In June 2025, a new chapter of the Limnos Land Art project unfolds with the unveiling of Levietan, a sculptural installation by Todor Rabadzhiyski. Set within the Natura 2000 protected zone near Keros Blue Hotel, this evolving site welcomes a work shaped by the raw forces of the island and the buried narratives beneath its soil.
Continuing the mission of To Collect Contemporary Art, this annual initiative transforms the landscape into a living gallery, where each intervention speaks to place, ecology, and collective memory.
The project is made possible with the generous support of Aya Estate Vineyards, our leading partner, whose commitment to culture and sustainable development helps shape this unique intersection of art, land, and community.
Levietan
A site-specific sculptural installation by Todor Rabadzhiyski
In Levietan, Todor Rabadzhiyski returns to the Aegean with a sculptural installation shaped by the island of Limnos and the layered histories it holds—both visible and submerged. The work is situated in direct response to a recent underwater discovery: a 2,500-year-old Greek trading vessel found off the island’s coast. This archaeological trace becomes a point of departure—not for reconstruction, but for rethinking the intersection of material, memory, and environment.
Installed within a Natura 2000 protected area—a European ecological network designed to safeguard biodiversity—Levietan does not simply occupy a landscape, but actively engages with it. The surrounding terrain, marked by sea winds, salt air, and fragile ecosystems, informs the sculpture’s form and process. The work acknowledges its own precarity within this living context. It resists permanence.
The piece is constructed from the remnants of Raw Perspectives, Rabadzhiyski’s earlier exhibition at Plus 359 Gallery. Reconfigured for the open terrain of Limnos, the salvaged materials—oxidized steel, fractured surfaces, and charged objects—are no longer held within a gallery framework. Stripped of architectural containment, they respond directly to the exposed environment. What was once urban and enclosed is now provisional and porous.
The title Levietan refers obliquely to the Leviathan—a figure that has appeared across centuries as a sea monster, political metaphor, and cosmic force. By distorting the original spelling, Rabadzhiyski distances the term from any singular interpretation. In this context, Levietan becomes something unresolved: a structure adrift between ruin and vessel, empire and disappearance, nature and history.
The work traces cycles of collapse and transformation—how materials absorb time, how landscapes archive what nations choose to bury. Levietan reflects not on myth as escapism, but as a framework for examining what persists beneath official narratives. The sculpture doesn’t illustrate the past; it listens to its distortions.
Rabadzhiyiski confronts the paradox of preservation: how to protect a site that is constantly changing. Levietan is not a monument. It is an interruption. A reminder that fragility and resilience are not opposites, but intertwined.
About the artist
Todor Rabadzhiyski is a visual artist with an academic and professional background in fine arts. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Iliya Petrov in 2018 and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, earning a BA in Fine Arts in 2022. His practice spans sculpture, installation, and mixed media, often exploring themes of memory, identity, and the complexities of contemporary existence.
Since 2015, Todor has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and beyond. Early recognition came with a Gold Medal at the 18th International Young Artist Competition in Torun, Poland, and awards from the 3rd International Ex Libris Competition for Young Artists in Vladimir, Russia. His works have been exhibited in venues such as the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw and have even traveled as far as Antarctica through the Ecco Antarctic Competition.
Recent years have marked a distinct deepening of his artistic language, with solo exhibitions that reflect both conceptual rigor and material sensitivity. These include Raw Perspectives (2024, +359 Gallery, Sofia); Lobsters and Shrimps on My Plate, I Need My Pockets So Fat They Inflate Vol.3: Transportation (2024, with Robin Whitehouse, Sofia); Beneath the Triangle of Power (2023, Art Affairs and Documents, Largo, Sofia); Galvanized (2023, Punta Gallery & Posta Space, Sofia); and earlier exhibitions such as Lobsters and Shrimps on My Plate Vol.2: The Market (2022, Trixie Gallery, The Hague) and Rabaduizam (2016, Debut Gallery, Sofia).
His work has also been featured in a wide range of group exhibitions, including The Last Good Drink (2024, One Night Stand Gallery, Sofia); Smack the Soil (2024, as curator, Credo Bonum & Goethe-Institut, Sofia); Defy the Status Quo (2023–2024, Aether, The Hague / Doza Gallery, Sofia); View with a Room (2023, Berlin Art Week, Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin); Paradise Ruins (2023, Buna Festival of Contemporary Art, Varna); and Distant Memory (2022, Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague). Other participations include Re-Spirit / Trans-Spirit (Sofia Art Week), Market of Desire, Beyond Binaries (TENT, Rotterdam), and As Real As You Want (2020, online).
His works are part of several institutional collections, including the Singer-Zahariev Foundation (2023), the Blagoevgrad City Art Gallery (2024), and the To Collect Contemporary Art collection (2024).
Location
Limnos Land Art unfolds within the Natura 2000 protected zone on the southeastern coast of Limnos, Greece—an area of exceptional ecological and geological significance. The site lies in front Keros Blue Hotel, a luxury seaside complex, uniquely situated between two expansive beaches along a 10-kilometer sand strip.
The surrounding landscape is defined by rolling dunes that reach deep into the island, creating a natural corridor between sea and land. Shaped by wind, salt, and shifting light, the terrain is in constant dialogue with the elements, making it an ideal setting for land art that evolves over time. The area is accessible by car and on foot, offering visitors an immersive experience where contemporary art and raw nature meet in harmony.
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The complex is a symbiosis of a winery, an art gallery, and an estate that will feature an equestrian center, a farm, an orchard, an amphitheater, a restaurant, and a hotel.
Aya Estate Vineyards offers an experience that reconnects us with ourselves and the natural world in the most authentic way—through tasting, touching, and contemplation. Here, we draw inspiration from heritage and art, live to create the present, and care for the future.
Keros Blue is a seaside complex, which was opened in 2020. It is located between two beaches, within walking distance of each, and on a 10 km sand strip, with dunes that enter far into the island. Keros Blue offers its guests a water sports station with instruction, rental, storage, and rescue. Our station is in partnership with KBC. The wind is ideal for our kite and windsurfer guests. The bay has a sandy bottom with shallow safe waters.
