SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research in Athens is an artist-led public platform for curatorial research, exchange, and hospitality, based in a two-story building in Athens and anchored by the studio of artist Dor Guez Munayer. It operates as an institution where curating, hospitality, and conversation form a unified practice. Founded in 2018, SeaPort emerges from a curatorial framework that understands port cities as engines of movement and exchange - sites shaped by the circulation of languages, cultures, goods, and ideas, often exceeding the homogenizing logics of the nation-state.

Identity is understood as a condition formed through contact, proximity, and displacement across cities rather than as a fixed category grounded in stable frameworks of belonging. Guez’s background and two decades of practice articulate a similar orientation, within a family history that extends between a Palestinian Greek-Orthodox lineage from Lydda on his maternal side and a Tunisian Jewish lineage on his paternal side. SeaPort extends this line of inquiry into an institutional form, positioning the city as a primary unit of cultural experience, where forms of affiliation are shaped less by national frameworks and more by shifting spatial and social relations.

SeaPort’s Curator’s Program is a distinctive initiative designed to enable 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 extensive preparatory research prior to every visit. The program is developed in close consultation with SeaPort’s Advisory Board, whose members contribute expertise, institutional knowledge, and regional perspectives that help shape each residency and the organization’s broader curatorial direction. This allows participants to engage meaningfully with local contexts, pursue projects grounded in sustained inquiry, and develop new perspectives through direct engagement with people, places, and institutions across the region. The program positions curating itself as a form of research, addressing questions of geography, memory, migration, and translation while fostering connections between diverse artistic and cultural communities.

Alongside its residency program, SeaPort hosts a public program of lectures, film screenings, conversations, workshops, and other public events. These activities extend SeaPort’s commitment to making curatorial research a public and collective endeavor, bringing together artists, curators, researchers, students, and audiences in an environment shaped by openness, hospitality, and exchange.

Rather than treating the Mediterranean as a fixed geography or a unified identity, SeaPort approaches it as a space shaped by movement, displacement, circulation, and overlapping histories. The organization supports curatorial and artistic practices that propose alternative cartographies and new ways of understanding the Mediterranean’s cultural and political complexities.

Situated at the foothills of Mount Lycabettus, our building functions as a site of encounter, research, and possibility. Athens provides a unique vantage point from which to engage the entangled histories and contemporary realities of the Mediterranean, connecting Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia through centuries of exchange and transformation. Residents are given the time and conditions necessary to immerse themselves in local contexts while developing projects that are simultaneously grounded and transnational in scope.

Originally founded in Jaffa and Haifa in 2018, SeaPort relocated to Athens in 2025, expanding its activities while maintaining a commitment to the Mediterranean as both a field of inquiry and a platform for solidarity. Today, SeaPort connects artists, curators, researchers, and institutions across the region and beyond, fostering relationships that extend across geographical, linguistic, and political boundaries.

By bringing together curating, hospitality, and conversation as a single practice, SeaPort seeks to create lasting conditions for research, exchange, and cultural imagination across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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