We are so surprised and honored to be named Best Design Bookshop in the 2024 Monocle Design Awards! Thank you Monocle for including us in such an illustrious group. The May issue, where the full list of 50 awardees can be found, will be available in the shop very soon.

Hyper Hypo and papairlines are happy to present the latest Hyper Hypo publication: “Travelogue: Greek everyday solutions to common problems” by papairlines (Loukas Angelou, Vasso Asfi, Costas Bissas). “Travelogue: Greek everyday solutions to common problems” is a book years in the making. Stemming from the project “DIY: who’s the designer?” by the same editors, this […]

Hyper Hypo launches its Spring season by presenting new works from artist Philippos Theodoridis, entitled because it’s Spring. The artist, inspired by the poem “because it’s” by e. e. cummings, has been drawing plant and flower-forms on his iPad, as relaxation exercises in his free time. Some of these plants seem to transform into entities […]

Next Thursday, March 14th, Hyper Hypo and VOID are delighted to present the launch of “I’ll Be Late” by Athens-based, American visual artist Yoshi Kametani. In his work for the new book from VOID publishing house, Kametani captures familiar domestic scenes, blending images of friends with moments like dirty dishes, pizza crusts, and burning cigarettes. […]

Join us Thursday, February 15, for the first Athens presentation of the bilingual book “Futuring Waters: A Speculative Manifesto for and from the Waters of Elefsina” by the New York based artist, educator, cultural producer and author Jenny Marketou. As part of the presentation, Marketou will moderate a discussion which will draw selectively from the […]

Please join us Thursday, February 1 for the first Athens presentation of the book Stage of Recovery by the artist, activist, educator and author Georgia Sagri. For the event, Sagri will read and discuss selections from the book (including newly translated English to Greek texts) and will be signing copies. The book was first published […]

Hyper Hypo is very proud to announce our newest publication, the photo book “Kerkis” by photographer Dimitris Tairis. The book takes us on a very personal photographic journey of intimate everyday moments accompanied by hand-written notes which tell the story of the photographer’s relationship with another man during the summer and fall of 2019, while […]

On Tuesday December 19, we are very happy to welcome artist, architect, and all-around queer Greek icon Andreas Angelidakis to Hyper Hypo for the launch of his Sissy Project. The Sissy Project is a survey of his work dressed up as short stories on Athenian ephemera like the legendary 80s gay club Graffiti on Xouthou […]

Friday, December 15, join Hyper Hypo in welcoming Yasmina Kurunis & Maria Koutroumbi to celebrate the release of their 2024 calendar, featuring some of Athens’ most eligible, most glamorous, most divine femininities. Downstairs in the project space, experience a one-night-only holiday installation extravaganza and drink a glass of wine or two with all the calendar babes. […]

We are very excited to announce the visual culture appreciation collaboration between Hyper Hypo and Mohxa Sporting Goods, just in time for the ho-ho-holidays! All will be revealed next Friday, December 15, at Hyper Hypo, Voreou 10, Athens, from 8-11pm. Join us for some wine, some tunes, and to shop the limited-run micro collection.

Thursday, December 14th, please join us and the founders of Aleï Journal in launching issue 11! From 5:30-8pm, come by the shop, have a glass of wine (kindly provided by Wine is Fine) with us and get your copy of this cool Parisian magazine. Aleï Journal is a biannually published magazine that mixes raw fashion, […]

Please join us next Wednesday, November 29th, from 8pm, for an evening with kyklàda.press on the occasion of the release of their two newest titles, Urban Lament and Islands After Tourism. kyklàda.press is a small imprint, a series of books made in Athens engaging with phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. Driven by a trans-disciplinary team […]

Please join us next Thursday, November 9th, from 8pm for the official Athens book launch of [UN]FINISHED by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot. “With its character of a ruin of a forgotten purpose the unfinished building is at the same time pointing to the past and to the future, as a frozen moment of time […]

