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Natassa Markidou was born in Athens. She studied photography at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She holds an MA and a PhD in History and Aesthetics of Photography from the University of Westminster, U.K. Since 1990, she exhibits widely in both solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her work forms part of the collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Dutch Museet For Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, School of Applied Arts and Culture at the University of West Attica. She also works as an independent curator and editor. She has published the monograph Constructions (2008) and the photographic theory book Photography: Critical Readings (2015).


natmark@uniwa.gr

Group exhibitions

2018The Human Condition, Photosynkyria in the Collection of MMOCA - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017-2018Sacred Places, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016Reflections in Art, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
2015Imago Mundi: Traces of Today, Map of the New Art, Fontazione Giorgio Cinisep, Island of San Giorgio, Venice, Italy
2013I chose to…in Art and Life, Art Center, Parko Eleutherias, Athens, Greece
2013Greek Seas, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
201025 Years After, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2005Attack on Representation, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002Objects, Works from the permanent collection of the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, Greece
2001Photography and the Imaginary, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2000Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Karsh - Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto , Marche Bonsecours, Μontreal, Canada
1999City Images, Ios Art Space, Athens, Greece
1999Photographic Trajectories in the Aegean, Greek Cultural Center, New York, USA
1998Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Centre of Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Greece
1998Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Great Britain
1998Focalisations du Regard Brussels, Belgium
1997Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
1997Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Mesiac Fotografie, Bratislava, Slovakia
1997Photographic Trajectories in the Aegean, Photographic Center of Scopelos, Greece
1996Myth and Landscape, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
1992Images of a Collective Memory, Houston Fotofest ’92, Houston, USA
1991Biennale des Jeunes Createurs D’Europe de la Mediterranee , Marseille, France
198911 Young Greek Photographers. Complex Guy Favreau, Montreal Canada

Solo exhibitions

2009Still Lifes 2007-2009, Mercato, Kythera, Greece
2009Still Lifes 2007-2009, Gallery Aenaon, Athens, Greece
2001Monuments, Gallery AAS, Thessaloniki, Greece
1998Diary 1991-1997, Gallery Epsilon, Thessaloniki, Greece
1998Diary 1991-1997, Photography Centre of Athens, Greece
1994Rituals, Fotografisk Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993Rituals, Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece
1992Rituals, Fotocentre Tony Prim, Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, Spain
1990Night Creatures, Photosynkyria ’90, Thessaloniki, Greece

References

 

2017 On Nature and Truthfulness, Hercules Papaioannou, Editions Nefeli, pp. 26, 27, 50
2016 The History of European Photography, 1970-2000, Volume III Editing Prof. Václav Macek , Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, pages 344, 349
2014 Latent Image 3η Edition, «The Codification of the Photographic Message», Costis Antoniadis, Hellenic Centre of Photography Publishing, p. 134
2013 Second Hand Photographs: 1985-2013, Editing Costis Antoniadis, Text Hercules Papaioannou, Benaki Museum Publication, p. 17
2008 Contemporary Greek Photography, Kostas Ioannidis, Futura Publishing, pp. 98-99, 100, 109
2006 The Cindy Shermans: inszenierte Identitäten: Fotogeschichten von 1840 bis 2005, Fritz Franz Vogel, Böhlau Publishing, Koln, p. 507
2003 European Photography Guide, Vladimir Birgus, Lea Gryze, European Photography
2000 Shifting Horizons: Women Landscape Photography Now, Editing Liz Wells, I.B. Tauris, London, pp. 104-109

Grants / Commisions

 

2009 The photobook Constructions nominated as one of the best photobooks of the year in the Second Fotobook-Festival in Kassel, Germany
2008 The photobook Constructions won the Kythera Photographic Encounters Book Award, Greece
1998 State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for postgraduate studies in Great Britain
1997 Commissioned to photograph for the Photographic Centre of Scopelos, Greece
1996 Commissioned to photograph for the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
1992 Invited by UK Projects to work in situ, Newcastle, Great Britain
1991 Biennale of Young Artists from the European Countries os the Mediterranean, Marseille, France

