Chadds Ford, PA – Brandywine Museum of Art
Photography in Thessaloniki, Greece
For Slow Art Day 2025, Pinakotheke Gallery in Thessaloniki, Greece hosted a slow looking event focused on the photographic exhibition “ABSORBED (Damn, I miss snowboarding)” by Theodoros Vranas.
The exhibition presented a series of photographic works in which the artist explores questions of self and psychology, placing moments of human deadlock within landscapes of overwhelming beauty. Visitors were invited to observe a limited number of works closely and reflect on their experience.
Pinakotheke is a creative project by photographer Stefanos Tsakiris, based in the center of Thessaloniki, and dedicated to promoting photographic work through exhibitions, printing techniques, workshops, and events.
We thank Stefanos and the team at Pinakotheke for participating in Slow Art Day 2025, and look forward to seeing what they come up with for Slow Art Day 2026.
– Ashley, Johanna, Jessica Jane, and Phyl
P.S. – Check out Pinakotheke on Instagram.
First Slow Art Day at The Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine
For their first Slow Art Day, The Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine in Kyiv organized a hybrid event. The Museum is housed in a former building of the Kyiv Cave Monastery Press that was built in the early 17th century and was then open to the public as a State Museum in the 1975. The Museum collection contains 58,000 exhibits – from manuscripts, to old printed books from the 16th century, to engravings, graphic works, paintings, and so on.
On the 15th of April, the Museum invited participants (online and in person) to spend an hour and a half focusing on one work by Heorhiy Tkachenko (1898 – 1993), a Ukrainian bard and bandurist (which is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura).
Participants were encouraged to look at the artwork carefully and then discuss what they noticed and how it made them feel. They also read Heorhiy Tkachenko’s biography and discussed what linked the artwork to the artist’s life.
The event was advertised on their social media account (Facebook and Instagram).
We love the creativity of this event, and look forward to what the museum comes up with for Slow Art Day 2024.
– Jessica Jane, Johanna, Ashley, and Phyl