Maria Loizidou

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2011 The pattern of 4+1 asphyxiascapes, Gallery AD, Athens, Greece 2011 Privileged Access, Gallery Kalfayan, Thessalonika, Greece 2009 Cartographies, AD Gallery, Athens GR 2008 Living small, Benaki Museum, Athens GR 2007 Self Other, Argo Gallery, Nicosia CY 2006 Genin, Performance, Attis Theatre, Athens GR 2003 AD Gallery, Athens GR / Dark Rooms, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplion GR 2002 The Wreck of Serenity, Fortezza Castle, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete GR 2001 Let’s get lost, Diatopos Gallery, Nicosia CY 2000 Trauma, Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia CY 1997 In the Gardens of the Anastassios G. Leventis Foundation, Leventis Foundation, Nicosia CY 1995 Drawings, Gallery Schageshof, Willich DE / For an Imaginary Square, Argo Gallery, Nicosia CY 1994 House of Cyprus, Athens GR/ AD Gallery, Athens GR 1993 Argo Gallery, Nicosia CY 1992 Gallery Schageshof, Willich DE / Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia CY 1991 Desmos Gallery, Athens GR 1990 Odos Athinon Gallery, Limassol CY 1989 Morphi Gallery, Limassol CY / Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia CY 1987 Diaspro Gallery, Nicosia CY 1986 Galerie Conflluence, Paris FR / French Cultural Centre, Nicosia CY 1985 Caisse d’ Epargne, Paris FR 1984 Famagusta Gate, Nicosia CY / Cité des Arts, Paris FR

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2011 Drawing Stories, Contemporary Art centre Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece 2010 Drawing Stories, Gallery 50-1, Limassol, Cyprus 2010 Digitalis, Cairo Biennale, Cairo EG / Iles Jamais trouvées, Musée de l’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne FR/ Islands Never Found, Nation Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica GR / Cabinets of Miracles, Zone D-Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens GR / Blank Paper Hysterias, K-art Gallery, Athens GR Métissage, L’art contemporain en textile, Musée d’Art et d’histoire, Rochefort FR / Islands Never Found, Palazzo Ducal, Geneva IT 2009 2nd Thessalonica Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica GR / Biennale Internationale de la Céramique, Châteauroux FR / Portraits de Chaussures, Histoire de Pieds, Sungkok Museum, Seoul PRC 2006 Porus Borders, 10th international architectural exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice IT / Femmes d’Europe, Saint Tropez FR / Mémoires Visuelles, Apollonia, Strasbourg FR 2005 Leaps of Faith, Nicosia CY / Plus Jamais Seuls – L’autre ville #2, La BF15, Lyon FR / Accidental Meetings, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia CY / Going Public ’05 – Communities and Territories, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa GR / Art Stars, Abbaye de Neumünster, LU / L’autre Ville, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, La BF15 Gallery, Lyon FR / Visions, A Contemporary Art Show, Kappatos Gallery, Athens Imperial Hotel, Athens & Macedonia Palace Hotel, Thessalonica GR 2004 Paradigmata, Greek Pavillion, 9th international architectural exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice IT / The New Ten, Kunstlerhaus Museum, Vienna AT & Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg DE / Art Athina 04, AD Gallery, Athens GR / The Suffering Body, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete GR / Athens by Art, Municipality of Athens & AICA Hellas, various locations, Athens GR / Projecting the Other, Archimedes Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia CY 2003 Art Athina 03, AD Gallery, Athens GR 2002 People, faces, form, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete GR 2001 Estate of Epi and Manos Pavlides, Paiania, Athens GR / Purple Earth, Sifnos GR / Mythologies of the book, Frankfurt DE 1999 P+P=D, New (Greek) Art from the 1970s and 1980s, From the Activities of the Desmos Gallery (1971-1993), DESTE Foundation, Athens GR 1998 Mediterranea, Church of St. Catherine, Brussels BE 1996 Pro Patria, House of Cyprus, Athens GR / The guardian of our souls, Minos Beach Hotel, Agios Nikolaos, Crete GR 1995 Ephemera, House of Cyprus, Athens GR & Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki GR / Art Athina 95, Desmos Gallery, Athens GR 1994 Cyprus 1960-1994, Contemporary Quests: Re-Genesis, Art Athina 94, Athens GR / Art Athina 94, Desmos Gallery, Athens GR / Techne & Métis, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia CY 1993 Modern Greek Artists: Clay and Plastic Creation, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi GR (1993), Pierides Foundation, Athens GR (1994), Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia CY (1994) 1991 Itineraires, Marpa, Lyon FR

