Get Ready for Plásmata 3!
We live between reality and illusion. Plásmata 3, the grand exhibition by Onassis Stegi at Pedion tou Areos park, invites you into a world where the boundaries between reality and illusion dissolve and the everyday becomes magical.
This year, Plásmata 3 transforms Pedion tou Areos park into an open, inclusive space of exploration and imagination—for every creature out there.
We’ve met before, haven’t we?
From May 27th, the Pedion tou Areos transforms before our eyes! You may think you know this park well, butPlásmata 3 promises it’s time to reintroduce ourselves!
For 20 days, Pedion tou Areos hosts 25 works by Greek and international artists, discreetly spread across the park like a dream. These works converse with our daily lives and give space to the analog, the physical, and the imaginary.
Plásmata returns to Pedion tou Areos, transforming the park into a stage where unexpected works emerge—digital art, performances, screenings, installations, music and so much more. At times boldly visible, at others hidden in the park’s corners as if they were never there at all.
Plásmata 3 is an invitation to play—a proposal to see the world around us differently. Like in the cinema of David Lynch, the uncanny emerges from the familiar, and the dreamlike feels like memory. What is the Ministry of Anarchaeology? Is that owl next to the statue of Athena really moving? Why are there sheep from Lebanon in the park? Could the spirit of the park bring us together? Are golden Datsuns falling from the sky? Do the seashells sing? Would you like to become a bat?
At Pedion tou Areos, you’ll encounter beings you’re not sure are real—or born from a fairytale, a Goya painting, or your childhood dreams.
This year’s Plásmata 3 are uncanny—but also lovable. Tender and familiar. They make you wonder: Do they exist? Did they exist? Will they? And maybe that doesn’t even matter.
Come to Plásmata 3—let’s play without worrying about what’s normal and what’s not. You won’t need a ticket. Just your imagination.
liminal in Plásmata 3
Plásmata 3 has been designed with accessibility in mind, ensuring Pedion tou Areos is open to people with mobility impairments and featuring programming specifically tailored for those with sensory disabilities.
liminal, in collaboration with accessibility consultants, ensures that navigating the exhibition spaces throughout the park is a pleasant experience for visitors with disabilities.
As part of the exhibition’s accessibility initiatives, two guided tours with Greek Sign Language interpretation will be held on June 3 and 10, 2025, along with two Audio Description-enhanced tours for visitors with visual impairments on June 11 and 13, 2025, respectively. Find detailed information below.
About Plásmata 3
Plásmata is a living laboratory of ideas, experiments, and creations for the public space and for how we connect to it. Just as in real life, technology here is no separate realm; it dissolves into the everyday. That is why it disappears. Plásmata 3 once again places the park at the heart of the city: this strange ‘in-between’ space shaped by our collective dreams and the material reality they forge. The magician of technology seeks our complicity in the illusion. Spirits and sprites of the park—sometimes taking animal forms—speak to us, protect us, embrace us. Through the flowerbeds we look at without really seeing, Plásmata 3 invites us to a celebration of the uncannily familiar: where the digital slips away through the cracks of the earth, the plants, the laughter of children, and the carefree steps of bodies wandering on a Sunday afternoon at Pedion tou Areos park.
Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital and Innovation, Onassis Foundation, General Manager Plásmata 3
The surreal isn’t just present in the artworks—it’s embedded in the very fabric of the park. A place that seems natural yet is constructed; a landscape that reveals itself as a jungle and hides like a collective sanctuary of our dreams—a constantly shifting scene.
Among the hybrid works are strange totems charged with hints of spiritualism, mythical creatures, ancient column-pillows you can lie on comfortably, monuments made from shattered Athenian pavement marble, bodies caught between falling and ascending a staircase to nowhere, glass flowers lit by the embrace of two people, Amazons on motorcycles, endlessly spinning seashells echoing dripping water, familiar yet uncanny beings emerging from flowerbeds. Plásmata 3 is an experience of fantasy and wandering.
A stroll through Pedion tou Areos park, this time with different Plásmata [creatures]. Quiet, discreet, enchanting, comforting. Natural, analog, digital. Creatures that play with the question of what is real and what is imaginary, what might actually happen and what could unfold only in dreams. A small square where we can listen to music while lying on the ground. Cinema, food, little things that make us feel good. We are searching for ways to enjoy the freedom of public space, to revel in encounters with strangers brought together by a chance walk or a mutual desire to discover Plásmata. Yes, we are in search of the sweet lie that beauty, surprise, humor, and—ultimately—art can tell. The park itself is but an illusion of nature crafted by design and human will. A familiar and tender experience this year. After all, we’ve met before, haven’t we? A small celebration and an ode to art, the right to idleness and rest, and the soothing power of simply being together.
Afroditi Panagiotakou, Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation, Artistic Director/Curator Plásmata 3
You can find more information about Plásmata 3 here.
Credits
Artistic Director/Curator: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Executive Director: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
General Manager: Prodromos Tsiavos
Accessibility Credits
Accessibility Coordination for Plásmata 3 at the Onassis Stegi: liminal
Audio Description & Accessible Tour Design for Visually Impaired Visitors: Maria Thrasyvoulidi, Grigoris Stathopoulos
Accessible Tours for Hearing Impaired Visitors: Androniki Xanthopoulou, Andreas Plemmenos, Evie Fotopoulou
Architectural Accessibility Consulting: Weld Architecture Studio, Ioanna Angelopoulou, Haris Laspas
Trailer Audio Description: Maria Thrasyvoulidi
Useful information
Tours with interpretation in Greek Sign Language:
- Tuesday, June 3, 18:00
- Tuesday, June 10, 18:00
Tours with audio description for visually impaired visitors:
- Wednesday, June 11, 19:00
- Friday, June 13, 19:00
📍 Meeting point:InfoPoint located at the park entrance on the corner of Leoforos Alexandras and Mavromateon Street
- We recommend wearing comfortable clothing and footwear and bringing water.
- Tours involve light walking and last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Parts of the route may pass over natural terrain, such as soil or grass.
👉 To reserve a spot for the tours with Greek Sign Language interpretation or audio description, please contact (+30) 2130178036 or email [email protected]
If you reserve a spot for a guided tour with audio description, please let us know if you will be accompanied.
Useful Accessibility Information for Wheelchair Users
The park’s main entrance is located at the intersection of Alexandras Avenue and Mavromataion Street, but you may use whichever entrance is most convenient for you.
As you move through Pedion tou Areos, you will encounter different types of ground surfaces, such as cobblestones, marble paving, stabilized soil, and in some areas, unpaved terrain.
Accessible toilets for people with disabilities are available in the park.
Most of the artworks in the Plásmata 3 exhibition are visible from the park’s pathways, while in certain locations the terrain has been modified to better accommodate accessibility needs.
🗺️ Before your visit, we encourage you to consult the exhibition map, which includes the locations of the Plásmata 3 artworks, surface conditions, and recommended park entrances.
Learn more about Plásmata 3’s accessible programming here.