Brilliant Things to Do This December
Daisy Woodward, AnOther
December 2025
Across the city at Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣT), another show has piqued our interest. Sea Garden is the result of the museum’s second Open Call scheme in support of emerging Greek curators – in this instance, Danai Giannoglou and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou – and takes as its focus “works that materially incorporate and depict natural landscapes and the subtle but decisive human interventions they reveal.” Featured names range from Claude Cahun (who famously donned a rock like a bedsheet, with only her arms revealed, in a bid to challenge society’s rigid understanding of gender and identity) and Ana Mendieta (who imprinted her own body onto landscapes only to erase the markings through a poetic harnessing of the elements) to contemporary Athens-based artists Dora Economou and Catriona Gallagher.