Ioanna Gerakidi

Greece

SNF ARTWORKS Curatorial Fellow 2021 Ioanna Gerakidi, writer, curator and educator will be travelling to Istanbul for a 6-week curatorial residency program at SAHA Association (May-July 2023), where she will get the chance to further develop her research and practice. During her residency, Ioanna will research the subjects of companionship, kinship, witness and solidarity for writing a lexicon of psalms and spells, of idiolects and neologisms, spoken by the ones whose voices haven’t yet been heard. Through engaging diverse communities, her research longs for inventing, transcribing or legitimizing a language of trauma, suffering, catastrophe, political and personal turmoil.

Ioanna’s residency is supported by ARTWORKS through its founding donor the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

About the Curator:

Ioanna Gerakidi is a writer, curator and educator based in Athens. Her research interests think through the subjects of language and disorder, drawing on feminist, educational and anti-colonial studies. Poetry and other diaristic and archival schemes are often embedded in her practice. She has collaborated with and curated group and solo shows and events for Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens Biennale, State of Concept (Athens), Haus N (Athens), Hot Wheels Athens and Studium Generale of Gerrit Rietveld Academie (at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), among others. Her words have been presented at Kunstverein Amsterdam (Holland), Stroom den Hague (Holland), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Germany), Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (Lithuania), the Montez Press Radio (UK) and Transmissions 2021 festival (UK). In addition, her work has been included in several international publications, including the magazine Collecteurs (online), Biennale Interstellaire des espaces d’art de Genève (BIG, Geneva), the online research programme Schemas of Uncertainty, and more. She has lectured or led workshops and talks for Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Athens School of Fine Arts, Onassis Air Residency, DSRE (Document & Art PhD Program), St. Joost School of Art and Design and the Νicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021). Past residencies include: Rupert’s Residency (Lithuania) and NEON Curatorial Exchange Program 2015. She currently works as a tutor for Design Academy Eindhoven.