Opening: Saturday, 14 February 2026, 20:00

“Wait…How did we get here?”; this is the question and the title of the project under which an innovative and multidisciplinary programme -including an exhibition, club nights, artistic workshops, an artistic residency, educational programmes and guided tours- takes place in MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, in collaboration with XenoVisual Studies Collective (XVS), from 20 February until 14 June 2026. 

The MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, an institution dedicated to the exploration, presentation, and promotion of experimental artistic practices, collaborates for the first time with the fluid collective XenoVisual Studies (XVS), which operates as a network for artistic experimentation and critical inquiry, investigating how emerging technologies reshape aesthetics, reality, identity and society. The shared aim of this collaboration is to create a space for experimentation, reflection, and connection, where artists engaged in interdisciplinary research explore diverse artistic forms as tools for critical and creative engagement with new technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital systems, while at the same time, the project foregrounds decolonial, queer, trans/feminist, and crip (+) approaches to perception, knowledge production, and ways of relating to the world (+).

The artistic residency rpogramme, the artistic workshops, the educational programmes and guided tours will be announced during the exhibition. 

Curated by: Domna Gounari / MOMUS-Experimental Center for the Arts, Nensi Brama, Δiμiiτρiii, Mar Osés, Pilar del Puerto, Esther Rizo-Casado / XenoVisual Studies Collective (XVS)

The exhibition under the title “Wait…How did we get here?” presents works by 20 Greek and international artists and artistic teams who promote critical issues such as technological dissonance, systemic inequality, and the ways digital infrastructures entangle with histories of exploitation, surveillance, and violence. Through interdisciplinary and expanded artistic practices, the works in the exhibition, including installations, screenings, sculptures, wearables, and digital prints, examine how artificial intelligence, networked technologies, and rhetorics of innovation shape contemporary existence, often extending colonial legacies masked as Western progress.

The parallel world which is being mapped in the exhibition creates the best possible framework in order to explore and imagine emerging alternative futures.

Αrtists: Babak Ahteshamipour, Margarita Athanasiou, Amanda Bennetts, Captain Stavros, Vera Chotzoglou, DREAMFacta, Nas Drimousi, Iro Drossos, Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung, Katerina Giannopoulou, Puneet Jain, Foteini Korre, Iro Kraija Karavia, Julie-Michèle Morin, Afroditi Psarra, Eliana Ranti, Nana Sachini, Marisa Satsia, Eleni Thiresia.

The artist Aikaterini Gegisian also participates in the exhibition with the installation THIRD PERSON (PLURAL), which I being presented in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival. The cinema version of this work will be screened during the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. 

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