Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani
Associate Lecturer
Kyveli received her PhD from the History of Art Department at the University of York, UK, in 2021, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (WRoCAH) and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Her doctoral research focused on the ethics of the spectatorship of atrocity images in contemporary art in relation to their visibility. Her broader research interests include visual ethics and issues of spectatorship, representations of violence and human rights in contemporary art and photography, and the representations of the 21st century refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. She holds an MA in History of Art from the University of York, UK and a BA in Theory and History of Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. She has worked in a curatorial capacity on exhibitions and public programmes in Greece and the United Kingdom, participated in research projects in Greece, and presented her research at various conferences and symposia. In summer 2018, she co-curated the contemporary art exhibition Refuse/Refuge at the York Art Gallery, which examined the visual politics of the contemporary refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. In summer 2019, she was a visiting doctoral student in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, Germany.
