Ariana Kalliga is a curator and researcher based in Athens and New York. Her work focuses on modes of cultural production that combine theory, architecture and contemporary artistic practice. Ariana is a graduate of Oxford University’s History of Art Department and has previously worked within MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), among other cultural institutions and international non-profits. She has curated programs, talks and exhibitions in museums and independent spaces both in Greece and internationally. In 2021, she curated the group exhibition Never Cross the Same River Twice with Kisito Assangni, which received the support of NEON Organization and of the Polygreen Culture and Art Inititiative (PCAI). Recently, she curated the publication/toolkit Artist-Run Dialogues, an initiative published by the Athens-based space52 (2022), which considers institutional infrastructures and new forms of transnational solidarity between artist-run and non-profit spaces. Other residencies and curatorial programs include: the Curatorial Intensive program offered by the SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen), the curatorial program of the WCSCD educational platform (Serbia), and the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Research and Residency Program (Crete). She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).