Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza

Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza is an independent curator and researcher based in Αthens, Greece. Between 2012-2015 she held curatorial positions in public art institutions in London such as the Serpentine Galleries, The Architecture Foundation and the Contemporary Art Society. In 2016-2017, Tsipni-Kolaza worked as a Curatorial Assistant for documenta 14 in Αthens and Kassel. Curatorial projects include: “Orange Trees that Talk,” a mediated performance by Cooking Sections, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm (2015); “Sonic Revolutions: Vibrations from the Levant,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2016); “Litany for Amplified Voices,” SKG Bridges Festival, Thessaloniki (2019). In 2018, she co-founded miss dialectic, an art operator that aims to support artistic and curatorial research with a strong focus on educatiοn and the production of new work through interdisciplinary collaborations. In 2015 she received the Forecast Platform Curatorial Award.

As part of the Pilot Exchange Residencies (2018) of Οnassis AiR in collaboration with Capacete in Rio de Janeiro, Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza conducted research on local young feminist and activist movements, alternative artist-run spaces, workers’ movements and their various forms and artistic expressions, with a focus on time-based media, such as performance, film and sound. She looked at the history of art collectives, curatorial initiatives and institutional frameworks to investigate the formats they employ in order to survive the rapid changes that occur in the city’s economic and political landscape.