SeaPort’s Curator’s Program is built around the individual research and practice of each invited curator. Bringing emerging and established curators from around the world to Athens, the program offers dedicated time and space to develop their research within the broader context of the Mediterranean. Rather than following a predetermined residency model, we design each residency individually around the curator’s research, professional interests, and ongoing projects.
Each schedule brings together studio visits, professional meetings, independent research, and encounters with artists, curators, scholars, institutions, collections, and sites. We shape the itinerary around the particular questions informing each curator’s practice, allowing them to encounter Athens and its cultural landscape through the specific focus of their research. The structure remains deliberately flexible, with no expectation of producing a specific outcome.
We develop the program in consultation with SeaPort’s Advisory Board and in collaboration with EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and the MFA program at the Athens School of Fine Arts. These relationships connect our visiting curators with both established and emerging practices and create opportunities for sustained exchange across professional, institutional, and educational contexts.
Each residency also contributes to SeaPort’s public life. We invite residents to participate in lectures, screenings, conversations, performances, workshops, and other public formats developed in relation to their research. Guests and alumni may also curate events, extending relationships formed through the residency beyond the period of their stay. These encounters bring curatorial inquiry into dialogue with artists, students, researchers, and audiences in Athens.
Locality is central to our program, not as a fixed geographic category but as a way of understanding how artistic and curatorial practices emerge from particular historical, social, and political conditions. From our base in Athens, we create connections across the Mediterranean while remaining attentive to the specific people, places, and institutions encountered during each residency. We aim to provide our residents with time, space, and context for research, reflection, and dialogue, guided by a commitment to intellectual generosity, sustained encounter, and the development of new perspectives. We hope each residency becomes the beginning of an ongoing relationship, and we look forward to welcoming curators from around the world to Athens.
Dor Guez Munayer
Director, SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research