Explore the exhibition
The Unfinished Landscape: Chronicles of Place
The Maliotis Cultural Center in collaboration with the non-profit: Greece in USA which serves under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture and EKKOMED are pleased to present “The Unfinished Landscape: Chronicles of Place”: a solo exhibition by Athens and New York-based painter Venia Behraki, curated by Dr. Sozita Goudouna. Running from May 1, 2026 through January 1, 2027, the exhibition Brings together large-scale works on canvas and paper that reframe landscape not as a static, scenic view, but as a dynamic, relational field – one shaped by duration, movement, and the artist’s own respiratory rhythm.
The exhibition will be on display in the East Wing of the Maliotis Cultural Center until January 1.
Scenes from the
Exhibition Opening
Venia Behraki
Venia Behraki is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Athens working
across photography, performance, and large-scale painting. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MFA in New Media from New York University as an Onassis Foundation Scholar, and
has received the Gerondelis Grant and the Jack Goodman Award for Art & Technology. Her work spans from staged photographic and video performance works exploring female identity, private and public space, to recent large-scale scroll paintings. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MOCA Shanghai, Open XII & XVI in Venice, The Hospital Club London, Real Art Ways, The Museum of Photography
Thessaloniki, The Theocharakis Foundation, Thessaloniki Biennial,
Opening Gallery New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of
Crete. She lives and works between Athens and New York.