Please join us next Wednesday, October 25th, from 7:30pm, for the opening of Soft Format by Christina K. ‘Soft Format’ is a new body of work by Athens-based printmaker and illustrator Christina K. Each piece in the series features her signature monoprinting technique, artfully blending an experimental sense of colour and loose form. The works […]

We are pleased to invite you to a special evening with artist Aikaterini Gegisian for the presentation of her book Handbook of the Spontaneous Other, published by Mack Books. Ms. Gegisian will also show some original works features in the book and will be in conversation with Anna Mykoniati, curator at EMST. Friday, September 22, […]

Hyper Hypo and The Breeder gallery are pleased to invite you to a very special evening into the vampiric erotic fantasy of artist Amalia Vekri, with the launch of her new publication, Midnight Daughter Memoirs. On the heels of her recent exhibition at The Breeder, Amalia bites into the under-explored lore of female vampires via […]

Please join us next Friday, September 1, from 7:30pm, for the Athens launch of Corporeal, the newest book from Hyper Hypo favorite, and all-around contemporary queer icon, Spyros Rennt. Spyros will be here to sign your copies and chat about the book and his work with other HH lover and icon Vassilia Kaga.

Hyper Hypo and Mona Athens are very pleased to host the much celebrated greek design duo Objects of Common Interest in a discussion about their recently published book Noguchi and Greece, Greece and Noguchi. The book is an extension of a research and exhibition project initiated by OoCI with the Noguchi Museum in New York. […]

Please join us and Kennedy Magazine in celebrating the launch of their Family issue. “Kennedy Family is an issue, well, about family. Born as an idea last November, the concept was to ask all our friends who had babies during the pandemic to share photos or stories from their families. Not unlike a photo album […]

Το A+U Magazine κάνει τεύχος αφιέρωμα στους Point Supreme Την Πέμπτη 15 Ιουνίου 2023, στις 19:30 στο βιβλιοπωλείο Hyper Hypo, θα γίνει η παρουσίαση του νέου τεύχους του διεθνούς φήμης Ιαπωνικού περιοδικού αρχιτεκτονικής ‘a+u’ που είναι εξολοκλήρου αφιερωμένο στο έργο του Αθηναϊκού αρχιτεκτονικού γραφείου Point Supreme. Είναι η πρώτη φορά που μια διεθνούς εμβέλειας έκδοση […]

Hyper Hypo is very PROUD to invite you to: QUEERS READ OUT LOUD. A collective reading, singing and poetry night, curated and hosted by Vassilia Kaga. Can queers actually read? And if they do, what’s their voice? Can a queer rant be revolutionary? Queers reading out loud for the revolution that’s not yet here. Can […]

The Greece Notebook by Michael McGregor is the first book published by Hyper Hypo and we couldn’t be more proud. Please join us at the shop this Thursday, June 1, from 7:30pm for the official launch and signing event with @themcgregor. In 2022 Michael spent 3 months living and creating work in Greece. When we […]

We are so pleased to invite you to the official launch of “Yiayia: Time-perfected recipes from Greece’s grandmothers”, the latest, gorgeous cookbook from Matriarch Eats. “Yiayia” features regional greek cooking straight from the kitchens of grandmothers across Greece. Inspired by her own yiayia, author and founder of Matriarch Eats, Anastasia Miari traveled throughout Greece with […]

DOLCE Publishing and HYPER HYPO are pleased to co-host the launch of “The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings” by Bryony Dunne, next Thursday 11 May 2023, 19:00-22:00. The book departs from two film projects filmed across Greece, Egypt and Ireland that take up themes of migration, border ecologies and ornithomancy. Dunne juxtaposes the vantage […]

Hyper Hypo and The Breeder are pleased to co-host an artist talk and launch of Steel Works, Philippe Malouin’s book with Nero editions, next Thursday 27 April 2023, 19.00-22.00, at Hyper Hypo. Philippe Malouin will be at the shop to talk about the book and the entire process leading up to the creation the new […]

“The Mediterranean Sea is round; so is the skirt of a whirling dervish, the repeated gyration of a flamenco dancer’s wrist, the shape of a traditional Greek dance, a fruit basket in a street market, a lifeboat in the middle of the sea (…) So are the sun and the moon.”Την Πέμπτη 30 Μαρτίου, σας […]

