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Elli Leventaki

Elli Leventaki is an art historian, curator, and researcher.

She holds a PhD from the Department of Theory and History of Art of the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she mapped the gender aspect of exhibitions that took place in Greece at the beginning of the 20th century. Elli is involved in exhibitions, art projects, and cultural initiatives, looking to address sociopolitical correlations within the field of contemporary art and critically comment on the invisible structures and principles of the Artworld. In 2025, she founded the conceptual art residency space ΒΕΡΟλΙΝΟ (Berlin) in Athens. She is interested in contesting historically dominant narratives and stereotypical notions, especially those deriving from national and/or patriarchal contexts, while aspiring to advocate for gender equality through culture and engage in discourses on art-based labour. 

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Art Theory, and a Master’s degree in Art History and Curating, both from the Fine Arts Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece, as well as a diploma in Adult and Continuous Education from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. As a researcher, she has worked with Panteion University and the Center for the Development of Greek Commerce and Entrepreneurship, and she has taught in Vocational Training Institutes in Greece. 

Elli has collaborated with various organisations (Onassis Stegi, Orient-Institut Istanbul, AICA International), cultural spaces (Municipal Gallery of Athens, Future Myth Project, TaikaBox, Okay Initiative Space, Athens Printmaking Art Center, Frissiras Museum, Cypher Athens, Museum of Agriculture AUA, Amphicar, Kyan Athens, Living Room, itu art lab, KEIKO), and festivals (The Festival Academy, Biennale of Western Balkans, Three Seas Festival, Balkans Beyond Borders) over the years, and her projects have been supported, among others, by the Greek Ministry of Culture, the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, Culture Moves Europe, the ASFA Special Account for Research Grants, and the Leventis Foundation. She has also written art-related texts for exhibition catalogues, collective volumes, and international journals (Journal of Curatorial Studies, Afterimage, Drain, CEN), and regularly participates in conferences and lectures in Greece and abroad. She is the Secretary General of AICA Hellas (2024-2027), a member of the Association of Greek Art Historians, ICOM, the Council of Galeria Podbrzezie (Krakow, Poland), the Advisory Board of Among the Ants, and the ELHN Working Group on Feminist Labour History and Precarious Labour.