The New Museum and the DESTE Foundation in partnership with the Benaki Museum, Athens, are pleased to announce In a Bright Green Field, the third in a series of collaborative exhibitions highlighting the work of contemporary Greek and Cypriot artists. On view starting June 11, 2025, at the Benaki Museum – Pireos 138, Athens, In a Bright Green Field features the work of twenty-nine young artists exploring possible futures where renewed relationships with the natural world might emerge and expansive approaches to community may flourish. Gathering artists working across a variety of mediums, this exhibition surveys some of the most exciting emerging practices in Athens, Nicosia, and across Europe.
The exhibition highlights a generation of artists who are particularly attentive to the local histories of Greece and Cyprus and the ways in which they are useful for thinking through larger global challenges. These artists register the dramatic changes to labor and landscape accelerated by technology, while working to highlight emergent forms of collectivity across both urban and rural life. Their works explore the poetics of infrastructure, pastoral science-fictions, urban animism, and generative collaborations that resonate far beyond the space of the museum. Ranging from lyrical painting and sculpture to experimental documentary film to communal performance, In a Bright Green Field looks at art practices that can serve as prototypes for myriad possible futures.
In a Bright Green Field follows the 2019 exhibition The Same River Twice and the 2016 exhibition The Equilibrists, organized by the New Museum and DESTE Foundation in partnership with the Benaki Museum. It echoes previous projects by both the New Museum and the DESTE Foundation over the past four decades that have looked to contemporary art to address the most pressing issues of the day, and embodies the mission of the Benaki Museum, a historical museum with a contemporary program focused on bridging the past and the present.
The exhibition is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, New Museum, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog published by the DESTE Foundation with new writing by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Athens-based curator and writer Danai Giannoglu, and Nicosia-based curator and writer Ioulita Toumazi.
Artist List
Niki Analyti (b. 1994, Corfu, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Raissa Angeli (b. 1986, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus
Ileana Arnaoutou (b. 1994, Athens, Greece). Lives and work in Athens, Greece
Vera Chotzoglou (b. 1992, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Anna Housiada (b. 1990, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Danae Io (b. 1993, Athens, Greece). Lives and works between Rotterdam, Netherlands and Athens, Greece
Byron Kalomamas (b. 1993, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in London, England
Konstanza Kapsali (b. 1989, Thessaloniki, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Ismene King (b. 1993 Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Kyriakos Kyriakides (b. 1996, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus
Latent Community (Established 2017 in Athens, Greece)
Ionian Bisai (b. 1992, Saranda, Albania). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Sotiris Tsiganos (b. 1992, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Ioanna Limniou (b. 1987, Alexandroupoli, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Maria Louizou (b. 1988, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Marietta Mavrokordatou (b. 1996, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in London, England
Polina Miliou (b. 1990, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Eleni Odysseos (b.1991, Famagusta, Cyprus). Lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus
Nefeli Papadimouli (b. 1988, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Paris, France
Theodoulos Polyviou (b. 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Sofia Rozaki (b. 1990, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Despina Sanida Crezia (b. 1998, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
David Sampethai (b. 1989, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Marios Stamatis (b. 1986, Larissa, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
The Post Collective (Established 2018 in Brussels, Belgium)
Mirra Markhaëva (b. 1992, Ivolginsk, Buryatia). Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Elli Vassalou (b. 1983, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Theo Triantafyllidis (b. 1988, Athens, Greece). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Maria Toumazou (b. 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus
Marina Xenofontos (b.1988, Limassol, Cyprus). Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Damianos Zisimou (b. 1994, Nicosia, Cyprus). Lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands
About New Museum
The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
About DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution established in Geneva in 1983 by collector Dakis Joannou. DESTE engages in an extensive exhibition program that promotes emerging as well as established artists and aims to broaden the audience for contemporary art, enhance opportunities for young artists, and explore the connections between contemporary art and culture. The flexibility of DESTE’s exhibition schedule enables the Foundation to respond to what is current in the art world, both nationally and internationally, and to embark on interesting projects as they emerge in today’s society.
About Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum is among the most extensive and innovative museum organizations in Europe. It was founded by Antonis Benakis in 1930 and subsequently donated to the Greek state. Arranged across a satellite network of six museum buildings, the Museum also features 5 archival departments and an extensive library, the Leigh Fermor House, offering residencies to scholars, and a collection currently holding a 500,000-strong inventory covering all periods of Greek culture as well as European, Islamic, Pre-Columbian, African and Chinese art.
In a Bright Green Field, June 12 – July 27, 2025; Benaki Museum – Pireos 138; 138 Pireos & Andronikou St.; 118 54 Athens
Opening hours: Thursday, Sunday 10:00 – 18:00; Friday, Saturday 10:00 – 22:00; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Closed
