Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs

The Onassis Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, is hosting the largest photography exhibition by the internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Yorgos Lanthimos ever presented in Greece. The exhibition will run from 7 March to 17 May 2026.




This exhibition offers the public an unprecedented encounter with a visual language already celebrated and acclaimed, here unfolding in a different medium –a cinematic gaze that captures fleeting moments and holds them in the stillness of immortality.

In his first collaboration with Onassis Stegi, Lanthimos brings together four bodies of 182 still photographs made over the past five years, offering new perspectives and insight on this unique and singular visionary.

The show includes three photographic series born from the spaces of Lanthimos’ cinema, made on the fringes of film locations in New Orleans, Atlanta and Henley-on-Thames, and in the recreated cities built as sets on soundstages in Budapest. Many of the photographs appear in his recent books: "Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken" (2024), comprised of photographs made during the filming of "Poor Things" (2023), and "i shall sing these songs beautifully" (2024), made alongside "Kinds of Kindness" (2024) and “viscin” (2026). Also included are previously unseen photographs made on the set of his latest film "Bugonia" (2025).
The fourth body of work is the international premiere of an ongoing series of personal photographs made in his native Greece. Compiled during solitary walks around the edges of the city of Athens and on visits to Greek islands.

Across all of Lanthimos’ photography is a contemplative engagement with the banal and the familiar. He presents this matter-of-factness of subjects with exquisite clarity and intimacy, representing the world as particular and complex. In a similar vein to his filmmaking, what emerges is a language that is a record of its own making, a luminous picture of phenomena.

Designed in the form of a classical Greek temple, the show creates a central altar-like space which displays 110 new works by Lanthimos, while the outer perimeter presents three bodies of work linked to Lanthimos’ films, so audiences move from his known practice to the inner core of new photographic work.

Curated by: Michael Mack
Exhibition design by Loukas Bakas