Open-Air Installations / Public or Private Commissions

2007 “L’apparition des anges”, Fatima Lisbon 2002 “AlphaFos”, Alpha Bank, Nicosia CY 2000 “Landscape of the other”, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia CY 1999 “Acrobatics of vessels”, Alexandros Tombazis’ Architectural Office, Athens GR / “Like a tree”, Public Works Building, in association with architect Socrates Tratis, Nicosia CY 1998 “Flight”, I&A Philippou Architects’ Office, Nicosia CY 1997 “With hands raised high”, Garden of the Anastassios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia CY 1996 “Birds on tall feet”, Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia CY / “The guardian of our soul”, Minos Beach Hotel, Agios Nikolaos Crete GR 1993 “To Koinon ton Kyprion”, Bank of Cyprus Head Offices, Nicosia CY 1991 “Plangona”, Stathmos Children Museum, Naflpio GR (1990) / Parc des Enfants, Futuroscope, Poitiers FR (1991) 1984 “Labyrinth”, Sculpture park, Nicosia CY 1982 “The Myth of Sisyphus”, Municipal Library, Bron FR
Biography

Maria Loizidou was born in 1958, Limassol, Cyprus / She studied plastic arts at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France from 1976 until 1981 / Lives and works in Nicosia / She is member of the association AA+U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism since 2006.

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Bibliography

Construire Elever la Μatière, 16th International Ceramic Biennial, Musée de France, Châteauroux, France 2011

The Object: Stories and Representations, Evagoras and Cathline Latini Foundation, Ministry of Education of Cyprus, Cyprus 2011

Odysseus Elytis: Poetry and Paintings, B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens 2011

Greek Artists Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens 1988

The doll, Maria Argyriades, Lucy Bratziotis publications, Athens 1991

Ethnographic studies, Peloponnesian Folk Art Foundation, volume 8, Νafplio 1992

Dictionary of Greek Artists, Melissa publications Athens 1997

State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, Ministry of Education and Culture publications, Nicosia 1998

Greek Artists. Quests 1950-2000. The Permanent Collection, Rethymno Centre for Contemporary Art Publications, Rethymno 1999

Children and games in modern Greek society, Cleo Gougoulis– Aphrodite Kouria, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 2000

Hellenic Museum Six Centuries of Greek Painting, Manos Stephanides, Miletos publications, Athens 2001

The power of visual logos, Greek women Artists, Zoe Kosmidou, ICAN, Athens 2003

Arkitera, On-line Turkish architectural review, 2006

Domes, The “Public Private Synergy Convoy” project, participation in Venice Biennale of Architectural 2006, Greek architectural review, Athens 2006

Archeion, Review of Cyprus Architects Association, Nicosia 2006

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, 2006

European Generation, The reinterpreted city, Review for the urbanization of European cities, edited by La Cite de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine and Europan France, AA+U project, 2007

Architecture in Greece, 41/2007, Architecture in Cyprus. Relations between public and private. Maria Loizidou, “Let’s get lost”, 2001-04

War & culture studies, Intellect, Volume one number three, Gabriel Koureas, 2008
Filmography

L’apparition des anges
Video 20’, Lumiere 2008

Self Other
Video animation, 3’, Lumiere 2006

Self Other
Vidéo, 3’, Lumière 2005

L’autre ville
Vidéo, 20’ 25’’, Chromatique, Lyon 2005

The Wreckage of Serenity
Video, 25’ 30”, Lumière, Rethymno Centre of Contemporary Arts 2002

Landscape of the other
Video, 8’ 20”, ΜS View Point, Nicosia 2000

Τrauma
Vidéo, 8’, Lumière, Nicosia 2000

Mémorandum note
Vidéo, 8’, Lumière, Nicosia 1991

L’infini du rêve
Video, 10’ 38”, TransVideo, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia 1987

Alogo
Video, 2’ 44”, Lumière, Nicosia 1989

The myth of Ariadne in three acts
Video, 7’ 28”, TransVideo, Venice Biennale1986
- 21.03.2012 - 24.03.2012Art Dubai
  
  Booth A14, Arena Hall, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
  
  www.kalfayangalleries.com
  www.artdubai.ae
  Invitation
- 21.03.2012 - 29.04.2012Blanche est la Couleur
  
  Passage de Retz, 9 Rue Charlot, Paris
  
  www.passagederetz.com
  Invitation
- 17.12.2011 - 14.01.2012Trans Scapes
  
  Argo Gallery, Nicosia
  
  Press release
- 6.01.2012 - 28.01.2012CDA-Projects
  
  White, curated by Basak Senova
  Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5
  
