The exhibition Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues, Dumas’ first solo museum exhibition in Greece, will consist of more than thirty paintings and works on paper displayed in dialogue with antiquities from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Curated by independent curator Douglas Fogle in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will bring together works spanning the past twenty years of Dumas’ practice alongside newly completed paintings, thus offering a cross section of the artist’s eerily beautiful and challenging representations of the human body.

For this exhibition, Dumas has personally selected works from her oeuvre, and created new works, in direct response to the histories of figuration that she explored within the archaeological collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art. Moreover, in a rare occurrence, Dumas has also hand-selected a group of archaeological objects from the Museum’s collection that will feature in the exhibition.