T a v r o s

T a v r o s A non-profit art space with a strong community commitment in the area of Tavros.

30/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #5

We conclude our Highlight Series with a final excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS, bringing together fragments from across our 2025–2026 programme.

This Reel moves between collective vocal exercises from The Choir for Non-musicians by Bint Mbareh, moments from the i-Speak II: Psychogeographies & Visual Narratives mapping workshop by BEND with the 1st High School of Tavros, Dafni Lianantonaki's walk From the Peak of the Mountain You See the Sea, and Songs for Waters, a screening of films by Lamia Joreige, Jumana Emil Abboud, Anna Moreno, and Noor Abed.

We wrap up this year with great joy and gratitude to all the artists, collaborators, participants, and contributors who made this programme possible.

You can now watch the full film by Nefeli Papaioannou on our Vimeo channel.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou

29/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #4

We continue our Highlight Series with another excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS.

This Reel brings together three moments from the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

We return to The Choir for Non-musicians by Bint Mbareh, a collective vocal practice that asks how bodies can merge through sounds accessible to everyone taking part. We also revisit Krasta, Sofia Zafeiriou's porous electroacoustic live set inspired by our (water) bodies as transmission media.

The Reel also includes moments from Songs for Waters, a screening of films by Lamia Joreige, Jumana Emil Abboud, Anna Moreno, and Noor Abed. The programme brought together stories from across the Mediterranean, each centred on a different body of water.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou

Tomorrow, we'll be sharing the final post in our Highlight Series. Soon, you'll also be able to watch Nefeli Papaioannou's full film on our Vimeo channel.

27/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #3

We continue our Highlight Series with another excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS.

This Reel brings together two events from the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

The first features We are in Flood by Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst. The performance brings together voices from the artists' earlier works Black Atlantis: The End of Eating Everything and Brown Atlantis Radio, continuing their explorations of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the imagined Kumari Kandam, a lost Tamil continent described as an Atlantis before Atlantis. The performance included music by Bi Kidude, Rabindranath Tagore, and Pearl Divers from the Arabian Peninsula, alongside the voices of Rachel Baker, Lizzie Homersham, Bijan Moosavi, Christian Nyampeta, and Theodor Ringborg.

The second takes us back to Dafni Lianantonaki's walk From the Peak of the Mountain You See the Sea. We hear Dafni's words as we follow her through the landscapes of Mesogeia, returning to the mountain to see the sea.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaiannou

More Reels from our Highlight Series will be released throughout the month, so stay tuned!

25/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #2

We continue our Highlight Series with another excerpt from the film commissioned by TAVROS, revisiting our 2025–2026 programme through the eyes of filmmaker Nefeli Papaiannou.

This Reel returns to For Our Time Is the Time of Water, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras and Mayssa Fattouh.

It moves through the exhibition with details from Rosella Biscotti's Stranded, Davra Research Collective's Taming Waters and Women, Shahana Rajani's Four Acts of Recovery, Jumana Manna's Water Arms, and Ayesha Hameed's Ilemuria. It also brings us back to moments from the exhibition opening and Songs for Waters, a screening featuring films by Lamia Joreige, Jumana Emil Abboud, Anna Moreno, and Noor Abed.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaiannou

More Reels from our Highlight Series will be released throughout the month, so stay tuned!

HIGHLIGHT #02On 28 April 2026, we welcomed two performances as part of the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time...
23/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT #02

On 28 April 2026, we welcomed two performances as part of the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

The evening began with We are in Flood by Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst, a performance exploring subaquatic bodies of water as sites of grief, suffering, and kinship. Bringing together voices and music from earlier works, the piece continued Hameed’s long-term exploration of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, alongside the imagined lost Tamil continent of Kumari Kandam.

The second performance, Krasta by Sofia Zafeiriou, presented a porous electroacoustic live set inspired by our (water) bodies as transmission media.

📷 Photos: Dimitris Parthimos

Public programme & Learning curation: Maria-Thalia Carras, Mayssa Fattouh, Manto Psarelli

For Our Time Is the Time of Water and its public programme were realised with the support of the Athina I. Martinou Foundation.

21/07/2026

HIGHLIGHT SERIES
Reel #1

As part of our Highlight Series, we're sharing excerpts from the film commissioned by TAVROS, revisiting our 2025–2026 programme through the eyes of filmmaker Nefeli Papaioannou.

This first Reel brings together two moments from earlier in the season.

On 28 March 2026, we joined Dafni Lianantonaki's walk From the Peak of the Mountain You See the Sea. Through excerpts from the walk, we hear Dafni's words as she guides us through the landscapes of Mesogeia, sharing stories from her long-term research in the region. Together, we become part of her peripatetic practice, visiting places she has returned to time and again while tracing the transformations of the landscape and the experiences of the communities living alongside it. The walk was part of the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water, where Dafni's work Behind the Mountain (2023–2026) was also presented.

