Mnemosyne is a research-driven arts organization and curatorial platform that brings together contemporary art, cultural heritage, design, architecture, and archival research. We create connections between people, places, and ideas, making cultural heritage accessible for contemporary creative practice
"All these memories have gone up the ceiling and are hanging off the corners of the room." - Helen Marden
Objects
Mnemosyne Objects develops books, fine art editions, recordings, films, and other edition-based works that extend and contextualize the research arising from our projects.
Journal
Mnemosyne Journal is an editorial platform publishing essays, news, press features, interviews, and films that explore the intersections of contemporary art, cultural heritage, design, architecture, and place. It brings together artists, curators, writers, and scholars in a space for critical inquiry and interdisciplinary dialogue.
"Vessels" site-specific art exhibition brings together the work of four ceramic artists, Zen Du, Dana Aviv, Nadiia Shapoval, and Diane Alexandre, within the natural landscape of Bellevalia Olive Grove on Hydra Island.
Mnemosyne Projects and Bellevalia Hydra host a dinner to introduce the Bellevalia Olive Grove Art Residency and to celebrate its inaugural art resident.
The talk “The Paradox of Belonging and the Fragility of Attachment” at the Old Carpet Factory on June 21, 2026 brought together photography, curatorial practice, and architecture in the discussion about individual and collective perceptions of belonging and how they are shaped through memory, spatial experiences, image-making, and the emotional landscapes we inhabit. The different disciplines reflect on the ways we construct, negotiate, and reimagine connections to objects, environments and people in an increasingly fluid world.
"Vessels" site-specific art exhibition brings together the work of four ceramic artists, Zen Du, Dana Aviv, Nadiia Shapoval, and Diane Alexandre, within the natural landscape of Bellevalia Olive Grove on Hydra Island.
A photographic project by Stefan Dotter exploring identity and ownership on Hydra Island that confronts conflicting ideas of who belongs, blurring boundaries between people, place, and origin. The work reveals belonging as fluid and contested.
Mnemosyne Projects and Bellevalia Hydra announce a new long‑term cultural partnership and residency initiative rooted in the preservation, reactivation, and contemporary reinterpretation of Hydra’s cultural heritage. Emerging from the island’s layered architectural, artistic, and poetic history, the Bellevalia Olive Grove Residency proposes a model of cultural production grounded in place, memory, and ethical engagement with landscape.
Spring 2026 Artist in Residence at the Old Carpet Factory welcomes Stefan Dotter, a Tokyo‑based photographer whose work seamlessly bridges fine art, documentary, and fashion; his long‑form documentary practice has taken him across the Amazon, Borneo, and Madagascar to photograph endangered ecosystems and the indigenous communities sustaining them.
Milk Decoration magazine talks to curator Ekaterina Juskowski about Hydra: Island in the Sound project and Hydra Art Residency she founded at the Old Carpet Factory historical mansion on the island of Hydra in Greece.
