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~ education (incl. fellowships and seminars)
5/2022 — Curatorial Programme Art Geographies, K - Verein, Vienna (AT)
10/2021 — Seminar Starting with Plants with Michael Marder, The New Center for Research & Practice
2018 - 2020 — Research Fellowship A Natural Oasis?, 3rd ed., Palermo, Limassol, Nottingham, BJCEM
05/ 2020 — Seminar The Curator’s Academy: Curating No-thing, T:> Works, Singapore (online)
2015 - 2018 — M.F.A. in Visual Cultures and Curatorial Practices, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, (IT)
11/2016 - 01/2017 — Seminar in Arts and Heritage Management, Bocconi University (online)
03/2014 - 06/2014 — Graduate Course in History of Architecture, Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
2008 - 2013 — B.Sc. in Business Administration-Marketing Curriculum Athens University of Economics and Business (GR)
~ selected curatorial, editorial and other workings
11/2023 - Curator Public Programme & Catalogue, ELEVSIS2023, TBA
7/2023 - Curator Graduation Exhibition, Fashion department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
8/2022 - Ongoing – Coordinator (assistant to HoD) Fashion department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
7/2019 - Ongoing – Studio Coordinator, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Amsterdam (NL)
7/ 2021 - Ongoing – Guest Writer, Fine Arts graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
8/ 2019 - Ongoing — Co-founder and member of the initiative Scores for Gardens, Berlin (DE)
2- 7/ 2022 – Co-programmer performance series carried by invisible bodies, de Ruimte/Sexyland World, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 - 2022 — Co-organiser bi- artist residencies (FR, IT)
6/ 2021 — Co-curator Liquid Junctions, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens (GR)
5 - 10/ 2021 – Curatorial board BJCEM 19th Mediterranea, School of Waters, Republic of San Marino (SM)
9/2021 – Co-curator Mooring the Docks, Sexyland World, Amsterdam (NL)
4/ 2021 – Curator Our Seas Are What We Make of Them, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
2020/21 –Co-organiser Readings with Friends (of friends), Amsterdam (NL)
10/ 2019 – Exhibition “bi- exhibits of tentative artist residencies”, Italian Institute of Culture Tokyo (JP)
10/2018- 8/2019 – Project & Research Assistant, Looiersgracht 60 & Printing Plant Artbook Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
5 – 8/2018 – Curatorial Assistant, (internship) Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht (NL)
4/2017- 4/2018 — Gallery Assistant, Spazio Cabinet & Studiolo project, Milan (IT)
8/2017 – Curator Paradis, Mon Amour: My Gaze Is Painted Blue, Two Elephants: Artworks and Dwarfs, Heraklion, Crete (GR)
~ selected writings
2023
In Research and In Fellowship. Plus 3 more paths to stay in proximity, introductory essay on Sandberg & Rietveld Research Fellowship publication 2021-2022
Common Blue, exhibition text for I gazed at your visceral ripples, Ellipsis (NL)
Like strawberry flesh tinting my fingernails, part of Mercedes Azpilicueta’s De Rebelse Lusthof, published by Fries Museum (NL)
2022
Postcards from where the sea fills in, conversation with Kristina Õllek as part of her Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms, Lugemik, Tallinn
(an) alloy of the endeavours of many bodies, publication by Mark Redele, Building Fictions, Amsterdam
Intentar cantar, intentar gritar. Echoing lung vibrations with Eliana Otta, Arts of the Working Class
Until when will we speak about gender? Impressions and questions from the 1st European Assembly of Contemporary Art Centres, artsoftheworkingclass.org
Notes on Bodies Extra-Ordinaires, a research exhibition on the filmic work of Pauline Curnier Jardin, Visitors Report, If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of your Revolution, Amsterdam
2021
Ololyga: Madison Bycroft’s Soliloquies on Disorientation and the Theatricality of Water, Dance Office, flashart.com
Our being is always a becoming, Mediterranea 19: School of Waters, Archive Books, Berlin
Filter feeders and Other Ill-mannered bodies, with Kristina Ollek and Kert Viart, Guestrooms.xyz
2020
Musica per un giorno: dialogo tra Canedicoda, Roberta Mosca e Angeliki Tzortzakaki, ATP Diary, Milan,
Kneading, Resting, Assembling: a Cookbook on Minor Institutions, part of Everything is New. publication on institutional change. ed. Nikolay Alutin, de Appel, Amsterdam
Domini abbandonati, part of The power of doing nothing, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio, Amsterdam
Being poor and having many friends, The Bliss of Spam, Berlin
Three voices and some footnotes about bi- PARADISE (co-written with Enrico Floriddia, Jérôme de Vienne and Kanoko Tamura), published by PARADISE Air
2019
Their name is MTP (and they could be real), performed by Bea Viinamaki invited by Roberto Casti, A Story That Wasn’t, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
