Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou, is the Director of Victoria Square Project curating it’s long term research program “Who is the Contemporary Athenian?”. She is currently a fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University. Niovi is the co-founder of MΕΣΑ Museum of Free Thinking People, a contemporary art outreach project for prisoners in Greece. Before joining Victoria Square Project she worked as Director of Art in Public Space at Eleusis 2021 European capital of Culture, and contributed in documenta 14 as Community Liaison in Athens. With an academic background in architecture and cultural management (MA), her research interests focus on socially and politically engaged art projects and the public space as a constellation of political and social transformations. Her work experience involves working with a wide range of institutions, projects and artists, like The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, IT), T.A.M.A. and Souzy Tros (Athens, GR), The Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens, GR), Viafarini DOCVA (Milan, IT) and Venice Biennial (Venice, IT).