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FELIX GAUDLITZ

Werdertorgasse 4/2/13
1010 Vienna
info@felixgaudlitz.com

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Marina Xenofontos

*1988, Limassol, CY
Lives and works in Athens, GR
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Media

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Passer, 2026
Messing, steel, cartonnage, papier-mâché, motor reductor, gears
Mechanical development and production of the work was realized by François Junod and Ezer Longinus.
15 × 10 × 8 cm (5 7/8 × 4 × 3 1/8 in)
Plinth: 75.5 × 51.4 × 81 cm (29 3/4 × 20 1/4 × 31 7/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Passer, 2026 (Detail), Messing, steel, cartonnage, papier-mâché, motor reductor, gears, Mechanical development and production of the work was realized by François Junod and Ezer Longinus, 15 × 10 × 8 cm (5 7/8 × 4 × 3 1/8 in), Plinth: 75.5 × 51.4 × 81 cm (29 3/4 × 20 1/4 × 31 7/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

Marina Xenofontos
5 stacked The Queen chairs, 2023–2026 & Tsaera (Iskemle) Toneni, n.d., 2026
Rejected “Lordos Plastics” Queen-style monobloc chairs
Handwoven using artisanal techniques used for traditional kafenia (coffee shop) chairs.
Stacked chairs, each: 83 × 45 × 53 cm (32 5/8 × 17 3/4 × 20 7/8 in)
Tsaera: 75 × 49 × 49 cm (29 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 19 1/4 in)
Overall dimension: ca. 103 × 105 × 45 cm (40 1/2 × 41 3/8 × 17 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Threads, 2026
Copper, steel, motors running at 5 rpm, 17 rpm, and 25 rpm; electrical board, 21 elements
Each: 61 × 44 × 48 cm (24 × 17 3/8 × 18 7/8 in)
Overall dimensions variable

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, It rests to the bones – Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026, Installation view, Venice, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

Marina Xenofontos
Twice Upon a While, 2025
Video game
Ed. 5 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, 2026, Installation view, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Basel Social Club, 2025, Installation view, Basel, CH

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Marina Xenofontos, Basel Social Club, 2025, Installation view, Basel, CH

Marina Xenofontos
Lying still, on broken glass and asphalt (II, III), 2025
Bronze
55 × 25 × 15 cm (21 5/8 × 9 7/8 × 5 7/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, GMT, 2025, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

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Marina Xenofontos, Overnight Coup Plan, 2025, Installation view, Mint, Stockholm, SE

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Marina Xenofontos, Overnight Coup Plan, 2025, Installation view, Mint, Stockholm, SE

Marina Xenofontos
Overnight Coup Plan, 2025
Single-channel projection
13:00 mins.
Ed. 3 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, 15th of July, 2025 (Detail), 1:60 scale Maquette of home on Renou Fragkoudi street, 33 × 70 × 30 cm (13 × 27 1/2 × 11 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Overnight Coup Plan, 2025, Installation view, Mint, Stockholm, SE

Marina Xenofontos
15th of July, 2025
1:60 scale Maquette of home on Renou Fragkoudi street
33 × 70 × 30 cm (13 × 27 1/2 × 11 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, 15th of July, 2025 (Detail), 1:60 scale Maquette of home on Renou Fragkoudi street, 33 × 70 × 30 cm (13 × 27 1/2 × 11 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, 15th of July, 2025 (Detail), 1:60 scale Maquette of home on Renou Fragkoudi street, 33 × 70 × 30 cm (13 × 27 1/2 × 11 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Overnight Coup Plan, 2025, Installation view, Mint, Stockholm, SE

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Marina Xenofontos
Evacuation Plan, 2023 (Detail)
MDF wood, inkjet prints (circa 2005), light sensors, sound sensors, LEDs, Arduino Nano
6 pieces, 40 × 35 × 2 cm (15 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos
Evacuation Plan, 2023 (Detail)
MDF wood, inkjet prints (circa 2005), light sensors, sound sensors, LEDs, Arduino Nano
6 pieces, 40 × 35 × 2 cm (15 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 3/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Things We Lost, 2026, Installation view, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT

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Marina Xenofontos, Things We Lost, 2026, Installation view, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT

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Marina Xenofontos, Printed Hands, 2025, Mahogany door removed from teenage bedroom, light, sound, LED Arduino nanos circuit, 204 × 80 × 17 cm (80 1/3 × 31 1/2 × 6 2/3)

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Marina Xenofontos, Things We Lost, 2026, Installation view, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT

