Bio — Klea Charitou

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Klea Charitou is an art historian and curator based in Milan. She holds a BA in Greek Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MA in Art History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA in Curating from Université Rennes 2 in France. In 2021, she completed her PhD at the Athens School of Fine Arts, focusing on the relationship between Logos and art in Greece in the 1970s. She later taught History and Theory of Contemporary Art there from 2021 to 2023.

For over fifteen years, she has worked as both a freelance curator and as part of teams within various European organizations, holding curatorial and project-management roles. Her professional experience spans institutional and independent contexts, among them documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, where she contributed to exhibition research, coordination, and production. This work also encompasses exhibitions such as Symbiotics at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens; After the Explosion…You Hear the Light at the artist-run space 3 137 in Athens; and This Is Not My Beautiful House and Political Speeches at Kunsthalle Athena, Greece.

Her art-historical and theoretical training has enabled her to conduct in-depth research into the work of several artists—including Miriam Bäckström, Alexandra Manousakis, Sofia Portalakis, Markos Armaos, Cally Spooner, and Anastasia Ax. With these artists, she has built and organized their archives and catalogues raisonnés. She has also worked closely with them on the development of their artistic practices within diverse exhibition frameworks.

Alongside this work, she has contributed as an editor and writer to exhibition catalogues and art magazines, among them Artforum International and South as a State of Mind. She has also participated in residency and curatorial fellowship programs across Europe. In 2019, she co-founded miss dialectic, an art operator in Athens that advances artistic and curatorial research with a focus on producing new work through interdisciplinary collaboration. Since 2020, she has served as a curator and consultant for artistic development and strategy at Balkan…Projects, an organization dedicated to supporting artistic practices and educational initiatives for artists from the Balkan region.

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