Born 1957, in Athens, Greece
Lives and works in Volos and Athens, Greece
Professor of Art and Environment at the Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Education

1981-1986 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris

Awards

2003 Winner of the DESTE prize, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016

Laboratory Antigone, Onassis Foundation, New York, USA
The riddle and the Sphinx, Libreria delle donne, Milan, Italy
News from Nowhere ‘δ’ Gallery, Volos, GR

2015

A man from the South - Between two worlds, Cagliari Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2015 Ϲ.ARTE.Ͻ – Cavità Arte Contemporanea, Sardinia, Italy
Why look at animals? AGRIMIKÁ, Greek Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2014

T.A.M.A. Superflow, Museum Alex Mylonas – Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Athens, GR
Souzy Tros, Eleonas, Athens, GR

2013

Souzy Tros, Eleonas, Athens, GR

2012

Over! Leftover, Batycki Factory, Gdansk, Poland
Souzy Tros, Eleonas, Athens, GR

2011

T.A.M.A. The Roma Coat, Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens, Athens, GR

2010

Otel Nokul, Sinopale3 – International Sinop Biennial, Sinop, Turkey
Hotel Balkan, Haifa Mediterranean Biennial, Haifa, Israel

2009

Infinito fa Rumore Eternità fa Silenzio, Mercato Coperto, Reggio Emilia, Italy
The T.A.M.A. Party, a collaboration with the Roma community at Aliveri-Volos, GR

2008

Corbu, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR

2007

Sa Ma Khol Truck – a City Tour, Teseco Foundation, Pisa, Italy
Novocomum on Wheels – Direct Architecture, Borgovico33, Como, Italy

2006

Hotel Plug Inn, 1ra Bienal de Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje de Canarias, Lanzarote, Spain

2005

Two or Three Things I Know About Him, Riflemaker Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Screening at the Kinitron Gas Station, National Road Larissa-Trikala, Larissa Contemporary Art Center, GR

2004

We’ll Meet Again, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Temporary Office – Poetica della mobilità, Olivetti Foundation, Rome, Italy
Amphiareion 04 – Ilumina tus Sueños, Villa Olímpica, MM Proyectos, Rincón, Puerto Rico
Images, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR

2003

What Do We Really Remember, Ex-Convento Domenicani, Sternatia, Italy

2002

T.A.M.A. (Temporary Autonomous Museum for All), Official Greek Representative, 25th Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1997

Living Spaces III, FOKA Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Living Spaces II, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR

1996

Living Spaces I, Studio Barbieri, Venice, Italy

1994

Coming Soon, Courtesy Fac-Simile, Milan, Italy
Love Stories, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR

1993

Draft for Two Towers, ZM Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Martin, Martin…, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR
Oral Exhibition, ARTI, Vol.17, November-December, Athens, GR

1992

Project for Two Towers – the White Tower of Pisa and the Leaning Tower of Thessaloniki, White Tower of Thessaloniki, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR

1991

Small Roman Bridge, Desmos Art Gallery, Athens, GR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy

2019

Mario Merz Prize 3 Ed., Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy
A.O. – B.C. AN AUDIOVISUAL DIARY, State of Concept, Athens, GR

2018

Beyond Words, Mardin Biennale, Turkey
DESTE FASHION COLLECTION, The Bass Contemporary Art Museum, Miami, FL
All That We Have In Common, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje FYROM
Geometries, Onassis Cultural Centre / Agricultural University of Athens, GR

2017

Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, cur. Evelyn Simons, Fondazione Prada and QM, Athens, GR
ODOIPORIKO, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR

2016

Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK
Genii loci: Greek art from the 1930s to the present day, Manege Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
Hypnos Project , Onassis foundation, Athens, GR

2015

Fashion as a Social Energy, Palazzo Morando – Museo Moda e Immagine, Milan, Italy

On Food, Visible Office and Project Space, Galerie de l’erg, Brussels, Belgium

Adhocracy, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, GR

2014

DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8, Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe, Athens, GR
No Country for Young Men, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945: Beyond Boundaries, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
Everywhere but Now, 4th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
Expansion, Siemens Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2013