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Marina Xenofontos, Things We Lost, 2026, Installation view, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT

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Marina Xenofontos, circa 2005, 2025, Slide projector with 80 images, Dimensions variable, Ed. 3 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, circa 2005, 2025 (Detail), Slide projector with 80 images, Dimensions variable, Ed. 3 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, Eternal, Returns, 2025, Installation view, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Eternal, Returns, 2025
Phillips CDs, electrical motor, metal
42 × 56 × 52 cm (16 1/2 × 22 × 20 1/2) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, Eternal, Returns, 2025, Installation view, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Over the Coop at Sunset, Multiple Scoliosis, and a Nest of Vicious Echinoderms and Propagandists, a Collection of Failed Memories Appeared Either Erupted by a Junction Box, or was Caused by Debris from the Classic Firework Show. It was too Beautiful to be Real, 2021
Assembled and modified object
96 × 62 × 32 cm (37 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 12 1/2)

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Marina Xenofontos, Eternal, Returns, 2025, Installation view, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

We were supposed to have fun, 2011 - ongoing
Single-channel video
Duration variable
Ed. 3 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, Eternal, Returns, 2025, Installation view, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Code of Construction, 2024
Cabinets based on English standards produced in Cyprus
630 × 70 × 60 cm (248 × 27 1/2 × 23 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Eternal, Returns, 2025, Installation view, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Solar Sail Fall, 2025
Mirror louvres, hexagon metal shape
14 × 7 × 6 cm (5 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, 11 Parthenon Street, Ayios Andreas, 1105 Nicosia, Cyprus, Part 2, 2025, Installation view, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, CY

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Marina Xenofontos, 11 Parthenon Street, Ayios Andreas, 1105 Nicosia, Cyprus, Part 2, 2025, Installation view, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, CY

Marina Xenofontos
To the knees, 2025
Aluminium tubes, steel joints,nshafts, motor mechanism
10.7 cm × ⌀ 10 cm (4 1/4 × ⌀ 4)

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Marina Xenofontos, To the knees, 2025 (Detail), Aluminium tubes, steel joints,nshafts, motor mechanism, 10.7 cm × ⌀ 10 cm (4 1/4 × ⌀ 4)

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Marina Xenofontos, The Cynics Republic, Curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, 2024, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Photo: Jeff Wall Production


Marina Xenofontos
Pinocchio, 2008–2009
Performance

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Marina Xenofontos, The Cynics Republic, Curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, 2024, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Photo: Stephane Patty


Marina Xenofontos
To Egon Schiele, 2008–2009
Performance

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Marina Xenofontos, 15th Baltic Triennial: Same Day, curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta, 2024, Installation view, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Photo: Kristien Daem

Marina Xenofontos
Control Board, 2023-2024
Copper tubes, motor, axons, joints
32 × 1780 × 19 cm (12 5/8 × 700 3/4 × 7 1/2 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, 15th Baltic Triennial: Same Day, curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta, 2024, Installation view, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Photo: Kristien Daem

Marina Xenofontos
Control Board, 2023-2024
Copper tubes, motor, axons, joints
32 × 1780 × 19 cm (12 5/8 × 700 3/4 × 7 1/2 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, View From Somewhere Near, 2024, Installation view, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Photo: Joanna Krawcxyk

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Marina Xenofontos, View From Somewhere Near, 2024, Installation view, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Photo: Joanna Krawcxyk

Marina Xenofontos
Code of Construction, 2024
Cabinets based on English standards produced in Cyprus, emptied gas tanks
630 × 70 × 60 cm (248 × 27 1/2 × 23 5/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, View From Somewhere Near, 2024, Installation view, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Photo: Joanna Krawcxyk

Marina Xenofontos
Code of Construction, 2024
Cabinets based on English standards produced in Cyprus, emptied gas tanks
630 × 70 × 60 cm (248 × 27 1/2 × 23 5/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Code of Construction, 2024, Cabinets based on English standards produced in Cyprus, emptied gas tanks, 630 × 70 × 60 cm (248 × 27 1/2 × 23 5/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, View From Somewhere Near, 2024, Installation view, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Photo: Joanna Krawcxyk

Marina Xenofontos
Sequence, 2009-2024
Mirror, 360° motor mechanism, steel, single-channel video projection, home video of reprojected film 00:58 min
Dimensions variable

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Marina Xenofontos, View From Somewhere Near, 2024, Installation view, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Photo: Joanna Krawcxyk

