Marina Fokidis is a curator and writer based in Athens. In 2014, she was appointed Head of the Artistic Office in Athens and curatorial adviser for documenta 14. She is the founder of Kunsthalle Athena and founding director and editor-in-chief of
South as a State of Mind, an arts and culture magazine.
In 2011 Fokidis was one of the curators of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art. She was also commissioner and curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 51. Biennale di Venezia (2003) and one of the curators of T.I.C.A.B. – Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual 1 (2001). She was an adjunct curator at the Art Space Pythagorion – Schwarz Foundation, where she curated solo shows with newly-commissioned works by Slavs and Tatars (2013) and Nevin Aladağ (2014). From 2001 to 2008 she served as co-director of Oxymoron, a non-profit organisation in Athens dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art in Greece on an international level.
Fokidis has curated several shows internationally and has written for various art publications including
Frieze,
art-agenda,
ARTINFO and
Manifesta Journal. She was a jury member for various awards including the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019, Videobrasil 2017, BES Revelação 2013 – Museu Serralves and the 2013 Furla Art Award.
Publications
Marina Fokidis, “Learning from Athens – A Working Title and a Working Process for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel”, in: Joasia Krysa (ed.):
The Biennial Condition: Stages #6, Liverpool Biennial, 2017.
Marina Fokidis, “Kunsthalle Athena, The Institution as a Performance”, in: João Mourão, Luís Silva:
Performing the institution(al) – Volumes 4 & 5, Cura Books & Kunsthalle Lisbon, 2016.
Marina Fokidis, “Sierra_Oscar_Uniform _Tango _Hotel”, in: Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi (eds.):
Making Biennials in Contemporary Times, Essays from the World Biennial Forum 2, online publication, 2014.
Marina Fokidis, “Hijacking Cultural Policies“, in: Judith Kapferer (eds.):
The State and the Arts. Articulating Power and Subversion, Berghan Books, New York 2008.
www.documenta14.com
www.southasastateofmind.com
www.kunsthalleathena.or
Portraitfoto: Evangelia Kranioti