Past Exhibitions

2024

Pro Femina
2024, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Strong in Time
Rena Papaspyrou - Aspa Stassinopoulou
2024, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Medphoto 5: CLIMATE WARS
Critical Archives VI: We Can't Breathe
2024, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2018

The Poetry of Memory
2018-19, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
Kara Mousha Pasha Mosque

Crossings
2018, Post - Minoan Necropolis of Armeni

Anese Cho. Fragmentation
2018, Warehouse of the Artillery inside the Fortezza Fortress, Rethymno

Annual Exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts - CCA
Student works from the academic year 2017 - 2018
2018, June, Workroom of Fine Arts

Paper Moon (Hartino to Feggaraki)
2018, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque

Armaos - Portalaki, Route for Two
2018, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Medphoto Festival 2017 - 2018
Critical Archives III: Identities
2017-2018, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2017

Medphoto Festival 2017 - 2018
Critical Archives III: Identities
2017-2018, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Ten Chapters.
Artworks from the Permanent Collection of CCA
2017, May, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
Artillery building, Twin building, Venetian Church of Aghia Sophia
Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque, Carob Mill-Panormo, ArtGallery Morfes

Annual Exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts - CCA
Student works from the academic year 2016 - 2017
2017, June, Workroom of Fine Arts

Nikos Viskadourakis
Odysseus in Hades - Limen
2017, March, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Anthropocene, 20° C
Andreas Sitorengo
2017, January, Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque, Rethymno

2016

The Body and other small tales
Performance at the State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections
2016, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

The Alpha Bank Collection. Greek Art from 1950 until today
2016, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Cris Gianakos, Spira
2016, Twin Building, Bastion of St Nicholas - Fortezza

Annual Exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts - CCA
Student works from the academic year 2015 - 2016
2016, June, Workroom of Fine Arts

Mediterranean Photography Festival "Borders / Crossroads"
2016 June:
“Critical Archives I: Ruins” / Odysseia - Depression Era – Homesick – Abbandoni - The Zone - Life Narrative - Everything that Happened happened here first in Rehearsal, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete
2016 June:
Crossings, Group exhibition, Old Commercial Bank (Old Town)
2016 June:
Allien Territory, Group exhibition, Twin building, Fortezza Castle
2016 June:
"Critical Archives II: Testimonies”, Nine days, My Arab World, State, Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque

Nature Morte
2016, April, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2015

Angelos Spartalis
The apology of Socrates in Kaufbeuren
2015, Former County Court of Aghios Nikolaos, Lassithi, Crete

Whispers
2015, October, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
2016, November, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki of
the State Museum of Contemporary Art

Walking the Truth, Maelee Lee
2015, May, Kara Mousa Pasha Mosque, Rethymnon

Cyber - Addiction, Bon Jung Kim
2015, May, Twin building, Bastion of Agios Nikolaos - Fortezza, Rethymno

Objets trouvès, Hijo Nam
2015, May, Artillery Building - Fortezza, Rethymno

Meditations on the Dragon, Sobin Park
2015, May, Artillery Building - Fortezza, Rethymno

Flying over the Abyss
2015, May, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete - Ibrahim Khan Mosque - Fortezza, Rethymno
2015, November, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki
2016, November, Athens Conservatoire

2014

The phantasms of the Mediterranean. Marianne Strapatsakis
2014, June, Kara Musa Pasha Mosque, Rethymnon

Process. Works from the Permanent Collection
2013-2014, December, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2013

Process. Works from the Permanent Collection
2013-2014, December, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Report on Nikos Kazantzakis
2013, October, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Fear
2013, September, Sgiagiopoulion Foundation, Patras

Ithaca Returned
2013, August, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

The circle of Life. Philip Tsiaras, Chris Doulgeris
2013, August, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

The flag and its new entity. Yiannis Koumentakis
2013, August, Venetian Port - Rethymnon

Dimitris Hantzopoulos. Art painting and political cartoon exhibition
2013, May, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Children's fear, children's dreams
2013, January, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Before 2000. Sellections from the Permanent Collection
2013, January, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2012

Cosmografies
Nikos Alexiou, Yiorgos Gyparakis, Pavlos Fysakis, Yiorgos Koumentakis
2012, October, Hall de Chars, 10 Rue du Hohwald, Strasbourg

Annual Exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts - CCA
Student works from the Academic year 2011 - 2012
2012, Octomber, Workroom of Fine Art, Rethymnon

