality and memory.

Within Koumianaki’s artistic practice, these found objects are transformed through a complex process into new forms. The artist focuses on their imprints on soft surfaces, which she subsequently turns into jewelry-small sculptural pieces. Through this gesture, the object becomes a trace, both physical and symbolic. Objects that often go unnoticed acquire the emotional significance bestowed upon them by the simple act of being collected and carried in a pocket. Each jewelry series consists of a constellation of findings, while the body that wears them becomes a bearer of these impressions.

For Chrysanthi Koumianaki, jewelry-making is closely connected to the idea of connection. These works function as a means of creating relationships: a way to connect her family, the family business, her collaborators, and the people who wear her jewelry. Having grown up in the jewelry design and production workshop of Emmanouil Koumianakis in Heraklion, Crete, she continues a forty-year tradition, creating and producing her collections there.

Additional collections can be found at the physical store:

Emmanouil Koumianakis
71, 1821 Street, Heraklion, Crete

As well as online through the store’s e-shop: https://koumianakis.gr/

Wednesday, June 24 | 18:00-22:00

Programme

18:00 | Special Guided Tour of the exhibition Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space

This exhibition is a tribute to the Greek-American artist Stephen Antonakos, presenting six decades of artistic creation through works that explore the relationship between light, space, and time. Centered on abstraction and the use of neon, Antonakos’s works engage in dialogue with twelve contemporary artists, highlighting the enduring relevance and influence of his artistic language.

Through this guided tour, visitors will experience a curated viewing of the exhibition, where light transforms the perception of space and time, inviting a slower and more meaningful observation. A journey that reveals the power of art to create dialogues—between eras, forms, and viewers.

Free admission (advance reservation required/The tour will be conducted in greek)

19:00-22:00 | Extended Opening Hours for the exhibition Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space

Free admission

19:00-22:00 | Presentation of the Soft Prints collection on the rooftop of the B & M Theocharakis Foundation

The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music presents Soft Prints, the new jewelry collection by visual artist Chrysanthi Koumianaki, on the rooftop terrace of the Foundation’s 5th floor.

A selection of the jewelry pieces will be available for purchase at the Foundation’s Art Shop on the ground floor.

Throughout the evening, guests will be offered refreshing Ikariotissa beer

Artistic Direction & Jewelry Design: Chrysanthi Koumianaki

Performers: Eva Vlassopoulou, Dimitris Mytilinaios

Set Design: Fanis Kafantaris

Music (Live DJ Set): Royal Jelly

After the event, and until 24 July 2026, Soft Prints, the new jewellery collection by visual artist Chrysanthi Koumianaki, will be exhibited on the ground floor of the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. A selection of pieces from the collection will also be available for purchase at the Art Shop.

BIO

Chrysanthi Koumianaki (b. 1985, Heraklion, Greece) is a visual artist based in Athens. Her practice focuses on installations that integrate multiple media, including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, performance, video, and sound. She explores themes of public space, decay, urban use, and personal interventions within the built environment, forming a key part of her research and artistic inquiry. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at institutions, museums, and galleries, including CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens (2025);The Nordic House in Iceland, Reykjavik (2024); EMST, Athens (2023); ATOPOS CVC, Athens (2023), Greek National Opera, Athens (2023); B & M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens (2022); NEON, Athens (2021); Netwerk Aalst, Belgium (2018); Fondation Hippocrène, Paris (2018); Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2018); Kadist, Paris (2017); Benaki Museum, Athens (2016); Athens Biennale (2013), among others. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions organized by institutions such as Fondazione Prada (2017), DESTE Foundation (2016), and New Museum, New York (2016). She has participated in artist programs such as Studiotopia (BOZAR & Onassis Stegi, 2020-22), Onassis Air (Onassis Foundation, 2019, 2023), and Artworks (Stavros Niarchos Foundation, 2018).

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