Daphne Vitali
is a curator from Athens and Rome and Curator at ΕΜΣΤ / National Museum of Contemporary Art. She studied history of art and contemporary art theory at Camberwell College of Arts and Goldsmiths College in London. She is mainly interested in artistic practices that are rooted in social, political and ecological issues and her curatorial practice has focused on research-based artistic practices and the historiographic directions in contemporary art as a means of investigating and interpreting the present. Among her curatorial projects are: Janis Rafa. We Betrayed the Horses, EMΣΤ; Bouchra Khalili. Lanternists and Typographers, EMΣT; Alessandra Ferrini. Unsettling Genealogies, Museo Novecento, Florence; Unpacking My History; Quadriennale, Rome; When the Present is History, DEPO, Istanbul and MOMus, Thessaloniki; Everything Is in a State of Change, Goethe-Institut, Athens; Directed by Desire, rongwrong, Amsterdam; Deeper than Silence, Archeological site of Roman Agora, Athens; Current Pasts, ΕΜΣΤ, George Drivas /Undocumented, Galleria Nazionale, Roma; Expanded Ecologies, ΕΜΣΤ.