Antonia Alampi

Antonia Alampi is the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Spore Initiative. Her professional practice as a cultural organizer and curator has been defined by working collaboratively with artists and professionals from different fields and backgrounds, and within rather small-scale, socially sensitive, politically engaged and infrastructurally vulnerable yet resilient organizations. She has been Artistic co-Director and curator at SAVVY Contemporary (2016-2020), in the curatorial team of sonsbeek20-24, curator of Extra-City Kunsthal (2017-2019) and of Beirut in Cairo (2012-2015). She co-founded projects with erratic lives and modest funding, such as Future Climates (with iLiana Fokianaki), or Toxic Commons (with Caroline Ektander and Simone Müller, a.o.). Within and outside of institutions she has curated, supported or been involved in many types of cultural and artistic projects, researches, movements, publications and actions engaged in eco-social justice. She occasionally teaches, is part of juries, writes essays, edits books and talks in public.