Opening Day: Thursday 16th October 2025
Skoufa Gallery presents Giannis Efthimiou’s solo exhibition titled ‘The peak is behind the mountain’. The painter who is renowned for his unusual use of paper pulp – a material that is the result of melted paper in water and worked in a mass- develops his technique with landscapes and scenes from his studio worked on a sculptural dimension.
In his work, the mountain, the house, the riders or the roads are not mere representations; they are forms from memory and of a psychological landscape, charged with his personal history. The landscape becomes a land of identity and inner dialogue, where the material and the form merge in a language that reveals and conceals at the same time.
The title of the exhibition works as a hint: the peak is not what is visible or what is reachable, but it is something that exists beyond it, at the back of the obstacle itself. Efthimiou believes that painting is the constant effort to look ‘behind’ the mountain: to compete with the matter, the memory and oneself. His work invites us to look for the unseen sides and the cracks of the phenomenon landscape.
The exhibition at Skoufa Gallery is the artist’s first solo show. Up to the present, Giannis Efthimiou has been honored with the Spyropoulos award for New Artists of the Year 2016 and the 2nd Award for New Artists by Ethniki Insurances (2017). He has exhibited at Evripides Gallery (2020, 2022), at the Municipal Gallery of Mykonos (Paperpulp Fictions, 2023) and at the Historical Archives – Museum of Hydra (Dampen 2024). His work can be found at important private collections in Greece and abroad. Recently, he was honored with the “Herion Award 2025” in London, by the Hampstead Art Society, for his work “Nocturnal Athens”, confirming the international dynamic of his work.
During the exhibition, the presentation of a collectible publication by the same title will be presented, with text written by Efthimiou, as a parallel narrative of his artistic world.
The exhibition will run until 8 November 2025, at Skoufa Gallery (4 Skoufa st., Kolonaki).
