BIO - LAVERONICA

1980
born in Nicosia, Cyprus
Lives and works in Cologne
Education
2007-2010 Postgraduate Degree Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2005
Media Arts, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2000-2006 Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Athens
1998-1999 Visual Arts, University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein,
Halle
Scholarships-Prizes
2014
2015
Academy of the Arts of the World Cologne, International Project Grant
2014
Hartware-Kunstverein/Ministry of Culture of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Media Artist 2014
Villa Aurora Grant Los Angeles, Kunstsalon e.V. Cologne /
Villa Aurora Forum Berlin
2014
Nominated for the Ars Viva Prize 2015
2014
IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations Germany)
Research Grant
2013
Project Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2013
Shortlisted for the 8th DESTE Prize, Athens
2012
Project Grant, Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia
2012
IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) Exhibition Grant, Germany
2012
Nominated for the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2012
2012
Schloss Balmoral Project Scholarship, Bad Ems
2012-13 Studio Grant, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Imhoff Stiftung, Cologne
2011
Jean-Claude-Reynal-Scholarship 2010, Bordeaux
2011
100 Frauen von Morgen, Standortinitiative Deutschland - Land der Ideen
2010
Friedrich-Vordemberge Grant, First prize in Visual Arts, Cologne
2009
Resartis Award, Skopje Biennale 2009, Skopje
2009
First prize, 5th Cyprus Short Film and Documentary Festival,
2008-2010 Alexander Onassis Foundation Scholarship, Greece
2008
DAAD Scholarship (The German Academic Exchange Service)
Limassol
2008
Michelis Foundation Scholarship, Greece
2007
First-class-honours Degree Grant, Foundation Eurobank, Greece
2005
Transvision Festival, 2nd prize, London
2001-2005 National Scholarship Foundation, Cyprus
2000-2005 National Scholarship Foundation, Greece
Residencies
2015
Atelier Galata, Istanbul
2015
Light Cone - Atelier 105, Paris
2014
Villa Aurora Grant, Los Angeles
2014
IASPIS Residency Grant, Stockholm
2014
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2013
Gasworks / TrAIN Residency, London
2013
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
Solo exhibitions
2015
Of(f) the Ground, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln
2015
But see, even that is only appearance, basis, Frankfurt, curated by Christin Müller
2014
A river needs banks to flow, Annaelle Gallery, Stockholm
2014
Here let me stand, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin
2013
Cinema Aurora, miart 2013, Milano International Art Fair,
with Laveronica arte contemporanea
2013
l’histoire d’histoire d’une histoire,
Kölnischer Kunstverein OG2, Cologne, curated by Marion Ritter
2012
Reluctantly Real, Laveronica arte contemporanea, Modica, Sicily
curated by Marco Scotini
2012
Errant Images, Omikron Gallery Nicosia
2011
Temporal Taxonomy, Cyprus Pavilion 54th International Exhibition of
Venezia, Venice
curated by Yiannis Toumazis
(two-person show with Elizabeth Hoak-Doering)
2010
Friedrich Vordemberge Prize,
Federal Association for Visual Artists Cologne
(two-person show with Owen Gump)
Contemporary Art, La Biennale di
Group exhibitions (selected)
2016
Erotimatiko? ARTCURIAL 7, Rond – Point des Champs – Elysées, Paris
2015-2016 Sammlung mit losen Enden, curated by Marcel Schumacher, Kunsthaus NRW
Kornelimünster Aachen
2015
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Palazzo Riso, Palermo, curated by Christine
Macel, Marco Bazzini and Bartomeu Mari
2015
Kunst aus NRW, Kornelimünster – Aachen, Sammlung mit losen Enden, curated by
Marcel Schumacher
2015
Recorded Memories, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade
2015
Artissima, Turin, with Laveronica Modica
2015
Participation at 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
May – September 2015, Curator: Katerina Gregos
2014-2015 Recorded Memories, NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus
2014
Europe/South East. Recorded Memories.
