Marilena Z. Kasimati

Marilena Z. Kasimati was born in Athens and completed her secondary education at the American College for Girls, Pierce College. She studied Art History, Archaeology, and Philosophy at the University of Munich, where she earned her doctorate. She worked for two years at the Bavarian State Museums. Since 1984, she has been a Curator at the National Gallery. Her research focuses on Western European painting, printmaking, drawings, and photography in the collections of the National Gallery. She has published a photographic album dedicated to the work of photographer Maria Chrousaki and a catalog of the National Gallery's prints, which also includes her research on 19th-century painting. She has taught Art History at the Universities of Crete and Athens. She served as a representative of the Ministry of Culture at the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO in Paris. She has collaborated on Greek and German art dictionaries. She has organized exhibitions at the National Gallery, including "Athens-Munich, Art and Culture in Modern Greece" in collaboration with Bavarian and Greek state museums, at the National Gallery's branches in Corfu and Nafplio, as well as in Cyprus. She served as the artistic director of the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania. She has a rich body of written work and has participated with presentations in Art History conferences and scientific symposiums in Greece and Germany. She is a member of the international research group "National Identities - International Avant-Gardes" under the auspices of the European Union, the Association International des Critiques d'Art - HELLAS, and a founding member of the Society of Greek Art Historians.