Antonia Alampi joins new artistic team at Kunsthal Extra City Antwerp

Italian curator Antonia Alampi has been appointed to the new artistic team of Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp, alongside Greek curator and writer Iliana Fokianaki and Belgian artist, choreographer, curator, writer, and editor Michiel Vandevelde. The trio was selected through an international call launched after architect Adinda Van Geystelen was named director in July 2016. The competition required a three-year program of exhibitions, debates, and public actions aligned with the kunsthalle's new mission to focus on urban reality and foster links between contemporary art, artists, researchers, and citizens via intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. Alampi, who was a curator at Beirut art space in Cairo from 2012 to 2015 and currently co-directs SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, previously collaborated with Fokianaki on the socio-economic research project Future Climates in 2016. Her role will involve questioning the institution's current artistic, organizational, and social position. Extra City was founded in 2004 by Wim Peeters and began a repositioning process last year to become a hub for national and international cooperation.