Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian, critic, and curator. She is currently finishing a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS) on the subterranean imaginary in contemporary art, especially with regard to nuclear spaces. Among her recent exhibitions are: Scarred Land, a series of films on art and nuclear colonialism featuring work by Susan Schuppli and Inas Halabi, which were projected in Groningen during the cultural week After Hiroshima; the solo exhibition Canopy Canopy by Susanne Kriemann at Framer Framed in Amsterdam (with Ruby de Vos); The Opposing Shore in the context of the parallel program of the 7th Moscow Biennial. She co-edited an issue of the academic journal Kunstlicht on Nuclear Aesthetics. In 2017, she organized Nuclear Waste Weeks, a series of screenings, workshops and visits to nuclear sites in the Netherlands and Belgium. She was a fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa and a visiting scholar at the Environmental Humanities Center, VU University Amsterdam. Her work has been supported by the Onassis Foundation, the Goulandris Foundation and the National Research Council of Canada. She was a guest teacher at Carleton University and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.