HOUSE OF SHILA PRESENTS: “SPACE REIMAGINED”

An in-situ series of art installations at Mona Athens, starting June 6, 2025: Two artists. Two rooms. Three months of living art.

This summer, House of Shila unveils SPACE REIMAGINED, a new immersive series of room transformations by artists at Mona, its renowned boutique hotel and cultural center located in the heart of Athens at 4 Kakourgodikiou Street, Psirri (just two minutes from Monastiraki Metro Station).

Preface

House of Shila is a creative studio that designs unique spaces conceived as laboratories for immersive storytelling. Dedicated to beauty in all its forms, its practice is multidisciplinary: boutique hotels (Mona and Shila), design, art direction, ephemeral events, and publishing. By collaborating with creatives from around the world, House of Shila celebrates inspiring works, bringing together a community of artists, designers, and entrepreneurs, while supporting talent at every stage of their journey, perfectly aligned with the spirit of Paris/Athènes Magazine.

For this first edition, contemporary artists Elise Wouters and Angeliki Stamatakou have been invited to inhabit and radically reinvent the rooms of the hotel during their residency. Each artist was given a blank canvas, both literally and figuratively, to create an experience at the intersection of art installation, storytelling, and hospitality.

To the left, Elise Wouters by Eftihia Stefanidi. To the right, Angeliki Stamatakou by Eftihia Stefanidi also.

Launched on June 6, 2025, this series of ephemeral interventions (on view until September) takes place in the iconic penthouses of Mona, offering visitors an intimate, sensory encounter with living art, to explore or acquire.

Mona Suite by Elise Wouters

Belgian photographer Elise Wouters, based in London, has transformed the Mona suite into a meditative space dedicated to memory, femininity, and poetic introspection. Her installation unfolds as a sensory dialogue between image, word, and material.

(c) Elise Wouters by Eftihia Stefanidi

(c) Elise Wouters by Alexandra Koumantaki

Born from repeated stays in the suite, her proposal features hand-painted black-and-white prints representing analog self-portraits, printed on delicate washi paper and placed on textured backgrounds: aged patinas, gauze curtains, and walls with painterly accents. Her work explores impermanence, vulnerability, and the traces left by lived moments. Visitors will discover handwritten love letters, vintage postcards, and a curated selection of her annotated books: an intimate dive into her creative universe.

(c) Elise Wouters by Eftihia Stefanidi

In collaboration with Parisian lingerie brand Mavelle, Wouters and House of Shila have designed a limited edition silk dress, available at Mona and on House of Shila’s online store.

Penthouse 16 by Angeliki Stamatakou

Greek sculptor Angeliki Stamatakou reinvents Penthouse 16 as a dreamlike sanctuary where ritual meets sculpture, and natural light shapes the atmosphere. Her space resonates with raw, grounded, and intuitive emotion. “To inhabit a room is to transform what a visitor feels,” says Angeliki Stamatakou. “They live with my work, they don’t just walk by. They experience it.”

(c) Angeliki Stamatakou by Eftihia Stefanidi

(c) Angeliki Stamatakou by Eftihia Stefanidi

Inspired by subconscious landscapes and organic forms, her sculptural interventions seem both ancient and otherworldly. Black clay mirrors, her first works in this medium, anchor the space alongside a sculptural coffee table, lighting elements, and mysterious, non-functional forms that feel unearthed rather than created. “They are like fossils formed over millennia, objects outside of time and space.”

A playlist composed by the artist completes the atmosphere, enriching the spatial experience through sound and adding emotional layers.

House of Shila, Mona hotel, “SPACE REIMAGINED, ephemeral interventions on view until September 2025, 4 Kakourgodikiou Street, Psirri, Athens.

(c) Opening picture: Nikolas Kilias for P/A Magazine

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