Eleni Michaelidi

Eleni Michaelidi (b. 1983, Athens) is a contemporary art historian, editor, and curator. She studied archaeology and art history in Athens, Berlin, and holds an MA Diploma in media art histories. She has previously worked for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Snehta Residency, and the Bergen Assembly, and was Curator in Residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein (2018). Her research interests focus on experimental time-based media, histories of the exhibition form, and the concept of urgency in contemporary art. Eleni is currently Research Fellow of the project post documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies, a collaboration between the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She lives and works in between Athens and Berlin.