A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.
The proliferation of museums, foundations, private collections and galleries has turned the Greek capital into an annual destination for contemporary art.
"If they'd told me my office and collection would be housed in the very place where we used to vacation, I wouldn't have believed them," collector Irene Y. Panagopoulos tells Observer.