Marigo Kassi
Born in Athens.
Studies
Degree in theoretical studies.
1975 – 1978 Degree in Ceramic Art.
1978 – 1979 Sojourn in Paris, studies in drawing.
1989 – 1992 Postgraduate studies in painting on a Greek government (ΙΚΥ).
Other qualifications
2001 Seminar by Very Special Arts Hellas on teaching art to people with special needs.
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Solo exhibitions
2020 “Une liaison pornographique”, Cube Gallery, Patras
2017 “Shreads”, Ekfrasi Gianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens
2014 “The Persistence of Spring”, Eleni Marneri Gallery, Athens
2009 “Two X”, Installation, Medusa Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2005 “Cutting – Sewing”, Installation, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplion
2002 “You look wonderful”, Gallery 3, Athens, Ekfrassi Gallery, Glyfada
1999 Gallery 3, Athens
1997 “After Goodbye”, Art Space 24, Athens
1996 “Hydromones”, Athens Art Gallery, Athens
1996 Zina Athnassiadou Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
1993 “Imprints of Nature”, Art Space 24, Athens
1993 “The garden in Anavyssos”, Ariadne Art Space, Herakleion
1990 “The inner space”, Nees Morfes, Athens
1990 “The tightrope walker”, Nees Morfes, Athens
1984 Painting, The Third Eye gallery, Athens
1982 8th Meeting of Young Artists, Ora Cultural Centre, Athens(1st Painting Award)
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Collaborations
2019 Allowed, The House of Cyprus, Athens, cur. Lina Tsikouta
2019 Where away, where away is the fox rushing of today?, Performance, Lands of Creation a Tribute to Metsovo, E. Averoff Art Gallery Metsovo, cur. Lina Tsikouta
2013 Documentation of the installation “The National Garden”, Indoors + group, Platform Project, Art Athina, Athens, Greece.
2013 The National Garden, Installation, Indoors + group, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
2012 Offshore project, participation in the project organized by Philopappou group Meropi island, Kardamyli, Greece.
2009 Indoors is moving out, Installation, Old Ice Chambers Port, Biennale2 Thessaloniki, Greece.
2008 Indoors, Art action in an Athenian flat Karneadou 34-36, Athens, Greece.
2008 Awarded a prize by the Greek A.I.K.A.
2007 Co-founded the group of visual artists “Indoors” together with V. Nomidou, S. Politi and M. Christea, Athens, Greece.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Medusa Art Gallery, Benaki Museum, Athens, cur. Elisabeth Plessa
2022 Weaving the Future IV, Greek House, Paris, France, cur. Efi Michalarou
2021 Greek Revolution, 200 years later, M. Kakogiannis Foundation, Athens, cur. Erato Chatzisavva – Giannis Bolis
2021 Weaving the Future IΙΙ, Municipal Gallery, Shkodër – Center for openness and dialogue, Tirana, Albania, cur. Efi Michalarou
2021 Weaving the Future, Municipal Galerry – G.I. Katsigras Museum, cur. Efi Michalarou
2019 Studios in time, Ten Women Visual Artists, Frissiras Museum, Athens, cur. Elli Leventaki
2019 Glimmerings, Bath House of the Winds, Plaka, Athens, cur. Nike Daphne – Thanasis
2018 Paper Moon, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethimnon, cur. Thalia Vlachopoulos
2017 Art on Paper_Paper Art, Cultural Foundation Pireaus Banl, cur. Luisa Karapidaki
2017 Miniatures, Troupakis – Mourtzinos fortified complex, Old Kardamyli Mani, Greece
2017 Retracings and photographic archives: Archives of Life, Geni Tzami, Thessaloniki, cur. Angeliki Grammatikopoulou, Gabriella Uhl
2016 Fata Morgana, Festival Orange Water Art, Municipal Gallery Of Paros, Archeological Museum of Korinthos
2016 Retracings and photographic archives: Archives of Life, Municipal Gallery of Athens, cur. Angeliki Grammatikopoulou, Gabriella Uhl
2016 Whispers, Center of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece, cur. Maria Marangou
2015 Whispers, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Curator: Maria Maragou.
2015 Myconian traditional female dress – A study in Aegean culture Τhe Angelos and Leto Katakouzenos Foundation, Athens, Greece.
