Despoina Tzanou is a curator and writer based between Athens and Braga. Her curatorial practice and creative writing involve thinking through and deconstructing cultural symbols and socio-political events while drawing connections between the body, mythology, nature, technology, feminist studies, philosophy and psychology. She holds an MA in Curating the Contemporary from the London Metropolitan University in conjunction with the Whitechapel Gallery (2017); and a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2015). Since 2019, she has been Director & Curator at Duarte Sequeira, Braga, and, since 2022, Curator at Duarte Sequeira Seoul. She was a founding member of DOW Curatorial Collective in London (2016 – 2018) and has collaborated with various public and private art institutions, including the galleries Forum Arte Braga; Cell Projects Space, London; and Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has commissioned new works by artists Mimosa Echard, Tom Howse, Lito Kattou, Lily Kemp, Manolis D. Lemos, Lucile Littot, Petros Moris, Vanessa da Silva, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Mauro Ventura and has collaborated, among others, with André Butzer, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Petra Cortright, Pakui Hardware, Byzantia Harlow, Juliana Huxtable, Oliver Laric, Rebecca Lennon, Shaina McCoy, Katja Novitskova, Julian Opie, Athena Papadopoulos, Eva Papamargariti, Ricardo Passaporte, Eddie Peake, Marianna Simnett, Timur Si-Qin, Jenna Sutela, Slavs & Tatars, Suzanne Treister, Jala Wahid and Guan Xiao. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022).