Physis

Nature has always occupied humanity as a model, an objective, and a challenge in its entirety. In art, the theme has emerged as a favorite protagonist since prehistoric times, and ever since, it has not ceased to be the subject of search and inquiry for artists of all places and eras on various levels - pictorial, conceptual, spiritual, philosophical, even metaphysical. The group show Physis explores the idea of nature as that which springs forth, grows and transforms from within. It is nature understood as an active principle: a generative force, a process, a becoming.

The participating artists — from Chile, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and France — offer their interpretations to a shared question: what does it mean today to work with nature in a world increasingly mediated by technology and immateriality? In the face of acceleration, virtualization, and the production of images detached from physical experience, their works put an emphasis on the notions of the resistance of materials, the behavior of matter, the processes of erosion, accumulation, or transformation, and in the direct relationship between the artist’s body and the materials.

The exhibition unfolds as a field of resonances rather than a closed discourse, asserting materiality as a critical position. In a social and artistic context marked by immediacy and dematerialization, the works of the exhibition (painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media and video) propose a different tempo — slower, more attentive — where the sensory, the tactile and the processual recover their capacity to generate meaning.

Artists: Christina Almodóvar, Susana Botana, Birgit Cauer, Leonidas Chalepas, Efi Fouriki, Paula Fraile, Katerina Gutiérrez, Sophie Horvath, Ingela Nilsson, Neal Rock, Reto Steiner, Xisca Veny

Curators: Vassiliki Vayenou, Susana Botana

Duration: 29 October- 15 November 2026

Opening: Thursday, 29 October | 19:00

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 17:00 - 20:00

Venue: T.A.F. / the art foundation
5 Normanou str. Athens 10555