Marina Xenofontos
Sequence, 2009-2024
Mirror, 360° motor mechanism, steel, single-channel video projection, home video of reprojected film 00:58 min
Dimensions variable

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Marina Xenofontos, Public Domain, 2023, Installation view, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Photo: Luke Walker

Marina Xenofontos
Class Memorial, 2023
Gold and silver anodized aluminum
145 × 212 × 6 cm (57 1/8 × 83 1/2 × 2 3/8 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Public Domain, 2023, Installation view, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Photo: Luke Walker

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Marina Xenofontos, King, oh King, with your 12 swords! What work do you have for us today? Laziness, the King demands, and the children all reply, Let’s get to work!, 2023 (Detail), Bronze and silver plated casts of walking sticks, motor mechanisms, 620 × 50 × 40 cm (244 × 19 3/4 × 15 3/4) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, Public Domain, 2023, Installation view, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Photo: Luke Walker

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Marina Xenofontos, King, oh King, with your 12 swords! What work do you have for us today? Laziness, the King demands, and the children all reply, Let’s get to work!, 2023 (Detail), Bronze and silver plated casts of walking sticks, motor mechanisms, 620 × 50 × 40 cm (244 × 19 3/4 × 15 3/4) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, The Queen, 2023, Rejected Lordos Inc. Plastics monobloc chairs, 80 × 40 × 55 cm (31 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 21 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, The Queen, 2023 (Detail), Rejected Lordos Inc. Plastics monobloc chairs, 80 × 40 × 55 cm (31 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 21 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Main Engine, 2023, Found industrial air-conditioner, turned wood, 135rpm motor, timer with cycling system, 57 × 68 × 64 cm (22 1/2 × 26 3/4 × 25 1/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Evacuation Plan, 2023, 6 MDF light, sound, and LED circuit panels faced with inkjet prints (circa 2005), dimensios variable

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Marina Xenofontos, Evacuation Plan, 2023 (Detail), 6 MDF light, sound, and LED circuit panels faced with inkjet prints (circa 2005), dimensios variable

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Marina Xenofontos, In Practice, 2023, Installation view, Sculpture Center, New York, US

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Marina Xenofontos, In Practice, 2023, Installation view, Sculpture Center, New York, US

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Marina Xenofontos, NEW FAITHFUL, 2023, Single-channel archival video, rejected Lordos monobloc chairs, 80 × 40 × 55 cm (31 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 21 5/8), Video: 9:52 mins., Ed. 3 + 2 AP

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Marina Xenofontos, Control Board #2, 2023, Copper tube, powered by industrial motor, controlled by MDF circuit board with PIR motion and sound sensors, 154 × 450 × 18.4 cm (60 5/8 × 177 1/8 × 7 1/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Control Board #2, 2023 (Detail), Copper tube, powered by industrial motor, controlled by MDF circuit board with PIR motion and sound sensors, 154 × 450 × 18.4 cm (60 5/8 × 177 1/8 × 7 1/4 in)

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Marina Xenofontos, Failed Cache, 2023, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

Marina Xenofontos
Holding back, holding tight, 2023
Merino wool fabric, embroidery, steel structure
330 × 150 cm (130 × 59)

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Marina Xenofontos, Failed Cache, 2023, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

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Marina Xenofontos and Kyriakos Kyriakides, Heart-shaped maquette for future photography show, 2020, Wood, inkjet prints (2018-2020), felt, steel base, 53 × 98 × 93 cm (20 7/8 × 38 5/8 × 36 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Old Ford Rd, 2023, print on plexiglass, LED lights, Arduino board, reflective sensor, 69 × 53 × 53 cm (27 1/8 × 20 7/8 × 20 7/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Main Engine, 2023, Found industrial air-conditioner, turned wood, 135rpm motor, 57 × 68 × 64 cm (22 1/2 × 26 3/4 × 25 1/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Underground plan 1:100, 2019, Wood, resin paint, cleaning product, 80 × 53.5 × 65 cm (31 1/2 × 21 × 25 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Landing, 2021-2023, Cardboard maquette for Ceiling Inferno animation (2021), sulfur, 110 × 98 cm (43 3/8 × 38 5/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Safe Places, 2023, Installation view, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT

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Marina Xenofontos, Folding Tables, 2023, C-print embedded in fiberglass table top, folding legs, 70 × 70 × 55 cm (27 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 21 5/8) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, Folding Tables, 2023 (Detail), C-print embedded in fiberglass table top, folding legs, 70 × 70 × 55 cm (27 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 21 5/8) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, Carousel, 2022, Installation view, Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR 