The Reel then shifts to our listening session dedicated to En Plo's only album, held on 16 January 2026 in the presence of Ntinos Sadikis, former member of the band, and many other special guests. The soundtrack features Χωρίς Κανόνες, one of En Plo's most iconic songs. Although the band released only one album and gave just one live concert, they left an enduring mark on the history of Greek rock music. The listening session accompanied the exhibition And, So What?, where Constantinos Hadzinikolaou and Apostolos Vasilopoulos presented more than a decade of research into overlooked histories of Greek music and art-making.

🎬 Direction & audiovisual documentation: Nefeli Papaioannou

More Reels from our Highlight Series will be released throughout the month, so stay tuned!

July marks the end of a very rich year at TAVROS, a season full of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, and...
17/07/2026

July marks the end of a very rich year at TAVROS, a season full of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, and gatherings.

Over the coming weeks, we will share a few moments from our 2025–2026 programme, returning to some of the encounters that shaped this year.

✨HIGHLIGHT #01 ✨
The Choir for Non-musicians
Performance by Bint Mbareh

On 10 June 2026, Bint Mbareh invited participants to explore the voice as a collective practice through The Choir for Non-musicians.

The gathering became a space where the voice was no longer understood as an individual expression, but as something formed between people. Participants took turns conducting the group through improvised gestures, explored different vocal registers, and experimented with what it means to sound together.

The session concluded with a collective reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s A River Dies of Thirst.

Photos: Alexandra Masmanidi

Part of the public programme of For Our Time Is the Time of Water.

Public programme & Learning curation: Maria-Thalia Carras , Mayssa Fattouh Mayssa Fattouh, Manto Psarelli

For Our Time Is the Time of Water and its public programme were realised with the support of the Athina I. Martinou Foundation Athina I. Martinou Foundation

TAVROS took part in Istanbul Conversations, organised by SAHA, alongside 35 professionals from 31 organisations across t...
07/07/2026

TAVROS took part in Istanbul Conversations, organised by SAHA, alongside 35 professionals from 31 organisations across the international contemporary art scene.

Over the course of three days, we had the opportunity to exchange experiences and discuss urgent questions with fellow practitioners, curators, artists, and cultural workers. Conversations focused on ways of working in times of precarity and division, the future of biennials, ecologies of institutional dialogue, the role of artistic residencies, institutional practice in a multipolar world, and philanthropy in the arts, while the programme also included visits to cultural spaces and exhibitions across the city.

As part of the panel Ecologies of Dialogue, Maria-Thalia Carras joined Monica Carroquino, Michele Ruo Yi Landolt, and Ruben Steinem in a conversation moderated by Merve Elveren, reflecting on how institutions can build more responsive and transparent relationships with artists and cultural workers, and how dialogue can move beyond symbolic participation to meaningfully inform institutional practice.

We are happy to be part of this ever-growing network of organisations that SAHA brought together: (UAE), Institute for Contemporary Art (Armenia), Trampoline (France), .art (Austria), Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (Brazil), Samdani Art Foundation (Bangladesh), Hartwig Art Foundation (The Netherlands), (Spain), Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Finland), NEON Organization (Greece), (United Kingdom), International Visual and Applied Arts Programme (Sweden), 32° East (Uganda), SculptureCenter (USA), Darb1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Center (Egypt), Beirut Art Center (Lebanon), Creative Australia (Australia), Kaasaegse Kunsti Eesti Keskus (Estonia), Icelandic Art Center (Iceland), Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Germany), and OCA (Norway).

Many thanks to SAHA for the warm welcome, for hosting us so generously, and for creating this space for urgent conversations and lasting connections.

Photo credits: 1–4 Kayhan Kaygusuz, 5–8 SAHA

For Our Time Is the Time of Water has come to an end.A heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and sh...
30/06/2026

For Our Time Is the Time of Water has come to an end.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and shared these past months with us.

Through exhibitions, screenings, lectures, workshops, performances, and conversations, we followed hidden waterways, reflected on the politics of rivers and seas, and imagined new ways of living with landscapes.

Our deepest thanks to all the artists, speakers, collaborators, workshop facilitators, performers, partners, and everyone who contributed to making this programme possible: Panos Aprahamian, Noor Abed, Jumana Emil Abboud, Rosella Biscotti, Hassan Julien Chehouri, Thodoris Chondrogiannos, Dilip da Cunha, Navine G. Dossos, Rami el Sabbagh, Alia Farid, Ayesha Hameed, Ayesha Hameed & Tom Hirst, Georgia Kanellopoulou, Anastasia Karadimitri, Liana Kassir & Renaud Pachot, Kostas Lagouvardos, Dafni Lianantonaki, Jumana Manna, Bint Mbareh, Anna Moreno, Davra Research Collective (Saodat Ismailova, Zumrad Mirzalieva, Madina Joldybek), Nour Ouayda, Eleni Papaskyrianou, Shahana Rajani, Lara Tabet, and Sofia Zafeiriou.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more moments from the exhibition’s public programme and highlights from the 2025-2026 TAVROS programme.

