SERVICES
Gallery owner: Haik Kourdoglanian
Curatorial Advisor: Eleni Varopoulou
Gallery Assistant: Nikolas Marinakis
Kourd Gallery provides many services related to investments in art and art as an industry with over 50 years experience.
We deal with: Fine art brokerage | Artist representation | Exhibition projects.
COLLABORATIONS
March 2023. Vangelis Kyris & Anatoli Gerogiev. Fondation Valmont. Palazzo Bonvicini, Venice, Italy
December 2022. Raiment of the Soul. Acropolis Museum of Athens, Greece
July 2022. Raiment of the Soul. Herakleion Municipality, Crete, Greece
July 2022. Raiment of the Soul. Museum of Ancient Eleutherna, Rethymno, Crete Gallery
June 2022. Raiment of the Soul. Anthony E. Comninos foundation art collection, Syros, Greece
March 2022. Raiment of the Soul. Greek Embassy in Seoul, Korea
October 2021. Raiment of the Soul. MIA Photo Fair, Milan
August 2021. The Greek Soul. Kdeppam Mykonos, Greece
August 2021. Raiment of the Soul. George & Victoria Karelia Foundation, Kalamata, Greece
June 2021. David Benforado solo show. Fondazione Elpis. Una Boccata d’Arte, Tratalias, Sardegna, Italy
June 2021. Raiment of the Soul. Lazaros Kountouriotis Mansion & National Historic Museum of Athens, Hydra, Greece
March 2021. 1821 before and after, Benaki Museum of Athens
September 2019. Zetta Antsakli, Wopart Fair, Lugano
August 2019. Pantelis Stamatelos, Exhibition Hall Theodoros Stamos (Markas), Cultural Center, Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece
March 2019. Zetta Antsakli-Romana Zambon, Bassilica of Sant Ambrogio, Milan Italy
March 2019. Andreas Theologitis, MIA Fair, Milan
June 2018. Zetta Antsakli, Archeon – Neon, Zappeion Megaron, Athens, Greece
March 2018. Petros Sofikitis & Constantinos Sofikitis, MIA Fair, Milan
March 2017. Katherine Vafias, MIA Fair, Milan
April 2016. Zetta Antsakli, MIA Fair, Milan
October 2015. David Benforado, Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece
December 2014. “Theodoros Ralli: Looking East”, Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece
September 2014. Axis Mundi, National War Museum, Athens, Greece
June 2014. Minas Semertzian Retrsopective, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
May 2014. Gerassimos Spyridakis, MIA Fair, Milan
May 2014. Joanna Kanellou, MIA Fair, Milan
May 2014. Nicolas Lotsos , MIA Fair, Milan
May 2014. Emmanuel Coupe-Kalomiris, MIA Fair, Milan
May 2013. Gerassimos Spyridakis, MIA Fair, Milan
April 2013. “Walking Attire”, Municipality of Pyrgos, Illia, Greece
May 2012. Pagratis Pagratidis, MIA Fair, Milan
November 2011. “New artists.. on crisis” UNESCO Greece, Athens, Greece
August 2011. “Greek and Foreign Artists in Mykonos – 60’s and 70’s” Municipality of Mykonos / island of Mykonos, Greece
July 2011. “a thousand and one care” Municipality of Athens. Turkish Bath exhibition Space
May 2011. Gerassimos Spyridakis, MIA Fair, Milan
October 2010. “Figutive Tendencies” Athens College – institution, Athens, Greece
July 2010. “Summer of Arts” Municipality of Poros, Island of Poros, Greece
July 2009. “Saphoo’s Chariot” Municipality of Poros, island of Poros, Greece
KOURD HISTORY
Since 2008, Kourd Gallery has maintained a contemporary exhibition space with a small outdoor garden in the centre of Athens, specifically at the foot of Lycabettus Hill, at 2 Kassianis Street. With the aim of showcasing the work of emerging Greek artists, highlighting key trends in contemporary art, and introducing significant artistic explorations from other countries and cultures, the gallery hosts both solo and thematic exhibitions.
Some of these exhibitions have focused on themes such as colour and abstraction, writing as a form of painting, materiality and the handmade, nature, landscape, portraiture, and animals. Painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, installations, multimedia, as well as the coexistence or dialogue between two or more art forms, have all found a platform within the gallery.
The current owner is Haik Kourd-Kourdoglanian, while the gallery’s curator is Eleni Varopoulou, a theatre and art critic.
The historical origins of Kourd Gallery date back to the 19th century, when the family was active in Istanbul and Smyrna. There, the Kourdoglanians — collectors and antique dealers — were engaged in the trade of antiquities, antiques, and paintings until 1922. Key figures who inspired and shaped the gallery’s trajectory during the 20th century, as well as its shift towards Greek and European classical modernism, were Yeghia Ghazarossian and Zano Kourd- Kourdoglanian, the father of the current owner.