Dragona Daphne

Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Athens and Berlin. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of Ionian University teaching Theory of Curatorial Practices, Exhibition Design and History of Digital Art.

Among her most recent curated -or co-curated- exhibitions and projects are: esc return: Scripts for Degrowth, Buen Vivir and living otherwise (panke.gallery, Berlin, 2024), Plasmata II: Ioannina (Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, 2023), Motores del Clima, Weaving Worlds (Deree ACG, Athens 2022), Weather Engines (Onassis Stegi & National Observatory of Athens, 2022), Trials and Errors (Romantso, Athens, 2021), Stefania Strouza: 212 Medea (AnnexM/ Megaron, Athens, 2021), Reprogramming Earth (NeMe, Limassol, 2020). Talks of hers have been hosted at Leuphana University (Lueneburg), Goethe University (Frankfurt), University of Thessaly, University of Barcelona, but also at cultural institutions such as Aksioma (Ljubljana), Mapping Festival (Geneva), MoMA (New York), Hek (Basel). Articles of hers have been published in various books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogs by the likes of Techoetic Arts/ Intellect, Diaphana Press, Springer, Sternberg Press, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. With Jussi Parikka she co-edited the publication Words of Weather (Onassis Foundation, 2022).

She is affiliated to Onassis Stegi as curatorial advisor, and has served as a jury member for the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowships (Stuttgart), for the ARTWORKS, Fellowship for Greek Young Artists and Curators of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Athens) and for numerous festivals and conferences. She worked as a curator for EMAF- European Media Art Festival (Onsabrück) from 2021 until 2023, and, earlier, for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019.

She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens, an MA in Museum Studies from UCL, and a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Athens.