Daphne Dragona

Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin/Germany. Her current work addresses the challenges of degrowth for art and culture, and studies the ambiguous role of technology in times of climate crisis.

Her curated – or co-curated – exhibitions and projects include: Weaving Worlds (Deree ACG, Athens/Greece, 2022); Weather Engines (Onassis Stegi & National Observatory of Athens, 2022); Trials and Errors (Romantso, Athens, 2021); Stefania Strouza: 212 Medea (AnnexM/ Megaron, Athens, 2021); Reprogramming Earth (NeMe, Limassol/Cyprus, 2020), Kyriaki Goni, Counting Craters on the Moon (Aksioma, Ljubljana/Slovenia, 2019); Tomorrows, Fictions spéculatives pour l’avenir méditerranéen (Le Lieu Unique, Nantes/France, 2019); “…” an archeology of silence in the digital age (Aksioma, Ljubljana, 2017); Tomorrows, Urban fictions for possible futures (Diplareios, Athens, 2017); Capture All (transmediale, Berlin, 2015); New Babylon Revisited (Goethe Institut Athen, 2014); Afresh, a new generation of Greek artists (EMST, 2013); Data Bodies – Networked Portraits (Fundacion Telefonica & Alta Tecnologia Andina, Lima/Peru, 2011); Mapping the Commons Athens (EMST, 2010) and Homo Ludens Ludens (Laboral, Gijon/Spain, 2008). She has given talks at venues including ViZ (Athens); Mapping Festival (Geneva/Switzerland); MoMA (New York, NY/USA); Hek (Basel/Switzerland); Arts in Society (London/United Kingdom); Leuphana University (Lueneburg/Germany) and Goethe University (Frankfurt/Germany). Various articles of hers have appeared in a selection of books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs with publishers including Diaphana Press, Springer, Sternberg Press, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. She co-edited the publication Words of Weather (Onassis Foundation, 2022) with Jussi Parikka.

Dragona has been the talks curator of EMAF (Osnabrueck/Germany) since 2021, also working as conference curator for the festival transmediale (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019. From 2001 until 2007, she was the general coordinator of Medi@terra festival, organized by Fournos (Athens). A curatorial advisor at the Onassis Stegi cultural center, she has been a member of several committees for conferences and festivals. She has also served twice as a jury member and mentor for ARTWORKS, Fellowship for Greek Young Artists and Curators of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens, an MA in Museum Studies from UCL, London, and a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Athens.