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Born in Nicosia in 1964.
1982-1987 Athens National Conservatory, Athens, Greece
1984-1990 Supreme School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
1991-1992 Faculdad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutence, Madrid, Spain
1993 MIDE museum, Universidad Castilla la Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
since 1995 "Binary Art Group" with Achilleas Kentonis
2000 Co-founder of the ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
2006 Co-creator of ResArt, Nicosia, Cyprus
2008 Co-creator of microARTos, Madrid, Spain
2011 Creator of the socio-artistic movement "Katoptrismoi / Reflections".
Solo Exhibitions
2014 ‘MNEMOTECHNICS OF THE SELF’, Open C.A.S.E. 303, Athens
2011 ‘Here now happiness’ Tabacalera, Madrid
2010-11 ‘Here now happiness’ Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts (MMCA) Thessaloniki
2010 ‘Here & tHere’ trilogy: Gallery ARGO,
APOTHEKE,
ARTos, Nicosia
2007 ‘Carte Blanche’ Saison video de Tournefeulle, Toulouse
2007 Microtaz Center For Media Arts, Madrid
2006 ‘re-tales’ ARTos Foundation, Nicosia
2002 “Horizon: vertically”, Gallery Morfi, Limassol
2001 “Horizon: vertically”, Contemporary Art Center Diatopos, Nicosia
1999 “Little Forgotten Fairytales”, Oktana, Nicosia
1997 “Dream traps”, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia
1994 “The bridge”, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
1992 Centro Cultural Meseta de Orcasitas, Madrid
1991 Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia
1991 House of Cyprus, Athens
Group Exhibitions
2016 “Drawing Utopias” IKLECTIK Art Lab, London, England
2016 “nEUROsis” In the frame work of the workshop, La Cura: Ubiquitous Bodies with Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol
2016 “Mind the Gap” Action Field KODRA, Thessaloniki
2016 “Inspire me” Contemporary Art Center Diatopos, Nicosia
2016 UNIVERSAL HOSPITALITY, collaboration in Nicos Charalambidis' "Hospitality" project, VIENNA FESTIVAL, Alte Post, Vienna
2016 “Squeegee Riders”, ArtLabs, Fytorio, Visual artists association, Nicosia
2016 ‘MADE OF WALKING’, curator Geert Vermeire, the Milena principle, at Animart, Delphi, Greece
2016 “A Thousand Myriad Waves”, Apothiki 79, Larnaca
2016 "PLATFORM PROJECT" ART ATHINA 2016, Athens
2016 “Asia Minor relics with contemporary look” Gallery of Archbishop Makarios, Nicosia
2016 “CairoTronica” Cairo International Electronic and New Media arts Symposium
2015-2016, “Islands of the Absurd” Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
2016 «Sence and intellect» Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol
2015 CONCRETES OF OLD EUROPE, White House Biennial's exhibition and parallel activities on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier's passing, Vieille Charite, Marseilles
2015 LE CHEMIN DE DUANIERS, series of exhibitions, theatrical workshops and conferences in collaboration of the Aix-Marseille University, Marseilles
2015 Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2015 “Art-introjection”, Casa Bianca, parallel program of the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale
2015 "PLATFORM PROJECT" ART ATHINA 2015, “Refuge project I & II”, Artspirators, Athens
2015 ‘FemLink A 10 Ans!” Mamia Breteche Gallery, Paris, France
2015 “Alles Meins!” Collaboration with the artist Julio Falagan, Galeria 6MAS1 Madrid, Spain
2015 “Art warning the world” a project of Klaus Guingand, France
2014 “Bread matters” curator Ines Rolo Amado, Artos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
2014 “Re-materialization”, curator Margarita Kataga, Kakoyiannis Foundation, Athens, Greece
2014 "Alter Ego" Fytorio, Nicosia
2014 "The Kennedy Bunker" REH - transformer, Berlin
2014 "PLATFORM PROJECT" ART ATHINA 2014, Athens
2014 "New York Now" 133st- New York [images] [catalog]
2014 "The Bibliotheca Alexandrina" 6th International Biennale for Artist's Book.
