TrAIN Open Lecture (online): iLiana Fokianaki

Since 2020, through her research platform The Bureau of Care, iLiana Fokianaki has examined the concept of care and its political and ethical dimensions in relation to environmental and social justice, and their implications for curating and institution-making.

As Founder and Director of State of Concept Athens (2013–2024), she transformed the Athenian art scene, bringing artists such as Laure Prouvost, Sanja Iveković, Forensic Architecture, Kader Attia, and Kapwani Kiwanga to the Greek capital.

She has curated exhibitions for Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; e-flux, New York; KADIST; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, as well as public projects for institutions including the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York.

In 2022–23, she served as Artistic Director of Survival Kit 13, a large-scale contemporary art festival organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art. She lectures regularly at academies, independent spaces, museums, and institutions worldwide, and has convened discussions with thinkers including Silvia Federici, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jodi Dean, and Yanis Varoufakis.

She publishes regularly in e-flux journal and has contributed to numerous books and publications. A series of her books will be published by Archive Books in 2025.

Photo © Kunsthalle Bern, Yoshiko Kusano

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