Opening: Sunday 12 May 2024, 12:00

The retrospective exhibition "Come Together" presents artworks by men and women, created in the context of art therapy programmes at the Special Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Memory Disorders of the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki and at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, in the ground floor galleries of the venue, from 12 May until 08 September 2024, in Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki. 

The aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate through the 96 artworks made by people during the 22 years of operation of the Special Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Memory Disorders, plus while participating in the museum programme "A Walk Together" which has been systematically carried out for the last two years, the dynamic relationship between Art and the therapy through it, which opens a path of expression and communication for all people, whatever period of their lives.

Art Therapy is based on the power of visual expression and the acknowledgement the most fundamental thoughts and feelings of human beings are in the unconscious, while finding their expression primarily in images and then perhaps in words. In the museum programme "A Walk Together" the images were artworks from the Costakis collection at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art: Liubov Popova, Elena Guro, Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Kliun, Pavel Filonov, Vsevolod Sulimo-Samuillo, Solomon Nikritin, etc. The artworks of the collection were the fermenting ground for a new group, with this exhibition sealing the collaboration between the two institutions.

Collaboration: Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection

Curation/design:

Evi Papavergou, MOMus Educational Programmes

Katerina Paraskeva, MOMus Educational Programmes

Christina Papaioakeim, MOMus Educational Programmes

Ioanna Vogiatzi, Art Therapist, PHT 

Special Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Memory Disorders