2013 "The red and white flag project", Thessaloniki Biennale 4 [video] [info]
2013 "2nd site specific festival" Vyrsodepseio, Athens
2013 "KODRA cyber art space", Thessaloniki
2013 "55 international Venice Biennale" Maldives Pavilion, Venice.
2013 "White House Biennial" Open C.A.S.E. 303, Athens Greece
2013 "ART ATHINA 2013 - PLATFORM PROJECT", participation as Binary Art Group, Athens
2013 "ΕΝΤΕR 6": BIOPOLIS international Biennale of Art, Science and Technology, Prague
2013 "Di-Egy Fest 0.1", GEZIRA ART CENTER, Cairo
2012 "Aphrodite 2012 - Sacred and profane purification" Bath House of the winds in Athens.
2012 ¨Mare nostrum¨, by the Cyprus chamber of fine arts, Famagusta gate, Nicosia.
2012 “ Ευρωπαική πορεία five prominent female artists”, Rouan gallery, Limassol.
2012 "common reflection II", "transgeneration-alisms", ARTos foundation, Nicosia
2012 “Art warning the world” a project of Klaus Guingand, Paris, France
2012 1st Pancyprian exhibition stage and costume design, Kasteliotissa, Nicosia.
2012 "In Crisis - Terra Mediterranean" - at Maroudias, the Municipa Arts Centre, Nicosia
2012 "Avesta Art 2012" Verket museum, Sweden
2012 "The Art of Denial" Haroupomylos art gallery, Paphos.
2011 'The object' Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol
2011 'Attic Ideographs' Action Field KODRA, Thessaloniki
2011 'agenda 2011- 4th edition' Library of Alexandria, Egypt.
2011 “Global Gateway” BIS, Istanbul, Turkey.
2011 “Hybrid cities” National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens, Greece|
2010/11 ' 12th Cairo Biennale', Cairo, Egypt
2010 “The Sea Symposium and exhibition, EL-BAHR”, Alexandria, Egypt
2010 “50 years of Republic of Cyprus engraved by Cypriots” Hellenic Centre, London
2010 "50 years of visual arts” EKATE, Nicosia, Cyprus
2010 ‘5th Bienal Internacional de Gravura- Douro 2010, Cãmara, Portugal
2009 ‘Amsterdam Biennale’ Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest Romania
2009 Bandits - Mages 2009, Bourges, France
2009 ‘art(e)choke’ organized by Gnosyart, ARTos foundation
2009 ‘one modern icon, thousands of symbols’ Ag. Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
2009 ‘cheep art’ is not a gallery, Nicosia
2009 ‘the kean world of orange’ Olympic house, nicosia
2009 Night Visions 2009, Boston Cyberart festival, USA
2008 Fitchburg Art Museum, CMWCA, MA, USA
2008 Forum internacionales des Caravanes Francofones, Lyon, France
2008 Liquid cities & identities- Video Art & arcitecture event, New York
2008 “1st Mediterranean symposium of environmental Art”, Yergeri, Heraklion, Crete
2008 “Post Utopia—Recycling Plato” London Festival of Architecture
2008 EU small stated work in situ exhibition” lichtenstine
2008 “Guest+Host=Gost” curated by Constantinos. Taliotis, YK:EMX, Nicosia Municipal Art Center
associated with the Pierides Foundation, Cyprus
2008 Zaoem Contemporary Visual Poetry Festival 2008, Belgium
2008 Biennale of contemporary arts Nimes, France
2008 “Portrait” YK:EMX, Nicosia Municipal Art Center associated with the Pierides Foundation, Cyprus
2007 “ meeting Europe” The Walloon Contemporary Art Center Belgium
2007 CMCA Center for Maine Contemporart Art, Main, USA
2007 Cultural Center Le Cube, Paris, France
2007 ITINERAIRES art contemporain, Paris, France
2007 Temporary Art Centre, Nederland
