site.btaBulgarian Embassy in Greece Presents Athos in Drawings and Photographs Exhibition

The exhibition, “Holy Mount Athos in Drawings and Photographs”, a collaborative project by artist Andrey Yanev and photographer Prof. Miroslav Dachev, Rector of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, will be displayed from November 20 to December 4, 2025, at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, the Bulgarian Embassy in Greece said.

The exhibition can be visited from 8.30 am to 3.30 pm, Monday through Sunday, except on Tuesdays when the museum is closed. Admission is free.

The works featured in “Holy Mount Athos in Drawings and Photographs” are the result of over 50 expeditions to Mount Athos spanning two decades. This involved repeated visits to all the Athonite monasteries, as well as a large number of sketes and cells of the monastic republic. According to the embassy, this also allowed the artists to experience the essence of Mount Athos and approach its true spiritual character.

The selected works in this series of exhibitions over the years do not merely depict, but express the inner sense of Athos that the artists captured and shaped during more than a year of residence, combining pilgrimage with creative and research impulses.

Andrey Yanev is an artist whose name is associated with numerous painting exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad, as well as a range of national and international creative projects, and prestigious awards in the field of art. Athos is one of the central themes of his work, through which he is recognized both in Bulgaria and in various European countries, the USA, and China.

Miroslav Dachev is a professor of art semiotics at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). He is the author of nine volumes in the “Athoniana” series, published with the blessing of Mount Athos and included in the collections of all Athonite monasteries, various world libraries, and the Vatican Library.