We are very pleased to invite you to the launch of issue 06 of Desired Landscapes, our favorite pocket-sized magazine. Edited and published right here in Athens, Desired Landscapes has been a mainstay of Hyper Hypo since day one. This issue takes us to Miami, Athens, Stockholm, Valencia, New York City, Kyiv, Bologna, Beirut, Dhaka, […]

Η Clotheslines και το Ηyper Hypo σας προσκαλούν στην παρουσίαση του βιβλίου Ένστολα Σώματα που θα γίνει στο βιβλιοπωλείο με τη συμμετοχή συντελεστών της έκδοσης. Θα μιλήσουν η εικαστικός Μαρία Βαρελά, ο δικηγόρος Σπύρος Κουλοχέρης, μέλος της ομάδας «Ένδυμα και Νόμος», η εικαστικός Μαίρη Θηβαίου και η επιμελήτρια Κίκα Κυριακάκου. Ο μουσικός Άρης Σιαφάς θα […]

Please join us next Thursday, February 2nd, from 6-8pm along with author, architect and professor Fabiano Micocci for the presentation of his book “Athens by Collage. The Representation of the Metropolis between Realism, Intervention and Autonomy” (one of our most popular titles) published by anteferma. Mr. Micocci will lead a discussion along with Panos Dragonas, […]

Next Saturday, January 28th, join us along with Irini Karayannopoulou  and Christina Petkopoulou for the launch of the second issue of Janus Femzine : the most up-to-date practical guide to bad behavior and etiquette for contemporary femininities. For this new issue, Irini Karayannopoulou works with her collection of photographic material derived from porn and nudist […]

New year, new cover boy! Right after the new year, on Tuesday 03/01, Athens’ own, up-and coming supermodel Francesco Ruggiero will be in our shop signing limited copies of his cover of the new issue of Man about Town Magazine, photographed by Matthew Brooks in Hydra. Come by from 6pm to 8pm to get your […]

OH, WHAT A YEAR!!!! Next Saturday, December 17th, Hyper Hypo turns 365 days old! Never in our wildest imaginations did we ever expect the genuine response, the inspiring collaborations, the new friends, the LOVE of this past gorgeous year. And for that, we have all of you to thank! So with that in mind, next […]

You better watch out, you better not cry, the Hyper Hypo Holiday Pop-Up is comin’ to town!!! From December 3 until January 7, visit the shop’s lower level for a specially curated selection of greek fashion and streetwear brands (including some limited-edition collaborations) and other fun holiday gifts. T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, sweaters, scarves, beanies, baseball […]

Hyper Hypo is very proud to present our first publication, “this slime eating lime”, the poetry of Harakiri. The limited-edtion, riso-printed zine is a collection of poems and photos by the iconic underground nightlife hostess and muse. It is a snapshot in time, a haiku-esque memoir, a call to drink, an after-hours love/hate letter to […]

Join us this coming Thursday, October 13, for the launch of “Banana and the Monkey: Gone Fishing”, the new queer zine by George Kontos and Konstantinos Menelaou. Banana and the Monkey: Gone Fishing is the first installment of a series of riso printed queer zines created for the children of the future of any age […]

This Thursday, October 6, join artist Eleni Bagaki and us for the launch of her book “She left, she left again, she left once more.” From 19:00, in our project space, the artist will be talking about her literal and metaphorical journey in the creation of this work/publication. Already one of our new favorites, the […]

This weekend, we are so excited to have been invited by Hydra Book Club to bring a bit of Hyper Hypo to one of our favorite islands. Come get some endless summer this weekend in Hydra and check out some books and stuff from Hydra Book Club x Hyper Hypo.

We are thrilled to announce that we are hosting the official launch of Butt magazine issue #31 . September 17th 7pm – midnight at HYPER HYPO. The launch will be accompanied by an exhibition of the BUTT archive. After midnight POWER DANCE BUTT will take over at Arcane Club Athens to complete the full BUTT […]

Join us next Thursday 07/07 at 7pm for the opening of our summer show MEGA TRASH, a tribute to all the trash in this world. Paintings and ceramics by Coxx Ceramics and Luca de Salvia, curated by Luca. Save the date! See you then!