  CDA-Projects
- December 2011The pattern of 4+1 asphyxiascapes
  
  Discussion between Christophoros Marinos and Maria Loizidou, Kaput art magazine.
  
  www.kaput.gr
- 19.11.2011- 14.01.2012The pattern of 4+1 asphyxiascapes
  
  AD gallery
  3 Pallados Str, Psirri, Athens
  
  AD gallery
  Invitation
  Press release
- 17.9.2011 - 5.11.2011Privileged Access
  
  Kalfayan Galleries
  Prox. Koromila 43,
  Thessaloniki
  
  www.kalfayangalleries.com
  Press Release
  Invitation
- 17.05.2011 - 2.07.2011Drawing Stories
  
  Ileana Tounta Centre in Athens
  
  www.art-tounta.gr
- January 2011Fatima : The Church of the Most Holy Trinity
  
  Edited by Alexandros N. Tombazis, Images Publishing, 2011.
  
  The book refers to the installation of Maria Loizidou, The Apparition of Angels.
- 4.12.2010 - 30.04.2011Portraits de chaussures, Histoires de pieds
  
  "Une évocation de la chaussure par des artistes contemporains". Exhibition in the International Museum of shoes, Ville de Romans, Drome, France (Musée international de la chaussure, Ville de Romans, Drome, France).
  
  L'objet perdu, 1991
  www.ville-romans.com
- 12.12.2010 - 17.03.201112th Cairo Biennale
  
  Cyprus participation is Lara Alphas, Maria Loizidou and Eleni Mouzourou.
  
  Digitalis, 2011
  www.cairobiennale.gov
- 17.12.2010 - 17.04.2011Islands Never Found - Iles jamais trouvées
  
  Exhibition in the museum of Modern Art, Saint-Étienne, Métropole (Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole).
  
  Sisyphus rewind, 2010
  www.mam-st-etienne.fr
  Press release (pdf)
- December 2010Grtists : Creators’ Images
  
  Nicolas A Vernicos, Penelope Massouri, Ikaros 2010.
  
  In this album, that is dedicated to the roughly 150 contemporary Greek artists, there is reference to Maria Loizidou.
- Odysseus Elytis: Poetry and Paintings
  
  B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens 2011
- The Object: Stories and Representations
  
  Evagoras and Cathline Latini Foundation, Ministry of Education of Cyprus, Cyprus 2011
- Construire Elever la Μatière
  
  16th International Ceramic Biennial, Musée de France, Châteauroux, France 2011
- Living small
  
  Giorgos Tzirtzilakis, Benaki Museum, Athens 2008
  
  pdf (3.3Mb)
- L’autre ville
  
  Centre culturel Français, Nicosia 2005
  
  pdf (4.6Mb)
- Landscape of the other
  
  Paris Philippou, Pavlina Paraskevaides, Socrates Stratis, Maria Loizidou, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia 2000
  
  download pdf 4.8 Mb
- Trauma
  
  Maria Marangou, Giannis Toumazis, Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia 2000
  
  pdf (6.1Mb)
- Portaits de Chaussures - Histoires de Pieds
  
  Yves Sabourin, Musée International de la chaussure, Romans 2010
- Art in the time of collapse
  
  Nikos Xydakis, Pantelis Arapinis, AD Gallery, Athens 2010
- L'art du présent
  
  Yiannis Toumazis, Andri Michael, Paris 2010
- ART - ATHINA
  
  International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Athens 2010
- Islands never found ( Îles jamais trouvées )
  
  Lorand Hegyi, Silvana Editoriale 2010
- 12th Cairo Biennale 2010 - 2011
  
  Arab Republic of Egypt, Ministry of Culture, Fine Arts Sector, Cairo 2010
- Digitalis
  
  Cultural Services, Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia 2010, Yves Sabourin, Lara Alphas, Maria Loizidou, Eleni Mouzourou
- Cabinets of Miracles
  
  Polyna Kosmadaki - Christoforos Marinos, Zone D - Zoumpoulakis Gallery, Athens 2010
- Métissages
  
  Musée d’art et d’histoire, Yves Sabourin, Rochefort 2010
- Et si la guirlande de Julie était en laine…
  
  Yves Sabourin, Edition du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux 2010
- Blank paper hysterias
  
  Christina Androulidaki, K-art Gallery, Athens 2010
- 35 Artists for Democracy
  
  Institute for Democracy K. Karamanlis, Takis Mavrotas, Athens 2009
- A paler shade of white
  
