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The Greek entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos has donated fifty-one artworks—mostly by Greek artists—from his personal collection to four museums in Greece and Scotland as part of an ongoing philanthropic campaign to make contemporary art accessible to wider audiences.
“This initiative seeks to ensure the long-term preservation of the works while sustaining an ongoing dialogue with the art of the future,” according to a statement.
The National Gallery of Greece will receive twenty-nine works made from the 1960s through to the 1990s by Greek artists such as Io Angeli, Yiannis Spyropoulos, Konstantinos Andreou, Christos Sarakatsianos, Yiannis Psychopedis, George Vorres, and Kostis Georgiou. MOMUS–Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, will receive sixteen works by artists including Subodh Gupta, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Elias Kafouros, Haluk Akakҫe, Catharina Van Eetvelde, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, and Alex Hubbard. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete will receive three works by the artists Nobuko Tsuchiya, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, and Nana Sachini. And three works by Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, and Margarita Myrogianni will go to the National Galleries Scotland.
“The inclusion of works by Greek artists within the collection’s museum donations reflects a commitment to promoting contemporary Greek creativity and increasing its visibility on the global cultural stage,” the statement says.
Daskalopoulos is the founder and chairman of Damma Holdings, a financial services and investment company and made his fortune in the Greek food industry. His collection is vast: more than five hundred works of art—installations, sculptures, drawings, collages, films, and video—by 220 international artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Annette Messager, and Ernesto Neto.
In 2022 and 2023, more than 350 works from Daskalopoulos’s collection were donated to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In 2025, an additional six pieces were donated to the Guggenheim Bilbao.