Interesting museums generate ‘vital knowledge’

Written on 10/18/2026
Xenia Georgiadou

Katerina Gregos, artistic director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), if asked to describe the journey from 2021, when she assumed her current post, to September 26, when she accepted the European Art Award on the museum’s behalf in Alicante, Spain, would answer without hesitation: It has been a marathon.