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The exhibition “Theorems 4/2025. Botanologies: Issues of Ecology in Contemporary Visual Practices”
The event is organized under the aegis of the Athens Municipality, with the participation of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and leading Greek art institutions - OPANDA (the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization).
Participants from JS Gallery by IMC include:
The event is organized under the aegis of the Athens Municipality, with the participation of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and leading Greek art institutions - OPANDA (the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization).
Participants from JS Gallery by IMC include:
Julia Sysalova
Curator, art critic, member of AICA, and founder of the Online School of Art Communications @julietath
and Ksenia Mazheyko (artist)
Curator, art critic, member of AICA, and founder of the Online School of Art Communications @julietath
and Ksenia Mazheyko (artist)
Exhibition: October 24 – November 16, 2025
Athens Municipal Gallery, Building A, corner of Germanikou & Myllerou St., Metaxourgeio, 10436, Athens, Greece
Athens Municipal Gallery, Building A, corner of Germanikou & Myllerou St., Metaxourgeio, 10436, Athens, Greece
Julia Sysalova's participation with Ksenia Mazheyko in the AICA Hellas exhibition Theorems 4/2025: “Botanologies: Issues of Ecology in Contemporary Visual Practices,” which opened October 24, 2025, at the Athens Municipal Gallery.
🌾 For the fourth edition of this institutional project, 24 curators, theorists, and art critics, all members of AICA Hellas, each propose an artist whose work focuses on contemporary ecological concerns and explores aspects of the natural world through diverse media.
🦋 The participating art theorists and their proposed artists are:
Dionysia Giakoumi – Antonia Papatzanaki
Sozita Goudouna – Kletia Kokalari
Gelly Gryntaki – Giannis Stamatiou
Maria D. Kayadaki – Electros (aka Babis Vekris)
Katerina Kazolea – Stavros Panagiotakis
Artemis Kardoulaki – Vivi Tsiogka
Eva Kekou – Virginia Filippousi
Elli Leventaki – Athina Koumparouli
Emmanouil Mavrommatis – Maro Karagounaki
Efi Michalarou – Ifigeneia Sdoukou
Konstantinos Basios – Antigoni Kavvatha
Elli Paxinou – Catriona Gallagher
Bia Papadopoulou – Eleni Exarchou
Niki Papaspyrou – Nikos Iavazzo and Andreas Kallis
Konstantinos Proimos – Maria Papanikolaou
Eirini Savvani – Konstantina Sylikou
Kyriakos Spyrou – Babak Akhtesamipour and Dimitris Gousis
Athina Schina – Sotiria Alevizou
Julia Sysalova – Ksenia Mazheyko
Fay Tzanetoulakou – Sofia Fotiadou
Eurydice Trison-Milssane – Angelos Merges
Lina Tsikouta – Emilia Bouriti
Matina Charalambi – Vangelis Savas
Anna Chatzigiannaki – Marcos Novak
Organizing Committee
AICA Hellas Board: Emmanouil Mavrommatis (President), Elli Leventaki (General Secretary), Efi Michalarou (Treasurer), Haris Kanellopoulou (Special Secretary), Artemis Potamianou (Member)
Additional members:
Niki Papaspyrou, Dionysia Giakoumi, and Matina Charalambi
📍 Information
Athens Municipal Gallery, Building A, corner of Germanikou & Myllerou St., Metaxourgeio, 10436
Duration: October 24 – November 16, 2025
🌾 For the fourth edition of this institutional project, 24 curators, theorists, and art critics, all members of AICA Hellas, each propose an artist whose work focuses on contemporary ecological concerns and explores aspects of the natural world through diverse media.
🦋 The participating art theorists and their proposed artists are:
Dionysia Giakoumi – Antonia Papatzanaki
Sozita Goudouna – Kletia Kokalari
Gelly Gryntaki – Giannis Stamatiou
Maria D. Kayadaki – Electros (aka Babis Vekris)
Katerina Kazolea – Stavros Panagiotakis
Artemis Kardoulaki – Vivi Tsiogka
Eva Kekou – Virginia Filippousi
Elli Leventaki – Athina Koumparouli
Emmanouil Mavrommatis – Maro Karagounaki
Efi Michalarou – Ifigeneia Sdoukou
Konstantinos Basios – Antigoni Kavvatha
Elli Paxinou – Catriona Gallagher
Bia Papadopoulou – Eleni Exarchou
Niki Papaspyrou – Nikos Iavazzo and Andreas Kallis
Konstantinos Proimos – Maria Papanikolaou
Eirini Savvani – Konstantina Sylikou
Kyriakos Spyrou – Babak Akhtesamipour and Dimitris Gousis
Athina Schina – Sotiria Alevizou
Julia Sysalova – Ksenia Mazheyko
Fay Tzanetoulakou – Sofia Fotiadou
Eurydice Trison-Milssane – Angelos Merges
Lina Tsikouta – Emilia Bouriti
Matina Charalambi – Vangelis Savas
Anna Chatzigiannaki – Marcos Novak
Organizing Committee
AICA Hellas Board: Emmanouil Mavrommatis (President), Elli Leventaki (General Secretary), Efi Michalarou (Treasurer), Haris Kanellopoulou (Special Secretary), Artemis Potamianou (Member)
Additional members:
Niki Papaspyrou, Dionysia Giakoumi, and Matina Charalambi
📍 Information
Athens Municipal Gallery, Building A, corner of Germanikou & Myllerou St., Metaxourgeio, 10436
Duration: October 24 – November 16, 2025
Within the framework of the project, the founder of the school and JS Gallery, Julia Sysalova - curator, art critic, and member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) - curatorially presents Ksenia Mazheyko, an artist and graduate of the school, with the project "Symbioforma".
Julia Sysalova’s curatorial concept addresses nature as an inseparable continuum and rejects hierarchies between plant and animal. These imagined bioforms become metaphors for ecological kinship and the memory of disappearing species.
In the artist’s delicate ink and watercolor drawings, nature appears as a living network of transformations, where a new cell replaces the body, and vanished forms continue to exist in others.
This is a "botany of the future," an archive of possible life, calling for a rethinking of human connections with the natural world.
Julia Sysalova’s curatorial concept addresses nature as an inseparable continuum and rejects hierarchies between plant and animal. These imagined bioforms become metaphors for ecological kinship and the memory of disappearing species.
In the artist’s delicate ink and watercolor drawings, nature appears as a living network of transformations, where a new cell replaces the body, and vanished forms continue to exist in others.
This is a "botany of the future," an archive of possible life, calling for a rethinking of human connections with the natural world.
Theorems is an institutional exhibition project organized by the Greek branch of AICA Hellas (International Association of Art Critics) every two years.
The fourth edition of the exhibition cycle is dedicated to ecological issues in contemporary art.
It features 24 curators, theorists, and art critics, each presenting an artist whose practice explores different aspects of nature and ecological thought through diverse visual media
The fourth edition of the exhibition cycle is dedicated to ecological issues in contemporary art.
It features 24 curators, theorists, and art critics, each presenting an artist whose practice explores different aspects of nature and ecological thought through diverse visual media
Our guests
Many guests of the exhibition and colleagues curators expressed interest in the works of Ksenia Mazheyko, who was presented by Julia Sysalova. The President of the Greek branch of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) was among them.
Artworks featured in the project
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