The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Katerina Gregos is an art historian, curator, and educator. Since 2021 she has been the artistic director of EMΣT | The National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Athens. For over 20 years, her curatorial practice has explored the relationship between art, society, and politics, with a particular focus on questions of democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis, and changing global production circuits. Gregos has curated numerous large-scale international exhibitions and biennials including, among others, the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (LV, 2018); the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (GR, 2015); the Göteborg International Biennial (SE, 2013), Manifesta 9 (BE, 2012); and the Fotofestival Manheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg (DE, 2011). She has also curated three critically acclaimed national pavilions at the Venice Biennale: Croatia (2019), Belgium (2015), and Denmark (2011). In addition, Gregos has curated exhibitions for the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; BOZAR, Brussels; the Central Museum, Utrecht; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; the Kunsthalle Tallinn; and La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, among many others. Her texts have been published by Yale University Press, Duke University Press, Hatje Cantz, J R Ringier, Phaidon, Mousse, and Distanz, among others. Since 2016, she has also served as curator of the Visual Arts program of the Munich-based non-profit Schwarz Foundation. Her program for ΕΜΣΤ this year focuses on a series of exhibitions under the umbrella title Why Look at Animals?, inspired by John Berger’s seminal text on the human–animal relationship.

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