Home / Gallery / Presentation Presentation The Contemporary Greek Art Gallery of Kalamata was founded in January 1962 by the Public Library of Kalamata, with the warm support of the Messinian painter Kostas Giannoukopoulos (YANNACO). It is the first Art Gallery created in a city in a Greek province. The then Director of Letters and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Education, G. Kournoutos, wrote that “the first collection of this first regional art gallery… constitutes a message to all the Greek regions and to all Greeks”. Today the Gallery’s collection includes 520 paintings, drawings, many engravings, constructions and sculptures. 120 of these artworks are on exhibition today, in the halls of the 4th floor of the Municipal Cultural Center of Kalamata. A valuable acquisition of the Gallery was the donation of 55 artworks by the late painter Daphne Stavros Kostopoulou. The artworks of the Gallery of Contemporary Greek Art of Kalamata, mostly donations by the artists themselves, embody a large part of the artistic quests that occupied Greek artists, representing strongly almost all the Great Movements in Contemporary International Visual Arts. The Gallery features artworks by artists belonging to the following art movements: the School of Munich, the Generation of the 30s, Impressionism, Expressionism, Abstraction & Abstract Expressionism, Interdisciplinary Figurative Painting, works of Various Artistic Expressions, as well as engraving and sculpture works.