Assistant Professor
Telephone: 210-7277410
E-mail: ealexaki@arch.uoa.gr
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Eugenia Alexaki graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1990). She continued her studies at the Institute of Art History of the Freie Universität Berlin, where she received her PhD in 1996. In 2012, on a Fulbright Art Scholar grant, she conducted research on critical visual literacy as visiting researcher at the School of the Arts, Columbia University/New York. She has taught at the Universities of the Aegean, Patras, Ioannina, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Western Macedonia, Western Attica, and the Hellenic Open University. From 2007 to 2010, she served as Secretary of the Association of Greek Art Historians (ΕΕΙΤ). She is also member of the German Art History Association (Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and the Board of Directors of the Association for History Education in Greece (AHEG). She has curated solo and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (iset), the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, the Municipality of Athens, the Teloglion Foundation of Art/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Corfu Synagogue. Since 2012, she has collaborated with the European Commission’s European Research Executive Agency (REA) as evaluator of research proposals and partnership programs.
Main research interests:
Post-war art, art and historical trauma, art and the Holocaust
Contemporary art and memory in public space, counter-monuments and alternative forms of monumentality
Contemporary art and oral history
Art historiography and politics of memory in post-war Germany
Collaboration of the arts, Gesamtkunstwerk, intermedia
Contemporary art and the archive
Teaching “sensitive” and contested topics through contemporary art
