Klea Charitou

Klea Charitou is an art historian and curator based between Athens and London. After graduating with a BA in Greek Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she obtained a Master’s degree in History of Art (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), and a second Master’s in Curating (Université Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne, France). She recently completed her PhD at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), titled The Relationship between Logos and Art in the Greek Art from the 1970s. For more than a decade, she has been working as a freelance curator and collaborating with various Greek and European institutions. Through her curatorial practice, she has supported different organisations, including documenta14, nurturing more than twenty artistic projects of global resonance. Other curatorial highlights include: This Is Not My Beautiful House and POLITICAL SPEECHES at Kunsthalle Athena, Greece; Cady Noland Unauthorized at Université de Rennes 2 and FRAC Bretagne, France; and PAWNSHOP, an e-flux project, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece. Her art-historical and theoretical background enables her to conduct profound research on the work of a number of artists, with whom she works closely to develop and implement different exhibition schemes. At the same time, she has been diligently involved in creating and organizing artists’ archives and catalogue raissonnés. Over the years, she has worked as an editor and writer for exhibition catalogues and art magazines, such as Artforum International and South as a State of Mind. She has attended residencies and was a curatorial fellow in different programs around Europe. In 2019, she co-founded miss dialectic, an art operator in Athens, which aims to foster artistic and curatorial research with a strong focus on education and interdisciplinary collaborations. She currently works as a curator and art advisor for Balkan…Projects organization, and teaches History and Theory of Contemporary Art at Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA.