The headquarters of the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation are located in the suburb of Marousi, in a two-story neoclassical building that the painter built to live and work in.

The downstairs served as his living quarters, and the spacious upstairs, with its high ceiling and plenty of light, was where he worked. In 1981, he created the foundation in his own name, and donated the house and all of his works to it, with the aim of turning the house into a museum, as he didn’t trust that any other museum would do his works justice, or even want to display them.

From 1982 until his death in 1989, the upper floor of the house alternated between being used as his studio, and the venue for all of his exhibitions, which would last as long as three months.

Now the house is open to the public once again for a temporary exhibition that aims to recreate the studio as it was when Tsarouchis was alive. Following careful studies of photographs of the studio, the upper floor has been arranged just like it was when the painter was still using it, giving the visitor the feeling of having stepped behind a curtain and into the past.

Copies of Tsarouchis’ works stand on the floor against the walls, photographs of the studio and the exhibitions put on before the painter’s death are on display, and many of his personal items and tools, such as brushes, a camera and paints, are scattered around the room. 

(The original paintings owned by the foundation are on display at the Benaki Musuem Pireos Street Annexe, as the house is not equipped to preserve original paintings.)