Maya Tounta (GR)

In cooperation with Phileas, the Austrian Office for Contemporary Art

June - July 2025

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Maya Tounta (b. 1990) is a curator, writer, and artist based between Athens and Vilnius. She is the director of Akwa Ibom, a nonprofit exhibition space in Athens co-founded with Otobong Nkanga in 2019. Through Akwa Ibom, and in collaboration with Radio Athènes and Melas Martinos, she represents the Estate of Christos Tzivelos and the archive of George Tourkovasilis. Her recent projects include exhibitions by Saulė Gerikaitė, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Christos Tzivelos, Kostas Murkudis, Nicole Gravier, and Marina Xenofontos. She also co-founded Montos Tattoo in Vilnius and served as Art Director of e-flux journal (2021–2022). In 2024, she co-curated the 15th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius with Tom Engels.

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During her residency at PART, Maya engaged with artists across Vienna, gathering insights for a film in development and contributing to the evolving programme at Akwa Ibom. At the same time, she delved into research for an upcoming publication on the Greek writer and photographer George Tourkovasilis, created in collaboration with Radio Athènes, Melas Martinos, and Bill in Print.