2015 Curator: Mina Karagianni
2015 There is a little girl somewhere here, 2 years anniversary for the GR.Design magazine, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
2014 To Stavros Ioannou – his friends, galerie Aenaon, Athens, Greece. Curator: Christos Theofilis
2012 Health mobilizes Goslar, participation in the workshop and exhibition in the Goslarer Museum, Goslar, Germany.
2012 Tous vas bien, Camp, Athens, Greece. Curator Andreas Voussouras
2011 Permanent Collection 1, Olivepress Contemporary art Museum, Dromonero, Chania, Crete, Greece.
2010 Time, people and their stories, central annex, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece. Curator: Manos Stefanidis
2009 Change of climate, studio G.Koumidis, Nicosia, Cuprus.
2009 Design walk, performance in collaboration with the M&P office, Athens, Greece.
2007 Τrans-mission, old primary school of Kardamyli, Greece. Curator: Marina Lagou
2006 Reverse selection, old primary school of Kardamyli, Greece. Curator: Lina Tsikouta.
2006 Egg’s encomium, Medusa Art Gallery,Athens, Greece. Curator: Maria Marangou.
2005 Surfacing – Realities, Medusa Art Gallery, Athens, Greece. Curator: Lina Tsikouta
2002 Athens, disposable glimpses, a.antonopoulou.art, Hellenic-American College of Athens, as part of Photography Month, Athens, Greece.
2002 Curator: Marina Fokidis.
2002 The 70s Generation, a first reading, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece. Curator: Manos Stefanidis.
2001 Art Athina 9 ’01, Galerie 3, Hellexpo Exhibition Centre, Athens, Greece.
2000 Book Aroma, Exhibition & book presentation, Patakis Editions; Art Space 24, Athens, Greece. Curator: Michel Faiss.
1997 Focuses of the Gaze, Larisa Centre for Contemporary Art. Curator: Athena Schina.
1996 Art-Athina 4 ’96, Zina Athnassiadou Art Gallery, Athens Exhibition Centre, Athens, Greece.
1995 Kyra-Frossyni, M. Kassi – M Zaboura – M. Vlahaki, Amymoni Contemporary Art Space, Ioannina, Greece.
1995 Tribute to El Greco, National Gallery, Athens, Greece.
1994 The loss of the form in space, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens, Greece. Curator: Eleni Vakalo
1994 (On the occasion of the publication of her book of the same title.)
1993 In Progress, Stadtische galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany.
1992 In Progress, Centrum Beeldene Kunst, Groningen, Holland, Kulturzentrum pfl Oldenburg, Germany.
1990 Variations in black and white, Kreonidis Art Gallery, Athens, Greece. Curator Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan.
1989 Europe d’art d’art, Le rendez-vous des jeunes artistes Europeens, Quais de Sevres Niort, France.
1987 4 Women – 4 Presences, French Institute, Athens, Greece. Curator: Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan.
1985 Trace and writing, Galerie Artio, Athens, Greece. Curator: Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan.
1985 Memories – re-creations – quests, National Gallery, Athens, Greece. As part of the events for “Athens Cultural City of Europe”.
1985 Curators: Haris Kambouridis, Nellie Misirli.
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Other professional activities
1988 – To the present Teacher of painting to second-year students at Vakalo College of Graphic and Interior Design
2010 – To the present Art Studies Module Leader at Vakalo College of Graphic and Interior Design
2004 – 2007 Design of children’s clothes in association with the Gallerie Bebe, Eleni Marneri