Plug_in Backstage 2003, Museum of Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
The Great Eastern (After Andreas Embiricos), Lustlands II, Thermisia, GR
The System of Objects, DESTE Foundation, Athens, GR
Hell As Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2012

The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
Fight-Specific Isola, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, Italy
Public Speech, Koroška Art Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
A Gathering, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush, Autograph ABP, London, United Kingdom
The Mediterranean Approach, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
Evil, La Galerie Utopia – The Forgotten Bar Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2011

The Mediterranean Approach, Palazzo Zenobio, collateral event, 54th International Art Exhibi-tion - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Living – Frontiers of Architecture III, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Ministry of Education Warning: Segregation Harms You and Others Around You, Nosticky Pal-ace, Prague, Czech Republic
Le Paris Bar à Paris, Suzanne Tarasieve, Loft 19, Paris, France
Greek Art, Sem-Gallery, Monaco
The Ark-old Seeds for New Cultures, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
Monodrome, AB3 Athens Biennale, Diplareios School, Athens, GR

2010

Aware – Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
The Ark-old Seeds for New Cultures, Participation at the Greek Pavilion, 12th International Ar-chitecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
Fabricators of the World. Scenarios of Self-Will, Schloss Trautenfels, Universalmuseum Jo-anneum,Trautenfels, Stainach-Pürgg, Austria
Mute Signs – Contemporary Approaches to (In)tolerance, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Mixed & Mastered: Greek Video Art from the 00s, Center for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania
Dwelling in Travel, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2009

The First Image – Sequences, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
The Spectacle of the Everyday, 10th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
We Do It, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
La Première Image, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
Naughtiness, Beltsios Collection, Margaris Foundation, Amfilochia, GR
Amateur Bicyclism, ReMap2, Locus, Athens, GR
EU-Roma Dwelling, Autograph ABP, London, United Kingdom

2008

Common View, National Theater of Greece and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Thes-saloniki, GR
A Dialogue Between Greek and Chinese Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
Women Only, Beltsios Collection, Margaris Foundation, Amfilochia, GR
Ideal Homes, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
Sueño de Casa Propia, VIMCORSA, Córdoba, Spain
Games Without Frontiers, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, GR

2007

Volksgarten: Politics of Belonging, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, GR
Sueño de Casa Propia, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Habitation Variation, BAC - Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Who’s There, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
Mapas, Cosmogonías e Puntos de Referencia, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santi-ago de Compostela, Spain
Summer Cinema, Nice and Fit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Topos: Egonopoulos, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
Two or Three Things I Know about Him, Photosynkyria 19, International Festival of Photog-raphy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
Cities from Below, Teseco Foundation, Pisa, Italy
L.I.G.H.T., 2nd Gwangju Design Biennal, South Korea

2006

Less: Alternative Living Strategies, PAC,Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
The Athens Effect, Mudima Foundation, Milan, Italy
What Remains is Future, Old Arsakeion School, Patras, GR
The People’s Choice, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
An Outing, Beltsios Collection, Matsopoulos Mill, Trikala, GR
Check-In Europe: Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany

2005

EuroPart – New Contemporary Art from Europe, Rolling Billboard Project, Vienna, Austria
Myths/AntiMyths, Forum Plus, Wroclaw, Poland
The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
Going Public 05: Communities and Territories, Larissa Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, GR
Biennial on the Mediterranean Landscape, Pescara, Italy
Mira Como se Mueven, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain

2004

Videokunst - Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Athens, GR
Staying or Leaving, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Tribute to the Messenger, MM Proyectos, Rincón, Puerto Rico
Bleiben Oder Gehen? Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Bodyworks, Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
Breakthrough Greece 2004, Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain
Paradigmata, participation at the Greek Pavilion, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Ven-ice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2003

Outlook, ASFA Factory, Athens, GR
In Den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Transformers, Bikinihaus, Berlin, Germany
Dubrovnik: Here and Elsewhere, Umjetnicka Galerija, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Going Public, Provincial Station of Modena, Modena, Italy
DESTE PRIZE, DESTE Foundation, Athens, GR
The Pioneers, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR

