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Catalogue of the exhibition Ancient Greece and André Masson held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 1 July to 30 September 2007.

The aim of the exhibition was to investigate and highlight the references to Ancient Greece and its civilization in the work of this dynamic artist and the iconographic associations revealed between the two.

This catalogue contains 83 of the artist’s works (oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculptures, etc.) as well as bibliography and detailed illustrated chronology.

Essays contributed by:
- Dr Didier Ottinger, Senior Curator at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- Dr William Jeffett, Curator of Exhibitions, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Edition in Greek

Catalogue of the group exhibition Metamorphosis, British Art of the Sixties held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 26 June to 25 September 2005.

The exhibition highlighted the substantial transformations which occurred in the arts during the particularly creative period of the 1960's.

The catalogue of the exhibition consists of 61 representative works of the British “sixties”, by 31 leading artists:
David Annesley, Gillian Ayres, Peter Blake, Michael Bolus, Derek Boshier, Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Bernard Cohen, Barrie Cook, Robyn Denny, Antony Donaldson, Garth Evans, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Paul Huxley, Allen Jones, Michael Kidner, Phillip King, Jeremy Moon, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Phillips, John Plumb, Bridget Riley, Peter Sedgley, Colin Self, Richard Smith, Ian Stephenson, Joe Tilson and Isaac Witkin.
The catalogue also includes biographical notes on all the artists, as well as a bibliography.

Essays contributed by:
- Richard Riley, Exhibition Curator, Visual Arts, British Council, London
- Ana Vasconcelos e Melo, Curator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
- Isadora Papadrakakis, Head Creativity and Society, British Council, Greece
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Edition in English

Catalogue of the group exhibition Metamorphosis, British Art of the Sixties held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 26 June to 25 September 2005.

The exhibition highlighted the substantial transformations which occurred in the arts during the particularly creative period of the 1960's.

The catalogue of the exhibition consists of 61 representative works of the British “sixties”, by 31 leading artists:
David Annesley, Gillian Ayres, Peter Blake, Michael Bolus, Derek Boshier, Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Bernard Cohen, Barrie Cook, Robyn Denny, Antony Donaldson, Garth Evans, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Paul Huxley, Allen Jones, Michael Kidner, Phillip King, Jeremy Moon, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Phillips, John Plumb, Bridget Riley, Peter Sedgley, Colin Self, Richard Smith, Ian Stephenson, Joe Tilson and Isaac Witkin.
The catalogue also includes biographical notes on all the artists, as well as a bibliography.

Essays contributed by:
- Richard Riley, Exhibition Curator, Visual Arts, British Council, London
- Ana Vasconcelos e Melo, Curator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
- Isadora Papadrakakis, Head Creativity and Society, British Council, Greece
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Edition in Greek

Catalogue of the exhibition Auguste Rodin - Camille Claudel held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 7 July to 22 September 1996.

While placing emphasis on Rodin's work, the exhibition was aimed at presenting aspects from all phases of the artists' œuvre, including works created during their long relationship, which reveal the mutual influence that each one's sculpture exerted on the other's.

18 watercolours and 55 sculptures by Auguste Rodin, alongside 10 sculptures by Camille Claudel, from museums, foundations and private collections abroad - mainly from France and Switzerland - are included in this fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue (Greek, French), accompanied by bibliography and illustrated chronology for both artists, entries of the works, anthology, the testament of Rodin (advise to new artists), as well as a text by him dedicated to the Venus of Milos.

Essays contributed by:
- Marina Lambraki-Plaka, Director of the National Gallery of Greece
- Paul Claudel, Camille Claudel’s brother
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Bilingual edition (Greek, French)

Catalogue of the group exhibition Lines of Sight, Milestones in the History of Photography held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 29 June to 21 September 1997.

The exhibition presented the history of photography through the works of the best-known representatives of the various photographic genres (landscape, portrait, war photography, ethnographic photography, science and experimental photography, photojournalism, fashion), including pictures by pioneers of the Greek photography scene.

130 photographs by 26 famous photographers (Nadar, Beato, Marey, Atget, Demachy, the Lumière brothers, Curtis, Casasola, Ghisoland, Rodtchenko, Kertész, Lartigue, Sudek, Cartier-Bresson,Doisneau, Capa, Smith, Giacomelli, Moon, Salgado, Papaioannou, Nelly's, Meletzis, Harissiadis, Balafas, Manos) are included in this fully illustrated, trilingual catalogue (Greek, English, French), accompanied by short introductory texts for each photographer, biographies of all artists, chronology of important turning points in the history of photography and a glossary of photographic terms.

Essays contributed by:
- Robert Delpire, Former Director of the French National Centre of Photography
- Fanny Constantinidou, Curator of the photographic archives of the Benaki Museum
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation

*Trilingual edition (Greek, English, French)

Catalogue of the exhibition Nikos Engonopoulos, With the Colours of the Word and the Word of Colours held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation from 25 June to 1 October 2017.

Nikos Engonopoulos was a painter, a poet and a professor at the National Technical University. Three areas of activity, separated to some extent, but which enriched one another thanks to a prevailing common denominator: Engonopoulos’ immense, diverse and insatiable - over time – broad and wide-ranging education.

The aim of this dedicated exhibition was to highlight this manifold activity and the undisputed talent he demonstrated in everything he became involved in.

Colour reproductions of all 110 works that were presented in the exhibition are included in this bilingual catalogue (Greek, English), accompanied by well-researched texts, written by people with a deep knowledge of Engonopoulos’ work, as well as poems of the artist.

Essays have been contributed by:
- Kyriakos Koutsomallis, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Marie Koutsomallis-Moreau, Head of Collection, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation
- Sotiris Sorogas, Painter - Emeritus Professor at the National Technical University of Athens
- Thanassis Hatzopoulos, Poet - Psychoanalyst
- Katerina Perpinioti-Agazir, Art Historian

*Bilingual edition (Greek, English)