About the part that art plays in a globalising society

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Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (b. 1989, Athens) is an art historian and curator, currently a research fellow (VENI) and lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her interdisciplinary scholarship, at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities, engages nuclear aesthetics, the visual culture of extraction, and material histories of art and the environment. In 2021 she obtained her PhD from the École des hautes en sciences sociales, Paris and in 2022–23 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University.

She is a board member of the Environmental Humanities Centre and the scientific advisor for the exhibition Atomic Age. Artists Grappling with History (2024–25) at the Musée d’art Moderne, Paris, which commissioned Susanne Kriemann’s work Lupin, fougère, genêt.


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L’Age Atomique, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. © Susanne Kriemann

Artist Talk by Susanne Kriemann: Lupin, fougère, genêt

Presentation on artistic research on the effects of uranium mining.