Katerina Gregos

She studied art history, European literary and historical studies, and museum studies in London (at the Courtauld Institute of Art, King's College, and City University respectively). She is currently curator of Contour 2009. During 2006 and 2007 she was the artistic director of Argos - Centre for Art & Media, in Brussels. Previously she was founding director of the Deste Foundation's Centre for Contemporary Art in Athens (1997-2003). At Argos, Gregos organised a number of exhibitions, lectures and events including, among others, the group exhibition Being in Brussels, solo shows of Clemens von Wedemeyer & Maya Schweizer, the Otolith Group, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan (with Lawrence Weiner), and the Dutch architects MVRDV. While at Deste, Gregos organised numerous exhibitions drawn from the Dakis Joannou collection such as the trilogy Global Vision and Shortcuts as well as independent projects such as Fusion Cuisine, a survey of post-feminist art (2002). As an independent curator Gregos has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions in several institutions, including Channel Zero at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (2004), and Britannia Works for the British Council (Athens, 2004). In 2005 she was co-curator of the ground breaking project Leaps of Faith, an international exhibition of newly commissioned work which took place on the Green Line and both sides of the city of Nicosia, Cyprus. In 2006 Gregos was the curator of the 6th E V+ A biennial in Ireland and co-curator of the Project Rooms at Artissima art fair, Turin. Gregos has also authored numerous artists' catalogues, and is a regular contributor to Contemporary, London and Flash Art international as well as other international art periodicals. In 2007, she edited a collective artists' book entitled The Residents featuring 46 foreign Brussels-based artists. Gregos is also a visiting lecturer at HISK, the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp.