Katerina Gregos is a curator, lecturer and writer originally from Athens, based in Brussels. Her curatorial practice has consistently explored the relationship between art, society and politics with a particular view on questions of democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crises and changing global production circuits. She has served in directorial positions for both private and public institutions, moving to Brussels in 2006 to assume the artistic direction of Argos – Cente for Art & Media. As an independent curator, has curated numerous large-scale international exhibition and nine international biennials. Most recently she was chief curator of the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1): Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, which she also instrumental in setting up as an institution. Gregos has also curated three highly successful National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, Denmark (2011), Belgium (2015), Croatia (2019). Apart from her activities as an independent curator since 2016 she is curator of the visual arts programme of the non-profit, Munich-based Schwarz Foundation. She regularly publishes on art, artists, society and culture, in books, catalogues, and periodicals. Exhibitions include, among many others: Anatomy of Political Melancholy (for the Schwarz Foundation), Athens Conservatory (2019); The State is Not a Work of Art, Tallinn Art Hall, the Art Hall Gallery and the City Gallery – on the occasion of the centenary of Estonian Independence and part of the official programme Estonia 100 (2018); A World Not Ours, Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2017); Uncertain States: Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin (2016); Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); The Politics of Playfor the Göteborg Biennial and Liquid Assets: In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital, for the Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2013); Manifesta 9: In the Deep of the Modern, Genk (2012). Her most recent project is the exhibition Modern Love: or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies, which was presented at Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg (2020/21) and is traveling to Tallinn Art Hall (EE) later this summer and then to IMPAKT Media Organisation, Utrecht (NL), in the winter of this year.