Maya Tounta

Akwa Ibom, Athens
Director

Maya Tounta is a curator and writer based in Athens, Greece. She currently serves as director of Akwa Ibom, a nonprofit exhibition space, which she co-founded with Otobong Nkanga in 2019. Through Akwa Ibom and together with Radio Athènes and Melas Martinos, she represents the Estate of Christos Tzivelos and the archive of George Tourkovasilis. Prior to this, she worked as art director at e-flux journal until 2022.

Past curatorial projects at Akwa Ibom include exhibitions on Rosalind Nashashibi and NBA (Agency of New Way: Nick Bastis, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dalia Dūdėnaitė, Ona Kvintaitė and Elena Narbutaitė), Thanasis Totsikas, Jason Dodge, Ellen Gallagher and Dora Economou, Marina Xenofontos, Nicole Gravier, and Kostas Murkudis, among others. Together with Tom Engels, the artistic director of Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, Tounta is curating the 15th Baltic Triennial, scheduled to open in September 2024.

Maya Tounta visited Vienna on a group research trip in March 2024.

Maya Tounta. Photo: courtesy the curator