The Performance Society: choreographic and hospitality issues within the Mediterranean context, www.roots-routes.org, Year IX, N°29, Rome, January- April 2019
2018
Silver Clouds, exhibition text, Weronika Bela, Project Bastugatan, Stockholm
Memoirs of my friend Kurt Green, artist book by Roberto Casti, published by Fuzao Studio, Milan
2017
“It’s a long way: da casa mia a casa nostra”, ed. Maini Troise D., Studi Festival, Milan
~ artist talks, performances, lectures
2023
Drifting Nocturnes, performance i.c.w. Toni Brell, 5th Research Pavilion, HIAP, Helsinki (FI)
Of an anodyne space, performance lecture & artist talk with Endi Tupja, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (AT)
2022
Silent Whale Letters, with Vibeke Mascini and Ella Finer, panel, Oceans as Archives, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Worlds that World, with Scores for Gardens, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (NL)
Broken English, podcast series by Mila Panic, Berlin (DE)
Curatorial Practice presentation, ARTWORKS, Athens (GR)
2021
Artist talk with Enar de Dios Rodriguez & Alessandro Castiglioni, MA*GA museum, Gallarate & online (IT)
Priestesses of Disgrace Act 2, Movement Radio, Athens (GR)
Lecture on Hydrofeminism, at Ecofeminist festival, Femiskop, Baku (AJ)
bi- presentation at Residency Encounters with, NAVE residency, Santiago (CH)
Incantations: Episode 4, podcast with Mercedes Azpilicueta & Maria Sideri hosted by Andrea Cetrulo, Theatrum Mundi, London (UK)
The pocket of air I hold in my lungs, with Isadora Tomasi, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio, Amsterdam (NL)
2020
artist talk, Lend me your words, with Mercedes Azpilicueta & Maria Sideri, The City Talks Back, Athens/ London (GR, UK)
Moderator Talk on Hybridity with Alina Lupu, G and Jay Tan, Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam (NL)
Domini Abbandonati – The Power of Doing Nothing, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio, Amsterdam (NL)
2019
Last night I dreamt of being on an island not far from here, Conversas, Mama Radio, Rotterdam (NL)
Common Inn, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
Lecture On Insularity, Institutions, Education & the Curatorial Seminar, Nottingham Contemporary (UK)
2017
Co-curator, co-host, Maria Castagna, Solid Conversation: “Interview to Hessa A Lootah”. Bookshop Les Mots, Milan (IT)
~ teachings, work in education
10/2023 — How can I touch you if you are not there?, Guest Lecture, HILMA, Network for Gender Studies (FI)
9/2023 — From the inside to the outside and back: stories of world-dressing, i.c.w. with Marina Sasseron, Rietveld Academie (NL)
3/ 2023 — More body, hence more writing: workshops on (dis)embodiment, Rietveld Academie (NL)
11/ 2022 — More body, hence more writing: workshops on (dis)embodiment, Artez Enschede - AKI (NL)
11/ 2022 — Fictions and Forecasts: orbiting a collective body, workshop with Scores for Gardens at Movement Lab, KABK, the Hague (NL)
10/2022 — Guest Lecture at MA Cities, Central Saint Martins, London (UK)
11/2019 — Guest Lecture & workshop, as bi-, Geidai Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo (JP)
11/2019 — Guest Lecture, as bi-, BFA at Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa (JP)
10/ 2019 — Bodies of Work, workshop, Dance House, Limassol
2-3 /2017 – Workshop Facilitator: Museum Innovation for Social Inclusion, ABCittà, 4is & Tandem Europe Lazzaretto, Milan (IT)
~ residencies
5/2023 — Research Pavilion #5, Saari Foundation & University of the Arts Helsinki, (FI)
4/2023 — research trip, Stromboli (IT)
9/2022 — Østfold International Theatre, with Scores for Gardens, Fredrikstad (NO)
8- 9 /2022 — M’saken مساكن Residency Fredj Moussa with bi-, Sousse/M’saken (TN)
6/2022 — Worlds that World, with Scores for Gardens, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (NL)
3/2022 — ISLANDS - a constellation, Madeira (PT)
9/ 2020 — bi- in residence, Le Dome Festival, Montbazon (FR)
8- 9/ 2020 — Curator in Residence, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo (IT)
3/2020 — The City Talks Back, Theatrum Mundi & Onassis Stegi, Athens (GR)
1/2020 — New Empathies, Scores for Gardens mentorship programme, Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)
8 – 11/ 2019 — bi-PARADISE, PARADISE AiR, Matsudo (JP)
5/ 2019 — Travers camp 2- Dokk1, Aarhus
10/ 2017 — ENGAGE Public School for Social Engagement in Artistic Research, Viafarini, Milan (IT)
~ grants/ mentorship programmes
Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, 2021-2022
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, 2021
Goethe Institut Niederlande, Amsterdam, 2021
Gwaertler Foundation, Basel, 2020
Statens Kunstfond (Travers mentorship programme with Matthias Mohr), Berlin/Copenhagen, 2019/20
board member of the Salwa Foundation since January 2022.