More about Julia

Julia Sysalova has lived in Greece for over 22 years, supporting the growth of individual artists and creative collectives. She curates their participation in major international exhibitions and organizes both group and solo shows in museums, galleries, and art fairs across Europe, Russia, and the United States.

• Curator at the Athens-based contemporary art fair Platforms Project
• Curator of the recurring contemporary art exhibition FRONTPAGE Project
• Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
• Academic member of the European Communication Institute (ECI)
• Founder of the online school of ART Communication
• Creator of the renowned course “How an Artist Can Build the Path to Recognition”
• Vice President of the Institute of Mediterranean Culture (Greece)
• Co-curator and European representative of Synergy Art Fair 2023 during Art Basel Miami Week
• Jury member for open calls of the Apexart Cultural Foundation (USA)
• Member of the International Committee for the Modern Pythian Games in Arts and Culture
• Contributor to the global art magazine Art Muse
• Member of the World Women Association (WWA, headquartered in New York)
• Member of the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA, headquartered in London)

Exhibitions 2022-2025

December 2025, Code Error Project, Art With Me Winwood Festival/ Art Basel Official Off–Site Event, Miami, USA
November 2025, Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
Nov 2025 - Feb 2026, Curated project for The Wrong Biennale, Worldwide
October 2025, Axionart, Platforms Project Independent Contemporary Art Fair, Old Tabacco Factory-Hellenic Parliament Library, Athens, Greece
October 2025, JS Gallery by IMC, Platforms Project Independent Contemporary Art Fair, Old Tabacco Factory-Hellenic Parliament Library, Athens, Greece
October 2025, Hellenic AICA Group Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece
September 2025, TAG Gallery, Growth Project, Los Angeles, USA
September 2025, Art Mozaik Fine Art Gallery, Group Show, Santa Fe, USA,
May 2025 – FRONTPAGE: Next project, international group exhibition and symposium, Municipal Cultural Center of the City of Athens “Melina Mercouri,” Athens, Greece



November–December 2024 – Growth Project, curatorial collaboration with artists Oksana Akopov and Victor Tour, LR Art Gallery, Miami, USA
November 2024 – FRONTPAGE Project: participation in an academic symposium, co-curation of the international exhibition and student art lab, Cyprus University of Technology, Municipal Library, Limassol, Cyprus
November 2024 – Participation in the AICA International Congress, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
October 2024 – Group booth GO Game Project at Platforms Project 2024 – international art fair, Athens, Greece
October 2024 – Group booth What about Eve? at Platforms Project 2024 – international art fair, Athens, Greece
September 2024 – Online exhibition Unlocked Identities with live broadcast on Times Square, HMVC Gallery, New York, USA
September 2024 – Group exhibition Unlocked Identities, Perseus Gallery, New York, USA
June 2024 – International group exhibition “What about Eve?” at the Cultural Center – Museum of the City of Athens “Melina,” Athens, Greece
April 2024 – Group participation with Perseus Gallery at SF Art Market, San Francisco, USA



December 2023 – Synergy Art Fair exhibition during Art Basel Miami Week 2023, USA
November 2023 – Group exhibition Theorimata III: Bodies, organized by AICA, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
October 2023 – Frontpage project at Platforms Project 2023, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
June 2023 – Group exhibition Frontpage, Municipal Cultural Center “Melina Mercouri,” Athens, Greece
May 2023 – Retrospective solo exhibition by Roman Ayvazyan, Tapan Armenian Museum, Moscow, Russia
2022 – Art project with Niki Zachari and Irini Pagonis at Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
2022 – Solo exhibition by Christina Politidou, Art Number 23 Gallery, Athens, Greece

Exhibitions 2009-2021

2021 – Group exhibition at a co-working space, Volos, Greece
2021 – Solo exhibition by Irini Pagonis at the Aigio Cultural Center, within the framework of the International Archaeological Symposium, Greece
2019 – Group exhibition at ARTE VISIONE Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019 – Group exhibition at the Museum of the History of the University of Athens, within the framework of the World Philosophical Forum, Athens, Greece
2019 – Solo exhibition by Yana Xanthopoulou at ARTE VISIONE Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018 – Participation of Irini Pagonis in a group exhibition at OVADA Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom
2017 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve as part of the Greece–Russia Year of Culture, Moscow, Russia
2016 – Exhibition by Alekos Fassianos at the State Museum of the History of Religion as part of the Greece–Russia Year of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at St. Isaac's Cathedral as part of the Greece–Russia Year of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at the El Greco Museum, Toledo, Spain
2015 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at the Palace of the Grand Masters, Rhodes, Greece
2015 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at the Academy of Arts Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 – Exhibition by Nikos Floros at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow, Russia
2009 – Solo exhibition by Irini Pagonis, Demokritos Scientific Center, Athens, Greece

International Conferences & Jury Positions

2025

Dec 2025, Speaker, Non-governmental organizations of Europe and Asia: dialogue for sustainable development in 2026, UNOG Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Oct 2025, Jury Member, International Contest of Youth and Creativity, Dubai, UAE
Oct 2025, Frontpage Talks Panel Discussion, Platforms Project Independent Contemporary Art Fair, Old Tabacco Factory-Hellenic Parliament Library, Athens, Greece
Sept 2025, Speaker Decentraland Art Week, Decentraland Foundation, Worldwide
June 2025, Speaker, Forum of Creative Industries, St. Petersburg, Russia