Guided tours at the exhibition “Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues”

Curated by independent curator Douglas Fogle in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition emerges as a direct response to the histories of figuration that Dumas explored within the archaeological collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art.

For this exhibition, Dumas has personally selected works from across her oeuvre, while, in a rare gesture, she has also hand-picked a group of fourteen archaeological artefacts from the Museum’s collection to be presented alongside her own works. These artefacts have either directly inspired or resonate with Dumas’s works on view, highlighting enduring and universal themes such as life, love, motherhood, gender, and mortality. This rare pairing invites visitors to reflect on both the timelessness and immediacy created by the coexistence of Dumas’s works with creations from the past.