- lives and works in
- Athen (GR), Berlin (D)
- Biography
- Sotirios Bahtsetzis works as an art historian, independent curator, and art critic based in Athens and Berlin. In 2005 he received his PhD from the Technical University Berlin with a thesis on the history of installation art, and he was a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University New York in 2009. He currently teaches at DEREE – The American College of Greece and at the Hellenic Open University. He has curated group exhibitions, including Roaming Images at the 3. Thessaloniki Biennial (2011), Paint-id. Contemporary Painting in Greece at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (2009), Women Only – Female Greek Artists from the Beltsios Collection (2008), Open Plan in Art Athina (2007), An Outing (2006), and Familistère I at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2002). He contributes to catalogs and art theory journals. Recent publications include: »Eikonomia: Notes on Economy and the Labor of Art« (e-flux, 2012), »The Time That Remains: On Contemporary Nihilism / How to Repeat the Avant-Garde« (e-flux, 2011), »Image-Wars: The Athens Riots as Dispositive and Event« (in Afterimage, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2010). He was research coordinator at the Museum of Installation. He is member of IKT, AICA-Greece, and the Ulmer Verein.
[Last update: September 2015]
