That Pieridis Foundation issued this morning, December 29, 2023, an announcement on the appointment of Dr. Elena Stylianou to the position of Director of NiMAC.
The Pieridis Foundation announces that from January 1, 2024, Dr. Elena Stylianou will be the new Director of the Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Collaboration: Pieridis Foundation [NiMAC]. In this position, Dr. Stylianou will provide leadership, inspiration and strategic direction for the Center and ensure that the Center achieves its short and long term goals of artistic excellence, financial sustainability and community engagement. As Director she will be responsible for all aspects of the NiMAC portfolio. These include artistic, operational, educational and community planning, financial management, staff development and fundraising.
The resume of the new director
Dr. Stylianou has extensive experience in various fields of culture and is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the European University of Cyprus. He researches, writes and curates at the intersections of photography history and theory, modern and contemporary art, critical theory and museum and curatorial practices. He has curated a series of art exhibitions in Cyprus, the last one entitled "In the Sea of the Setting Sun: Photographic Practices and the Archive", which was presented at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art-SPEL. Her work has been published in scholarly journals and collective volumes and she is co-editor of Contemporary Art from Cyprus: Politics, Identit ies and Culture s Across Borders (Bloomsbury, Spring 2021), Ar ( t ) chaeology : Intersections of Photography and Archeology (IAPT Press, 2019) and Museums and Photography : Displaying Death (Routledge, 2018).
Dr. Stylianou received her PhD from Columbia University, Teachers College NY, with an emphasis in contemporary art, and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Getty-CAA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and an ArtTable Fellowship in the Department of Curators of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. She previously held a postdoctoral position at UCL London studying the intersections of contemporary art, museums and technology and has worked as the first coordinator of the Museum of the City of New York's Saturday Academy in New York, serving underprivileged youth through of the museum's educational programs. She is the lead researcher and coordinator of several EU-funded projects related to the arts and cultural heritage, she is one of the national experts representing Cyprus in the EU initiative Accessible EU, with the aim, among other things, of promoting accessibility for all in cultural heritage, and is one of the founding members and current president of the International Organization of Photography and Theory [IAPT].