The public and educational program for the exhibition For Our Time is the Time of Water continues successfully throughout May and June.

The exhibition at TAVROS, curated by Maria-Thalia Karra and Mayssa Fattouh, invites the public to reflect on their relationship with water, viewing it not as a given natural resource but as a shared good in crisis. Participating artists include Rosella Biscotti, Alia Farid, Ayesha Hameed, Daphne Lianantonaki, Jumana Manna, Shahana Rajani, and the DAVRA research collective.

As part of the exhibition, the public program, curated by Maria-Thalia Karra, Manto Psarelli, and Mayssa Fattouh, brings together scientists, artists, theorists, architects, journalists, and activists whose work focuses on water and the urgent issues surrounding it.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 7:00–8:30 p.m. | Discussion

Can Rain Save Us (?)

In collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Thessaloniki Office, Greece

Speakers: Konstantinos Lagouvardos (Director of Research, National Observatory of Athens), Anastasia Karadimitris (journalist, Inside Story), Georgia Kanellopoulou (Geo-Environmental Engineer, To Boulouki)

Moderator: Theodoros Chondrogiannos (journalist, Reporters United)

“Water for only 62 days,” “The rivers have dried up,” and “A rain will save us” were just a few of the newspaper headlines in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to a prolonged drought that troubled scientists and terrified citizens.

Decades later, Attica, along with Patmos and Leros, has been placed under a state of emergency to address water shortages, while a UN report concludes that we have entered a period of “global water bankruptcy.” Droughts and instances of pollution that were once unprecedented are becoming chronic, resulting in river basins and aquifers losing their ability to return to their historical “normality.” At the same time, climate change is responsible for increasingly intense rainfall, which, in combination with other factors, leads to extreme and often deadly flooding.

This discussion calls on us to shift our focus beyond the disruption of the water cycle to its commodification, addressing issues of control and rights, and posing questions such as: Is it possible to reconcile the dominant model of economic development with the grim data regarding the future of water? Who is currently competing for water, and what pressures are places and communities outside Attica facing? What is the role of technology in the water crisis?

Thursday, May 28, 2026, 8:00 p.m. | Lecture (in English)
DESIGN IN AN OCEAN OF WETNESS: Habitation beyond a Troubled Earth Surface
Speaker: Dilip da Cunha, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), at Columbia University & Co-founder of the Mathur / da Cunha studio

The lecture is co-organized by Investing for Purpose as part of the Panathēnea 2026 festival.

We live within a universal Ocean. Its wetness is everywhere: in the air, on the earth, in the sea, in flora and fauna. It falls as rain, evaporates, erupts in storms, diffuses, soaks, breathes, seeps, freezes. We, too, are moisture, and this moisture is essential to our existence. Yet we are not taught that we live in an “ocean of moisture.” We are taught that we live on a surface of the Earth called “land,” which is served by water: water tasked with nourishing and draining the land, providing it with energy, transportation, and lucrative coastal zones. Water that occasionally resists its subjugation through floods, droughts, and leaks.

In this lecture, Dilip da Cunha presents “land” as a product of design—a hypothetical surface marked by lines to separate and confine water, to be situated within a specific time, and to be articulated as a landscape. It functions as a terrain of observation, habitation, civilization, and colonization.

Today, it is a surface in crisis due to climate change and its consequences: rising sea levels, melting glaciers, floods, mass population displacements, species extinction, and wars. These are not problems to be solved. They are calls to rethink a design project.

Can an Ocean of Wetness offer an alternative?

Saturday, June 6, 2026, 4:00 p.m. | Guided tour of the exhibition

With Maria – Thalia Karra (co-curator of the exhibition)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 8:00 PM | Performance

The Choir for Non-musicians
Artist: Bint Mbareh

The Choir for Non-musicians is an experimental vocal workshop focused on collective improvisation. It focuses on sonic connection and vocal experimentation rather than traditional singing, and often incorporates techniques such as whispering, clapping, and “nonsense” sounds to create a collective sound. Bint Mbareh invites the audience to participate in a collective experience based on the idea of being surrounded by sound, rather than merely receiving sounds. Like waves of water, which separate us (or unite us).

Ultimately, The Choir for Non-musicians explores and learns how to merge bodies using sounds accessible to all participants.

For more information about the public and educational program for the exhibition For Our Time Is the Time of Water, please visit its website TAVROS. 

Duration: till 27 June 2026

Hours: Wednesday–Thursday–Friday 4:00 PM–8:00 PM, Saturday 12:00 PM–5:00 PM

Address: TAVROS, 1st floor, 33 Anaxagora Street, 177 78 Athens, Tavros neighborhood

Accessibility: The venue is accessible by elevator, and there is parking at the building’s entrance

Free admission