From 12 December 2025 to 21 December 2025, artION participates with one icon from its workshop, in the International Anniversary Iconographic Exhibition group exhibition in Vienna, Austria, entitled: “Looking at the Light”.
The two-page brochure of artION, with the icon of the workshop, Vergin Eleousa, that will participate in the exhibition.
The exhibition will take place in the magnificent exhibition hall “Rigas Feraios” of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Holy Metropolis of Austria, in Vienna (Fleischmarkt 13, 1010 Wien).
The invitation to the opening of the exhibition.
The aim of the exhibition is to showcase icons of different styles and schools by renowned hagiographers, created out of their love and interest in Byzantine iconography and the emerging schools of different styles after the 14th century, such as the Palaeologan, Macedonian and Cretan School.
Thus, the visitor has the opportunity to see hagiographic representations with scenes based on the lives and martyrdoms of the saints, by hagiographers faithful to the Byzantine tradition, as well as icons of mosaic, socio-religious painting, sculpture, photography, mixed techniques and icons in pencil and charcoal, of high quality standards.
In hagiographies, the important element is the way in which religious symbolism is rendered (in the design, the color, the shaping of the figures and their thematic framing). The figures have particular expressions, personal traits and established body postures. The hagiographer takes into account the physiognomic features of the holy person, but illustrates them in such a way as to highlight his holiness rather than his external appearance.
The images that the visitor will see to the exhibition, have all been created with an abundant love for the art of hagiography, whether they were painted with hagiography powders, with the traditional technique of egg tempera, on wood (linden, plywood, plywood, etc.), or with other techniques. The hagiographies that will be presented in the exhibition were not produced as mere copies of Byzantine icons, but as the birth of a unique identification, artistic and spiritual. That is why in this exhibition every visitor will be able to see and perhaps acquire a portable icon of the saint he venerates and would like to have at home.
While the opportunity will be given to the visitors to study icons as part of the Orthodox faith, as objects of art, as an occasion for prayer and a source of emotion, as a gift, as an heirloom, as an eternal value.
The poster of the exhibition, with the artists’ participation in it.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Holy Metropolis of Austria, the Hungarian Deputy Diocese of Hungary and Central Europe.
The exhibition is organized by Mrs. Konstantina Farmaki (Konsfarm Art Atelier/Konstantina Farmaki NÖ. Österreich), Art Historian-Critic Art/Artist, Cultural Attaché of the U.N.E.S.C.O. Group Austria and Member of the Cultural Networking Office of South Austria (Kulturvernetzung NÖ).
With the support of the Federation of Greek Associations in Austria, the Greek Society of Austria, the Association of Doctors and Related Scientists of Austria “Asklepieios,” the Lyceum of Greek Women in Vienna, the Greek Intercultural Association “Macedonia” of Austria, the Association of Greek Students and Scientists in Vienna and the Greek-Austrian Association “Hephaestus” in Vienna.
Communication sponsors: International Association of Cretan Journalists, Hellenic Media Group, Hellenic Balkan Radio, Hephaestus Wien, Aristareti Kunstmagazin, and the international media outlets Hellenic News of America, The Panhellenic Post, Alessandria Today, Elliniki Gnomi, GreekNews&RadioFlorida, and local newspapers.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday 12 December 2025 at 15:00 (local time).
The exhibition will run from Friday 12 December 2025 to Sunday 21 December 2025, with visiting hours daily from 11:00 to 16:00.
You are all invited!
With friendly greetings and appreciation,
