Art galleries in Santorini

Santorini, South Aegean has 5 art galleries on the map. That's 5 galleries mapped around Santorini. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Santorini (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Exhibition Volkan Pizza Santorini and Oria, plus Galanopoulos Art Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Santorini's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Santorini gallery lineup

5 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Santorini

1 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The one mapped art gallery sits on Μεγαλοχώρι — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Most of the art galleries in Santorini list a phone number. Handy for confirming opening times around exhibition changeovers.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Santorini gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Exhibition Volkan Pizza Santorini, Oria, Galanopoulos Art Gallery, Xylo Wood Design Santorini on Μεγαλοχώρι, and Asmis Kolaitou. That's 5 stops on the Santorini gallery walk.

Gallery tips for Santorini

Gallery-going in Santorini? A few habits help:

• Check for artist talks at Exhibition Volkan Pizza Santorini. Talks, walkthroughs and panel discussions are often free and turn a good show into a great evening.
• Don't rush the video work at Oria. Video installations need their full runtime. Sit down, give it the minutes it asks for.
• Follow the galleries online. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.
• Take the long way through. Galleries reward slow looking. One extra lap always reveals something the first pass missed.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Santorini — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Santorini can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 5 that's closed, or a great art gallery we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 5 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.