The cultural heritage of a place covers a wide range of its historical journey and
continuity. Thus, the need for the historical past to be brought to the fore again,
'embraces' the will of contemporary art to educate and present itself to the masses.
Organizing events that include both is a common practice that tends to become
established nowadays, partly as a means of self-preservation for cultural institutions,
but certainly for the advancement of the cultural experience. The present thesis seeks
to capture and investigate the diversity of experiences and methods of interpreting the
narrative that this coexistence of the ancient environment with modern art provides,
both for artists and producers as well as for heritage managers and tourists, by
examining the effect of these occurrences. In this direction, we look at the difficulties
and theoretical underpinnings associated with recognizing the significance of
contemporary art in the sense of promoting and exhibiting archaeological sites, as well
as the actual significance of the connection between ancient and contemporary art. In
the first parts of the paper, the concepts of cultural heritage and contemporary art forms
will be analyzed. Then the importance of combining the two (contemporary art and
cultural heritage) will be shown and examples of successful exhibition efforts from
Greece and the world will be given. Finally, focusing on the Venetian Walls of
Heraklion, we will attempt to approach the context in which the coexistence of the
ancient monument with contemporary art is feasible (taking information from
interviews with artists and individuals at the competent authorities), but also what are
the circumstances that enable this coexistence?
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