Ms. Tsiara succeeds Marina Lambraki-Plaka who recently passed away at the age of 83.
The art historian and curator Syrago Tsiara is appointed Director of the National Gallery – Museum of Alexandros Soutsos, by decision of the Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni. Ms. Tsiara succeeds Marina Lambraki-Plaka who recently passed away at the age of 83.
Syrago Tsiara is an art historian, curator and Director of MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. He has fifteen years of experience managing public museum organizations and twenty years of experience managing collections of works of Greek and international art. He has curated more than fifty exhibitions in Greece and abroad, organized conferences, authored scientific studies and lectured, mainly on issues of art and politics, memory, identity, curatorial practices and the connection of contemporary art with archaeological sites and the public. sphere.
From 2007 to 2020 he took over the management of the Center for Contemporary Art. From 2017 until today he directs the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2009 he co-curated the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art – “Praxis. Art in Uncertain Times “. She was the curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. In 2017, she co-curated with Maria Tsantsanoglou an exhibition of 28 Greek artists at the Beijing National Museum of Art as part of the 7th Beijing Biennale of Contemporary Art, organized by Greece. At the 58th Venice Biennale, in 2019, she took over the duties of national commissioner.
He was born in Larissa in 1968. He studied History and Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while he continued his postgraduate studies in Social Art History at the University of Leeds, England. She prepared her doctoral dissertation at AUTh. on the role of public sculpture in shaping national memory and was awarded a doctorate in 2000. He worked for the research, study, documentation and exhibition of the Kostakis Collection in Greece and abroad, while teaching at the University of Thessaly.
Since the founding of the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), in 2018, he took over the management of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019 he worked with Dimitris Antonakakis in the management of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in order to give the museum to the public. In the same year he completed the design and curation of the presentation of the permanent collection of modern Greek art at the Municipal Gallery of Larissa – GI Museum. Katsigra.
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