Marika Konstantinidou is a visual artist born in Athens and raised between Athens, Paris & Chania, Crete. Her work touches upon issues of memory, materiality, transparency and the archive through the media of sculpture, painting, printing and performance.
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As an independent curator and organizer she runs the curatorial platform Foreign Vessels since 2021, focusing on notions such as inbetweenness, hosting and carrying through interdisciplinary and contextual protocols. She has also curated exhibitions and other events and worked for various galleries and institutions in Greece and France.
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Contact at : marika.konstantinidou@gmail.com
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STUDIES
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2014 – 19, '24 Textual Sculpture (with Heimo Zobernig & Nora Schultz) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2017 – 2018 The Large Glass Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam
2007 – 2011 Plastic Arts and Art Sciences Sorbonne Paris 1 Paris
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)
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2021 Foreign Vessels Byzantine & Postbyzantine Antiquities Collection, Chania
2018 Just Looking for Attention Hasselt, Belgium
Bregenz Biennale, The Map Is The Territory Bregenz, Austria
The Funny Thing is it Bends Everything Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Pooping Back and Forth Forever Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam
The Volume “/” is Out of Space Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
Uncut Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Shadow Libraries – Ubuweb in Athens Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
2017 Ferry Tales Dreirosenbrucke, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Parallel Vienna Art Fair Lote & Larp, Kunstbuero, Vienna
Tell me Honestly, How Much are You Exercising ? Hotel Gerber, Lausanne, Switzerland
Halo ! AVU Prague, Czech Republic
2014 Dadada Situation Julius Caesar Atelier, Vienna
Relaxing in the Shadow of Art Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna
2013 Agora Athens Biennale Romvos Musical performance, Athens
If Sports is the Brother of Labour, Art is the Cousin of Unemployment Pindaros Hotel, Athens
Mezentropy by Ismini Adami Guido Van Rats Gallery, Vienna
Love Letters to Chaos The Art Foundation, Athens
2012 And Great Death Fell Upon finissage Splatzia Square, Chania
Inside Boxes / Beyond Borders Knowledge in a Box, Kavala
The Closet Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos gallery, Athens
P*public, annual meeting of professionals working in the public space Chania
2011 Kodra Action Festival Thessaloniki
2010 Kodra Action Festival Thessaloniki
Artvertiser Nuit Blanche Brussels
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EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)
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2022 The Empress' New Clothes S.O.M.F Fashion Showroom, Athens
2019 Can't Fit My Genes Aquarium Kurzbauergasse, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2017 New Furniture Gerrit Rietveld Academy Library, Amsterdam
2015 Marika & Alexander (duo) Kunstburo, Vienna
2013 The Last Show Six D.O.G.S project space, Athens
2011 To Remain Silent The Closed Gallery, Thessaloniki
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CURATED PROJECTS
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2021 Foreign Vessels Byzantine & Postbyzantine Antiquities Collection, Chania
2016 Songs for KBG Kurzbauergasse, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2012 Souls from the Streets Neorio Moro, Chania
2012 BODY / SCREEN : Female Identities and New Media Chania Municipal Art Gallery
2012 "And Great Death Fell Upon : Plague Epidemics in Chania"
Finissage events Splatzia Square, Chania
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RESIDENCIES
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2019 Glass Department, PTX Fine Arts School Hasselt, Belgium
2018 Nida Art Colony Lithuania (with the Large Glass dept.)
2013 Jony Hawaii Studios Residency Vienna, Austria​
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GRANTS
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2021 Anoihta Pania Annual Grant for Art Projects
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PUBLICATIONS
2013 The Man from the Future Michelangelo Corsaro, artsy.net
2012 Ecce Homo Restoration Fanzine BA17 & studio Pilar
2010 Inside Boxes - Beyond Borders: Gender Identity Investigation by Greek Female Artists Working in the Urban Public Space Maria Mirka Palioura, exhibition catalogue
2010 Illisible Scribbles - Birth and Recuperation of Graffiti / the Hellenic Case Grammi*500 editions
2009 Kodra Action Field 2009 catalogue