> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Hydra School Projects: Lithos/Lethe curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/hydra-school-projects-lithos-and-lethe-curated-by-dimitrios-antonitsis/ - Published: 2025-08-19T10:36:52.000Z - Updated: 2025-10-15T11:28:41.000Z - Description: A slow summer walk leads to Hydra Island’s High School, which in summer becomes home to the Hydra School Project. Here, Dimitrios Antonitsis curates ‘Lithos/Lethe’, uniting nine artists in a living dialogue between stone, memory, and place. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition, Hydra Island, Sculpture & Installation, Material & Sculpture, Myth & Folklore ## A Walk in the Heat to Hydra School Projects 2025 The heat makes you slow down. Cicadas stretch their song into something almost endless, wrapping the island in a pulse you can feel in your skin. We leave the harbor and climb the hill to meet with Dimitrios Antonitsis, artist, curator, and founder of the [**Hydra School Project**,](https://www.catapult-platform.art/dimitrios-antonitsis-hydra-school-projects-hydra-island-greece/) a good friend whose exceptional vision has shaped many summers here. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. Paintings by Konrad Zukowski shown together with a marble fountain work by curator and artist Dimitrios Antonitsis inside the former Hydra school building, Greece.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project.webp) Inside ****Hydra School Projects 2025**: Works by Konrad Zukowski alongside a marble fountain sculpture by curator and artist Dimitrios Antonitsis in the exhibition ****Lithos/Lethe**. Image by Munchies Art Club The school is quiet in the holiday months. Its white walls and empty classrooms hold the kind of stillness that turns sound into echo. This year’s show, **Lithos/Lethe,** feels made for this pause in the island’s rhythm. The title draws on Greek origins: meaning “stone,” symbolizing permanence and memory, and *lethe* meaning “forgetfulness,” referencing the mythic river of oblivion. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/lithos--hydra-school-project.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/lethe--hydra-school-project.webp) Marble works by ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** for ****Hydra School Projects 2025**. The engraved words ****“Lithos”** (stone) and ****“Lethe”** (forgetting) anchor the exhibition concept, connecting material permanence with the idea of memory and loss.Image Courtesy of Munchies Art Club Together, they evoke a tension between remembrance and forgetting, inviting viewers to explore how what is solid can also dissolve into the unknown. Nine artists, each holding their own language, are brought together in a conversation about stone, memory, and the strange permanence of impermanence. --- ## **The Founder’s Mark – Dimitrios Antonitsis** Before leading us through the rooms, curator and artist [**Dimitrios Antonitsis** ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/dimitrios-antonitsis-hydra-school-projects-hydra-island-greece/)pauses in the courtyard to present his new work: carved marble forms scattered among the white amphitheater steps. Once functional sinks, they are now reimagined as artifacts, newly inscribed by his hand. Each bears an engraving: *Lithos, Lethe*, meaning stone and forgetting. ![Courtyard of Hydra School Projects 2025 on Hydra Island, Greece, showing marble fountain sculptures by Dimitrios Antonitsis installed on the amphitheatre steps for the exhibition Lithos Lethe.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/dimitrios-antonitsis.webp) ****Hydra School Projects 2025**, Lyceum, Hydra Island (June 20 – September 7, 2025). In the courtyard amphitheater, **Fountains* (2025) by ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** is presented by ****Mnemosyne Projects**, curated by ****Tatiana Gecmen-Waldek** and ****Ekaterina Juskowski.** This outdoor presentation, titled *Fountains*, marks Antonitsis’ first engagement with marble. [Fountains: Dimitrios Antonitsis’ Art of Reclaimed MarbleFountains series by artist Dimitrios Antonitsis transforms salvaged marble sinks into meditative sculptures.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/cropped-Mnemosyne-logo-small-GR-1-270x270-1.png)Mnemosyne Projects![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/Fountains-by-Dimitrios-Antonitsis-1-2-scaled-1.jpg)](https://mnemosyneprojects.org/mnhmh/fountains-by-dimitrios-antonitsis/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Mnemosyne Projects - ****Tatiana Gecmen-Waldek** and ****Ekaterina Juskowski.** Produced by Mnemosyne Projects and curated by Tatiana Gecmen-Waldek and Ekaterina Juskowski, the series approaches marble not as monument but as material memory, repurposed, exhausted, and reawakened. The works invoke a triad of *Lithos* (stone), *Lethe* (oblivion), and *Aletheia* (truth), crafting objects that carry both philosophical resonance and environmental urgency. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/dimitrios-antonitis--artwork.