2002

Manifesta 04, Frankfurt, Germany
Fusion Cuisine, DESTE Foundation, Athens, GR
Balkania 2002, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
4th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro
The Pioneers, Beltsios Collection, Kalambaka, GR

2001

1st Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania
Overexcited Body, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Thrillos 2001, Sylo Depot Sarantopoulos, Piraeus, GR
Body, Vafopoulio Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, GR

2000

Kiss from Greece [3], Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
Europa Edition, Säulenhalle des Parlaments, Vienna, Austria
Playgrounds and Toys, Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
51st Premio Michetti, Europe-Different Perspectives on Painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
P + P = D Contemporary Greek Art: Desmos Gallery Archive, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR

1999

Kiss from Greece [2], Galerie Stalzer, Vienna, Austria
Bloom Contemporary Art Garden, c/o Lolmocolmo, Brescia, Italy
Europa Edition, Portfolio Kunst AG, Vienna, Austria
Cosmotel A3 Presents: the Artist’s Ideal House, FOKA Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Objecthood, Hellenic American Union, Athens, GR

1998

Kiss from Greece [1], N.O.M.A.D.E., Paris, France
XxYxZ The End of the Line, Unlimited Gallery, Athens, GR

1997

Image and Icon, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR
FotoMässan, Göteborg, Sweden
The Painter Till Eulenspiegel, FOKA Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Loops, Soap Factory, Athens, GR
Group Show, Wigmore Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom

1996

Spring Collection, DESTE Foundation, House of Cyprus,, Athens, GR
Video1: Nuovi Tempi nel Video, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Italy
Garbage, Larissa Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, GR

1995

Greek Realities, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin, Germany
Push Ups, Factory, Athens, GR
Mito, Operat ’95, Ex-Fornace Adriatica, Russi, Ravenna, Italy

1994

Techne & Metis, Gate of Famagusta, Nicosia, Cyprus
Ritratto & Autoritratto, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
The Wall, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Made in Bo, Ars Lux, billboard project, Torino, Napoli, Florence, Roma, Naples, Palermo, Italy
Group Exhibition, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR
Fragile, Austrian Hungarian Market, Crema, Italy

1993

4th Biennal of New Art, Zielona Gura, Poland
Hond & Hamer, Daglicht & de Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1992

D.O. presents Entartete Kunst, Via Farini, Milan, Italy
Special Lighting, Kanavourgio, Edessa, GR

1991

Biennale d’ Alexandrie, Alexandria, Egypt
Assault on the Senses, DESTE Foundation, House of Cyprus, Athens, GR
Real Time - Storytelling, festival for video, installation and performance, Spot, Gdansk, Konin, Poland

Personal bibliography

Maria Papadimitriou, Situations, Co-existences, Commons, edited by P. Tan (Barcelona; dpr-barcelona, 2016)
Maria Papadimitriou, Why look at animals? AGRIMIKA, edited by the artist and Theofilos Tram-boulis, (Milan; Postmedia Books, 2015)
Maria Papadimitriou, Free Hotels, edited by the artist, (Milan; Postmedia Books, 2014)
Maria Papadimitriou, ΦIRMA GYPSY GLOBALES, edited by the artist (Athens; The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2014)
Maria Papadimitriou, We’ll Meet Again, edited by the artist (Madrid; Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2004)
Maria Papadimitriou, T.A.M.A., edited by E. Strousa (Athens; Futura, 2002)
Maria Papadimitriou, Living Spaces (perhaps the furniture we need does not exist), edited by the artist (Syros Island; Municipality of Ermoupolis, 1996)
Maria Papadimitriou, Dear Dr Joseph Kosuth, edited by the artist (Thessaloniki; Foka Gallery, 1996)
Maria Papadimitriou, Project For Two Towers: The White Tower Of Pisa and The Leaning Tow-er of Thessaloniki, edited by C. Cafopoulos (Thessaloniki; Ministry of Culture / Macedonian Mu-seum of Contemporary Art, 1992)