Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives is a group exhibition curated by Katerina Gregos that opened at EMST in mid-May 2025 and ran through 7 January 2026, with more than sixty artists across four floors of the former Fix brewery on Syngrou Avenue.
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives is a thematic group exhibition held at EMST, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. It was curated by Katerina Gregos, the museum’s artistic director, and ran from mid-May 2025 through 7 January 2026. The exhibition occupied four floors of the former Fix brewery on Syngrou Avenue, a building by Takis Zenetos (1957).
The exhibition took its title and premise from John Berger’s 1980 essay of the same name. It gathered more than sixty artists from around the world, including Sue Coe, Mark Dion, and Lynn Hershman Leeson, and addressed the ethics of the human relationship with animals. EMST is one of the few museums in the world to permit visitors to bring their own animals into its galleries.