Daphne Vitali
Art historian and curator

Daphne Vitali is a Greek Italian art historian and curator. She is a Curator at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) where she has curated and co-curated numerous group and solo exhibitions of Greek and international artists. Among them are:In Present Tense. Young Greek Artists, 2008; Expanded Ecologies. Perspectives in a Time of Emergency, 2009; Kostis Velonis. Loneliness on Common Ground: How Can Society Do What Each Person Dreams, 2010; CurrentPasts: Vangelis Vlahos & Ivan Grubanov, 2013; AFRESH A New generation of Greek Artists; 2014, Andreas Angelidakis. Every End is a Beginning, 2014; as well as projects for the series EMST Commissions, a program of new productions commissioned by the museum for the Project Room.

Among other institutions, she has also been invited to curate exhibitions at DEPO, Istanbul; Galleria Nazionale d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary, Thessaloniki; Quarter Centro Produzione Arte, Florence. Most recently she curated the exhibition When the Present is History at DEPO in the framework of the 16th Istanbul biennial (2019), which will travel to MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, as well as the sound project Deeper than Silence in the archaeological site of the Ancient Roman Agora in Athens (2020).

She has published essays on contemporary art in various publications and periodicals such as Kunstforum International, Mousse Magazine, Artpulse and has authored and edited many artists’ catalogues. She studied History of Art at Camberwell College of Arts and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College in London.

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