curatorial residency: May 2015
Klea Charitou (Greece)
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Klea Charitou
- (b. 1986, Athens, Greece) ) is an art historian and curator based in Athens.
- After a BA in Greek Literature at Kapodistrian University of Athens, she graduated with an MA in Art History from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and a second MA in Curating from the University Rennes 2, Rennes. Currently, as a PhD candidate in the School of Fine Arts of Athens, she prepares a thesis entitled The relations between Art and Language in the 70s Greek art.
- She is part of the Curatorial team of Kunsthalle Athena and collaborated in various projects, including: South as a State of Mind arts and culture magazine, This Is Not My Beautiful House, POLITICAL SPEECHES (Kunsthalle Athena), Cady Noland, (University Rennes2 and FRAC Bretagne), PAWNSHOP, E-FLUX Project (3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art), Demo #2, Architecture, Theory, Visual Arts, Design, Performance (DYNAMO project-space). She has been selected for the 2015 annual curatorial fellowship in the Art Space Pythagorion, Samos.
- 19/05/2015
- Re–Directing: East Conversation #20 & #21
- Mirene Arsanios and Klea Charitou
- How does the organization of artistic initiatives in places affected by radical crisis proceed? Mirene Arsanios and Klea Charitou talk about their research and organizational experiences in Lebanon and Greece.
- Mirene Arsanios and Klea Charitou
The residency has been organized in the framework of the Re-Directing: East project and has been possible thanks to the financial support of the City of Warsaw.