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-island-art--hydra-island-greece.webp) Details of ****Dimitrios Antonitsis’ marble “Fountains”** engraved with the words **Lithos* and **Lethe*. Installed outdoors, they form the exhibition’s starting point and embody its central dialogue between stone, memory, and forgetting. Inside the school, the wider group exhibition *Lithos/Lethe* unfolds in cooler light. Curated by Antonitsis, it brings together nine artists whose works engage in dialogue with place, memory, and transformation. [Artistic Heritage at the Old Carpet Factory on Hydra Island“The Warp of Time” exhibition at the Old Carpet Factory on Hydra Island, celebrating 100 years of heritage with works by Helen Marden and Dimitrios Antonitsis, curated by Ekaterina Juskowski.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-212.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/hydra-island-contemporary-art-old-carpet-factory.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/carpet-factory-exhibition-hydra-island-greece-2024/) Last years project by ****Ekaterina Juskowski** at the **old Carpet Factory 2024** with works by Helen Marden and Dimitrios Antonitsis Here, more of these “Fountains” appear, anchoring the show with a quiet insistence. They feel like markers, places to stop and listen for water that is not there, yet somehow is --- ## A Room of Two Voices – Brice Marden & Jannis Kounellis The first classroom we enter feels like stepping into a conversation that began long before you arrived. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. Artworks by Jannis Kounellis alongside marble works by Brice Marden, reflecting a dialogue between Arte Povera and abstraction within the former Hydra school building, Greece.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/catapult-munchies-art-club-exhibiton-review.webp) The first room of Hydra School Projects 2025: Works by Greek Arte Povera pioneer ****Jannis Kounellis** placed in dialogue with marble pieces by ****Brice Marden**, an artist deeply connected to Hydra. Together their works form a quiet conversation across time, material, and memory. ![Close-up of a marble artwork by Brice Marden at Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. The work reflects the artist’s deep connection to Hydra Island, combining abstraction with natural stone textures](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/brice-marden.webp) Marble work by ****Brice Marden** in Hydra School Projects 2025\. Known for his paintings and drawings, Marden also worked with locally sourced marble on Hydra, translating the island’s landscape and light into stone. On one side, **Brice Marden**, who loved this island deeply and kept a home and studio here, brings marble into his language of line and surface. [Brice Marden: Capturing the Essence of Greece - An Artistic Odyssey from Hydra island to AthensExplore the artistic journey of Brice Marden on Hydra Island, where the captivating light and serene environment inspire his minimalist and abstract works.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-206.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/Brice-Marden--Capturing-the-Essence-of-Greece---An-Artistic-Odyssey-from-Hydra-to-Athens.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/brice-marden-greece-hydra-island/) Brice Marden and his relation to Greece and Hydra Island Known for his *stick drawings* and lyrical abstractions, in Greece he worked with locally quarried stone, treating it not as material but as place itself. ![Installation by Jannis Kounellis at Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. A stone rests on a wooden chair in front of a green chalkboard inside the former Hydra school, connecting Arte Povera with the traces of the classroom setting.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/Jannis-Kounellis.webp) Work by ****Jannis Kounellis** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. A block of stone placed on a wooden chair in front of the school’s chalkboard transforms the classroom into a stage, where Arte Povera meets the residue of teaching and memory. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. Jannis Kounellis’ stone-on-chair installation is shown opposite marble works by Brice Marden, forming a dialogue between Arte Povera and abstraction inside the former Hydra school building.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project-2025.webp) Main view of the first room at Hydra School Projects 2025: ****Jannis Kounellis’** Arte Povera installation with stone and chair in dialogue with ****Brice Marden’s** marble works. Together they create a space where permanence, memory, and abstraction converge Facing him is [**Jannis Kounellis**](https://www.artnet.com/artists/jannis-kounellis/?ref=catapult-platform.art), the Greek-born giant of Arte Povera, whose work here is as distilled as it is weighty: stone and chair, set against a permanent green classroom chalkboard. The traces of the school, scuffed floor, the ghost of lessons past, become co-conspirators. Both artists are gone now, but here they speak across time, their works leaning toward each other in the still air. Marden’s marble whispers meet Kounellis’ quiet staging; in between, the room holds its breath. --- ## Textiles & Fragments – Isabella Ducrot & Felicia Reed The next class room right next door shifts in tone, from stone’s density to the tactility of cloth and plaster. