Penelope Petsini

Penelope Petsini was born in Bucharest in 1973. She studied photography in Athens and the United Kingdom, earning an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a PhD from the University of Derby with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation.

An artist, curator and scholar, she has exhibited and published widely in Greece and abroad and has taught theory of photography and contemporary art at university level since 2004. Her books include Sites of Memory: Photography, Collective Memory, and History and Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect | Past Continuous, and she has co-edited volumes on censorship in Greece and on Greek photographic practices.

With Nikos Panayotopoulos she created Restricted Areas (2010–14), shown at House of Lucie Athens, exploring Cold War sites in Berlin that have become places of memory.