Despoina Tzanou is a curator and writer based between Athens and Braga. Her curatorial practice and creative writing involve thinking through and deconstructing cultural symbols and socio-political events while drawing connections between the body, mythology, nature, technology, feminist studies, philosophy and psychology. She holds an MA in Curating the Contemporary from the London Metropolitan University in conjunction with the Whitechapel Gallery (2017); and a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2015). Since 2019, she has been Director & Curator at Duarte Sequeira, Braga, and, since 2022, Curator at Duarte Sequeira Seoul. She was a founding member of DOW Curatorial Collective in London (2016 – 2018) and has collaborated with various public and private art institutions, including the galleries Forum Arte Braga; Cell Projects Space, London; and Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has commissioned new works by artists Mimosa Echard, Tom Howse, Lito Kattou, Lily Kemp, Manolis D. Lemos, Lucile Littot, Petros Moris, Vanessa da Silva, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Mauro Ventura and has collaborated, among others, with André Butzer, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Petra Cortright, Pakui Hardware, Byzantia Harlow, Juliana Huxtable, Oliver Laric, Rebecca Lennon, Shaina McCoy, Katja Novitskova, Julian Opie, Athena Papadopoulos, Eva Papamargariti, Ricardo Passaporte, Eddie Peake, Marianna Simnett, Timur Si-Qin, Jenna Sutela, Slavs & Tatars, Suzanne Treister, Jala Wahid and Guan Xiao. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022).
Maya Tounta is a curator based in Athens and Vilnius. Together with Gerda Paliusyte, Gediminas Akstinas and Liudvikas Buklys she is a founding member of the non-profit space Montos Tattoo in Vilnius, Lithuania (www.montostattoo.lt). Since 2017, she has been working with artist Otobong Nkanga in connection with the work «Carved to Flow»(Documenta 14, Athens, Greece/ Kassel, Germany), which continues with exhibitions and events, and more recently as a foundation based in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Over the past two years, Maya Tounta has hosted events with CAConrad, Maria Thereza Alves, Newton Harrison, Jennifer Teets, Lorenzo Cirrincione, Iris Touliatou, Fernando-Garcia-Dory, Marina Vishmidt, Nina Power and Travis Jeppesen. Recent exhibitions include Bright File (June), Christos Tzivelos, Rallou Panagiotou, Elena Narbutaite, Iris Touliatou, George Prinos, Chrysanne Stathacos and Kostis Velonis, Haus N Athen, Athens, Greece (2018). From 2014 to 2016 Tounta was curator at Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania (www.rupert.lt). She is the editor of «A Solid Injury to the Knees» (2016, Rupert), a collection of essays on «political depression».
Mare Spanoudaki is a researcher and curator. Her main interests revolve around the intersections among material, intangible, digital culture and contemporary art by carrying out projects and exhibitions that examine current and/or past cultural and social conditions and memories, acting as points for dialogue. Her education includes a BA in Communication, Media & Culture, an MA in Cultural Policy & Management and an MRes in Exhibition Studies. In the past, Mare has worked for various cultural institutions and art spaces, and has organized intercultural and community projects, as well as contemporary art shows in Greece, the UK and Germany. She has been a fellow of the Start-Create Cultural Change programme (2017/2018). In the last few years she has been focusing on highlighting Greek and international artistic practices, exhibition histories and social movements and exploring issues of institutional critique as well as identity politics. She is also part of the team This is not a feminist project.
Danai Giannoglou (Athens, 1992) is an independent curator and writer based in Athens. She currently participates in the De Appel Curatorial Programme 2019-2020 in Amsterdam. Giannoglou is the co-founder and curator of Enterprise Projects, a project space functioning independently and periodically since September 2015 in Athens, as well as the Editor of Enterprise Projects Journal, a publishing initiative by Enterprise Projects uploading newly commissioned theoretical and research essays. She has worked for public and private institutions in Athens and Paris. Between 2018-2019 Danai Giannoglou was the Exhibitions Archive Coordinator at DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. She has contributed texts in catalogues, publications and online art magazines and she has curated exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Giannoglou holds a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in Cultural Management and Curating from Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne University. She has been resident at Rupert, Lithuania in 2016 and at the 8th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, South Korea in 2018. She is a recipient of the ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship Program (Curating) 2019/20 as well as of Onassis AiR Emergency Fellowship 2019/20.
Eva Vaslamatzi (Athens, 1990) is an independent curator and writer currently based in Athens and Paris. Most recently, she was the co-curator for visual arts at DOC!, a non-profit multipurpose space in northeastern Paris (2017-2019), and worked as an assistant curator at the Palais de Tokyo (2018-2019). Since 2013 she has been collaborating with various public and private art institutions in Athens and abroad. She holds a BA in Theory and History of Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies and Curatorial Practices from the Sorbonne University. In 2018, she has been part of the ΝΕΟΝ Curatorial Exchange Program in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Art week at Alserkal Avenue (Dubai). In May 2020 she will be resident at Rupert Residency (Vilnius). Currently, she is a guest curator at the association Orange Rouge (in Paris), which brings together artists and adolescents with disabilities in order to produce collective pieces.
Christina Petkopoulou (Athens, 1992) is a curator based in Athens. She has studied History and Archeology in the Department of Archeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a researcher and curator of the digital crowdsourcing archive project Athens Report. In September 2019 she started working at Automatic Transmission, a platform dedicated to interdisciplinary research based on contemporary art. She has curated exhibitions and educational programs as an independent curator and she has also collaborated with several contemporary art organizations, such as the Greek Institute of Contemporary Art―where she started her career researching and managing its archives―.