2026 NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship
Residency Begins: March 16 – June 5
Vicky Tsirou is an Athens-based independent curator, art writer, and researcher, working at the intersection of contemporary art, spatial practices, and critical theory. She studied Art History and Theory at the Athens School of Fine Arts (BA) and pursued postgraduate studies in the interdisciplinary programme Research in Architecture: Design – Space – Culture (MSc) at the National Technical University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the concepts of the commons and public space, participatory art formats, and environmental issues. She has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions addressing these themes, while her texts and essays have been published in collective volumes, exhibition catalogues, and art magazines. She has worked as Assistant to the Artistic Director and Education Coordinator at the cultural organization PCAI, as well as assistant curator, cultural mediator, and production coordinator in major cultural institutions in Greece and Italy, including the U.S. Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, documenta 14, the Marina Abramović Institute, UNESCO Athens World Book Capital, the Museum of Cycladic Art, and the Athens Biennale. She is an Onassis AiR fellow and a former fellow of the Whitechapel Gallery–NEON Curator Exchange Programme in London and the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Care Ecologies residency programme. She has also participated in the cross-disciplinary programmes: Geology and Cultural Heritage, Public Open Spaces & Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Pavia, Italy. Vicky Tsirou’s participation in the ARCAthens Fellowship received additional support from Onassis AiR.
Dionisis Christofilogiannis (b. 1973, Greece) lives and works in Greece. He is a visual artist and Associate Lecturer I at the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts of The American College of Greece – DEREE. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and holds both an MA and a PhD. He also studied Industrial Design at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland (MA), and Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England (BSc). Dionisis Christofilogiannis’ work investigates the traces of mythology, memory, and tradition within contemporary society. His practice moves between installation, sculpture, painting, and socially engaged projects, often exploring memory, ritual, architecture, and collective experience through temporary interventions and material transformation. Since 2017, he has been directing the Athens-based art space Space52 , an artist-run initiative supporting local creatives and actively pursuing collaborations with international art spaces and professionals. Space52 has received the NEON award, as well as production grants from the Greek Ministry of Culture for exhibitions developed with Greek and international artists and curators. Christofilogiannis’ most recent project is MOMAFAD (Museum of Modern Art for a Day), presented as part of the exhibition “SunShip” at the CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. The launch of MOMAFAD—including the screening of the documentary and an open public discussion—took place at the EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. His works are included in major public and private collections, such as the Onassis Foundation – Onassis Stegi, MOMus – Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts, Thessaloniki, Bob Wilson’s Watermill Center, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture, Goethe-Institut Athen, the Bodosakis Foundation in Athens, the Tarohei Nakagawa Collection in Tokyo, and numerous private collections in Greece and abroad.
2026 NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship Public Presentation
Program Report