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Marina Xenofontos, Carousel, 2022, Installation view, Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR 

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Marina Xenofontos, Carousel, 2022, Installation view, Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR 

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Marina Xenofontos, Carousel, 2022, Installation view, Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR 

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Marina Xenofontos, Phenomenon 4, 2022, Installation view, Anafi, GR

Marina Xenofontos
Solar Sail, 2022
Plexiglass tubes filled with water, mirrored adorned axis,14rpm motor, two and three axis joints
630–670 × 20 × 30–45 cm (248–264 × 7 7/8 × 11 3/4 –17 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Phenomenon 4, 2022, Installation view, Anafi, GR

Marina Xenofontos
Solar Sail, 2022
Plexiglass tubes filled with water, mirrored adorned axis,14rpm motor, two and three axis joints
630–670 × 20 × 30–45 cm (248–264 × 7 7/8 × 11 3/4 –17 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Phenomenon 4, 2022, Installation view, Anafi, GR

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Marina Xenofontos, Plan d’ Evacuation (not an intervention), 2022, MDF wood panels, Arduino Nano boards, light sensors, LED lights, Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo P.rt, 15 × 20 × 1,9 cm (6 × 7 7/8 × 3/4) (each)

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Marina Xenofontos, Work and Leisure, curated by Liv Cuniberti and Jeppe Ugelvig, 2022, Installation view, Sala Impasti, Milan, IT

Marina Xenofontos
Adolescent brain Semantic processing, 2022
Mdf carved on CNC, Monobloc chair
87 × 75 × 74 cm (34 1/4 × 29 1/2 × 29 1/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Paris Internationale, 2021, Installation view, Paris, FR

Marina Xenofontos
Handheld mirror, 2021
Mdf carved on CNC, rejected Monobloc chair
96 × 63 × 57 cm (37 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 22 1/2)

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Marina Xenofontos, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, 2021, Installation view, The Island Club, Limassol, CY

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Marina Xenofontos, Copy of a dream, 2020, Modified object, 240 × 120 × 91 cm (94 1/2 × 47 1/4 × 35 7/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Class Memorial, 2020, Modified door, gold and silver anodised aluminium, 202 × 153 × 12 cm (79 1/2 × 60 1/4 × 4 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Children of builders, grandchild of miners, 2020, MDF wood, rejected monobloc chair, 86 × 40 × 40 cm (33 7/8 × 15 3/4 × 15 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, Overnight coup plan, 2020, Resin, pigment, 65 × 65 × 42 cm (25 5/8 × 25 5/8 × 16 1/2)

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Marina Xenofontos, But we've met before, 2021, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

Marina Xenofontos
Transparent in its own opacity, TV was truth, it was the collective memory of an expanded tribe, 2020
Tempera on chalk ground gesso on wood
63 × 55 × 2 cm (24 3/4 × 21 5/8 × 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, But we've met before, 2021, Installation view, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

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Marina Xenofontos, Twice Upon a While, 2020 (Detail), MDF, wood, metal, mirror, 154 × 140 × 206 cm (60 5/8 × 55 1/8 × 81 1/8)

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Marina Xenofontos, Data Storage of a True Spectrum, 2020, Phillips CDs, electrical motor, metal, direct sunlight, 50 × 41 × 52 cm (19 3/4 × 16 1/8 × 20 1/2)

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Marina Xenofontos, Untitled, 2020, Tempera on chalk ground gesso on wood, 60 × 100 × 2 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 × 3/4)

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Marina Xenofontos, We Risk, 2019, Stainless steel pole and motor mechanism, bronze, 399 × 2.5 × 25 cm (157 1/2 × 1 × 9 7/8) and 109 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm (42 7/8 × 1 3/8 × 1)

CV

Education

2019
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

2018
MFA Sculpture, Bard College, Milton Avery Gratuate School of the Arts, New York, US


Solo exhibitions

2026
It rests to the bones, curated by Kyle Dancewicz, Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Play Life, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

2025
Overnight Coup Plan, Mint, Stockholm, SE
Things We Lost, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, AT
Eternal, Returns, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT

2024
View From Somewhere Near, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2023
Public Domain, Camden Art Centre, London, UK In Practice, Sculpture Center, New York, US
failed cache, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

2022
Safe Places, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT
Certain Character Index, A Major, Viseu, PT Carousel, Akwa Ibom, Athens, GR
Frieze London w. Hot Wheels Athens, London, UK
I heard that there are many things in life that we can go beyond, La Plage, Paris, FR

