Sofia Grigoriadou

Position: Adjunct Lecturer

Email: sgrigoriad@uth.gr

Personal website:

sofiagrigoriadou.wordpress.com

 

Research Interests:

Dialogues between art and anthropology – Politics of memory and forgetting – Cultural heritage – Tourism – Contemporary art – Art in public space – Food, video, printed formats, sound and walking as artistic media and research tools – Material culture

 

 

Sofia Grigoriadou is an artist, anthropologist, curator and educator. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (Panteion University) on “Contemporary artistic production in changing cities: the examples of Athens and Skopje”. She has studied Visual Arts at the ASFA (both BA and MFA), and has also studied Pedagogy at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens (PPP). Her Master’s thesis approached discourses and images of/at the centre of Athens in the early 2010s through her artwork.

She collaborates with people from different fields in educational, research, artistic and publishing projects: she is co-founder of TWIXTlab, a laboratory between contemporary art, the social sciences and everyday life in Athens. She was a co-founder of the interdisciplinary group Akoo-o, focusing on sound, walking and technological mediation. She has participated in the editorial team of kyklada.press, a publishing initiative focusing on materiality, the senses and landscape to study phenomena in island (and urban) contexts. She has been a guest curator of Video Art Miden and has participated in exhibitions and art/educational projects in Athens, Skopje, Cairo, Beirut, Edinburgh, Berlin, Istanbul and elsewhere.

She has taught contemporary art at the ASFA and at the Municipalities of Chalandri and Gerakas. She has (co-)organized and participated in numerous workshops and seminars at TWIXTlab and elsewhere on contemporary art and anthropology. In 2024 she worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje as an art curator, curator of the screening programme and co-editor of The Large Glass magazine, while she also held workshops and lectures in the framework of the museum’s educational programme.