The exhibition “From Grey to Green” was born out of the need to reimagine urban space—not as a field of constraint, but as a place of coexistence, flow, and life. The green, once a marginal element squeezed between buildings, now claims center stage; a reminder that nature is not lost, but awaits our permission to return.

This exhibition seeks to highlight the importance of greenery in urban areas and to sensitize both the academic community and the wider public to issues of environment and sustainable development. Through photographic art, we search for new ways to redefine our relationship with the cityscape and with nature.

“From Grey to Green” is more than just a title—it’s an invitation.
An invitation to shift: first mentally, then collectively. To see the tree, the park, the sliver of sky between apartment blocks, not as exceptions but as possibilities. The photographs serve as traces of this transition, witnesses to a change that may begin with a single gesture and evolve into a shared vision.

The exhibition is grounded in that moment of unpredictable transition—when an act of individual imagination transforms into collective experience. The works are not confined to walls and frames; they reach out, speak, challenge, and connect. Through photographs, performances, theatrical acts, readings, scientific discussions, and musical events, a space of open dialogue is created—a shared breath between the artwork and the viewer.
Here, “green” is not just a color, but a state of mind, a proposal to reconsider space, community, and the way we inhabit our cities.

If art can change anything, it is because it reminds us that change always begins with a glance—with the moment someone sees differently.

From grey to green, then:
a transition that begins within us.

Jenny Tsoumbri
Curator of the exhibition “From Grey to Green”