  Lucas and Evangelos Mpellona Foundation, Thira, Greece, 2009
- Métissages
  
  Yves Sabourin, Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux 2009
- ART-ATHINA
  
  International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Athens 2009
- Anima Animalia
  
  Yves Sabourin, Musée de la Céramique de Châteauroux 2009
- Praxis, Art in times of Uncertainty
  
  Gabriela Salgado, Bisi Silva, Syrago Tsiara, State Museum of Contemporary Art - Costakis Collection 2009
- Portraits of Shoes - Stories of feet
  
  Yves Sabourin, Sungkok Museum 2009
- Meeting Europe
  
  Beral Madra-Efi Strouza, Apollonia 2006
- Porous Borders
  
  10th Biennale di Venezia 2006
- Art’Fab
  
  Nicolas Bourriaud, Terrail 2006
- Going Public ’05
  
  Claudia Zaffi, Communities and Territories, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre 2005
- Leaps of faith
  
  Katerina Grekou, Erden Kosova, John Nassari, A Kolektif Production Nicosia 2005
- The Cyclades through the lens of 20 Greek Artists
  
  Takis Mavrotas, N.P. Goulandris foundation- Museum of Cycladic Art, 2005
- Athena by Art
  
  Christina Petrinou, AICA, Athens 2004
- Paradigmata
  
  Maria Loizidou, 9th Biennale di Venezia, Athens 2004
- The new ten
  
  Evelyn Weiss, M.K.M Museum, Duisburg 2004
- Berlin 1936
  
  Manos Stefanides, Milo Gallery, Athens 2004
- The suffering body
  
  Stavros Tsingoglou, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004
- Art Athina 2004
  
  Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries, Athens 2004
- Dark rooms
  
  Giorgos Tzirtzilakis, Peloponnesian Folkore Foundation, 2003
  
  pdf (5.2Mb)
- Art Athina 2003
  
  Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries, Athens 2003
- Wreck of Serenity
  
  Centre of Contemporary Art of Rethymno, Maria Marangou, Rethymno 2002
- People, faces, forms
  
  Maria Marangou, Centre of Contemporary Art, Rethymno 2002
- Mythologies of the Book
  
  Contemporary Greek artists, Efi Strouza, Frankfurt 2001
- Purple Earth
  
  Maria Marangou, Athens 2001
- P + P = D
  
  P + P = D : Selections from Desmos, Giorgos Tzirtzilakis, Futura, Athens 1999
- Mediterranea
  
  Simonetta Gorreri, Art Contemporain des pays mιditerranιens, Art life for the world, Bruxelles 1998
- Pro Patria
  
  Manos Stefanides, Maison de Chypre, 1996
- Drawings
  
  Schageshof Gallery, Willich 1995
- Itinerary
  
  Ministry of Education & Culture, Cultural services, Nicosia 1995
- Along the line
  
  AD Gallery, Athens 1994
- Art Athina 2 ‘94
  
  Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries, Athens 1994
- Modern Greek Artists : Clay and Plastic Creation
  
  Takis Mavrotas, Mbastas-Plessas, Athens 1994
- Ta Ephimera
  
  Maria Marangou, publications Basta-Plessa, Athens 1991
- Mémorandum note
  
  Gallery Desmos, Athens 1991
- Itinéraires, 1978-1990 : Quelques prix de Paris
  
  Mapra, Lyon 1990
- 8 Young Artists
  
  Efi Andreadi, Municipal Arts Centre, Athens 1989
- Mediterraneo
  
  Efi Strouza, per l’Arte Contemporanea, Regione Puglia Assessorato alla Cultura, Bari 1989
- Barcelona '87, Bologne '88
  
  Χρύσανθος Χρίστου, Ελλάδα - Κύπρος, Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη, Αθήνα 1988
- Biennal ’87
  
  Produccions Culturals Juvenils de l’Europa Mediterrania, Barcelone 1987
- Les Arts Plastiques et la Fondation de France
  
  Jean Charbonneux, Brive 1986
- Nicosia 1986Le mythe d’Ariane en trois actes
  
  Françoise Bataillon, Centre Culturelle Français, Nicosia 1986
- XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’arte
  
  La Biennale di Venezia, Arte e Scienza, Electa 1986
- XLII Biennale di Venezia
  
  Maria Loizidou, Efi Strouza, Ministry of Education and Culture 1986
- Travaux sur papier
  
  Dany Bloch, Centre d’Action Culturelle Jacques Prévert, Villeparisis 1985
- Sculptures Contemporaines
  
  Dedans-Dehors, Fondation Hébert- D’Uckermann, La Tronche 1983