IRENE GEROGIANNI / Assistant Professor

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IRENE GEROGIANNI

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Irene Gerogianni is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the Department of Theory and History of Art of the Athens School of Fine Arts.

She studied History of Art at the University of Glasgow and completed her postgraduate studies in Modern and Contemporary Art and Museum and Gallery Management (Visual Arts Pathway) at the University of Southampton and the City University London, respectively. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with scholarships by the Onassis Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

From 2020 to 2021, she conducted postdoctoral research, funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, entitled “Towards a politics of performance: Correlations and divergences in performance art and performances of The Bacchae since 1968″.

She has presented in numerous national and international conferences, in Greece and abroad, while her work has been published in academic journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings. Her monograph Performance Art in Greece 1968-1986 was published in 2019 by futura. She also co-edited the volume on the work of Maria Karavela, which was published in 2015 by AICA Hellas in both English and Greek.

She has taught Art History and Museology in undergraduate and graduate programs at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Ioannina, the University of the Peloponnese, and at the Greek State School of Dance.

She is a member of the Board of the Association of Greek Art Historians.

Her research interests lie in the conceptual and performative practices of international and Greek post-war art, the institutional framework of contemporary art and art and/as politics.

 

Email: egerogianni@asfa.gr

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