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. Textile work by Isabella Ducrot featuring stitched fabric panels with orange borders and black leaf-like patterns, installed in the former Hydra school building, Greece.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/isabella-ducrot.webp) Textile work by ****Isabella Ducrot** in Hydra School Projects 2025\. Large sheets of fabric are arranged like painted surfaces — stitched, patterned, and held in balance between geometry and breath. [**Isabella Ducrot**](https://www.capitainpetzel.de/news/516-isabella-ducrot-lithos-lethe-stone-vs-oblivion-group-show/?ref=catapult-platform.art) arranges fabric like a painter handles pigment, stitched panels of color and pattern, geometric yet breathing. Her compositions feel deliberate and generous, leaving room for air to move through them. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/marble-artwork.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/munchies-art-club.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/felicia-reed--hydra-school-project.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/felicia-reed--artwork.webp) Plaster and marble fragments by ****Felicia Reed** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Reed’s sculptural objects combine remnants of architecture with traces of domestic life — floral wallpaper, locks, hinges — turning building debris into intimate relics of memory [**Felicia Reed**](https://feliciareedstudio.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) counters with sculptural fragments: plaster blocks, bits of metal hardware, forms that feel salvaged from a half-demolished building. They read as relics of use, precise and fragmentary at once, holding on to the ghost of their original purpose while standing firmly as objects in their own right. --- ## William Farrell Farrell’s bronzes sit like tools from a parallel past, objects that are organic in form yet carry the polish of something made to last. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. A bronze-framed mirror with small sculpted heads by William Farrell reflects a painting by Konrad Zukowski inside the Hydra school building.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project-greece.webp) Works by ****William Farrell** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Farrell’s bronze objects hover between artifact and invention — a mirror edged with small sculpted heads and a vessel balanced on screw-like legs, both charged with geological memory and surreal playfulness. ![screw-like legs with a textured purple surface, combining artifact-like solidity with surreal design.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/william-farrell.webp) Bronze vessel by ****William Farrell** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. The textured purple surface and screw-like legs transform the piece into a hybrid between functional object and surreal sculpture. They hover between artifact and invention, each surface a record of time’s slow touch. --- ## Billy Sullivan Then a burst of color. A wall crowded with sketched, painted, and splashed moments from life on Hydra, depicting friends, faces, glimpses of the sea and the sun. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. A wall of drawings by Billy Sullivan depicting portraits of friends, people by the sea, a dog, and still life flowers — colorful impressions from life on Hydra Island.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/Billy-Sullivan.png) A wall of watercolor and pastel drawings by ****Billy Sullivan** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Scenes of friends, portraits, flowers, and sea views capture Hydra’s summer life with immediacy, intimacy, and joy. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/billy-sullivan--artist.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project--billy-sullivan-artist.webp) Detail of Billy Sullivan’s drawings at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Scenes of friends, sea views, and daily moments on Hydra capture the island’s spirit — including a portrait of curator ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** with his dog Barracuda (right), a personal anchor within the series. One drawing catches *Dimitrios himself in a boat*, his dog *Barracuda* at his side, a perfect shorthand for friendship and summer freedom. Sullivan’s works are a reminder that joy can be documentary, that color can stand in for the heat of the season itself. --- ## Angela Tisner Tisner works in sound and image, drawing from performance and documentary to create a kind of whispered dialogue between place and memory. Her work feels like an overheard conversation carried on the wind, slipping between the rooms of the school. --- ## Konrad Zukowski [**Konrad Zukowski** ](https://www.instagram.com/xkonrd/?hl=de&ref=catapult-platform.art)closes the walk with paintings that feel both anchored and in motion, violet cliffs, blue depths, figures suspended between land and sea. ![Exhibition view of Hydra School Projects 2025, Lithos Lethe. Paintings by Konrad Zukowski — a violet cliff landscape and diptych of yellow figures — displayed with a marble fountain sculpture by Dimitrios Antonitsis inside the former Hydra school building, Greece.