Accomplished or perfect future? The double reading of the term “Future Perfect” is the title of the new exhibition presented at the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki from 23 January to 30 March 2025, co-organised by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and supported by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Thessaloniki. The exhibition has at its core the question: how will we have lived? Through the visual proposals of 19 artists, numerous, different answers and hypotheses about the (enacted) future emerge.

Films, photographs, sculptures, objects, paintings and collages make up the artistic proposal/exhibition, as another way of examining speculations about the course of history. Today the future is increasingly seen as a critical concept. Even the very near future, despite digital acceleration, is difficult to predict and it seems impossible to arrive at a reliable understanding of it.

If in the southern Mediterranean region civil societies claim and embody the future in spite of the mass resistance they encounter, in Central Europe the future seems to be more a source of anxiety than a motive for action.

However, the ability to speculate, to name intentions, expectations and fears and then make these the basis for action is what holds societies together. The works in the exhibition create spaces for imagination, action (and play) about the future and ‘translate’ important social questions into artistic concepts.

Artistic Director: Thouli Misirloglou

Curated by: Angelika Stepken, curator and former director of Villa Romana-Florence, Philipp Ziegler, research associate at ZKM | Museum of New Art-Karlsruhe, Theodoris Markoglou, art historian-curator of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art

Participating Artists: Nikos Arvanitis, Nairy Baghramian, Vangelis Vlachos, DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch & Adele Röder), Mariana Castillo Deball, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Lina Theodorou, Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Armin Linke, Antje Majewski, Henrik Olesen, Yorgos Sapountzis, Nora Schultz, Nasan Tur, Danh Vo, Clemens von Wedemeyer