15/06/2026
Save the date ——> Athens
Soft Prints | Chrysanthi Koumianaki B & M Theocharakis Foundation
24.06.26, 18:00 - 22:00
We can’t wait to see you there!!
The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music presents Soft Prints, the new jewelry collection by visual artist Chrysanthi Koumianaki, and invites you to a festive evening on the Foundation’s rooftop, featuring music and free admission to the exhibition Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space.
This limited-edition collection of handcrafted silver jewelry is inspired by small everyday findings-shells, seeds, stones, and tiny objects-that the artist gathers during her wanderings, each carrying its own materiality and memory.
Within Koumianaki’s artistic practice, these found objects are transformed through a complex process into new forms. The artist focuses on their imprints on soft surfaces, which she subsequently turns into jewelry-small sculptural pieces. Through this gesture, the object becomes a trace, both physical and symbolic. Objects that often go unnoticed acquire the emotional significance bestowed upon them by the simple act of being collected and carried in a pocket. Each jewelry series consists of a constellation of findings, while the body that wears them becomes a bearer of these impressions.
For Chrysanthi Koumianaki, jewelry-making is closely connected to the idea of connection. These works function as a means of creating relationships: a way to connect her family, the family business, her collaborators, and the people who wear her jewelry. Having grown up in the jewelry design and production workshop of Emmanouil Koumianakis in Heraklion, Crete, she continues a forty-year tradition, creating and producing her collections there.
Artistic Direction & Jewelry Design: Chrysanthi Koumianaki
Performers: Eva Vlassopoulou evavlassopoulos Dimitris Mytilinaios Dimitris Mytilinaios
Set Design: Fanis Kafantaris .kaff
Music (Live DJ Set): Royal Jelly