dr. Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

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I am a historian of modern and contemporary art, specializing in the relationship between art and science with an emphasis on nuclear technologies (qualifiée en section 18 et 22 par le CNU).

My interdisciplinary scholarship, at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities, engages nuclear aesthetics, the visual culture of extraction, and material histories of art and the environment. I was awarded my PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris in 2021, supported by an Onassis Foundation scholarship, with a dissertation entitled "Dwelling, Extracting, Burying: Nuclear Imaginaries in Contemporary Art (1970-2020)".

In 2022-23 I was a junior research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, RWTH Aachen University. Currently, I am working on an exhibition about the atomic age at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, which will open in October 2024, and as lecturer at the department of Art & Culture at VU University Amsterdam.

In 2024-2027, I am starting a new postdoctoral research project (VENI), funded by the Dutch National Research Council, on the aesthetic and material strategies that artists developed to negotiate with, and resist nuclear extractivism from 1979 to the present.