Maria Loizidou

Her practice interweaves personal and political references in relation to the history of colonialism, war, oppression, minorities, and the deprivation of social welfare in Cyprus. 

Her work, combines drawings with pencil, animation, video, sculpture, and knitting through collective workshops. Recently, it has been presented in installations such as The place I am not in collaboration with Freud Museum London and Hellenic Center, London (2024), space of togetherness, in collaboration with NEON, Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece | School of Athens – Irene Papas, Athens (2024), Moi Balbuzard Migrant, in collaboration with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2023), A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920–2020, in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021), Portals, in collaboration with NEON, at the Former Tobacco Factory in Athens (2020). 

In 1986, she represented Cyprus at the 43 Venice Biennale with the work The Myth of Ariadne in three acts, and in 2017 she participated in Documenta 14, with the work Collective Autobiographie (2011). 

Her works activate public spaces, creating platform for interaction and discussion, emphasising the power of fragility. As a member of AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism Maria has the possibility to address such issues on an interdisciplinary level.