Zoi Psimmenou
Zoi Psimmenou is an interdisciplinary researcher, architect, and curator. She holds a Master’s in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens and a Master’s in Museum Studies from the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Zoi Psimmenou’s research grapples with spatial experience in museums and cultural institutions and explores how a synergy between spatial, curatorial, and public-programming practices can afford active, critical, and embodied engagement. As a PhD candidate in the JUST ART project, she aims to expand this research through a multispecies-justice lens, with a view to unsettling and reimagining institutional existence.
In 2026, Zoi served as local curator for the Art Feeds Collective Residency hosted by the Municipality of Almere under the curatorial theme “Edible Commons: Performing the Future of Food.” The residency was part of a Creative Europe project organized by BJCEM and Feed Your Future that explored the intersection of food, climate justice, and art activism. In 2025, she worked as exhibition designer and project manager for the decolonial exhibitionary intervention Staged Histories, Living Stories in the Kartinizaal at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), led by Corina L. Apostol. Between 2025 and 2026, as resident program curator at VOX-POP, UvA, she curated and produced Spatial Encounters, a series of public programs at the intersection of art, social justice, and spatial design, as well as the exhibition Printed Matters: The Politics and Aesthetics of Independent Publications.