Our space will remain closed for the summer season as we prepare for what comes next.

Stay tuned!

Photo: Navine G. Dossos textile art work, Horizon (2026) at TAVROS office. Photo Stathis Mamalakis

Πριν κλείσει η έκθεση, περάστε από το TAVROS και πάρτε δωρεάν τον χάρτη-αφίσα ΑΘΗΝΑ – ΠΟΛΙΣ ΥΔΑΤΙΝΗ, που δημιουργήθηκε α...
25/06/2026

Πριν κλείσει η έκθεση, περάστε από το TAVROS και πάρτε δωρεάν τον χάρτη-αφίσα ΑΘΗΝΑ – ΠΟΛΙΣ ΥΔΑΤΙΝΗ, που δημιουργήθηκε από την εικονογράφο Ελένη Παπασκυριανού στο πλαίσιο του εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος LEARNING της έκθεσης For Our Time Is the Time of Water, σε επιμέλεια της Μαντώς Ψαρέλλη, της Μαρίας-Θάλειας Καρρά και της Mayssa Fattouh.

Συνδυάζοντας μυθολογικές αφηγήσεις, ιστορικές αναφορές, παρατηρήσεις πεδίου και ανεκδοτολογικά στοιχεία, ο χάρτης αναδεικνύει τα αόρατα δίκτυα νερού της Αθήνας και μας προσκαλεί να ανακαλύψουμε εκ νέου τις διαδρομές του νερού μέσα στην πόλη, από τα βουνά της Αττικής, υπόγεια και επιφανειακά, έως τη θάλασσα.

Όπως σημειώνει η Ελένη Παπασκυριανού:

«Η ανάληψη του σχεδιασμού του χάρτη ΑΘΗΝΑ – ΠΟΛΙΣ ΥΔΑΤΙΝΗ μου έδωσε την ευκαιρία να εμβαθύνω σε ιστορικά κείμενα και στη γεωμυθολογία, να συνομιλήσω με αρχαιολόγους που εργάζονται στην Αττική και να εξετάσω τόσο τα αρχαία όσο και τα σύγχρονα υδρολογικά συστήματα. Μέσα από αυτή την έρευνα, άρχισα να αντιλαμβάνομαι το νερό όχι μόνο ως υποδομή, αλλά ως μνήμη, μύθο και μια αόρατη δύναμη που διαμορφώνει την πόλη διαχρονικά.

Η χαρτογράφηση αρχαίων ποταμών, πηγών και υπόγειων διαδρομών ανέδειξε πόσο βαθιά επηρέαζε το νερό την αθηναϊκή ζωή — από την οργάνωση των οικισμών έως τις τελετουργίες και τη συλλογική ταυτότητα. Σήμερα, μεγάλο μέρος αυτού του υδρολογικού δικτύου βρίσκεται θαμμένο κάτω από το τσιμέντο, σιωπηλό αλλά ακόμη ζωντανό.

Ο χάρτης επιχειρεί να καταστήσει ορατά αυτά τα κρυμμένα ρεύματα. Το φθορίζον, έντονο πράσινο χρώμα αναδεικνύει τις υδάτινες διαδρομές σαν υπογραμμισμένο κείμενο, επιμένοντας να διαβαστούν και να αναγνωριστούν. Υπενθυμίζει ότι το νερό παραμένει ένα ζωντανό στοιχείο κάτω από την πόλη, ακόμη κι όταν δεν φαίνεται.»

📣 Τελευταία εβδομάδα λειτουργίας της έκθεσης:

🗓️ Πέμπτη, Παρασκευή: 16:00–20:00
Σάββατο: 12:00–17:00

Εικόνες: Προσχέδια χάρτη ΑΘΗΝΑ – ΠΟΛΙΣ ΥΔΑΤΙΝΗ.

Υποστήριξη:

Η έκθεση For Our Time Is the Time of Water και το Δημόσιο Πρόγραμμά της υλοποιούνται με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος Αθηνάς Ι. Μαρτίνου Athina I. Martinou Foundation. Το Εκπαιδευτικό Πρόγραμμα της έκθεσης και ο χάρτης Αθήνα – Πόλις Υδάτινη υλοποιούνται με τη στήριξη του John S. Fafalios Foundation.

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