— Marina Velisioti (b. 1982, Greece) lives and works in Greece.Velisioti earned her BA from the Department of Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki. She studied weaving techniques and history at the Historical Textile Factory of SEN. She is an Athens-based multidisciplinary artist whose work in textiles, ceramics, video, sound, and installation engages the themes of esoterica and speculative realities as the ground to discover and explore previously unthought connections and alternative historical narratives that may contradict commonly accepted dogmas.
Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Monuments to Space’, Untiled Gallery in Sofia; ‘Hate Hard Boiled Eggs, Misc, Athens and ‘Nature Immortelle’, Romantso, Athens. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Desmos: A Dinner study’, Eight, Athens; ‘Outraged by Pleasure’, Nobel Building, Athens; Turkish Textile Biennial, Izmir; ‘Selasforos’, Anoihta Pania, Chania; ‘Head2Head’, A Project by A-dash, Athens and Kling&bang, Reykjavik; ‘Cra(u)sh or How You Make Me Kiss the Pavement’, Grace, Athens; ‘ΗΛΕΚΡΙΣ / How to Think Like a Mountain’, Samothraki. Museum exhibitions include: ‘Sheltered Gardens’, commission by PCAI Polygreen, Diomedes Botanical Garden, Athens and ‘Matter Over Matter’, Goethe Institut, Sofia. Awards and grants include: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship 2022.