SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research in Athens is an artist-led public platform and a residency program based in a two-story building in Athens, anchored by the studio Dor Guez Munayer. At its core, SeaPort is built on the idea of hospitality - welcoming curators, artists, and audiences into a space of exchange, shared inquiry, and collaboration.

Our Curator’s Program is a distinctive initiative designed to allow emerging and established curators to deepen their research within the context of the Mediterranean. Each residency is tailored to the curator’s interests, with the SeaPort team conducting in-depth preparatory research before each visit. This ensures that curators can engage fully with local contexts, develop projects rooted in sustained inquiry, and explore new channels of knowledge across the region. The program positions curating itself as a form of research, addressing questions of geography, memory, and translation, while fostering connections between diverse artistic and cultural communities.

Alongside its residency program for curators, SeaPort hosts a vibrant public program of lectures, film screenings, performances, and more. Among these initiatives, The Rock Upon Which the Light Walks offers intimate gatherings where professionals in the arts share local and seasonal Mediterranean cuisine, enriched by the Palestinian and North African heritage of the host.

SeaPort challenges essentializing views of the Mediterranean by presenting it as a dynamic contact zone shaped by circulation, displacement, and exchange, emphasizing curatorial and artistic approaches that propose alternative cartographies and shared perspectives. Our building, situated at the foothills of Mount Lycabettus in Athens, is positioned as a locus of pluralism, encounter, and possibility, fostering forms of solidarity and cohabitation that transcend national paradigms. Our residents are given time and conditions to engage local contexts and develop projects rooted in sustained dialogue. At the same time, shared vocabulary across linguistic, political, and territorial boundaries supports research that is both situated and transnational.

Originally founded in Jaffa and Haifa in 2018, SeaPort relocated to Athens in 2025, expanding its scope while maintaining a commitment to Mediterranean discourse as a field of inquiry and a platform for solidarity. Today, it connects artists, curators, and institutions across the region and beyond, positioning the Mediterranean not as a periphery, but as a central axis of political, aesthetic, and intellectual negotiation.

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