Makis Quetempo

Makis Quetempo (aka Makis Kentepozidis) is based in Athens. He is the co-artistic director and co-founder of STEGI.RADIO and music curator and programmer for the Onassis Stegi.

He is currently curating Borderline and STEGI.RADIO Takeover festivals. He has also curated the following thematic festivals for Onassis Stegi: “The Death of Recorded Music” (2017), “Enter Afrofuturism” (2017), “Blockchain: Utopia or U-turn” (2019), and “Movement: Beyond and Between Borders” (2020).

He is a musician and member of the bands The Groove Machine, drog_A_tek, and The Erasers. He has composed music for cinema, theater, dance, and multimedia performances. As a member of drog_A_tek, he has received the Best Music award from the Hellenic Film Academy for the movies “Homeland” by Syllas Tzoumerkas and “Spring Awakening” by Konstantinos Giannaris.

His curatorial practice focuses on the cultural exchange between regions and genres that are being manifested through the overlapping histories, narratives, and sounds of the Mediterranean and the Balkans.