Antonakis Christodoulou. Rethymno - Los Angeles 11391,480 klm.
2012, September,Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Artemis Potamianou. Private Museum
2012, September, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Yiannis Tzermias. Oedipus / Reflections after Blindness
2012, September, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Popi Tsoukatou. Silence
2012, September, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Maria Hajiandreou. Drawings 2008 - 2011
2012, August, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Nikos Alexiou. Gate A
2012, May, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Yiorgos Gyparakis. Άγονη Γραμμή - Non Profit Line
2012, May, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

One day in August. Phasma 2 photo group
2012, March, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2011

Aristodimos. Raising Flags
2011 - 2012, October, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Time Aspects. Works from the Permanent Collection
2011 - 2012, October, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Annual Exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts - CCA
Student works from the academic year 2010 - 2011
2011, September, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Nefs Amari. Elli - Maria Komninou Nenedaki
People and landscapes from the 1970s and 1980s
2011, September, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Lili Stephanaki - Antoniadi. Lily's Rethymnon
2011, August, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Kalliopi Lemos. Navigating in the Dark
2011, Part I - Benaki Museum, Athens
Part II - Ibrahim Khan Mosque - Fortezza, Rethymno
Part III - Crypt of St. Pandras, London

Roads that come After
Yioula Hatgigeorgiou – Andreas Savva / Honorary attendance Vlassis Kaniaris
2011, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2010

Land Ends / Pavlos Fysakis
2010-11, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Trilogy “Birth - Life – Death” / Marianne Strapatsakis
2010, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

L. Kanakakis / Works from the Permanent Collection
2010-11, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

The spirit of the age. Training programme (Museum suitcase)
2010-11, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Robust Matter and Image – Antonia Papatzanaki
2010, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Annual exhibition of CCA Workroom of Fine Arts
2010, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Raymond Waydelich
2010, May, Artillery building - Fortezza, Rethymnon

2009

Between two centuries – Works from the Permanent Collection
2009-10, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

I like to be adored
2009-10, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

Erato Hadzisavva – Flying Idols ΙΙ
2009, Venetian Castle-Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymnon

2008

28 Graduates of Athens School of Fine Arts
2008, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete

2007

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops of CCA
2007, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

Grey
2007, House of Cyprus & Zoumpoulakis Gallery, Athens
2007, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon &
Venetian Castle-Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymnon

2006

Zevgma
2006, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
2006, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

2005

Effie Micheli
2005, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

Interaction
2005, Strasbourg

George Lappas
2005, Space «8»

Eftyhis Pallikaris
2005, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

From Atelier of Yiannis Kanakakis
2005, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

2004

Labyrinthe
2004, Branch of the School of Fine Arts, Rethymnon

Suffering Body
2004, Space “8”, Rethymnon
2004, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
2004, Space “8”, Rethymnon

2003

Permanent Collection. Old and New acquisitions
2003-2004, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Greek engravers in the 20th century.
2003, Space “8”, Rethymnon

Olympic Memorabilia 1896-1956
2003, Space “8”, Rethymnon

Locus - Cosmos. Ciara Moore-Stephan Vee
2003, Venetian Castle, Artillery Building, Rethymnon

I, me, myself
2003, Space “8”, Rethymnon

ΟΙΚΑΔΕ. An exhibition of Cretan artists
2003, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery and Space “8”, Rethymnon
2003, “Melina” cultural centre of the Municipality of Athens
2003, St. Marco’s Basilica, Heraklion

Paolo Gasparini. Landscapes of Death
2003, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

The Death of “Che” Guevara
2002, Space “8”, Rethymnon
2003, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2002

Thy Neighbor
2002, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
2002, Space “8”, Rethymnon

Afi in the Round
2002, Venetian Castle-Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymnon

The wreck of Serenity - Solo exhibition of Maria Loizides
2002, Venetian Castle, Artillery building, Rethymnon
2002-03, A-D Gallery, Athens

Purple Earth
2002, Space “8”, Rethymnon

People-Faces-Forms
2002, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

On the steps of Erotokritos
2002, Space “8”, Rethymnon

2001

Russian avant - garde. A selection from the Costakis collection
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Eight artists – One course
2001, Space “8”, Rethymnon

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Yiannis Koumentakis
2001, Space “8” and Venetian Castle-Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymnon

Inquiries and impressions of the Greek artists, 1950-2000
2001, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre

Inquiries and impressions of the Greek artists, 1950-2000
2001, Patras Municipal Gallery

Cecil Beaton.The Dandy photographer
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

A Vindication of Tlon
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Territories/Communities
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Attitudes and view points on Hellenic photography
Leaving behind the wartime years 1940-1960
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Works from the Permanent Collection. New acquisitions
2001, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