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project-1.webp) Paintings by ****Konrad Zukowski** at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Violet cliffs, blue depths, and luminous figures suspended between land and sea capture the tension of the island landscape. Installed alongside a marble fountain work by Dimitrios Antonitsis, the room becomes a dialogue between painting and stone. His brushwork is sharp yet atmospheric, holding the heat of the rock and the cool pull of the water in the same frame. --- ![Curator Dimitrios Antonitsis presenting Konrad Zukowski’s paintings alongside bronze sculptures by William Farrell during Hydra School Projects 2025, photographed by Munchies Art Club.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/Dimitrios-antonitsis-and-his-hydra-school-project-2025.png) A special thanks to curator ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** for the insightful walkthrough at Hydra School Projects 2025\. Here, details of ****Konrad Zukowski’s** vibrant paintings meet the tactile presence of ****William Farrell’s** bronze vessels — a dialogue between myth, body, and material. Image by Munchies Art Club. --- ## The School as Vessel The Hydra School Project has always been about more than just putting art in a room. By using a living building, one that breathes, empties, and fills with the seasons, it turns exhibition-making into a site-specific act. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project--artwork-greece.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/the-school-as-a-vessel--hydra-school-project.webp) The school itself becomes a vessel — holding traces, fragments, and gestures. From carved stone basins to bronze forms cradled by hand, each work turns material into memory. Hydra School Projects 2025\. Image by Munchies Art Club. With *Lithos/Lethe*, Dimitrios Antonitsis offers a show that listens to the building as much as it does to the island outside. And for anyone who wants to experience contemporary art in its most unguarded form, it remains an essential summer stop. --- **‘Lithos/Lethe’** ***Hydra School Projects, Curated by Dimitrios Antonitis*** **Artists:** *Isabella Ducrot, William Farrell, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Felicia Reed, Billy Sullivan, Angela Tisner and Konrad Zukowki* HSP@lyceum, Hydra June 20 – September 07, 2025 --- [***Dimitrios Antonisis School* Project on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/hydraschoolprojects/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ![Detail of marble sculpture by Dimitrios Antonitsis at Hydra School Projects 2025, photographed by Munchies Art Club. Closing note: the project returns in 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/08/hydra-school-project--greece.webp) Marble layers by Dimitrios Antonitsis, founder of Hydra School Projects, grounding the exhibition in the island’s stone and time. See you in 2026 with a new Hydra School Project. --- [Ask Kurt – Get Seen. Get ConnectedStop chasing open calls nobody reads. Ask Kurt is your entry point into the Munchies Art Club network: curated visibility, direct access, and features that last. Free to submit. Selective to feature. This is where artists, collectors, and the art world connect.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-207.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/ask-kurt-munchies-art-club-12.jpg)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ask-kurt-a-curatorial-global-network-project/) Munchies Art Club Features your work ## New on Munchies Art Club: [Andra Ursuta at Deste Foundation Hydra Island, GreeceAt DESTE Foundation Hydra, Andra Ursuța fabricates a history we want to believe — even as we know it’s a lie. On view through Oct 31, 2025.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-180.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/deste-foundation-hydra-island-greece.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/p/439ee0cf-78ce-428c-9c75-7059b8953953/?member%5Fstatus=free) Our Visit to the Deste Foundation 2025 with a solo presentation of Andra Ursuta ### Readers looking for this: [Dimitrios Antonitsis Celebrates 25 Years “Hydra School Projects” with ‘8 Femmes’ on Hydra Island, GreeceDimitrios Antonitsis marks 25 years of curation with ‘8 Femmes’, a powerful all-woman show on Hydra. 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