Denise Araouzou
Director & Curator
Denise Araouzou (b. 1992, Vienna) is an independent curator and writer. She is the grandaughter of Veronika Gyòcsi Stenzel and due to her invested lifelong interest in the collection she has assumed the role of caring for the collection as the artistic director.
Denise received her MA in History of Art from the University of Glasgow in 2015. She is a junior curator of Mediterranea 19: School of Waters – Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), San Marino (October 2020). Previously she managed The Island Club (Limassol, Cyprus), a non-profit exhibition space founded and directed by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou where exhibited artists include: Eric Baudelaire, Haris Epaminonda, Apostolos Georgiou, Johan Grimonprez, Joana Hadjithoma & Khalil Joreige, Wojciech Kosma, Pierre Leguillon, Pilvi Takala, Oraib Toukan and Kara Walker. She is the founder of open form, an open studio and conversation platform established in Athens (2017). Recent curatorial residencies include: A Natural Oasis? A Transnational Research Program BJCEM (2018 - 2020, UK, Italy, San Marino), BAR project (2019, Barcelona) and Future Climates, School of Redistribution (State of Concept, Athens). Together with Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia she co-curated the exhibition Adrian Melis: Absolute Silence Does Not Exist (León, 2017).
Director & Curator
Denise Araouzou (b. 1992, Vienna) is an independent curator and writer. She is the grandaughter of Veronika Gyòcsi Stenzel and due to her invested lifelong interest in the collection she has assumed the role of caring for the collection as the artistic director.
Denise received her MA in History of Art from the University of Glasgow in 2015. She is a junior curator of Mediterranea 19: School of Waters – Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), San Marino (October 2020). Previously she managed The Island Club (Limassol, Cyprus), a non-profit exhibition space founded and directed by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou where exhibited artists include: Eric Baudelaire, Haris Epaminonda, Apostolos Georgiou, Johan Grimonprez, Joana Hadjithoma & Khalil Joreige, Wojciech Kosma, Pierre Leguillon, Pilvi Takala, Oraib Toukan and Kara Walker. She is the founder of open form, an open studio and conversation platform established in Athens (2017). Recent curatorial residencies include: A Natural Oasis? A Transnational Research Program BJCEM (2018 - 2020, UK, Italy, San Marino), BAR project (2019, Barcelona) and Future Climates, School of Redistribution (State of Concept, Athens). Together with Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia she co-curated the exhibition Adrian Melis: Absolute Silence Does Not Exist (León, 2017).