Eva Vaslamatzi

Eva Vaslamatzi is an art historian, curator, editor, and writer based in Athens. As an independent curator, her research centers on how past folk practices and rituals are embedded in and revived through contemporary art practices. Bringing aspects of the vernacular, as well as the metaphysical, to the foreground as alternative knowledge systems, she investigates how these forms and behaviors function independently from grander national narratives. This research, aiming at multiple exchanges between the Greek and the Turkish art scene, has taken the form of a group show (“I Heard It from the Valleys,” 2021) and a collective performance (“I Heard Them Singing in the Mountains,” 2023).

She has worked as a curator and assistant curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and its residency laboratory Pavillon (2017–2019), at the non-profit space DOC! in Paris (2017–2019), and at Orange Rouge association in the same city (2018–2021), an educational organization which brings together contemporary artists and adolescents with mental disabilities for the co-creation of artworks.

As a guest curator in non-profit spaces, public and private institutions, and public spaces, Vaslamatzi has realized group exhibitions with a focus on new productions resulting from collective processes and exchanges (with the support of NEON Culture and Development Organization and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, among others).

Since 2020, she contributes as an art critic in various forums, including the Artworks Medium blog and The Art Newspaper Greece. She has served as editor for two art catalogs (the Yerassimos Yannopoulos collection and the ten-year anniversary publication of the Syros International Film Festival) and co-editor for the annual publication on the 2nd year of the Fellowship Program of SNF – ARTWORKS. As a writer, she has participated in publications and exhibitions with text-based artworks.

She has been awarded various fellowships, including the NEON Curatorial Exchange (2018), an ARTWORKS Fellowship in Curating (2019), and SAHA curatorial residency (2021). She has served as a teaching assistant at the Department of Culture, Creative Media, and Industries of the University of Thessaly in Volos.