Exhibition of Children’s Art 2023

Opening Event: Saturday 18 March 2023 @6:00pm

Duration: 18.3.23 – 12.4.23

Visiting hours: Monday – Saturday (during school’s working hours) 

Aigaia School of Art and Design invites you to the Annual Exhibition of its Youngest Artists, which takes place between the 18th March and 12th April 2023.

Wander in between colours, brushstrokes, sculptures, ceramics, costumes, paintings, mosaics, characters, objects, stories. Children demonstrate creativity in a truthful and unspoiled manner, something essential in finding solutions for today’s challenges.

The groups have had the opportunity to work in our specialised studios in rotation, resulting in their encounter with the range of the Art and Design disciplines. The exhibition reflects their spherical visual understanding, which they have ultimately developed.

Our purpose is to highlight the importance of the cultural cultivation that unfolds when raised around the arts as well as the appreciation of the visual arts, as an element of culture. Via the various activities we challenge the children’s awareness, pushing them to spontaneously imprint their surroundings. To express their inner world, to record experiences, moments and encounters, to develop critical thinking, to propose solutions.

During the exhibition an educational program will be offered for children, which can be attended by classes, as well as families. The educational nature of the exhibition gives parents and educators the opportunity to visit the space with various age groups and “discover” themes, ideas and meanings, therefore using the visual aspect to enhance their teaching.

Aigaia School of Art and Design organises at its premises, an Exhibition of Art Presents, on Wednesday, 14.12.22 @18:30-21:30.

AigaiaARTgallery is located in the enlisted part of the building showcasing, all year round, artworks by professionals, including the Academic Staff of the school. It also serves as a contemporary art and design shop, hosting young artist’s creations such as art objects, ornaments, small paintings and prints, cards, clay charms etc.

The shop is open during the working hours of the school.

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy”.

Pablo Picasso

Our planet is in danger and calls for its salvation. Art and culture are our dominant weapons. For what other way is there to arouse environmental awareness if not with colours and shapes? After all, it’s a matter of aesthetics.

Have you ever examined your children’s paintings? There is always a bright sun, tall, green trees and colourful flowers. It’s common for them to depict a clean, pure and happy environment; as it should be. Maybe they are trying to tell us something. Through their art we see the perfection of nature; a nature that prospers and at the same time lies at risk by us humans. Perhaps this happens because we often forget that WE are nature. We can’t be detached from it. So if we have lost our connection with nature, then, we have actually lost connection with ourselves (Andy Goldsworthy).

This year, Aigaia’s young artists are determined to trigger our awareness through their artwork. Beginning with a retrospect to the onset of the planet, they observe the present and the ways human has contributed to nature’s alterations and they finally suggest their own solutions for an ideal future world. They stimulate us to work collectively and maybe teach us how to love our planet without destroying it.