Lecture | Sara Reisman
Site as a Cultural Framework

«Site as a Cultural Framework»

Sara Reisman

Friday, February 27, 2026 | 19:00

B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation 
for the Fine Arts & Music

The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music, and the SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research, Athens, present a lecture by New York City-based curator Sara Reisman, Curator-in-Residence at SeaPort.

The lecture examines how contemporary art accumulates meaning in relation to context and audience, and how it often functions as an expression of cultural values. Reisman will focus on art as a space for critique and reflection, exploring the limits of free expression through performance, opacity, and direct messaging.

Reisman is currently organizing Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space, a large-scale exhibition spanning more than fifty years of the artistΆs practice, set to open at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation in Athens on March 18, 2026.

The lecture will be in English, and followed by a discussion moderated by Athens-based artist Dor Guez, Director of SeaPort.

Biography

Sara Reisman is a curator, educator, and writer whose work focuses on socially engaged art, the history of exhibition making, and the intersections between art and social change. Reisman has held leadership roles, including Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design (2021-2025), Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2014-2021), and Director of New York CityΆs Percent for Art Program (2008-2014). She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the State University of New York-Purchse College, and, since 2016, at the School of Visual ArtsΆ Curatorial Practice MA Program. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Useful Life of Objects (Materials for the Arts, NYC), Rumor de la Tierra (Q Galeria, Quito, Ecuador), and When Thoughts Are Free (601Artspace, NYC), all in 2026.