Academic Scholars [NSRF]
ealexaki@uniwa.gr
Eugenia Alexaki is an art historian. She is a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. As a Fulbright Art Scholar at the Columbia University in New York (2012), she researched issues of critical visual literacy. She has taught undergraduate and post-graduate classes at the Universities of the Aegean, Ioannina, Patras, the Hellenic Open University, and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has curated solo and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (iset), the Psychiko Municipal Gallery, the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Athens, the Teloglion Foundation of Art/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Corfu Synagogue. In her capacity as Educational Advisor at the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (2013-2019), she conceived and curated, among others, workshops with invited speakers from Greek and international institutions (Museum of Modern Art/New York, Tate Modern, British Library, Benaki Museum/Athens, National Museum of Contemporary Art/Athens, State Museum of Contemporary Art/Thessaloniki).
She is a member of the Association of Greek Art Historians (General Secretary, 2007-2010), the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the German Association for Art History. Since 2012, she has been acting as external expert-Project Proposal Evaluator at the European Research Executive Agency/European Commission.
Her current research focuses on the role of art in dealing with the painful and traumatic historical past and on intersections of art and historical memory, focusing on contemporary counter-monumental artistic practices commemorating the Holocaust and Nazi crimes. Since 2020 she has been curating Artemis Alcalay’s visual-research project “Greek Jews Holocaust survivors”. She teaches art history at the University of West Attica and at the postgraduate program “Education Studies: Issues of History, Historical Education and Educational Policy” at the University of Western Macedonia.