MUSEUM BENAKI / PIREOS 138 PRESENTS: A LINE LIKE A WAVE By ALEXIS AKRITHAKIS CURATED BY CHLOE AKRITHAKI & ALEXIOS PAPAZACHARIAS

Explosive and luminously bright, this exhibition celebrates Alexis Akrithakis, a giant of Greek art

history whose work radiates not only in color but in fearless self-expression. Curated with

beautiful precision and clarity by his daughter, Chloe Akrithaki, who spent nearly five years tracing

and gathering the works from private collections around the world, A Line Like a Wave takes its

evocative title from something she once said to her father at the age of four, describing what she

saw within his art, an origin that already brings tears to the eyes. From his childhood certainty,

“I’ve been hooked on painting ever since I was a boy… I used to make up stories with pictures,”

to the restless years between Athens, Paris, and Berlin, his journey forms a continuous, charged

line, at times gentle, at times wild. As he wrote in 1971, his motifs become “conductors of human

communication,” tracing “the topography of life under an oppressive system” while remaining,

always, a coded signal of hope.