ILiana Fokianaki


iLiana Fokianaki is a Greek curator, writer, educator and former journalist based in Athens and Rotterdam. She is the founder and director of contemporary art space State of Concept in Athens, where she curated solo exhibitions of artists such as Laure Prouvost,the research agency Forensic Architecture,Croatian artist Sanja Iveković and the Rojava Film Commune. A retrospective of Fokianaki's institution titled State Concepts was exhibited at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris in 2017.
Fokianaki's work explores the relation between art, formations of power and how they metamorphose under the influence of geopolitics, national identity and cultural and anthropological histories. Together with curator Antonia Alampi, she is the co-founder of Future Climates, a platform that aims to propose viable futures for small-scale organizations of contemporary art and culture. Fokianaki was curator and programmer at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp from 2017-2019, where she curated the exhibitions Extra Citizen and Extra States: Nations in Liquidation
Fokianaki is a lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute of the ArtEZ University of Arts in the Netherlands, and a writer for various international art journals and publications, discussing issues ranging from art, politics, to ethics such as a joint piece on art and economy written with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. and an article on the economic implications around the discussion of looted artefacts and specifically the Parthenon Marbles