DREAM ON

This bilingual publication illustrates the unique works, highlighting the impact and effect of these large-scale installations, presented together for the first time in Greece. Each artwork is accompanied by a curatorial text, installation photographs, as well as a brief essay by curators and directors of the museums that received the D.Daskalopoulos Collection gift, delving deeper into the artist’s practice and the work’s significance.

Dream On is permeated by a sense of plenitude brought about by the realization of a great dream: an artist’s ambitious yet elusive goal attained through the unbridled creativity of large-scale installations.

Participating artists: John Bock, Helen Chadwick, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Martha Dimitropoulou, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, David Hammons, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Kostas Ioannidis, Michael Landy, Maria Loizidou, Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, Maro Michalakakos, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Pfeiffer, Alexandros Psychoulis, Matthew Ritchie and Anna-Maria Samara.

In 2022 the exhibition Dream On, curated by Dimitris Paleocrassas, Art Historian, was presented at the former Public Tobacco Factory in Athens, Greece. It brought together 18 large-scale installations from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection by Greek and international artists, as well as a newly commissioned work, and 20 drawings. The exhibition followed the announcement of the  D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift , presenting some of the most important works of the Collection which will then be donated to major Greek, British and US museums for their permanent collections (EMST, Tate, and jointly to the Guggenheim and MCA Chicago).