Apostol served as a curator at the
Tallinn Art Hall (2019-2023) and guest lecturer at the
Art Academy of Latvia (2021-2023). Since 2010, she is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks and editor-in-chief of the ArtLeaks Gazette. Between 2010 and 2017 she was the
Norton Dodge Curatorial Fellow at the
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, researching and exhibiting The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of
Soviet Nonconformist Art. In 2013 she opened the exhibition "Leningra'd Perestroika: Crosscurents in Photography, Video and Music" highlighting the unique photographic, video, and musical innovations that shaped the Leningrad (now known as St. Petersburg) unofficial art culture during the period of
glasnost and
perestroika. In 2010, she co-founded ArtLeaks, together with an international group of artists, writers, curators and activists, a platform that draws attention to cases involving politically active cultural workers and associated campaigns. Artleaks seeks to create a strong network of art whistleblowers to support and protect arts workers. Based on her experiences with ArtLeaks, she contributed to the book
Truth Is Concrete Handbook, and for an activism that Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics and to the exhibition "Publishing Against the Grain," (2017-2023)] organized by
ICI. In 2016, she was selected as part of the Board of Directors of the Romanian National Cultural Fund. She wrote the chapter "The Art of Making Community" in
Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (
Cornell University Press, 2016), about Romanian artist Lia Perjovschi. Between 2017 and 2019 she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at
Creative Time. In 2019, Apostol co-edited together with Nato Thompson the book
Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects, published by
Routledge. In 2018, she co-curated together with
Elvira Dyangani-Ose the
Creative Time Summit: "On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries" at the
Arsht Center for Performing Arts and other locations across
Miami, FL. In 2020, she was selected as the curator for the
Estonian Pavilion at the
59th Venice Biennale. The project, entitled "Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance" was presented in the Dutch
Rietveld Pavilion in the
Giardini della Biennale, and showcased artworks by several contemporary artists including Kristina Norman, Eko Supriyanto, the botanical artist Emilie Rosalie Saal (1871-1954). In 2022, Apostol curated the project "Polar Rainbow", a socially engaged project using
Augmented Reality, first presented by
Time Square Arts during
Pride Month. Under her curatorship, the project was also presented by Fundacja Bęc Zmiana and Asociația Accept in the same year. Between 2019 and 2023 she was a curator and member of the steering committee of Beyond Matter an international, collaborative, practice-based research project that takes cultural heritage and culture in development to the verge of virtual reality, spearheaded by the
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In this framework, she co-edited together with Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás the book Immerse! (2023), published by
Hatje Canz. In fall 2023 Apostol was appointed assistant professor of social practice in contemporary art and culture at the
University of Amsterdam. Since 2024, she is the coordinator of the Research School for Art History (OSK) visiting fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art, a program in collaboration with the
Stedelijk Museum and the
Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD). Apostol's next book project is
Flora Fantastic: From Orchidelirium to Eco-critical Contemporary Art. She is the associate producer of
Zach Blas' CULTUS which addresses a burgeoning AI religiosity in the tech industry and considers the ways in which artificial intelligence is imbued with god-like powers and marshalled to serve beliefs of judgement and transcendence, extraction and immortality, pleasure and punishment, individual freedom and cult devotion. The project was first presented at arebyte gallery in London (October 2023 - February 2024) and at the
Vienna Secession (March - June 2024). ==Recognition==