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Our exhibition this year with works from the
Museum’s Permanent Collections

Our this year’s temporary exhibition:
“Chrysa Vathianaki – Unspoken Flesh”

The Non-Profit Cultural Organisation «Olivepress – Art Factory» since 2005 promotes Fine Arts and Culture. It was created in order to save from desolation and ruin the Old Olive Mill of Agricultural Cooperative at Zympragou in Chania, Crete. Its new aim is to accommodate on its premises various arts and cultural events, transforming it into a community art centre and a place of memory in the inland of Crete.
Today the «Olivepress – Art Factory» is a multi-cultural organization. It consists of the «Fine Arts Gallery of Chania», a venue for periodic Art Exhibitions and Educational Programs, and the «Contemporary Art Museum of Chania», dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the permanent collection of the «Olivepress – Art Factory» and the promotion, along with the study, of the interactive relations between Contemporary Art and the Human Aspect.
Trying to reinforce the Inland, the «Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress» has created six programs of Coopertation, Evolvent & Culture: 1: «The Museum Route», 2: «The Gorge Circle», 3: «CHANIaRT – Visual Arts Journeys», 4: «Art & Wine – Western Crete Wineries create Culture», 5. «Olivepress Art Residency» & 6. «Art Podium».

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF CHANIA OLIVEPRESS
73002, Dromonero, Municipality of Platanias, Chania, Crete, Greece
Director: Ioannis N. Arhontakis • E-mail: ioannis2000@gmail.com

 The “CHANIaRT – Visual Arts Journeys” program is implemented by the Contemporary Art Museum of Chania Olivepress in collaboration with the Regional Unit of Chania, all the Municipalities of Chania and the Cultural Institutions whose purpose is the exploration and development of Culture and the Fine Arts in the entire prefecture of Chania.
The aim of the “CHANIaRT – Visual Arts Journeys” program is for the Prefecture to highlight its artistic potential and become one of the major centres of visual actions in Greece, an arena of new artistic trends and a forum for artistic dialogue and creation, a melting pot of interactions between the indigenous cultural values and the international avant-garde movements, the platform of presentation of visual actions and pursuits, both for distinguished Masters of Art, as well as the talented New Creators.
Along with the promotion of our land and promotion of the local cultural resources, the objective remains the construction of an interactive communication network between all Cretan Visual Creators, the local community, the wider artistic community, and the world’s cultural fabric.