Ana Mendieta
in ‘Sea Garden’, National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ)
8 November 2025 – 8 January 2026
Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1979 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curated Danai Giannoglou and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Sea Garden is the winning proposal resulting from the second Open Call issued by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMΣT) for the curation of a group exhibition. Launched in 2023, this initiative has become an important way for the museum to support curatorial research and to create new opportunities for emerging curators in Greece.
The exhibition title alludes to the 1916 poetry collection Sea Garden by the American poet H.D. (1886–1961), the exhibition brings together works that materially incorporate and depict natural landscapes and the subtle but decisive human interventions they reveal. Landscapes seen through watery reflections that resemble human bodies. Landscapes suffused with the toxic, industrial pledges of progress. Landscapes worn to shelter bodies. Landscapes sucked dry from burning suns. Landscapes throwing us questions and responses at once. Mendieta’s work is exhibited alongside artists including, Claude Cahun, Catriona Gallagher, Margaret Raspé, Dora Economou, Athena Tacha.