Catalogues (selected)

2016Delphic Highlights, the collection of the European Cultural Center of Delphi
2015Greece: Traces of Today, Contemporary Artists from Greece, Imago Mundi, Benetton-Fabrica
2013Greek Seas, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2009Photobook Festival 2008 + 09, Kassel, Germany
2009Athens Photo Festival, Greece
2009WIP, Web Magazine, Issue No 4 Wip4.pdf
2005Photosynkyria, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki. Greece
2003Photosynkyria, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki. Greece
2002 Photography and Greek Landscape: The Mythic Arcadia and the Mythologies of the Real International Photographic Encounters, Patra, Greece
2001Photography and Greek Landscape: The Mythic Arcadia and the Mythologies of the Real Photography Center of Athens, Greece
2001Photography and Greek Landscape: The Mythic Arcadia and the Mythologies of the Real Frankfurt, Germany
2001Image and Icon, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and Marche Bonsecours, Montreal, Canada, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechia
2001Photosynkyria, Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, Greece
1999The Permanent Collection Volume II, Photography, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
1999City Images, Ios Art Space, Athens, Greece
1998Photosynkyria, Camera Obscura, Thessaloniki, Greece
1998Photoarchive 1975-97, Archive of the Contemporary Greek Photographic Production, Photography Center of Athens
1997Photographic Trajectories in the Aegean, Photographic Center of Scopelos, Greece
1997Image and Icon: Greek Photography 1975-1995, Ministry of Culture, Greece
1996The Invention of Landscape, Greek Landscape and Greek Photography 1870-1995, CD ROM
1996Myth and Landscape, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece
1993Photosynkyria, Camera Obscura, Thessaloniki, Greece
1992KATALOG, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992NEW LIGHTS, Newcastle, Great Britain
1992PRIMAVERA FOTOGRAFICA, Barcelona, Spain
1992Images of a Collective Memory –Contemporary Greek Photography, Fotofest '92, Houston, USA
1992Entefktirio, Thessaloniki, Greece
1991Biennale des Jeunes Createurs D’Europe de la Mediterranee, Greece
1990Biennale des Jeunes Createurs D’Europe de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
1989Young Greek Photographers, International Month of Photography, Athens
198911 Photographes Grecs Contemporains, Complex Guy Favreau, Montreal, Canada

Collections

Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Copenhagen
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece
Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, Greece
European Cultural Centre of Delphi,, Greece
Benetton Art Collection

Curating and Editing (selected)

2018SelfImages, Exhibition Curating and Catalogue Editing, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece.
2016Wip No 19, Editing, Web Magazine, wip.gr
2016Extreme Antithesis, Curating Group Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival, photofestival.gr
2013City Edges, Curating Group Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery of Athens, Athens Photo Festival, photofestival.gr
2012Edgelands, Curating Solo Exhibition, Babis Kougemitros, Manifactura gallery, Athens Photo Festival
200920-35, Curating Group Exhibition M55 gallery, Athens Photo Festival
2006Human Marks, Curating Solo Exhibition, Panagiotis Ilias, Art Space Athinais
1999Periorasis, Photobook Editing, Dimitris Geros
1997Itineraries I, Curating Group Exhibition, Cultural Center Melina Merkouri, Athens
1995Fragments of Images, Curating Group Exhibition, Photography Center of Athens

Publications

Constructions
Constructions (2008)

Monograph, Photobook, Hellenic Centre of Photography, Athens. Text Hercules Papaioannou (Texts in Greek and English ), 34 photographs, 120 pages

Tales of objects (pdf)

Photography: Critical Readings
Photography: Critical Readings (2015)

Essays on Photography Theory, Private Publishing, 216 pages

SelfImages
SelfImages (2018)

Writing and editing of the publication Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 108 pages

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