Studio
A curatorial editorial, run from a ground-floor room in Pangrati.
HD Kepler is a small curatorial editorial run from a ground-floor studio in Pangrati, Athens. It was founded in 2020 by Becky Campbell, a Scottish curator and writer, born in 1985 in Fort William and trained in art history at Glasgow before moving to the eastern Mediterranean in 2014.
The studio came together slowly. Becky spent her first five years in Greece working as an assistant curator for two small institutions — one in Hydra, one in Piraeus — and writing exhibition essays for a handful of European magazines under several different names. By the autumn of 2019, after a long season helping an artist install a piece of olive netting in a deconsecrated chapel near Megara, it became clear that the work she most wanted to do was the slow editorial work of putting one material in conversation with one room, and writing about what happened next. HD Kepler is the form that intuition took.
The studio's philosophy
We are, by inclination and by temperament, a quiet practice. The studio publishes four printed volumes a year, mounts two seasonal exhibitions, and refuses, as a matter of policy, to comment on art fairs, biennale shortlists, or the trade press. Our editorial pace is set by the agricultural calendar of Attica and the Cyclades, not by the art market.
The name "HD Kepler" is a small private joke about long observation — the kind of slow looking the astronomer's namesake was famous for, applied here to art. The monogram, Kº, appears on the masthead of every volume and on the spine of the printed editions.
What the studio is not
HD Kepler is not a commercial gallery. We do not hold inventory, take sales commission, or represent artists in the trade sense. We are not a non-profit, either; we are a self-funded editorial run by one curator with two part-time editors and a generous landlord. We mention this because readers sometimes assume the building is bigger than it is.
The studio receives visitors by appointment. If you would like to come by, write to studio@hdkepler.net and tell us, briefly, what brings you. We will reply within a fortnight, and almost certainly say yes.