Foteini Salvaridi (she/her) is a curator and cultural producer based in Athens, Greece. She holds a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts, a Postgraduate Diploma in Curating from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and an MA in Cultural Management from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
She has extensive experience across both local and international contexts, collaborating with major institutions, independent art spaces, and galleries—including TAVROS space, the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Athens Photo Festival, ATOPOS CVC, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), INDEX – The Swedish Foundation of Contemporary Art, Havremagasinet, among others. Her cross-disciplinary practice spans a wide range of forms and formats, focusing on the intersections of gender, climate, and social justice.
In 2022, she conceived and co-curated Revolution Is Not a One-Time Event, a three-month public program honoring the ongoing revolutions of intergenerational feminist practices in Greece and beyond. The project was awarded with the 2023 Impact Grant from Outset Partners.
For the past six years, she has been an active collaborator in the European cooperation program Transformative Territories. Salvaridi has been working on curatorial and interdisciplinary projects in remote and peripheral regions challenging binaries such as center/periphery, vernacular/scientific, and local/global and aiming to democratize cultural production through community engagement, landscape activation, and knowledge-sharing.
In parallel, she conducts ongoing research into Pontic and post-Soviet legacies through the lens of her own Pontic heritage, drawing on family narratives, audio recordings, archival material, academic sources, and artistic production. This body of work explores notions of imaginary homelands, fragmented identities, and legacies of displacement.
These themes and methodologies continue to inform her broader practice, which also includes research-based poetry and poetic prose as forms of art criticism.
She currently serves as Exhibition Production and Public Program Coordinator for the I.Y.P. Collection in Athens and works independently on a number of curatorial projects. In 2026, she will co-curate the Råneå Biennale in Norrbotten alongside her former CuratorLab fellows, under the title So Far, So Good… So What?
