Dr. Corina L. Apostol is an assistant professor of social practice in contemporary art and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2025-2026 she was comissioned by Decolonial Dialogues@Humanities to led the curatorial project "Staged Histories, Living Projects," an exhibitionary intervention in the Kartinizaal at UvA. She served as a curator and a member of the steering committee for “Beyond Matter” (2020–23), an international, practice-based research project taking cultural heritage and culture in development to the verge of virtual reality. In 2022, she curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, presenting the project “Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance” in the Dutch “Rietveld” Pavilion. She served as a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia (2019–23) and was appointed as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia (2021–23). In 2019, she curated the Shelter Festival “Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons” at the Space for Free Arts in Helsinki. Dr. Apostol held the Mellon Fellowship at Creative Time (2017–19), where she co-edited the publication Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects (Routledge, 2019) and co-curated the Creative Time Summit “On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries” in Miami. Dr. Apostol obtained her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where she was the Dodge Curatorial Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum (2010–16). In 2022, she won the apexart 2022–23 exhibition competition in New York with the project “Flora Fantastic.” She is the coeditor of Oliver Ressler: Barricading the Ice Sheets (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2023). She is currently coediting the volume Flora Fantastic: From Orchidelirium to Eco-Critical Art. Since 2023 she serves as the associate producer of CULTUS by the artist Zach Blas, an immersive exploration of AI Gods, spirituality, and Silicon Valley’s techno-religion. Corina is on the advisory board of ARIAS, an organisation that fosters the development of artistic research around  topics such as climate change, artificial intelligence, and practices of care. 

Recent courses

Art and Performance Research Studies Thesis Seminar (12 EC)

Museums and the Mobility of Artefacts (6 EC)

Artistic Research Thesis Project/Thesis Seminar (6 EC)

Artivism in Action: Exploring Socially Engaged Art, Politics, and Culture (12 EC)

Curating Spaces of Memory: Contemporary Exhibitions Highlighting Under-Represented Histories (6 EC)

Current Doctoral students

Nick Thurston (University of Leeds) | Document Practices: Re-publishing at the Limits of Documentary Art

Stephanie Smith | Chicagoland: Property, Speculation, and Socially Engaged Art