Marika Konstantinidou is a visual artist born in Athens and raised between Athens, Paris & Chania, Crete. 

She has studied Textual Sculpture (Fine Arts Academy, Vienna), glassblowing (Large Glass department - Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam), and Plastic Arts & Art Sciences (Sorbonne University, Paris I). 

Her research touches upon issues of memory, materiality, transparency and the archive through the media of sculpture, painting, printing and performance. 

She has exhibited her work in Greece and internationally in independent spaces such as The Closed Gallery in Thessaloniki, Six D.o.g.s. in Athens, galleries (Kunstburo, Vienna), institutions (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens), art fairs & festivals (Parallel Art Fair Vienna, Athens Biennale, Athens Video Art Festival, P-Public, Chania) and has participated in various workshops and residencies. 

As an independent curator and cultural producer she runs the curatorial platform Foreign Vessels, enabling interdisciplinary research on notions such as inbetweenness, hosting, carrying and migrating through collaborative and site-responsive protocols.

Additionally, she has curated and assisted in the production of various other exhibitions and events for galleries and institutions in internationally and collaborated with a plethora of artists, writers and scholars.