the biography

Maria Loizidou
Born in 1958, Limassol, Cyprus
Lives and works in Nicosia
STUDIES
1976 – 1981
École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTED)
2013
Collective autobiography, National Museum of Contemporary Art- EMST, Athens
2011
The pattern of 4+1 asphyxiascapes, Gallery AD, Athens
Privileged Access, Gallery Kalfayan, Thessalonika
Trans Scapes, Gallery Argo, Nicosia
2009
Cartographies, AD Gallery, Athens
2008
Living small, Benaki Museum, Athens
2007
Self Other, Argo Gallery, Nicosia
2006
Genin, Performance, Attis Theatre, Athens
2003
AD Gallery, Athens
Dark Rooms, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplion GR
2002
The Wreck of Serenity, Fortezza Castle, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete
2001
Let’s get lost, Diatopos Gallery, Nicosia
2000
Trauma, Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia
1997
In the Gardens of the Anastassios G. Leventis Foundation, Leventis Foundation, Nicosia
1995
Drawings, Gallery Schageshof, Willich DE
For an Imaginary Square, Argo Gallery, Nicosia
1994
House of Cyprus, Athens
AD Gallery, Athens
1993
Argo Gallery, Nicosia
1992
Gallery Schageshof, Willich DE
Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia
1991
Desmos Gallery, Athens
1990
Odos Athinon Gallery, Limassol
1989
Morphi Gallery, Limassol
Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia
1987
Diaspro Gallery, Nicosia
1986
Galerie Confluence, Paris
French Cultural Centre, Nicosia
1985
Caisse d’ Epargne, Paris
1984
Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
Cité des Arts, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2012
Art Taipei, Kalfayan galleries, Taipei
Artissima, Kalfayan galleries, Torino
Uban-A-Where project, Kastelliotissa, Nicosia
Archipel, Galery Maria Land, Paris
GPS/memoscapes, Mapping Cyprus, Contemporary views, Bozar: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
GPS/memoscapes, In Crisis: Terra Mediterranea, NiMAC: Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia
How to make a garden, Phytotio - Visual Art Association, Nicosia
Blanche est la couleur, Hommage a Thomas Gleb, Passage de Retz, Paris
Sacré blanc, Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers
2011
Drawing Stories, Contemporary Art centre Ileana Tounta, Athens
2010
Drawing Stories, Gallery 50-1, Limassol
Digitalis, Cairo Biennale, Cairo
Iles Jamais trouvées, Musée de l’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne
Islands Never Found, Nation Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica
Cabinets of Miracles, Zone D- Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
Blank Paper Hysterias, K-art Gallery, Athens
Métissage, L’art contemporain en textile, Musée d’Art et d’histoire, Rochefort
Et si la girlande de Julie était en laine..., Chateau National, Rambouillet
Islands Never Found, Palazzo Ducal, Geneva
2009
Anima - Animalia, XVeme Biennale Internationale de la Céramique, Châteauroux
Portraits de Chaussures, Histoire de Pieds, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
Metissage, Paris
Tenants, AD Gallery – Remap2, Parallel event to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Keramikos, Athens
Praxis: Art in times of uncertainty, 2nd Thessaloniki Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Museum of
Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
Art Athina 09, AD Gallery, Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo), Athens
2006
Porus Borders, 10th international architectural exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice
Femmes d’Europe, Saint Tropez
Mémoires Visuelles, Apollonia, Strasbourg
2005
Leaps of Faith, Nicosia
Plus Jamais Seuls – L’autre ville #2, La BF15, Lyon
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1998
1996
1995
1994
1993
1991
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
2007
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1993
1991
1990
1984
1982
Accidental Meetings, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia
Going Public ’05 – Communities and Territories, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa
Art Stars, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
Visions, A Contemporary Art Show, Kappatos Gallery, Athens Imperial Hotel, Athens & Macedonia
Palace Hotel, Thessalonica
Paradigmata, Greek Pavillion, 9th international architectural exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia”,
Venice
The New Ten, Kunstlerhaus Museum, Vienna AT & Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg DE
Art Athina 04, AD Gallery, Athens
The Suffering Body, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete
Athens by Art, Municipality of Athens & AICA Hellas, various locations, Athens
Projecting the Other, Archimedes Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia
Art Athina 03, AD Gallery, Athens
People, faces, form, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete
Estate of Epi and Manos Pavlides, Paiania, Athens
Purple Earth, Sifnos
Mythologies of the book, Frankfurt
P+P=D, New (Greek) Art from the 1970s and 1980s, From the Activities of the Desmos Gallery
(1971-1993), DESTE Foundation, Athens
Mediterranea, Church of St. Catherine, Brussels
Pro Patria, House of Cyprus, Athens
The guardian of our souls, Minos Beach Hotel, Agios Nikolaos, Crete
Ephemera, House of Cyprus, Athens GR & Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Techne & Metis, House of Cyprus, Athens & Magasin, Grenoble
Art Athina 95, Desmos Gallery, Athens
Cyprus 1960-1994, Contemporary Quests: Re-Genesis, Art Athina 94, Athens
Art Athina 94, Desmos Gallery, Athens
Techne & Métis, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
Modern Greek Artists: Clay and Plastic Creation, Pierides Foundation, Athens GR & Municipal Arts
Centre, Nicosia
Modern Greek Artists: Clay and Plastic Creation, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi
