Tala Madani: Shitty Disco

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens is celebrating women's art this season with a series of group and solo exhibitions honouring pioneering female artists.

Tala Madani is an internationally renowned Iranian artist based in Los Angeles, and EMST is welcoming her first solo exhibition in Greece, which is also her first museum exhibition in Europe in over a decade. Cheekily titled Shitty Disco, Madani’s new show brings together more than forty of her works, including paintings, drawings and stop-motion animations. These pieces showcase the fascinating themes she's been exploring over the past fifteen years. Her work is all about capturing the human condition in its most vulnerable, bizarre and sometimes downright hilarious moments. Madani’s art is a mix of dark humour and sharp commentary on human nature, gender roles, power structures and identity. The title piece, created especially for this exhibition, resembles a nightclub that's somewhere between dream and nightmare, bizarre and fantastical. 

On the 3rd floor, you’ll also find two additional works by Madani, part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift, featured in the renewed collection exhibition titled Women, together.