Please join us this Thursday, June 23, from 7-9pm, for an intimate talk and book signing with French photographer Philippe Jarrigeon . Philippe will have a fun conversation with Andreas Kokkino (and YOU) about his joyous work which spans the last 15 years since his graduation from Ecal. He will also be signing copies of […]

This FRIDAY, 17/06, we are very pleased to invite you to the Athens launch of Spyros Rennt’s new book “Portraits” which will be accompanied by a show of new and old portraits in our project space. Join us and Spyros Rennt from 7pm, 17/06.  Exhibition will run until 02/07.

Please join us in collaboration with Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture and photographer Ioanna Chatziandreou this Friday, June 10, the first day of Athens Pride, for a very special fashion performance. Part of the permanent collection of Atopos, 6 tyvek a-line dresses emblazoned with seminal images of the art/queer party scene at the legendary Pyramid Club […]

In advance of her new show at Carwan gallery, design world superstar, India Mahdavi will be at Hyper Hypo on Thursday May 26th, from 5pm – 8pm, signing copies of her gorgeous new book from chronicle books. The Parisian based, Iranian born architect, designer, and scenographer, Ms. Mahdavi is known for creating unique environments, combining […]

A screen becomes a wall becomes a window becomes a door. The artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis will discuss his exhibition design of the show “Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life” which took place last year at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, as well as his study on the work of Tsarouchis, included in the catalog […]

Next Friday, May 13th, Hyper Hypo along with the Queer Archive invite you to a show of work by queer Ukrainian artists, Anton Shebetko, Rebel-Queers, Zhenya, Bogdan Moroz, Limo Rednik, Oksana Okazmina. Curated by Alex King and Ivan March. All proceeds go to charities supporting LGBTQIA+ Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees. Opening 13/05 from 6pm. Show […]

Join us next Friday, April 29th, at 7pm for the launch of Artist-Run Dialogues edited by Ariana Kalliga . Artist-Run Dialogues conversationally unfolds the stories, language and challenges connecting artist-run spaces internationally today, exploring present and future forms of self-organization. Ariana will be here to talk about the publication and how the project will evolve […]

Please join us next Thursday, April 14, from 7pm, for the opening reception and book presentation of Parallel Crisis by Yannis Karpouzis . The photographer’s work focuses on the other, less polished, grittier Athens we all know and love, despite its inherent melancholy.The exhibition will run until April 30.

Please join us this Friday, April 1st, from 7pm, for the launch of The Worst Street Journal No6 LIGHT IS MORE by Site – Specific. Speakers Dimitris Mitropoulos and Jacque Ho will talk a bit about what TWSJ is exactly. Contributors to the issue include Jacque Ho, Zachos Varfis, Stefania Strouza, Aristeidis Lappas and Campus […]

Join us on the  Thursday , from 6-8pm, along with Alex King and Jonglez Publishing to celebrate the publishing of the Greek version of Soul of Athens, A Guide to 30 Exceptional Experiences. Alex will be in store to chat with you and sign copies of your choice of Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, or […]

Tonight, from 18:30, we are very pleased to host the launch of the new publication “The School of Infinite Rehearsals 2020-21” from Onassis Air.

Tomorrow, February 10th, HYPER HYPO and NOMAS Magazine are very pleased to invite you to an in-person signing event with the acclaimed choreographer, director and performer Dimitris Papaioannou. From 7pm to 9pm, Mr. Papaioannou will be signing a limited number of copies of NOMAS Anafi, at our store, Voreou 10, Athens. Hope to see you […]

OPENING WEEKEND! This Saturday, at 11am, HYPER HYPO will officially be open! If you’re in Athens, please stop by anytime until 8pm (we’ll also be open all day Sunday) and join us in celebrating and buy some great books for everyone on your Xmas list. We look forward to welcoming you!