Steffi Stouri, whom SAHA is hosting in Istanbul for six weeks in collaboration with ARTWORKS, will give a talk at SAHA Studio about the research she is carrying out as part of the program and her curatorial practice
Steffi Stouri is an Athens-based curator and cultural worker who will be with us in Istanbul from October to November 2026. Within the scope of the Curatorial Program,  she is deepening her research into layered cosmogonies that take shape at the intersection of Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Building on this research, she is developing a curatorial framework that rereads antiquity from a postcolonial perspective and addressing the relationship between identity and temporality.

About Steffi Stouri:

Steffi Stouri's curatorial practice engages with feminist and postcolonial perspectives, sound, and archival practices across contemporary institutions, archaeological sites, and interdisciplinary projects globally.

Recent projects include Polyrhythmia in Paper (2026), presented at the ILFR library of the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway, and site-specific exhibitions such as Karstic Dreams (2026) and Otherlands (2024), which explore time-based media and archaeology through posthumanist perspectives. She was also a curatorial associate for the Greek National Opera’s annual visual arts programme Unboxing Callas (2023). Previously she has taken part in residencies such as: In Ruins residency 2025, curating a sound intervention at the archaeological site of Pietra Caduta in Canosa di Puglia, Italy, the ARCAthens NOLA/NYC Fellowship 2025, researching the potential of sound as an artistic medium for restorative storytelling and community resilience in New Orleans and New York City as well as the NEON Curatorial Exchange Program at Whitechapel in 2018. She also collaborates with the National Museum of Contemporary Art (ΕΜΣΤ) in Greece, curating educational and public engagement programs.