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Curatorial Work

Artistic Leadership

  • Head of Theatre and Dance Program at the Onassis Stegi, Athens (2009-2012 & 2019-2020)
  • Artistic Director of Theatre and Dance at the Onassis Stegi, Athens (2013 – 2018).
    Recent commissions and collaborations include: Back to Back Theatre, Konstantin Bogomolov, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, DV8 Physical Theatre, Gob Squad, William Kentridge, Amir Reza Koohestani, Akram Khan, Faustin Linyekula, DV8, Complicité, Krystian Lupa, Boris Nikitin, Toshiki Okada, Tania el Khoury, Alain Platel, William Forsythe,  Joël Pommerat, Lucinda Childs, Robert Lepage, Lemi Ponifasio, Philippe Quesne, Tiago Rodrigues, Omar Abu Saada and Mohammad Al Attar, Krzysztof Warlikowski.
  • Initiator and Artistic Director of the Onassis’s Fast Forward Festival (2014-2019).
    FFF’s special commissions include: Kader Attia, Brett Bailey, Thomas Bellinck, Berlin, Roger Bernat, Don’t Follow the Wind, Rabih Mroué, Markus Öhrn, Rimini Protokoll, Walid Raad, Ho Tzu Nyen, Dries Verhoeven, Marwa Arsanios.


Curatorial projects

(selection)

  • Curator of the following commissioned projects:
    • X Apartments-Athens (co-curating with Anna Muelter, FFF2, May 2015)
    • Kris Verdonck, Stills (FFF2, May 2015)
    • Tim Etchells, And for the rest (Athens) (FFF3, May 2016)
    • Akira Takayama, Piraeus/Heterotopia (FFF4, May 2017)
    • Hikaru Fujii, Piraeus/Heterochronia (FFF4, May 2017)
    • Gregor Schneider, Invisible City (FFF4, May 2017)
    • Chto Delat & Anton Kats, Park Fables (FFF5, May 2018)
    • Hikaru Fujii, The Primary Fact (FFF5, May 2018)
    • Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Unconformities (FFF5, May 2018)
    • Robert Zhao Renhui, The Nature Museum (FFF5, May 2018)
    • Raqs Media Collective, Pamphilos (FFF6, May 2019)
    • Wu Tsang, One Emerging from a Point of View (FFF6, May 2019)
    • Petros Morris, The Gift of Automation (FFF6, May 2019)
  • Curator of the performance festival Body Politics. With Eisa Jocson, Sorour Darabi, Mallika Taneja, Robyn Orlin, Nadia Beugre, Danya Hammoud (OCC, October 2018).
  • Curator of the focus on Wael Shawky at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the Onassis Stegi (December 2017).
  • Curator of the experimental festival Made in USA. With Annie Dorsen, Faye Driscoll, Michelle Ellsworth, Daniel Fish, Miguel Gutierrez, Trajal Harrell, 600 Highwaymen, Heather Kravas, Richard Maxwell, Zachary Oberzan (OCC, November 2016).
  • Curator of the urban dance festival Dancing Athens. With Trisha Brown Dance Company, Boris Charmatz, Willi Dorner, Yiannis Mantafounis (OCC & National Museum of Contemporary Art, October 2016).
  • Curator of the geopolitical festival Transitions: 1. Balkans, 2. Latin America, 3. Central Europe. With (selection): Marina Abramović, Lola Arias, Saša Asentić, BADco, Guillermo Calderon, Gianina Carbunariu, Ivo Dimchev, Nicoleta Esinencu, Matija Ferlin, Oliver Frljić, Krzysztof Garbaczewski, Marta Górnicka, Handa Gote, Janez Janša, Sanja Mitrović, Kornél Mundruczó, Marianno Pensotti, Béla Pintér, Via Negativa, José Vidal, Ana Vujanović, Walking Group Theory, Wojtek Ziemilski, Artur Zmijewski (OCC, 2014–2015).
  • Curator of Dan Perjovschi’s Transitions project (OCC, 2014-2015).
  • Curator the Stegi’s Young Choreographers Festival which commissioned and produced more than 20 new works by emerging local artists at Stegi, public spaces and museums (2014 – 2019).
  • Coordinator and coproducer of the Contemporary Arts Festival from the Arab World “Meeting Points 6. Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic” in collaboration with Young Arab Theatre Fund, its founder Tarek Abou El Fetouh and Okwui Enwezor (curator). With (selection): Omar Amiralay, Tarek Atoui, Tony Chakar, Hafiz Dhao, Mona Hatoum, Samah Hijawi, Fadhel Jaibi, Adania Shibli, Ahdaf Soueif, Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, Laila Solimann (March 2012). 

Public programs

  • Curator of Raqs Media Collective’s “The Pamphilos Conversations”. In the frame of Fast Forward Festival 6, Athens, May 2019.
  • Curator of a lectures/performances weekend on archaeology and history with Ho Rui An, Ho Tzu Nyen, June Yap, Rayyane Tabet, Ali Cherri, Akram Zaatari, Marcella Lista. In the frame of Fast Forward Festival 5, Athens, May 2018.
  • Curator together with Nato Thompson of the international symposium “On Homelands and the Stateless as the World Tilts Right”, in collaboration with Creative Time (New York). In the frame of Fast Forward Festival 4, Athens, May 2017.
  • Curator and moderator of the international symposium “Is there a “new” American avantgarde? Critical approaches to contemporary experimental practices in the USA”. In the frame of Made in USA Festival, Onassis Stegi, Athens, November 2016.
  • Curator together with Massimiliano Mollona of the international conference “Art at the Borders: Spatial Politics and Post-colonial Strategies in the Middle East”, in collaboration with Athens Biennial. In the frame of Fast Forward Festival 3, Athens, May 2016.
  • Curator together with Joanna Warsza of the international symposium “ “Perfect Harmony”: Recent art and politics in Eastern Europe”. In the frame of the geopolitical festival Transitions, Onassis Stegi, Athens, November 2015.
  • Curator and moderator of the round table “Art, Politics and the “Social Turn”: Reconsidering the role of aesthetics in contemporary social geographies”. In the frame of the Onassis Fast Forward Festival 2, Goethe-Institut, Athens, May 2015.
  • Curator together with Aneta Mancewicz and Ralf Remshardt of the “Media, Politics, Performance: The Role of Intermedial Theatre in the Public Sphere” international conference in collaboration with the Intemediality Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. In the frame of Fast Forward Festival 1, Athens, May 2014.