2021
Liste Showtime w. Hot Wheels Athens, Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
I don’t sleep, I dream, The Island Club, Limassol, CY

2020
But we’ve met before, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

2015
Karat Castle, Neoterismoi Toumazou, Nicosia, CY


Two person exhibitions

2022
Found and Lost, with Phung-Tien Phan, Goethe Institut Cyprus, Nicosia, CY
Don’t Build Picturesquely, with Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR

2021
Paris Internationale, with Maria Toumazou w. Hot Wheels Athens, Paris, FR

2020
Light Gallows, with Kyriakos Kyriakides, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, NL
A Big Heritage with a Glorious Past, with Elena Antonaki, curated by mama, Critical Distance, Toronto, CA

2018
AIR AIR, with Christos Kyriakides, Heroes square (Πλατεία Ηρώων) in the basement room of the monument, Limassol, CY

Group exhibitions

2026
post-everything deluge, Radio Athènes, Athens, GR
miart 2026 w. FELIX GAUDLITZ, Milan, IT
ΑGRΟPΟEΤΙCS soils⁄bodies, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nicosia, CY

2025
IN A BRIGHT GREEN FIELD, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, DESTE Foundation x New Museum, Benaki Museum – Pireos 138, Athens, GR
GMT, Hot Wheels Athens hosted at TOSITSA3, Athens, GR
Part 2, conceived by Haris Epaminonda and Andre Zivanari, 11 Parthenon Street, Ayios Andreas 1105 Nicosia, CY

2024
The Cynics Republic, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR Efpalinou 14, Athens 112 53, Greece, curated by Nicholas Tammens, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR
Same Day – 15th Baltic Triennial, curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta, CAC – Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Being Mediterranean, curated by Rahmouna Boutayeb, MO.CO, Montpeiller, FR
Prizing Ecentric Talents III, curated by George Bekirakis and Angelo Plessas, P. E. T. Projects, Athens, GR
Imperceptible Figure, curated by Jesper List Thomsen, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR
The Uncanny House, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, Casa di Goethe, Rome, IT
The hill is getting lower. Or so it seems., Sweetwater, Berlin, DE 118 ½, Emalin, London, UK
COURTPLAY, conceived by Mohamed Almusbili and Ivan Cheng, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL

2023
Comizi d’Amore, curated by Cathrin Mayer, as part of curated by 2023, Georg Kargl, Vienna, AT
Taking Notes, curated by Theresa Roessler, as part of curated by 2023, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT Frequencies and Atmospheres, curated by Andreas Melas and Helena Papadopoulou, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
we can only begin to notice, curated by Demetra Ignatiou and Ioulia Toumazi, NiMAC, Nicosia, CY

2022
Beth Collar, Rhea Dillon, Niklas Taleb, Marina Xenofontos, Sweetwater, Berlin, DE
Phenomenon biennial 4, organised by Association Phenomenon and the Collection Kerenidis Pepe, Anafi, GR
Leghaus Leihaus, Scheusal, Berlin, DE
Work and Leisure, curated by Liv Cuniberti & Jeppe Ugelvig, Sala Impasti, Milan, IT
Asynchronicity, curated by Kah Bee Chow, Charim, Vienna, AT
Her memory was a breeze blowing in the white curtain of a room in the empty house, curated by Yomna Osman, Foundation Fiminco, Paris, FR

2021
The Terrorizers, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT I Got Up, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, gb agency, Paris, FR
Anti-Structure, curated by Andreas Melas, Deste Foundation, Athens, GR
School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino, SM

2020
Utters Excess in between, curated by Ioanna Gerakidi and Danae Io, State of Concept, Athens, GR

2019
Hypersurfacing, curated by Marina Christodoulidou, Nimac, Nicosia, CY

2017
Soft stone documents, curated by Jan Verwoert, Opening of the Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Apothikes Papadaki, Limassol, CY
Terra Mediterranea: In action, with Neoterismoi Toumazou, curated by Yiannis Toumazis, Nimac, Nicosia, CY
The future of colour, curated by Jan Verwoert, Cyprus Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2017, (Polys Peslikas, Mirene Arsanios, Valentinos Charalampous, Neoterismoi Toumazou), Venice, IT
Planetes, curated by Elena Parpa, Palia Ilektriki (as part of Cultural Capital of Europe Pafos 17), Paphos, CY