3 show: Museum for modern and contemporary art, Rijeka;
2 show: Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo (2013);
1 show: Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2013)
a touring exhibition project organised by the Goethe-Institute and
Braunschweig
the Museum für Photographie
curated by Constanze Wicke
Artists: Hassan Abdelghani (Pula); Ana Adamovic (Belgrade); Jelena Blagovic (Zagreb); Pavel Braila
(Chisinau); Michele Bressan (Bucharest); Marianna
Christofides (Nicosia/Cologne); Iosif Kiraly (Bucharest);
Panos Kokkinias (Athens); Milomir Kovacevic (Sarajevo/Paris); Nikola Mihov (Sofia/Paris); Erhan Muratoglu
(Ankara); Nikola Radic Lucati (Belgrade); Stefan Sava
(Bucharest); Stefana Savic (Belgrade); Sašo
Stanojkovik (Skopje); Predrag Terzic (Belgrade); Andreas Tsonidis (Thessaloniki); Peter Tzanev (Sofia);
Žaneta Vangeli (Skopje); Sandra Vitaljic (Zagreb); Vangelis Vlahos (Athens); Fani Zguro (Tirana/Berlin);
kavecS Vana Kostayola & Kostis Stafylakis
(Athens/Geneva)
2014
Art Brussels
with Laveronica - Modica
Artists: Marianna Christofides, Igor Grubic, Adelita Husni-Bey
2014
Arco Madrid
with Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin
Artists: Fayçal Baghriche, Marianna Christofides, Christoph Girardet, Ingeborg Lüscher, Matthias Müller,
Teresa Murak
2013
Archaeologies of the Future 2, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin
curated by Heike Fuhlbrügge & Nina Koidl
Artists: Pep Agut, Eric Baudelaire, Matthew Buckingham,
Marianna Christofides, Simon Fujiwara, Vittorio Santoro, Shira Wachsmann
2013
5x3, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
curated by Christine Erhard
Artists: Marianna Christofides, Susann Dietrich, Batia Suter
2013
Afresh. A new generation of Greek artists,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athen
curated by Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi, Daphne Vitali
Artists: Christos Vagiatas, Hrysa Valsamaki, Ino Varvariti, Maria Varela,
Afroditi Psarra, Marinos
Koutsomichalis, Paky Vlassopoulou, Panagiotis Vorrias, Theodoros Giannakis, Natalie Yiaxi, Manolis
Daskalakis-Lemos,
Athanasios Zagorisios, Efthimis Theou and Thanasis Deligiannis, Valentina Karga,
Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Alexandros Laios,
Kernel (Petros Moris, Pegy Zali,
Theodoros Giannakis), Bill Balaskas, Rania
Bellou, Petros Moris, Kosmas Nikolaou, Sofia Dona, Myrto
Xanthopoulou,
Ioanna Ximeri, Maria Papanikolaou, Tula Plumi, Erica Scourti, Evangelia
Spiliopoulou,
Anastasis Stratakis, Stefania Strouza, Maria Tsagkari, Maro Fasouli, Myrto Ferentinou, Marianna Christofides,
City Index Lab + Energize
2013
Visual Dialogues 2013, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athen
curated by Marilena Karra
Artists: Athanasios Argianas, Marianna Christofides, Joana Hadjithomas –
Khalil Joreige, Rick
Myers, Theo Prodromidis, Bill Psarras, Erica Scourti, Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Yiannis
Theodoropoulos, Maria Varela
2013
8th DESTE prize 2013, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Artists: Marianna Christofides, Ilias Papailiakis, Michail Pirgelis,
Kostas Sahpazis, Maria Theodoraki, Alexandros Tzannis
2013
Cumuli. On collecting things, L40 - Verein zur Förderung von Kunst
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin
und Kultur am
an exhibition project by Camelot together with Susanne Prinz
Artists: Stefka Ammon + Robert Ziegler, Heike Bollig, Mauro Cerqueira, Marianna Christofides, Clegg &
Guttmann, Daniela Comani, Pip Culbert, Hans
Cürlis, Mark Dion, Herbert Distel, Robert Gschwantner,
Ramon Haze, Ralf
Hoedt, Michael Höpfner, Annette Hollywood, Sven Jakstat, Katharina Karrenberg, Martin
Kippenberger, Daniel Knorr, Christin Lahr, Alexej Meschtschanow, Jana Müller, Regine Müller-Waldeck,
Alexandra Navratil, Diane Nerwen, Phill Niblock, Arnold Odermatt, Anna Oppermann, Bernd Ribbeck, Annette
Rose, Giovanna Sarti, Moe Satt, Christian Schwarzwald, Philip Topolovac, Simon Wachsmuth, Rebecca Wilton,
Sibylle Zeh, Moira Zoitl
2012
Dear Aby Warburg, What can be done with images?,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen, curated by Eva Schmidt
Artists: Özlem Altin, Tobias Buche, Mariana Castillo Deball,
Marianna Christofides, Koenrad Dedobbeleer, Katalin Deer, Thea Djordjadze,
Hummel, Ulrike Kuschel, Alexandra Leykauf,
Katrin Mayer, Lia Perjovschi, Manfred Pernice, Abigail Reynolds,
