Biography
Anna Kafetsi studied Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. She then studied Aesthetics and History of Art at Universite de Sorbonne (Paris I) and she received her PhD degree.

Since 2000, she is the founding Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art.

She worked as a curator, responsible for the 20th century art collections at the National Gallery of Greece for seventeen years. She specified on Museology at the Musée National d' Art Μoderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris.

She has also taught history and theory of modern and contemporary art at Panteion University and at the Postgraduate Program of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens.

In the '80s she was a member of the editorial team of the literary and art theory magazine Spira.

She has been the curator of major exhibitions of modern and contemporary art (Metamorphoses of the Modern - The Greek experience, 1992, Russian Avant-Garde-The G. Costakis Collection, 1995, Chen Zhen-Metaphors of the body, 2002, Synopsis 1, 2, 3, Transcultures 2004, Videographies - The early decades , 2005, The Grand Promenade, 2006, Heart in Heart, 2009, Politics of Art, 2010) and she has published monographs, studies and articles on contemporary art and theory.