Christine König Galerie curated by Marina Fokidis
„WIR | WE curated by_Marina Fokidis“

Marina Fokidis, is a curator, writer, lecturer and institution-maker based in Athens Greece. Her methodology of challenging the prevalent monetary economy with a love economy harnesses the power of trans-cultural friendships while emphasizing site-sensitivity and sharing. In 2010, amidst the Greek economic crisis, she founded the independent space Kunsthalle Athena to reflect on the “social role of art institutions in the 21st century,” beyond mounting exhibitions and towards co-producing culture; while in 2012, she founded South as a State of Mind magazine, a biannual arts and culture journal that creates unexpected dialogues between distinct neighborhoods, cities, regions and approaches. In 2014, she was invited to become part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 by artistic director Adam Szymczyk. Fokidis has curated various exhibitions, reflecting on these issues including Her/His/story, (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens), The Gesture, (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, and Quarter-Florence), Anathena, (Deste Foundation Athens), and most recently the performance program on the theme of Healing for Art Dubai 2020 among others. She has also participated in innovating international exhibition models, as a curator of the 1st Tirana Biennial in 2001 (as curator) and both curator and commissioner for the Greek Pavilion of the 50th Biennale di Venezia) in 2003. In 2011, she was selected by an international advisory committee including Jessica Morgan, Jannis Kounelis, and Catherine David, to be the curator of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial, (A Rock and a Hard Place) together with Paolo Colombo and Mahita El Bacha Urieta. She is currently a lecturer In Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts where she leads a curatorial course in site sensitive exhibition making, while she is regularly invited to lecture, give seminars and contribute to discussions and debates, notably in UDK (Universitat DER KUNSTE ) Berlin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, HGB, Leipzig, (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, HEAD- Geneva, Art Basel Conversations, Sao Paolo Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, Berlin Biennial, and the Goethe Institut’s multi-sited Museal Episode-On the Global Future of Museums in Salvador de Bahia, Buenos Aires, La Paz, Johannesburg and Athens curated by various museum directors and herself. Fokidis is part of the editorial board and a regular editor of Flash Art Magazinem while she has contributed texts in various arts and culture magazines, book anthologies and artists’ catalogues. She has also juried for international awards and prizes such as the Furla Award, the Deste Prize, the Bes Revelaco /Serralves Museum award, the Videobrasil 2017, and the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017 among others.