Eleni Chasioti is a Greek-born, London-based independent curator and writer. She has a background in Archaeology and Art History. Trained in archaeological sites in Greece as well as several years of experience working in a contemporary art gallery in Barcelona, Spain, Eleni has always tried to discover human stories, feelings and emotions hidden within material culture and everyday objects.
Back in 2019, she felt that her personal mosaic of human history and biography, as seen through the lens of archaeology and modern art, was incomplete. Since then, fashion studies have offered her a powerful lens through which to explore autobiography, collective memory, historical trauma, and cultural continuity.
Eleni’s curatorial practice reflects her research-driven approach. In 2024, she curated The Suitcase: Losing Famagusta exhibition in London, which explored family objects brought to England by a then 12-year-old refugee girl following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. In 2025 she curated Reflections on Revolt in Athens, an exhibition engaging with female resistance, identity, and reproductive rights.
Her ongoing research focuses on Greek regional dress, refugee clothing and textiles, and the role of domestic textile practices in cultural resistance and survival. Drawing on museum visits, archives, oral histories, video, photography, and creative writing, Eleni approaches curation as both research and storytelling.
She holds a master’s degree in Fashion Curation from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is currently writing her first book Clothes and Textiles of Anatolian Greek refugees: Embodied memories on display that will be published in 2026 by Lived Places Publishing.