THE D.DASKALOPOULOS COLLECTION GIFT

The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift to EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, includes 136 artworks by 82 artists, of which 35 are Greek and 47 are international. It is the largest ever single donation to ΕΜΣΤ until today.

The donation of works to ΕΜΣΤ enrichens the anthropocentric, existential, and socio-political orientation of the existing ΕΜΣΤ Collection while filling relevant gaps in the narrative of the history of contemporary art in Greece, aided by the works of eminent creators.

In April 2022, the donation of over 350 works from the Collection to the following four important international museums was announced:
-EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
-Tate, United Kingdom
-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
-Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago

A significant number of the works included in the donation address the complexity of human existence, the quest around perennial questions of life and death, as well as trace the question of personal identity with the field of the everyday.

In this framework, many of these works revolve around inquiries into the body and the multiple renderings of its meaning in relation to psychoanalysis, gender identities, sexuality, and human instincts.