2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival, USA
2007 “The Shed”, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Contemporary Media and Art Berlin, Germany
2007 “nexus* project” – Madrid Abierto (Arco Madrid), Spain
2006 “meeting Europe” Apollonia European art exchanges, Strasbourg, France
2006 ArteNavas 2006, Las Navas Del Marques, curated by Rafael Nuñez, Avilla, Spain
2006 Associacao de Cineclubes de Vila Velha, Brazil
2006 European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Ladopoulos papermil\Patras European Capital of Culture, curated by Chrisis
Chrysikopoulos, Patra, Greece
2006 “stin mpouka”: The visual aspect of the theatrical creation, curated by Charis
Kafkarides and Melita Kouta, Kasteliotissa, Nicosia
2006 “25 Cyprus artists” Archaeological museum Geni Tzami, organized by
En Typis publications,Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 “Petit tamaño” curated by Sebastian Petit, Barcelona, Spain
2005 “Projected Visions” Mostra SESC de Artes Mediterraneo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2005 “Accidental Meetings” curated by Yiannis Toumazis, Municipal Art Center,
Nicosia
2004 “HyperLinks – 20 Cypriot Artists, 20 new signals” curate by Efi Strouza, Evag.
& Kath Lanitis Foundation, Limassol
2003 International Art Expo, India 03, (Ahmedabad, Mumbai,Pune), India
2003 International Art Expo,NONSTOP, Pabellon de Conveciones Ferial de Casa
de Campo, Spain
2003 Detroit video festival, Museum Of New Art, Detroit, USA
2003 “Paths of Europe” Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,
organized by apollonia European art exchanges
2003 6η Triennale Mondiale D”Estampes, proposed by Opi Zouni, Chamalieres,
France
2003 “Still Alone”, Art and Video exhibition, curated by Luca Curci, Bari, Italy
2002 “The Paths to Europe”, Apollonia European art exchanges, Place de la Gare,
and European Parliament, Strasbourg
2002 Gallery Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
2002 Gallery Apocalypsi, Nicosia, Cyprus
2002 «Greed» Diatopos Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
2002 “Nicosia Cultural days” Moscow, Russia
2001 “Triennale of India” New Delhi (selected by the Ministry of Culture)
2001 “Cultural Days Nicosia” Moscow, Russia
2000 “Mediaterra 2000” Factory, Athens, Greece (selected by the Ministry of
Culture)
2000 “Lights and shadows”, National Gallery, Athens
2000 «Cypriot Women» Gallery G, Limassol, Cyprus
1999 «In the end of an era and the begining of another» Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
1999 XX Bienal of Alexandria for the Mediterranean Countries 99, Egypt (selected
by the Ministry of Culture)
1999 «one of a kind artist book» organized by Muflon Bookshop, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1998 Jeunes Artistes Chypriotes - Geneva Palais Des Nations
1997 European Bienal 97 for Young Artists of the Mediterranean Countries,
Architecture - Torino, Italy (selected by the Ministry of Culture)
1997 Helsinki 2000, Architecture, Finland
1997 International Biennale of Rijeka, Croacia (selected by the Ministry of Culture)
1997 “A Century of Visual Creativity” (works from the state collection of contemporary arts) Thessaloniki,
European Cultural Capital
1997 ‘ The journey’ Gallery Argo, Nicosia
1997 ‘1st festival of fine arts’ organized by the Cyprus chamber of fine arts, Nicosia
