We are pleased to announce the participation of Marta Roberti in Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives, a major group exhibition in EMΣT Museum, Athens, from May 16 to February 15 2025, curated by Katerina Gregos.
The exhibition centres on animal rights and animal well-being, highlighting the need to recognise and defend the lives of non-human animals in an anthropocentric world that marginalises, oppresses and brutalises them. The exhibition is inspired by the seminal text of the same name by John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?” (1980), which explores the animal-human relationship in modernity and how animals have become marginalised in human societies. With the participation of more than 60 artists from four continents and with over 200 works occupying all the floors of the Museum, Why Look at Animals? is the largest exhibition ever organized by EMΣT and the first major exhibition on non-human animal rights internationally.
The exhibition and public programme organised around it aim to raise awareness of the conditions of non-human animal life today – from the agricultural industry, the science lab and the business of entertainment, to the state of wildlife and animals subsisting in urban environments – asserting the personhood of animals as sentient beings, with unique intelligences of their own.
Τhe exhibition features a guest curated project, Sonic Space, consisting of a selection of audio works created by artists and researchers in fields such as zoomusicology and eco-acoustics, curated by Joanna Zielińska.
With the participation of Marta Roberti
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
curated by Katerina Gregos
16 May 2025 - 15 February 2026
EMΣT National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
5 May 2025
