The Museum of Cycladic Art will present ‘Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues’, Dumas’ first solo exhibition in Greece. It opened last week and will be on view until 2 November 2025.

Curated by independent curator Douglas Fogle in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will bring together works spanning the past 20 years of Dumas’ practice alongside new paintings, offering a cross section of the artist’s eerily beautiful 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 Museum of Cycladic Art’s archaeological collections. 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.

Marlene Dumas is regarded as one of the most influential painters working today. Her paintings and drawings, often devoted to depictions of the human form, are typically culled from the artist’s vast archive of images, including art historical materials, mass media sources, and personal snapshots of friends and family. Gestural, fluid, and frequently spectral, Dumas’s works reframe and re-contextualize her subjects, exploring the boundaries between public and private selves.