PK21 is a site-specific project by Antiqua Gallery that brings together architecture, historical design, and art within a restored 1960s apartment in Athens. Conceived as a domestic and curatorial experience rather than a traditional exhibition, the project explores the inhabited space as a site of memory, aesthetic selection, and cultural stratification, where architecture, furniture, and artworks coexist within a fully realized living environment.

Located at 21 Panagi Kyriakou Street near Mavili Square, PK21 takes shape inside an apartment originally designed in 1967. After remaining closed for nearly twenty years, the apartment has been carefully restored with particular attention to its original architectural identity and materials, preserving distinctive elements such as the iron and wood spiral staircase, full-height doors, marble surfaces, and the spatial continuity between interior and exterior.

Antiqua’s intervention developed through a comprehensive curatorial process in which every object was selected in relation to the space itself. Historic Italian design pieces, including lighting and furniture by some of the most significant figures of postwar design, are repositioned within an inhabitable context, restoring their original function and establishing a dialogue between aesthetics, history, and everyday life. The project reflects on continuity as a living practice, where vintage is understood not as nostalgia, but as the persistence of quality, proportion, and conscious design through time.

 

Works by Christos Tzivelos are presented in collaboration with RECORDS, the joint project of Helena Papadopoulos and Andreas Melas dedicated to historical artists. Active between Athens and Paris from the 1970s until his untimely death in 1995, Tzivelos developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning drawing, installation, design, and scenography, with light as his primary material. The works presented at PK21 include drawings, studies, and notes from the 1980s that reveal his poetic engagement with language, architecture, the cosmos, and spatial perception.

PK21 ultimately emerges as a fluid and intimate environment in which architecture, historical furnishings, and art converge, creating a space where history and contemporaneity enter into continuous dialogue through the experience of dwelling.

PK21
a project by ANTIQUA

21 Panagi Kyriakou Street, 11521 Athens

June 10 – 14, 2026

Press
Barbati Bertolissi

Graphic Design
Daphne Kougea

Interior Photography
Alina Lefa
Giorgos Sfakianakis

Architectural support provided by Stones & Walls 

The Estate of Christos Tzivelos is represented by Akwa Ibom, Melas Martinos, and Radio Athènes