Eszter Szakács is researcher and curator at de Appel, Amsterdam. She is a curator and researcher based in Amsterdam. She is currently a curator at de Appel, Amsterdam, where she also served as Interim Artistic Director between October 2025 and March 2026. Her practice engages with group-based forms of organizing and curating, with the aim of connecting people and initiatives on a longer-term basis. She has been involved in several collaboratively curated biennials and grassroots projects, including as Curator of the Guest Programme of the 41st EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, together with the EVA Team (2025); as a curatorial team member of the second (2017) and third (2021) editions of OFF-Biennale Budapest and of OFF-Biennale’s participation in documenta fifteen as a lumbung member (2022). Her practice-based research focuses on grassroots art organizing. She is a member of the IMAGINART research group as a PhD candidate at ASCA of the University of Amsterdam. Together with Naeem Mohaiemen, she co-edited Solidarity Must Be Defended (2023), an anthology of visual arts projects exploring solidarity, realized and failed, during the Cold War. From 2011 to 2020, she worked as a curator and editor at tranzit.hu in Budapest, where, among others, she curated the Budapest premiere of Naeem Mohaiemen’s Two Meetings and a Funeral (2018), co-edited the online international journal Mezosfera (2016–2020), and edited the collaborative Curatorial Dictionary (2012–2018).