Nadja Argyropoulou is an independent curator based in Athens. With studies in Archaeology (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Art History and Theory (MA, Essex University, UK), she has worked with many cultural and art institutions, private and public organizations in Greece and abroad. She has worked as associate curator for the Greek participation in the Venice Biennale (2005 & 2007). She has written texts in books and magazines, has curated numerous publications and solo/group exhibitions and events among which, "Hotel Paradies" (2nd Athens Biennale, Heaven, 2009), "The Marathon Marathon Project" (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Acropolis Museum, 2010), "Family Business" (New York 2012, Paris, 2013), "Hell as Pavilion"(Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013), "Paratoxic Paradoxes"(Benaki Museum, 2017), "Making Oddkin: for joy, for trouble, for volcano love" (Nisyros, 2018), "TRYPA. Stories of Love, Anarchy, Care and Disruption as are told by Teos Romvos and Chara Pelekanou" (Plato-Ostrava Czech Republic, 2020-2021), "Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin" (online exhibition and book, Deree - The American College of Greece, 2021), "The Feel, Backstage" (Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2021), etc. She investigates ecocritical practices and networks of degrowth, versions of queer anarchy, eccentric entanglements of art with science and other fields of knowledge and action. She is a founding member of the collective "Saprofyta" and AICA & IKT.
