Tilda Swinton, whose career spans avant-garde cinema, performance, and fashion, will be the focus of a highly personal exhibition at Athens’s Onassis Ready from 16 May to 28 June 2026. The show will bring together both new and archival works by eight of her closest collaborators: Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Saillard, Tim Walker, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, no less, offering a layered portrait of Swinton as artist, muse, and cultural figure (who cares about her Oscar anyway these days?).

Highlights include a short film and sculptural work by Guadagnino, alongside a reworked installation by Jarmusch that repurposes footage from The Dead Don’t Die (2019), transforming the familiar into a subtly disorienting new narrative.

A multi-day performance curated with fashion historian Olivier Saillard, with whom she has collaborated many times before, will present garments from Swinton’s personal collection alongside film costumes and family heirlooms, while Tim Walker’s intimate portrait series will examine lineage and domestic space.

Joanna Hogg’s multimedia reconstruction of Swinton’s 1980s London apartment interrogates memory and spatial experience, complemented by Pedro Almodóvar’s first exhibition of The Human Voice (2020). Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s piece will be immersive.

The exhibition will also revisit Swinton’s long-standing collaboration with Derek Jarman (1942–1994), situating her practice within a broader cinematic and artistic lineage. Jarman was one of the first to believe in her brilliance.

Developed in co-production with Onassis Stegi and organised by Eye Filmmuseum, the show presents a rare opportunity to encounter Swinton’s practice in its full relational and interdisciplinary complexity.

Image: Tilda Swinton, Fashion: Yves Saint Laurent, Reykjavik, 2011. Photo: Tim Walker