1997 ‘4 Women’ Rouan Gallery, Limassol
1996 International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts FIV, Buenos Air
1996 “Open bridge” Houston, Texas and at the Olympic games in Atlanta
1996 International Biennale of Kuwait, Kuwait (selected by the Ministry of Culture)
1996 “Alem da Agua” Guadiana river, Copiacabana, (MEIAC) Museo Extremeno e
Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain
1996 ‘ Mediterranean’ Municipal Art Centre, Limassol
1996 “Tribute to Van Gogh” Van Gogh Foundation, Nicosia Municipal Art Center
1996 “Fish” Nicosia Municipal Art Center, curated by Yiannis Toumazis, Nicosia
1996 ‘6 Cypriot Contemporary Artists’ - organized by the Popular Bank, curated by
Efi Andreadi.Municipality of Athens,
1996 ’10 years’, Diaspro Art Centrer, Nicosia
1995 21st International Biennale 95 of Engraving, Ljubljana, Slovenia (selected by
the Ministry of Culture)
1995 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrilio Gil, Mexico
1995 “An Itinerary” European Cultural Month, Nicosia
1995 ‘Poetic dialogues 2 +3’ Scali, Nicosia, Hiliotropio Gallery, Larnaka
1994 European Biennale 94 of Young Artists of Mediterranean Countries, Lisbon,
Portugal (selected by the Ministry of Culture)
1994 ‘Poetic dialogues 1’ Morfi Gallery, Limassol
1994 Exhibition at the framework of the Panhellenic Symposium “Gea Aphrodite”,
Nicosia
1994 ’30 years of Cyprus chamber of fine arts’ Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
1993 Libr”art Salon International de l’art, Libramont, Chevigny, Belgium
1992 Galeria la estacion San Martin de Valdeiglesias, Madrid, Spain
1992 Joan Miro Mostoles, Madrid, Spain
1991 “Six young contemporary Cypriot Artists”, Gallery K, Hamsted, London
1991 Rencontre ’91 des ecoles d’arts de la Mediterranee, Tunis
1991 National State Gallery of Greece, Athens
Film and Video screenings
2016 FemLink-Art, "Kaunas in Art", Cinema Center Romuva, Lithuania.
2016, Play, Semana de Videoarte, 5th Edition, Corientes. Argentina.
2016 “FEMALE”, Tengri Umai Art-Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2016 “Resistans”, - VIS A VIS, Muestra Internacional de Videoarte Cartagena, Colombia.
2014 “Femlink” , Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Ecuador.
2013 “Femlink” Museo de las mujeres, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 “Female” AREA, Lugar de projectos, Puerto-Rico
2014 "Domino Effect" ISFFC National program at Cine studio, Cyprus
2014 'Moving silence' THESSALONIKI CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART, WAREHOUSE B1 - THESSALONIKI PORT
2014 Split, Gallery of Fine Arts, international feminist exhibition - CROATIA,
2014 Prague, 5sGallery,- CZECH REPUBLIC
2014 BOX space, Milan, ITALY
2013 "Domino Effect" ISFFC short film festival of Cyprus
2013 "Portaits Cyprioits" photographie historique and video contemponain, organized by Appolonia exchanges in Stransbourg
2011 'Once... a dress' The international short film festival of Cyprus, Limassol
2010 «FemLink», Univesity of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, ARTos Foundation.
2009 “Canvas and/or the screen” "Το πανί ή η οθόνη" with the 8 videographers of the Studio le Fresnoy
National des Arts Contemporains, at ARTos Foundation - Nicosia and at the Technological University of Cyprus - Limassol.