Paula Roush, Eske Schlüters, Batia Suter, Simon Wachsmuth, Hague Yang
2012
Through the Roadblocks, E.&K. Lanitis Foundation, Limassol
curated by Helene Black and Antonis Danos
2012
Artissima 19, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino
with Laveronica arte contemporanea
Herve Garcia, Cecile
2012
Jahresgaben 2012, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2012
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2012, Kunsthalle Bremen
Artists: Abel Auer, Gerry Bibby, Kerstin Brätsch, Marianna Christofides,
Dani Gal, Karl Holmqvist,
Daniel Knorr, Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter,
Jorinde Voigt, Hannes Zebedin
2012
Méditerranée, E.&K. Lanitis Foundation, Limassol
curated by Christoforos Marinos
Artists: Etel Adnan, Anna Boghiguian, Valentinos Charalambous,
Emin Cizenel, Savvas Christodoulides, Marianna Christofides, Bia Davou,
Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Nikos Kouroussis,
Giuseppe Gabellone, Luigi
Maria Loizidou, Katerina Neophytidou, Rallou Panagiotou,
Jean-Daniel Pollet, Aldo Rossi, Christoforos Savva, Christiana Soulou, Uygur Yilmaz
2012
I Vespri - Civic Forum in Five Acts, Modica
curated by Marco Scotini
Artists: Eric Baudelaire, Marianna Christofides, Celine Condorelli,
Danilo Correale, Igor Grubic, Adelita Husni-Bey, Amir Yatziv,
Wael Noureddine, Roy Samaha, Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet,
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
2012
Sense of Place, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
curated by Liz Wells
Artists: Elina Brotherus, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Marianna Christofides,
Carl De Keyzer, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Anthony Haughey,
Vesselina Nikolaeva, Nicos Philippou, Massimo Vitali et al.
2012
Speaking of Reality, Theartspace, Düsseldorf
Artists: Marianna Christofides, Laura J. Padgett
2012
Temps d'Images, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
2011
Drawing Room, Omikron Gallery, Nicosia
2011
Ida-Gerhardi Award, Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid
2011
Pentalogy, Omikron Gallery, Nicosia
2011
Localhost, Kunsthalle Münster
curated by Jari Ortwig, Arne Reimann and Joanne Dijkman
Artists: Jan Albers, Marianna Christofides, Danica Dakic, Owen Gump, Thea
Harrison, Diango Hernandez, Kiron Khosla, Suchan Kinoshita,
Rita McBride, Lorenzo Pompa, Glen Rubsamen
2011
Art Athina International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens
2010
Chypre 2010, L’art au present, Espace Commines, Paris
Gvetadze, Adam
curated by Yiannis Toumazis and Antri Michael
2010
Looking awry: views of an anniversary, E.&K. Lanitis Foundation, Limassol
2010
Notes to self, Omikron Gallery, Nicosia
2010
Holds a thin line, Goethe-Institute, Ankara
2009
Skopje Biennale: The Cyprus Participation, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
2009
Atelier, PACT Zollverein, Platform for Art and Choreography,
Essen, curated by Isa Koehler
2009
Along the Rhine – Cologne/Duesseldorf, Museum of Contemporary
Düsseldorf
Art KIT (Kunst im Tunnel),
curated by Gertrud Peters
2009
Skopje Biennale, Association Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe
et de la Méditerranée, Skopje
2009
Art Campus, ArtCologne International Art Fair, Cologne
2007
Three first-class-honours graduates, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (Megaro Mousikis), Athens
Screenings
2013
Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
2012
International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne
2011
Reel to Real - Am Ende auf Anfang, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
2011
Seconde Nature, 29. Festival tous courts, Rencontres cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence
2011
Unlimited #5, European Short Film Festival, Cologne
2011
L' Hybride, Festival International du court metrage, Lille
2011
German Competition,
57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2010
Dialogues with the machine, MADATAC Festival, Madrid
curated by Helene Black and Yiannis Colakides
2009
No Body Festival, Nicosia
2009
Picknick im Kino, Open Air Filmfest Hamburg
2009
Black Box Film Museum, Duesseldorf
2009
4th Lemesos International Documentary Festival, Limassol
2009
Reel to Real - Family Affairs, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
2009
5th Cyprus Short Film and Documentary Festival, Limassol
2005
Transvision Festival London