2 + 26
Exhibition of the European Programme:
Artists on line: l’art et la culture contemporaine et les jeunes
2001, 7 Gallery, Athens

2000

On the other side of History
2000-2001, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

The Permanent Collection of the R.C.A.- Selections 2000
2000, Pierides Gallery, Athens

S.Skopelitis. Series “Triptychs”
2000, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
2000, EOMMEX Premises, Rethymnon

Chryssa. Cycladic Books 1957-1996
2000, Venetian Castle, Artillery building, Rethymnon

Gerassimos Steris. Drawings 1920-1935
2000, Venetian Castle, Artillery building, Rethymnon

The spirit of the age
2000, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Aris Konstantinides. Photographs and Designs
2000, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Archive Desmos
2000, “L.Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

L. Kanakakis. Artworks from the Permanent Collection
2000, "L.Kanakakis" Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

1999

Exhibition of Katharina Struber, “Cultural Turist”
Within the framework of the PEJA programme.
1999, Art Station of the School of Fine Arts, Rethymnon

Objecthood 2000
1999, Artillery building-Fortezza, Rethymnon
1999, Chatzikiriakos - Ghikas and Kenenty Gallery, Athens

Greek Artists - Quests 1950-2000
The Permanent Collection
1999, Short Movies Festival of Drama

Nature in ten chapters
Czech Contemporary Artists
1999, EOMMEX Premises, Rethymnon

Exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
1999, Fortezza, Rethymnon

1998

L. Kanakakis - In the dimension of time
Greek Artists - Quests 1950-2000
The Permanent Collection
1998, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery - “Eleni Frantzeskaki” Collection, Rethymnon

Intimacies
1998, Branch of the School of Fine Arts, Rethymnon

Made in Berlin. A new generation of artists
1998, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon
1998, House of Cyprous, Athens

Annual exhibition of Fine Art Workshops
1998, “Eleni Frantzeskaki” Collection, Rethymnon

Nikos Kessanlis
Face - Transformations of the human body 1953-1997
1998, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

With the Lyre and the Fiddle bow
Memories and Contemporary Creation
1998, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Image and Icon
The New Greek Photography 1975-1995
1998, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

1997

Private Face-Urban Space
A new generation of artists from Britain
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

G. Zongolopoulos, M. Katzourakis, M. Michaeledes
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Annual exhibition of the Workroom of Fine Arts
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Ad hoc και/and in situ
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

In the beginning was engraving
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Masks of Tradition and Masks of Worship from all over the world
1997, EOMMEX Premises, Rethymnon

Aboard the liner
1997, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

1996

Greek Painting in the early 20th century
Artworks from the National Art Gallery of Athens
1996, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Polytropes-Crete. Greek and French Artists
1996, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

The Garden. Ronald Jones, Angelos Skourtis
and patients of the Mental Health Clinic of Chania
1996, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centre of Chania

Roland Jones, Nakis Panayotidis, Thomas Ruff
1996, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Elytron. From Venice to Rethymnon
1996, St. Francisco’s Basilica, Rethymnon

The wall in Crete from Antiquity until Today
1996, EOMMEH Premises, Rethymnon

Jiannis Spyropoulos. The classic Greek abstractionist
1996, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Identities - Photography. Retrospective Exhibition
Spiros Meletzis / Kostas Balafas / Dimitris Tloupas
1996, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

1995

Dimitris Mytaras. Retrospective exhibition
1995, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

Painting in Cinema.
Giant movie posters, lithographs and original drawings by Greek artists (1950-1975)
The Hellafi Group collection
1995, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon

The Ephemeral
1995, “L. Kanakakis” Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon
1995, House of Cyprus, Athens

1994

Clay and Contemporary Visual Art
Contemporary Greek artists in conversation through the medium of clay
1994, St. Francisco’s Basilica, Rethymnon

Greek Painting: Ionian artists of the 18th & 19th Centuries
Artworks from the Koutlidi Collection and the National Art Gallery of Athens Collection
1994, “L. Kanakakis” Gallery, Rethymnon

1993

Nikos Chatzikiriakos - Ghikas:
A Retrospective Exhibition
1993, St. Francisco’s Basilica, Rethymnon

Yiannis Moralis:
A Retrospective Exhibition
1993, St. Francisco’s Basilica, Rethymnon

1992

L. Kanakakis - Greek Artists
1992, "L.Kanakakis" Municipal Gallery, Rethymno

Within the framework of the exhibitions are getting up conducted tours and training programmes for 1st and 2nd degree education students.