Goethe Institute in Athens

The Goethe Institute in Athens (16-17 Omirou), in collaboration with State of Concept Athens (19 Botsari), the Greek Film Archive (48 Iera Odos), and the French Institute of Greece, is gearing up to present the event series "Mechanisms of the Seen" by filmmaker and conceptual artist Maria Lalou.

The Goethe Institute in Athens (Goethe.de) is hosting a lecture on waste landscapes and waste management infrastructure presented by art curator Dr Bettina Knaup. The Berlin-based author and curator aims to raise critical questions that challenge the myth of removal, final disposal and definitive management of waste.

The Athens Pioneer Film Festival, the Greek Film Archive and the Goethe Institute in Athens are co-organizing a complete retrospective on the work of the German director Angela Schanelec, one of the most influential European filmmakers alive.

The Goethe Institute in Athens is organizing a series of workshops to promote sustainable consumption and environmental awareness, in collaboration with the ap'Ousia cooperative.

Continuing its Digital Concert Hall series of live screenings from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Goethe Institute in Athens (goethe.de) is showing the acclaimed orchestra under the baton of Emmanuelle Haim in Handel's "The Triumph of Time and Truth." The live screening begins at 7.45 p.m. sharp, and admission is free of charge.

If you walk into a tiger's cage, a friend quipped, make sure you don't touch the wild cat's whiskers. Put differently, when you challenge a more intelligent person than yourself to a public debate, do not attempt to underestimate their intelligence; you only risk exposing yourself to ridicule.

The Premiere Nights Athens International Film Festival is paying tribute to the celebrated German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus with the screening of two landmark films at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Goethe.de) from his years-long association with two great filmmakers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he did 15 films, and Martin Scorsese, with whom he did seven.

The Goethe Institute in Athens presents the local installment of the "Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity," an ambitious project by the institution to create interactive maps of urban water points across the region, including drawings, photographs and details of their history and biodiversity.

As part of its ongoing program of events marking the centenary of the Bauhaus movement, the Goethe Institute in Athens presents "From Building to Community: Ioannis Despotopoulos and the Bauhaus," an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Athens Conservatory and the Benaki Museum Modern Greek Architecture Archives.

After being screened at the documenta 14 art showcase in 2017, "The Invisible Hands," a documentary by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh, will be screened at the Goethe Institute in Athens on Tuesday, March 19.