The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete in Rethymno presents from May 17 to October 31, 2025, the art exhibition WHAT YOU WEAR IS WHAT YOU ARE, with the participation of Greek and foreign artists.
An integral part of the exhibition is the special tribute (homage) to the great Rethymno fashion designer Sofia Kokosalaki with international fame, who unfortunately passed away early.
With the exhibition WHAT YOU WEAR IS WHAT YOU ARE, the curators, Maria Marangou, Maria Panayidou and Stavros Kavallaris, attempt to highlight the correlation of the two-way relationship between fashion and the challenges of our time as they are expressed, and are influenced by contemporary art and the concerns that it modernly raises.
Since ancient times, clothing has covered immediate needs, boldly defining a person’s place in society, which over time has evolved into an identifying element. Thus, fashion becomes an integral part of human everyday life, (defining) influences, behaviors and status. Contemporary art “carves” the stagnant, the old-fashioned, the serious, adding the strange and at the same time accessible as a mix of materials, current issues, composing, in this way, a reborn “authenticity” in 21st century fashion, where the underground becomes a symbol of a new modernité, a new camp, and where luxury cannot by definition be considered elitist.
The exhibition features works by twenty-nine (29) artists and designers: Eleonora Antoniadou, Dimitris Antonitsis, Eugenia Apostolou, Vanessa Beecroft, BlindAdam, Antonis Volanakis, Hussein Chalayan, Dimitris Davis, Christos Delidimos, Stamatis Zannos, Bill Georgoussis, Rene Habermacher, Rebecca Horn, Travis Hutchison, Anestis Ioannou, Lefteris Kanakakis, Kanarek Yael, Kapurani Bros, Sofia Kokosalaki, Elli Komninou-Nenedaki, Sofia Kosmaoglou, Yiannis Bournias, Aliki Palaska, Angelos Papadimitriou, Maria Papadimitriou, Christiana Soulou, Efi Spyrou, Versaweiss, Nikos Charalambidis.
The works in the exhibition come from Museum Collections, private collections and the artists
The exhibition is made possible with the support of NEON through its annual Grants Program.
