Exhibition CHRISTOS BOKOROS | The Diaries
From Friday 19 June 2026, FOUGARO ARTCENTER presents an important exhibition in Nafplion, dedicated to the work and “days” of the distinguished Greek painter Christos Bokoros.
The exhibition entitled “Christos Bokoros | The Diaries” draws its material from Christos Bokoros’ e-diaries (4 volumes, exceeding 1,480 pages) and presents paintings, archive photographs and texts from the painter’s diary entries of the years 2012 to 2026. Material from the years 2012-21 has been published on the occasion of the exhibitions Glimpses of the obscure (Benaki Museum, 2016, Agra Publications) and The Feast (Benaki Museum, 2021, EKEP), respectively, while e‑diaries ΙΙΙ & ΙV was printed, in lieu of a catalogue, for Christos Bokoros’ exhibition at FOUGARO.
“The Diaries” will be the first opportunity for the public to see, in the context of an organised exhibition, photographic works by the eminent painter, as well as diary entries that bring to the forefront those things that trace and shape him, all that he consistently swears to through his tenacious hands-on relationship with his art – his face. 31 paintings from the long, brilliant spectrum of Christos Bokoros’ creative period, 44 photographic works, and diary entries – intonations of his biographical moments – comprise the core of his major exhibition at FOUGARO.
In his own words:
“All that I've written over the last few years, from the pandemic onwards, with invisible friends behind the bright electronic void of the screen as a pretext – what clever mirrors does ever-new technology incessantly use to capture us! – are now printed, tangible books. Some of the photographs and the texts will be exhibited for the first time alongside my works – works in themselves. Paintings, photographs, texts, thoughts, and crafts, all working together to retain life, a meaning, to imbue the moment with value, to make memory history, a thread, to tie up, to assemble our life into origin, – how does eternity survive in the moment? – to cancel time, to turn it into place, a benevolent sense, a visible image, to make the unmade, to save what can be saved from the consciousness of oblivion and from the relentless snatching of our day. A futile effort, you might say. And yet… what other way does the soul have to save itself?”
Exhibition Identity:
CHRISTOS BOKOROS
The Diaries
The exhibition “Christos Bokoros | The Diaries” is an initiative and production of FOUGARO ARTCENTER.
Curator
Sylvia Liouliou | FOUGARO
Graphic design
Yorgos Rimenidis | GRID OFFICE
Photograph printing
Sdralis Artworks
Printing
IKONA - N. G. CHRISTOPOULOS
Translations
DAPHNE KAPSALI
Exhibition duration
19/06 – 31/10/2026
Opening hours:
Friday – Saturday – Sunday: 6-10 pm
Free entry
Christos Bokoros
Christos Bokoros was born in 1956 in Agrinio, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. At the age of nineteen he moved to Komotini to study Law at the Democritus University of Thrace (1975–1979). Following his graduation and a brief period of indecision, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Athens (1983–1989). A painter since childhood, he started exhibiting his work in the 1980s. At his Kalidromiou Street studio on Strefi Hill, he created the works of his Apprenticeship in reality. During the ’90s, on Aristodimou Street near Lycabettus Hill, he attempted to depict shared memory and the Temptations of the invisible, light and darkness. In 2000, he moved to Kastella in Piraeus, where he has been living and working ever since. In 2004, with The Impassable Forest, he addressed the thorny legacy of the Greek Resistance during World War II and the ensuing Civil War. In 2013, at the Benaki Museum, Pireos branch, he presented The Bare Essentials, a call for modest prosperity and the rediscovery of measure in our everyday life, followed in 2016 by Glimpses of the Obscure, a retrospective of his work from the previous thirty years. Two hundred years after the Greek uprising of 1821, he returned to the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture with The Feast. In the spring of 2025, he presented Passage to the Light, a retrospective into the future, at the Venetian Basilica of Saint Mark in Heraklion, Crete, and in the summer, his Palimpsests were shown at the Fethiye Camii in Nafpaktos. In the spring of 2026, his series of works entitled Alexandros Papadiamantis / His Shadow is shown at the National Library of Greece (SNFCC).
