Niovi Zarabouka-Hatzimanou was the director of Victoria Square Project (VSP)and curator of the long-term research programme “Who is the Contemporary Athenian?” With an academic background in architecture and cultural management, her research focuses on the intersection of socially and politically engaged artistic works and urban development. Prior to her collaboration with VSP, she was Art Director in the Public Space for Eleusina 2021, European Capital of Culture, and worked as Community Liaisonfor the documenta 14in Athens.
Her professional career includes collaborations with institutions such as The Peggy Guggenheim Collectionin Venice, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and the Venice Biennale. She is also a co-founder of MESA — Museum of the Free Thought of People, a contemporary art program aimed at prisoners in Greece, and is currently a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Program at Columbia University.
At the same time, she is co-director of Counterpoints (GR), a non-profit arts organization that supports socially engaged artistic practices. Her work Counterpointsfocuses on issues of displacement, climate change, racial justice and mental health, and includes festival production, project commissioning, curation, as well as the development of learning and public action programmes, with collaboration at the heart of all their activities.
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