Maria Christea
Born in Athens.
- 1969-1973 Studied Painting on State Scholarship at the Athens School of Fine Arts
- 1973-1975 Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin
She is a member of the group Indoors and Indoors plus
Solo exhibitions
- 2013 Across, video-installations, paintings, Curator Maria Marangou, Hellenic American Union, Athens
- 2006:
- Blind `Traces, video-installation, photographs, constructions, Batagianni Gallery, Athens
- Blind Traces 11, Curator Efi Strousa, Remezzo, Action field Kodra, Thessal`oniki
- 2003 Perpetual Journeys, video-installation, photographs, constructions, Batagianni Gallery, Athens
- 1996 Pterygoma, constructions, audio-visual installation, Curator Athina Sxina, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens
- 1992 De profundis, painting with use of photographic collage, constructions, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens
- 1989 Ekfrasis Gallery, painting with the technique of the relief, drawings, Glyphada, Athens
- 1987 Athens Art Gallery, painting with the technique of the relief, drawings, Athens
Selected group exhibitions
- 2020 Theotimata 2: Peri Istorias, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Curator Tassos Koutsouris
- 2019:
- STUDIOS IN TIME, Ten Women Visual Artists, Curator Elli Leventaki, Frissiras Museum, Athens
- To be allowed, Indoors –digital photograph, Curator Lina Tsikouta, House of Cyprus, Athens
- Lands of Creation – a Tribute to Metsovo, Indoors –Where away, where away is the fox rushing off today? Curator Lina Tsikouta, E. Averoff Art Gallery, Metsovo
- 2018:
- Fegides, Curator Thanassis Moutsopoulos, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens
- unknown destinations, chapter II: shell // the politics of being, 15th high school, Curator Dr Kostas Prapoglou, Kypseli, Athens
- 2016 Whispers, Curator Maria Marangou, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki of the State Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki
- 2015 Whispers, Curator Maria Marangou, Museum of Contemporary Art of Grete, Rethymno, Grete
- 2014 Video art group exhibition titled Unlike, Schaeffers Gate 5 Gallery, Oslo Norway
- 2013 The National Garden, Indoors plus*, installation with sound –Stefanos Barbalias, Curator Stamatis Schizakis, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2011:
- Look at my Book, Curator Marina Kanakakis, Prisma Art Gallery, Piraeus
- Permanent Collection I, Curator Ioannis Arhondakis, Olivopross, Dromonero, Crete
- 2009:
- Indoors is moving out, Biennale:2, Curator Syrago Tsiara, Thessaloniki
- Fluid Identity / Collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Municipal Gallery, Patra
- 2008:
- *Indoors -*Marigo Kassi, Vally Nomidou, Spyridoula Politi, Mary Christea- art action in a flat in Kolonaki, Athens
- Audio-visual Festival Strange Screen, Thessaloniki
- Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits Throughout Time, American College, Athens
- 2007 Trans-mission, Curator Marina Lagou, Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Lefktro, Mani, Kardamili, Peloponnese
- 2006 Blind Traces II, Curator Efi Strousa, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki
- 2004 Athina by Art - 84 Contemporary Greek Artists, Curator Efi Strousa Municipality of Athens - AICA Hellas, Athens
- 2003:
- 322+1, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki
- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
- 2002 Audio-visual Festival Strange Screen, Thessaloniki
- 2001:
- International Festival of Electronic Art, Video Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Forum 2001 - Artistic mobility in a multi cultural Europe, Mylos, Thessaloniki
- 1997 Contemporary Greek Sculpture’97, Thessaloniki
- 1986 Women painters and engravers of the Mediterranean, Korgialenios School, Spetsai
Distinction was awarded by AICA Hellas (International Association of Art Critics) for the art action Indoors 2008, Athens 2010
Works of hers are comprised in the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art in Thessaloniki, in the collection of American College of Greece, in private collections in Greece and Europe
Other activities
- 2008 She designed the cover of the poetry collection Poetry 1971-2007 of Nikos Levendis, published by Indiktos, Athens
- 2002 Stage design for the play A sweet woman by Fiontor Dostogievski, staged by Lena Filipova at the Theatre Ex Machina, Athens / She illustrated the roman Shady Source of Nikos Levendis, published by Estia, Athens
- 1990-1999 She taught drawing at the Art Center Plakas, Athens
- 1993 She designed the poster and the cover of the catalogue for the International Symposium Faust of the University of Athens: the philosophy of magic-the magic of philosophy, University of Athens, old building, Plaka, Athens
- 1990-1991 She took lessons in acting, improvisation and kinesiology at the workshop of the Theater Tomi under the supervision of the actor and stage director Maria Panoutsou
- 1979 She designed the cover of the poetic collection Vigil of I. Aparthinos. published by Typoekdotiki, Athens
Higher education in piano at the National Music Academy of Athens, under Nina Eristou.
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