SeaPort Visit: May 2021
Katerina Gregos Athens
Katerina Gregos is an art historian, museologist, and curator. She is currently the Artistic Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Greece.
Gregos has curated numerous large-scale international exhibitions and biennials, including the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018); the fifth Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); the Göteborg International Biennial (2013); Manifesta 9 – The European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Belgium (2012); and the fourth Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg (2011). She has also curated three national pavilions at the Venice Biennale — for Croatia (2019), Belgium (2015), and Denmark (2011) — as well as exhibitions for major institutions such as the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Kunsthalle Tallinn, and Kunsthalle Mulhouse, among others. Since 2016, she has also served as Curator of Visual Arts for the Schwarz Foundation.
Previously, Gregos was Artistic Director of Argos – Centre for Art & Media in Brussels and the Founding Director and Curator of the Deste Foundation’s Centre for Contemporary Art in Athens. She has served on several boards, including the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM). She currently sits on the board of the Riga Biennial Foundation and the board of Argos – Centre for Art & Media, Brussels, and is a member of CAAS (the Academic and Scientific Advisory Committee) of the new KANAL Pompidou, Brussels.