curators

Marina Fokidis

Marina Fokidis is a curator and writer based inAthensGreece. Amongst other projects she is the founding and artistic director of the newly established Kunsthalle Athena, the first art institution of this short inAthenswhich started as an experimental platform and is taking now its permanent form. From 2000 to 2008 she served as the director of Oxymoron a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art inGreeceand on an international level. She has been the commissioner and the curator of the Greek Pavillion at the 51rst Venice Biennial, (2003) and one of the curators of the 1rst Tirana Biennial (2001).

Fokidis has curated several exhibitions including Random Rules A channel of Artists Selection from Youtube, presented online (ongoing) and screened in Pulse Art Fair, NY New York 2009, Midsummer Nights Dream, a three months screening program part of Remap 2 (parallel program to Athens Biennial 2009), Her(His)tory an exhibition of major video works within the last decade, juxtaposed to the historical permanent collections, in the Museum of Cycladic Art, in Athens (2007), Anathena, an exhibition held in DESTE Foundation, based in the Athenian underground scene (2006) and others. She has written essays for different edited collections and several international art magazines and is the chief art editor of LIFO, a significant cultural free press magazine n Greece.