Jeff Koons and the Venus Lespugue exhibition in Athens

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Jeff Koons closes a major chapter in Athens today as his exhibition Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue reaches its last day at the Museum of Cycladic Art. As Koons’s official exhibition overview confirms, the show runs from March 19, 2025 to August 31, 2026 at the museum in Athens. Jeff Koons exhibition list

The exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art

The exhibition Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue unfolds at the Museum of Cycladic Art, bringing Koons’s towering stainless-steel Balloon Venus Lespugue into direct dialogue with Paleolithic “Venus” figures from the collection. The artist’s site presents the show as a current solo exhibition in Athens with the precise dates March 19, 2025 to August 31, 2026. Jeff Koons exhibition list

Independent coverage describes the sculpture as a monumental, brightly polished work that commands the Stathatos Mansion space and sets up a dialogue between prehistoric icons of fertility and Koons’s language of Pop-inflected desire and consumption. One exhibition text characterizes Balloon Venus Lespugue as “towering” and central to the curatorial concept. Athens exhibition description

Monday’s exhibition & show focus

For Athens, Koons’s project anchors the museum’s temporary program around guided tours and talks specifically dedicated to Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue, which the museum highlights on its homepage. The Museum of Cycladic Art offers guided tours and special guided talks tied to the exhibition, framing it as a key event in its calendar. Museum of Cycladic Art information

The show also extends into the museum’s merchandising and publishing activities, with a bilingual catalog, posters, and apparel referencing Balloon Venus Lespugue. This indicates how deeply the institution integrates Koons’s work into its public-facing identity and educational offer over the exhibition’s long run. Museum of Cycladic Art information

The work core around Venus figures

Koons’s Balloon Venus Lespugue belongs to his long engagement with historical archetypes and decorative forms, translated into mirror-polished stainless steel and high-chroma surfaces. The work draws on the Lespugue Venus, a Paleolithic figurine whose voluptuous proportions become abstracted into Koons’s balloon-like volumes. Exhibition materials in Athens emphasize this dialogue between prehistoric sculpture and contemporary fabrication. Athens exhibition description

Where the artist stands now

Jeff Koons’s exhibition Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue concludes on August 31, 2026 at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, marking the final day of its extended solo run within the institution’s temporary program.

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