Fokas Department Store

About Fokas Department Store

The former Fokas Department Store occupies an eight-level interwar building at 41 Stadiou Street in central Athens. Its preserved façade and interior arcade are the architectural features highlighted by the Athens Biennale, which used the building as the main venue for its seventh edition, ECLIPSE. The Biennale records the department store’s operation from 2001 to 2013, followed by abandonment. That commercial history explains the former shop spaces encountered when the building was reused for art exhibitions. Fokas belonged to a group of neighbouring exhibition venues that also included the former Santaroza Courthouse across the street and Schliemann-Mela Hall on Panepistimiou Street. Together, these buildings linked the exhibition to different periods of Athens’s civic and commercial life. For a walk along Stadiou, this is a former retail landmark, not a current shopping destination. The historical exhibition listing does not establish present access to the interior.

Practical details

Full address

41 Stadiou Street, Athens, Greece

Sources

• eclipse.athensbiennale.org
• eclipse.athensbiennale.org

Checked 2026-10-01

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