About — Dinos Chatzirafailidis

Dinos Chatzirafailidis is a curator and PhD candidate based in Athens, Greece. His practice is fundamentally interdisciplinary, revolving mostly around affect theory and psychoanalytic aesthetics, with a particular interest in the uncanny and the subjectivity of horror. He holds an MA in Art History from the University of Leeds, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Griselda Pollock. He has curated and supported exhibitions across the US, UK, Italy and Greece, working with institutions and independent spaces including MoMA (12-Month Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting & Sculpture), Gagosian (Exhibitions Manager), The Tetley, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Art and Haus N Athen, among others.

He has participated in research programmes such as the Curatorial Research Programme (Copenhagen, funded by Danish Arts Foundation), the Warsaw Gallery Weekend Curatorial Study Trip (supported by the Polish Embassy), and the NEON Curatorial Exchange with Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others. In 2025, he co-led the Crits and Response Seminar at the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Summer School, providing individualised feedback to participating artists and developing methodologies of critical thinking and research-led approaches within contemporary artistic practice.

His writing has appeared in journals and online platforms, including the Journal of Curatorial Studies, One After Another, and Art Plus Thought. He has written on contemporary artists working in expanded sculpture or installation, such as Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Mike Nelson, Doris Salcedo, and Gregor Schneider.