Itineraires, Marpa, Lyon
Mediterraneo, Bari
Municipal Arts Centre, Athens
Municipal Cultural Centre, Athens
Biennial of European Young Artists, Barcelona
Laiki Bank Cultural Centre, Nicosia
Venice Biennale, official participation of Cyprus, Venice
Les Arts Plastiques & La Fondation de France, Brive
Travaux sur papier, Villeparisis
Salon de Montrouge, Bessec, Montrouge
Une légèreté monumentale, Paris
Biennial of Young European Artists, Marseille
Psychoanalysis Symposium, Armando Verdiglione Foundation, Jerusalem
Psychoanalysis Conference, Armando Verdiglione Foundation, Tokyo
Sculpture Symposium, Park of Contemporary Sculpture, Nicosia
Maison de l’ UNESCO, Paris
Festival of Contemporary Art, Quartier de l’horloge, Paris
Dedans - Dehors, Sculpture Symposium, Maison des Artists de la Fondation Hebert d’ Uckermann,
La Tronche
Sculpture Symposium, Bron
OPEN-AIR INSTALLATIONS / PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
L’apparition des anges, Fatima Lisbon
AlphaFos, Alpha Bank, Nicosia
Landscape of the other, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia
Acrobatics of vessels, Alexandros Tombazis’ Architectural Office, Athens
Like a tree, Public Works Building, in association with architect Socrates Tratis, Nicosia
Flight, I&A Philippou Architects’ Office, Nicosia
With hands raised high, Garden of the Anastassios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia
Birds on tall feet, Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia
The guardian of our soul, Minos Beach Hotel, Agios Nikolaos Crete
To Koinon ton Kyprion, Bank of Cyprus Head Offices, Nicosia
Parc des Enfants, Futuroscope, Poitiers
Plangona, Stathmos Children Museum, Nafplio
Labyrinth, Sculpture park, Nicosia
The Myth of Sisyphus, Municipal Library, Bron
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013
Collective autobiography, PEAK Publishing, Athens
2012
Kaput magasin, online art magazine, www.kaput.gr, Athens
2010
Sanctuary of Fátima: Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Alexandros N. Tombazis, The Images Publishing
Group, Melbourne
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2003
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1992
1991
1990
1988
1987
GRTISTS: Creators’ Images, Nicolas A. Vernicos & Penelope Massouri, Ikaros editions, Athens
The beautiful giraffe, Alexandros N. Tombazis, Patakis, Athens
Journal of War and Culture Studies issue1.3: War and visual culture since 1900, Intellect, Gabriel
Koureas
Architecture in Cyprus: Relations Between Public and Private: Architektonika Themata / Architecture
in Greece, 41/2007: Let’s get lost (2001-04)
European Generation: The reinterpreted city. Review for the urbanization of European cities, edited
by La Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine and Europan France, AA+U project
European Urbanity: Review for the urbanisation of European cities, edited by Europan Austria and
European Slovenia, “Leaps of Faith’ project and “The CALL # 192” project
Archeion, Review of Cyprus Architects Association: The “Public Private Synergy Convoy” project,
Nicosia
Domes No 51: The “Public Private Synergy Convoy” project, participation in Venice Biennale of
Architecture, Athens
Arkitera, On-line Turkish architectural review, www.arkitera.com
Art at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Stavros Tsigkoglou, Livani Publishing Organization, Athens
The power of visual logos: Greek women Artists, Zoe Kosmidou, ICAN, Athens
Hellenic Museum Six Centuries of Greek Painting, Manos Stephanides, Miletos publications, Athens
Children and games in modern Greek society, Cleo Gougoulis, Aphrodite Kouria, Kastaniotis
Publications, Athens
Greek Artists: Quests 1950-2000: The Permanent Collection, Rethymno Centre for Contemporary
Art Publications, Rethymno
State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, Ministry of Education and Culture publications, Nicosia
Dictionary of Greek Artists, Melissa publications, Athens
Ethnographic studies, Peloponnesian Folk Art Foundation, volume 8, Νafplio
The doll, Maria Argyriades, Lucy Bratziotis publications, Athens
La cité Internationale des Arts, 1965-1990 Paris, Paris
Greek Artists of Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens
A Century of Artistic Creativity, Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus
FILMOGRAPHY
2012
GPS/ memoscapes, Video 10’, Lumière
2008
L’apparition des anges, Video 15’, Lumière, Nicosia
2007
Self other, Video 3’, Lumière, Nicosia
2005
Self other, Video 10’12’’, Lumière, Nicosia
L’autre Ville, Video DVD 20’ 25’’, Anne Guicherd, Chromatiques, Lyon
2002
The Wreckage of Serenity, Video Beta SP 25’ 30”, Lumière, Rethymno Centre of Contemporary Arts,
Rethymno, Crete
2000
Landscape of the other, Video Beta SP 8’ 20”, ΜS View Point, Nicosia
Τrauma, Video Beta SP 8’, Lumière, Nicosia
1991
Mémorandum note, Video U. Matic 8’, Lumière, Nicosia
1989
Alogo, Video U. Matic 2’ 44”, Lumière, Nicosia
1987
L’infini du rêve, Video U. Matic 10’ 38”, TransVideo, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia
1986
The myth of Ariadne in three acts, Video U. Matic 7’ 28”, TransVideo, Venice Biennale
AWARDS / SCOLARSHIPS
2009
Award, XVeme Biennale Internationale de la Céramique, Châteauroux
2005
3rd Award, Park of Peace, AA+U, Nicosia
1998
1st Award, Public works building, association Socratis Stratis, Nicosia
1996
2nd Award, Industrial developments building, Nicosia
1st Award Europan, association Socratis Stratis, Akis Ioannides, Kiriakos Koundouros, Iraklion, Crete
1992
2nd Award, Fire service building, Nicosia
1987
Scholarship, Pratt Institute, New York
1983
Leventis Foundation Scholarship, Paris
1981
Fondation de France Scholarship, Paris
Prix de Paris, villa Peyzieux, Paris
1980
Award Helene Linossieur School, Lyon
OTHERS
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