ALEXIA ALEXANDROPOULOU
Curating
Alexia Alexandropoulou is a curator and cultural producer based in Athens and Lisbon. Since 2021, she has been coordinating a group of 20 young curators from North Africa and Europe in the context of the TASAWAR Curatorial Studios program hosted by Goethe-Institut Tunis. Since 2020, she has been part of the editorial collective TASAWORAT, an experimental publishing platform with a mission to diversify curatorial practice on contemporary art in North African and Middle Easter countries. She is an active member of the curatorial collective Mais Uno +1, in the context of which she is currently curating a series of projects in several places around Lisbon. In addition, she is attending a graduate program in Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her practice and current research focus in participatory and collaborative expressions in contemporary art. Since 2017, she has been collaborating with various public and private art institutions in countries such as Italy, the Czech Republic, Tunisia, the UK, and Portugal. She has also worked as a curatorial and production assistant for the Biennale Matter of Art Prague (2020) and tranzit, a network of autonomous initiatives in contemporary art in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Romania. She holds an MA in Arts Policy and Management from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA in Social Policy from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. She is an alumna of the second edition of TASAWAR Curatorial studios (2020) and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).