About + CV
Ruby Eleftheriotis (b.1996) is a Greek/Scottish curator and writer currently based in Bergen, Norway.
In my curatorial practice, I explore liminal spaces and porosity within our environments through site-embedded readings of place. I’m interested in how we weave time together, how to inhabit spaces together, and how we can embrace methods of collective learning from a point of curiosity.
Achronological, speculative, hidden and alternative histories and myths of spatial experience lie at the core of my practice. I lean heavily on feminist methodologies of care, collaboration, citation and continuation. I am particularly focused on processes beyond exhibition-making, that instead contain messiness, failure, possibilities and unfinished conversations.
I currently co-run aerial - a small studio and project space in Bergen - that focuses on faciliating socially-engaged practices and programming with notions of gathering, hosting and food at its heart.
I am a co-founder of Those Who Possess Dirt - a research collaborative dedicated to untangling the possibilities of more-than-human kinships, co-learning and co-existence.
2024 - Visiting Curator Programme, Oslo Open (NO)
2022 - Summer Academy, Hordaland Kunstsenter (NO)
2021 - Continuous Professional Development, Public Art Commissioning & Curating, HDK Valand (SWE)
2019 - MLitt with Merit, Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), Glasgow School of Art & University of Glasgow (UK)
2018 - MA (hons), First Class Honors with Dean’s Distinction, Film Studies and History of Art. University of St Andrews (UK)
Professional Experience:
2024 - Ticketing and Sales Coordinator, Borealis Festival (NO)
2023 - Assistant Curator, Kiosken (NO)
2023 - Logistics and Transport Co-ordinator, Borealis Festival (NO)
2023 - Mediator and Copywriter, Kiosken + Stockholm Furniture Fair
2022 - Co-curator at aerial project space (NO) (ongoing)
2022 - Mediator & Exhibition Host, Bergen Assembly. Bergen (NO)
2022 - Gallery Assistant, p a l m e r a, Bergen (NO)
2021 - New Producer, Architecture Fringe, Edinburgh (UK)
2021 - New Glasgow Society, Gallery Administrator and Programmer. Glasgow (UK)
2019 - LUX Scotland, Programme Assistant, Glasgow (UK)
Awards:
Bergen Kommune Kulturstipend 2023
Creative Scotland Hardship Fund 2022
Anita Loos Award for Film Studies Essay 2018