We invite you on November 13 and 14, 2024, at the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, to the lectures and workshops held by prof. PhD. Iro Katsaridou, carried out within the Erasmus+ international visits program.

FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN – CORP A – AULA A.0.4
NOVEMBER 13TH 2024, 10:00-14.00:

Presentation and seminar – A Museum for Photography in Greece: MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography – history, practices, engagement (PART I)

FACULTY OF VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN – CORP A – AULA A.0.4
NOVEMBER 14TH 2024, 10:30-14.30:

Presentation and seminar – A Museum for Photography in Greece: MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography – history, practices, engagement (PART II)

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Iro Katsaridou is an art historian and museum studies scholar, Assistant Professor at the School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Previously she has been director of the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (2021-2024), and curator at the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki (2005-2021).

She has curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography, coordinated the international photography festival Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023 at MOMus, and was a member of the Organizing Committee for the 5th Fast Forward Women in Photography conference (Thessaloniki, May 2024). Currently she serves as a Co-Investigator in the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded “Museum Dialogues” program (2004-2025) of the University of Sunderland.

Iro has published on photography, socially engaged art history, and curatorial practices. Recently, she co-edited with Eve Kalyva and Pamela Bianchi the collective volume Museums and Entrepreneurship. The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century (Routledge 2024)