NICOLAS VAMVOUKLIS

Nicolas Vamvouklis (Greece) is an Athens-based curator and writer working across contemporary art and performance. His practice attends to the bodily as a meeting point between visual and live arts, and to the ways mediation and care can broaden audiences for experimental practices. He has curated exhibitions and live programs for the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale, the Thessaloniki Biennale, the Athens Conservatory, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. He previously served as Senior Curator within the Benetton Foundation’s art programs, and has collaborated with institutions and galleries including Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Prague Quadrennial, Triennale Milano, the Onassis Foundation, White Cube, Sies+Höke, and Kalfayan Galleries. His writing has appeared in Flash Art, Sternberg Press, Observer, Tanz, Domus, and Afterall Journal. In 2021, he was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. In 2024–2025, he was Associate Director at The Breeder in Athens. Since 2024, he has led the performance section of Art Athina in partnership with Flux Laboratory. He is the founder of K-Gold Temporary Gallery on Lesvos island.