2016
Bradley xx, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK

2012
A Series of Paradox Episodes / Episode 1: The Local Search, curated by Maria Toumazou, Konteiner, Limassol, CY


Sreenings/Presentations

2024
Rådmannsgården Intermezzo: 398, Oslo Kunstforening, curated by Live Drønen, Oslo, NO

2023
Artist Presentation & Conversation, invited by Live Drønen, UKS, Oslo, NO
Game Launch Reading: Twice Upon a While, with Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, Camden Art Center, London, UK
Shasha Movies x Athens Design Forum, Revolt Against the Sun, Bios Cinematheque Athens, GR

2022
L’ami intérieur, curated by Stéphanie Cottin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
CEILING INFERNO (@Pyrgatory studios 2021) by Panayotis Mina, album release, with Christos Kyriakides, AKWA IBOM, Athens, GR

2021
Ineffable Islands, curated by Argyro Nicolaou, Space 52, Athens, GR

2020
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Film Festival, selected by Evagoras Vanezis, Nicosia, CY

2019
Julia Stoschek Collection: Studio 54 Film Program, films selected by Rindon Johnson, Dusseldorf, DE
Congress: Chronicle in Reverse, selected by Judith Kakon, Ventilator, Basel, CH

Press

2025
Frieze: “Frieze New Writers Pick the Best Shows in the Nordics”
L’Essenziale Studio #08: “The Glimmer that Deceives Time” by Federico Montagna

2024
Flash Art Magazine: “Echoes in the Garden” by Amy Jones
Emergent Magazine: “Afterlives” by Marietta Mavrokordatou

2023
Kathimerini: “Public Domain, Camden Art Centre” by Tina Sotiridis
Flash Art International: “Public Domain, Camden Art Centre” by Giulia Pollicita
King Kong Magazine Vol 15: in conversation with Linnéa Bake

2022
Frieze: “Marina Xenofontos: Winner of the 2022 Emerging Artist Prize”
Cura Magazine, The Generational Issue: “Marina Xenofontos” by Giulia Colletti

2021
Conceptual Fine Arts: “Marina Xenofontos, fluidity is a chrism” by Stefano Pirovano
The Brooklyn Rail: “Marina Xenofontos: I DON’T SLEEP, I DREAM” by Chloe Stavrou

2020
Art Forum: “Critic’s Picks” by Jazmina Figueroa
und. Athens: “Marina Xenofontos’s haunting play with reflections’’ by William Summerfield


Catalogues

2024
Courtplay, Edited by Mohamed Almusibli and Ivan Cheng, Hartwig Art Foundation
VISIO, Edited by Leonardo Bigazzi, Lo schermo dell’arte
The Uncanny House, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, Casa di Goethe Museum, Sorry Press, CURA.BOOKS
Being Mediterranean, MO.CO Montpellier, Rahmouna Boutayeb

2023
File Note 148, Prisoner’s Cinema by Sabrina Tarasoff, published by Camden Art Center

2020
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema, Christopher Zimmerman, Doros Demetriou, Dimitris Bampas, Christiana Ioannou, Evagoras Vanezis
A Big Heritage With a Glorious Past, Eleana Antonaki & Marina Xenofontos curated by mama, Critical Distance Center for Curators

2019
Rijksakademie Open Studios

2018
Rijksakademie Open Studios

2016
SALT. Magazine Issue 8, NOLI ME TANGERE, Editing and Art Direction by SALT.:Hannah Regel, Jala Wahid and Thea Smith


Project Spaces

2013–2018
Neoterismoi Toumazou, with Maria Toumazou and Orestis Lazouras, Nicosia, CY

2010–2012
Konteiner (a bonded konteiner), with Kyriakos Christodoulou and Christina Papakyriakou, Limassol, CY

Exhibitions

68
miart 2026
Tony Cokes, Edith Deyerling, Simon Lässig, Vera Lutz, Halvor Rønning, Tanja Widmann, Marina Xenofontos
17. – 19. 4. 2026

News

It rests to the bones, curated by Kyle Dancewicz, Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Venice, IT

9. 5. – 22. 11. 2026

Marina Xenofontos, Play Life, MCBA – Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, CH

6. 2. – 2. 8. 2026

Marina Xenofontos in post-everything deluge, Radio Athènes, Athens, GR

21. 5. – 4. 7. 2026

Publications

2025
Twice Upon a While, video game script with Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis

2021
Umm Kulthum faints on stage, edited by Polys Peslikas and Jan Verwoert, Sternberg

2016
We are not alone - We are a fly in the milk of infinity, Christophoros Kyriakides, published by Neoterismoi Toumazou

Press

Index