Marina Olympios

 

Marina Olympios Lycourgos was born in 1968 in Nicosia.  She studied in Paris where she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux - Arts of Paris with a diploma in Sculpture -multimedia (avec les felicitations du Jury).  In 1994 she received a grant for research and worked at the Institute des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastigues in Paris.

She presented 14 solo exhibitions:  in the Museum of Contemporary Art CAPC in Bordeaux, in the Museum of Modern Art GEO Charles, Echirolles, In the Gallery Renos Xippas in Paris and in the Gallery Lehmann - Maupin in New York.

In 1995 she received the price for research in Visual Arts of the French Ministry of Culture FIACRE.  In 1996 she worked in the International studio - Curator Programme in New York financed by the A.F.A.A French Ministry of foreign Affairs.

Works of Art of Marina Olympios belong to the following collections:  Dakis Joannou collection Athens, the Daskalopoulos Collection Los Angeles, Pierre Nouvion Monaco and Marzio Carver Monaco.

Selected solo exhibitions:

1990 - «ma mere est belle» ADAC Galerie, Paris
1992 - «L’Art est Justice» CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Revue ParléeParis
1994 - «Medals of Honour» Galerie OZ, Paris
1994 - «Eating Philosophy» Galerie du Temple, Paris
1995- «Let Me Be Your Guide» Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris
1995 - «The Travesty of Art» Ileana Tounta, Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
1995 -1996 - «Europa A Story of Art» PASSAGES Center for contemporary Art, Troyes, France
1996 - «Playing Darts» Galerie Pierre Nouvion, Monaco
1997 - «I am Interested in  Real Fiction» Galerie Pour La Vie, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, France
1997 - «Lecture sur les Blue Pigs» MUSEE GEO-CHARLES, Echirolles, France
1997 - «BLUE PIGS» INTERNATIONAL Studio Curator Program New York, USA
1998 - «DAY 3 BLUE PIGS» LEHMANN - MAUPIN, Gallery New York U.S.A
2006 - «Five Different Stones» Gallery Kypriaki Gonia Larnaka, Cyprus
December 2010 - «Painting Testimony» DIATOPOS Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia Cyprus.

Works of Art of Marina Olympios belong to the following collections in Cyprus:  Ministry of Education & Culture, Central Bank Cyprus, Hellenic Bank Cyprus, Laiki Bank Cyprus, Municipality of Larnaka, Electricity Authority of Cyprus.

Selected Group Shows:

1990 - ADAC rencontres a la FNAC Paris.
1992 - «Operation Palais De Etudes» ENSBA Paris Performance and exhibition with Marina Abramovic artiste and Demosthenes Davvetas poete
April 1993 - Exhibition with Amaryllis Siniossoglou at the French Cultural Center Nicosia, Cyprus
September 1993 - Exhibition with Katerina Kana «The Feast» presented by the Art Critic Sania Papa
Copenhagen 1994 - Participation in «Rediscovered Europe» exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 - Exhibition with Katerina Kana and Remy Huvet poete Ville de Grande - Synthe, France
1998 - ART FAIR COLOGNE, Germany represented by Lehmann - Maupin Gallery New York

Books written by the artist:  “L’ Art est Justice”, Centre Georges Pompidou and editions DESTE Foundation for Cotemporary Art
“Europa a Story of Art” editions DESTE Foundation for Cotemporary Art and the J.F Costopoulos Foundation.