Eirini Fountedaki

Greece

Eirini Fountedaki (Athens, 1991) is an independent curator and writer based in Athens and Berlin. In 2019-2020, she was the co-curator for public programs such as the monthly film series Residing in the Borderlands at the Berlin-based SAVVY Contemporary—The Laboratory of Form-Ideas. She is one of the curators selected to participate in the curatorial workshop titled How now to gather organized during the 11^th Berlin Biennale in 2020. She worked as a research assistant for the publication and exhibition projects at the Bergen Assembly between 2021 and 2022, a period during which she also co-curated film programs for Sinema Transtopia, like the Sounding Womanhood series that focused on feminist perspectives through sound in film.

The second curator in residence as per SAHA’s partnership with the Athens-based ARTWORKS was Eirini Fountedaki. The curator worked at SAHA Studio in the period of October-November 2022, visited artist studios the majority of which were women artists who work with video and sound, while exploring relevant archives, art institutions, and places of memory in Istanbul. During the public presentation she gave at SAHA Studio on 12 November, Fountedaki shared with the audience her experience as the resident of these two programs and details regarding to her ongoing research.