2009 ‘ Cimatics audiovisual festival’ Brussels
2009 ‘Fog Films’ cinema Elli, Athens
2009 Moondance international film festival, Boulder, Colorado USA
2009 Drama short film festival travels to Athens, TRIANON film cetre, Athens
2009 International Xperimental film and animation film festival, Pantheon, Nicosia
2009 Festival de Cine de Granada, Spain
2009 Porto 7 Festival Internacional de Curtas, Portugal
2009 San Francisco short film festival, USA
2009 24th Fort Lauverdale international film festival, Florida, USA
2009 26th Kassel Documentary, Film and Video Festival, Germany
2009 International Short Film Festival, Filmini, Bulgaria
2009 Tabor Film Festival, Croatia
2009 Sitges Festival International de Cinema de Catalunya, Spain
2009 Alcine Festival de Cine Alcala de Hevanes
2009 Visiomania 18 Festival Visionaria, Siena, Italy
2009 35th Drama Short Film Festival, Greece
2009 Jordan Festival, Royal Film Comisión, Aman, Jordan
2009 International Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
2008 58th Berlin international festival, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2008 International Short Film Festival – Clemont-Ferrand, France
2008 Images and views of alternative cinema, theatre “Ena”, Nicosia
2008 “Synesthisia” Bios, and Nixon Athens, Greece
2007 Festival Loop, Barcelona, Spain
2007 5th Cyprus Festival of short films and documentary, theatro Rialto, Limassol
2007 Athens video Art festival, Athens, Greece
2007 Saison video de Tournefeulle, France
2007 Forum Thessallonikis, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
2006 Zagreb’s ANIMANIA program “around the world in 80 min”
2006 2th Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2006 “Bell Art Lamia”06 Art Festival, Greece
2006 ‘Micropolis” video art festival, Athens, Greece
2006 “The other dimension”, ARTos Foundation, Nicosia
2005 Clermont – Ferrand short film festival, France
2005 4th Cyprus short film and documentary festival, theatro Rialto, Limassol
2005 OLTREPASANTO “ Video sensitive postcards” Republic of San Marino
2003 “open horizons” 3rd art for human rights, Foundation of Greater Hellenism, Athens, Greece
2003 26th Drama short film and Documentary festival, Drama, Greece
2003 “Synesthesia” multimdia CyBC theatre and Rialto Limassol
2003 Xperimental 2.0, video art documentary short film animation, Pantheon Gallery, Nicosia
2003 Detroit video festival, Museum Of New Art, Detroit, USA
2002 2th Cyprus short films and documentary festival, Rialto theatre, Limassol & Cine studio, Nicosia
2002 “Art and Video exhibition”, Bari, Italy
2000 IndieKINO International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2000 Hiroshima 2000, the 8th International animation festival in Japan
2000 New York international independent film and video festival, USA
2000 The 6th annual Victoria Independent Film &Video Festival, VIFVF, Canada
2000 Real to Reel Film & video Festival, Shelby, North Carolina, USA
2000 DIVERCINE festival international de cine, Montevideo Uruguay
2000 Da Vinci Film & Video Festival, Corvallis, OR
2000 MEDIAWAVE internacional festival of Visual Art, Gyon, Hungary
2000 Festival International de Cine y video dei Medio Ambiente de Gava, Barcelona
2000 14th Annual Washington, DC International Film Festival, USA
1996 International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts FIV, Buenos Air
Member of:
- Member of directors guild, Cyprus
- Member of fog cinematographers
- Member of the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts (EKATE) since 1992
- Founder member of the Cyprus Visual Artists Association
- Member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts ( ETEE ) since 1991
- Member of the centre of scenographers, theatre architects and technicians (CYCSTAT)
- Founder member of Binary Art Group
- Member of Espiral art group
- Member of nexus* art group
- Member of the FemLink international organization
Selection of works in public spaces and private collections:
- National Gallery of Greece, Athens, Greece
- Collection of the Athens Supreme School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
- Pierides Foundation, Athens, Greece
- State Gallery Nicosia, Cyprus
- Gallery/Foundation of Archbishop Makarios, Nicosia
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- M.I.D.E Museum, Cuenca, Spain
- National Gallery of Pragues, Czesch Republic
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Printmaking Museum of Douro, Portugal
- Cyprus international airport (VIP)
- Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus
- Cultural Foundation of Marfin Popular Bank
- Alfa Bank collection
- Central Bank of Cyprus collection
- Olympic committee building
- Larnaka Municipal Gallery
- Embassies of Cyprus abroad
- Embassies of foreign countries in Cyprus
- Medical Centres
- Aphrodite’s Hills Resort
- ResArt Boutique Art Hotel
- Artos Foundation
- Private collections in Cyprus and abroad