ΜΑΡΙΟΝ ΙΓΓΛΕΣΗ
MARION INGLESSI
visual artist
designer
curator
email: marion.inglessi@gmail.com
My work is about extinction, survival and the language of the body.
I focus on organic life from the cell, to the virus, to the animal, to the human animal.
Sexuality and human hubris, I examine with humor and compassion.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2021-22: Static/Ecstatic or Sibyl’s Rock, Solo exhibition, ekfrasi art gallery, Athens
2017: homo faber, Solo exhibition, Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery
2003- The Rhinoceros Hunt, Solo Exhibition, supported by Highlights Magazine, Aiolou 48-50 Gallery, Athens
GROUP (selection)
2026: No Blue, No Future, Municipal Gallery of Athens
2025: Α Cabinet of Curiosities, MOMus Museum Alex Mylona, Athens
2025: The Silent Language of Plants, Hellenic American Union, Athens
2024: Natura Patiens, Municipal Gallery of Athens
2024: Vertebrae & Static Ecstatic, sculpture installation, Artion Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2023-24: Vanitas, MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2023 Ark, 8th Thessaloniki Biennale, sculpture Aman (âme-âne), MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2023 Down To Earth, Vertebrae sculpture, MOMus Museum Alex Mylona, Athens
2023: Creative Meteorisms, a cross-disciplinary workshop & exhibition, organized by Oxford University, the European Research Council, & Theodorou Art studio. Museum of Geological Formations of Meteora
2022: Revival of the Stones, Troupakides-Mourtzinoi Fort, Kardamyli, Messenia Ephorate of Antiquities
2022: Woman Willfulness of Asia, Municipality of Nafplio, DOPPAT, AICA Hellas
2021-22: 3rd PRIZE: Athens Voice Magazine Open Call. 200 Years from the Greek Revolution of 1821.
2021:Reality Check, Artefact Athens, Dafni Psychiatric Hospital, Athens
2020-21: DSK in America or The Adventures of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, “The Right to Silence?” Greece in USA, Greek Ministry of Culture, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
2019: 100% Risk, 100% Trust: Towards a New Visual Performance, ΑRT Αθήνα, Zappeion, Athens
2019: Greek & Japanese Printmaking, Piraeus Municipal Gallery, Greece & Washi no-Sato, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan
2018: Prossalendi’s Britannia – A Contemporary Perspective, Ionian Academy, Corfu, Greece
2018: Die Kunst ist ein Ausweg bei Sexuellen Problemen, Freud’s Dream Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
2018 Power & Ancestors, Gallery WM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017: Project: Xouthou, the Silence of the City, supported by the Municipality of Athens
2017:Catastrophe, video,selected forRencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin
2016: Catastrophe, video. Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, video survey,curated by Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Francesca Pietropaolo and Robert Storr, artistic director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
2016: The Importance of Being an Animal, Vertebra, sculpture,Genesis Art Gallery, Athens
2015: Now, group exhibition, curator and artist, ALMA Gallery, Trikala
2015– INSPIRE- Effective Spaces,Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2014- Our Byzantium, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
2013- ΖΟΟ, Martinos Art Gallery, Pindarou street 24, Athens
2012- maomaogr, video-animation. Animasyros, & Athens Video Art Festival
2012– INSPIRE, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011– The Lotus-Eaters, Choros 18, Chr. Smyrnis 18, Thessaloniki, Greece
2010- The Sotiria Project, Sotiria Regional Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
2002- IMMERSION 2002, The Rhinoceros Hunt, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Thorax,A Therapeutic Interactive Installation,PERFORMANCE RESEARCH Journal 29, Issue 5, On Breath, Issue editor: Sozita Goudouna
2024 My sculpture I Can Move Mountains (Και βουνά κουνάω) inspired philosopher Shaun Gallagher for his article: Writing Empathy into the Script: The Aesthetics of Narrative pp. 376-77,Special Issue: Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language, Texas Studies in Literature and Language journal, Winter 2024. It was also featured as a frontispiece in the issue.
2021 Static/Ecstatic, exhibition catalogue, CUBE ART EDITIONS
2007 William Klein, Films+Photos, Books, Paintings, USA, Greece, Paris. Published by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 2007.
2006 Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey Cinemascope, exhibition catalogue, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2006 Cao Fei, exhibition catalogue Yahudi Hamam, Thessaloniki
2005 Nico Papatakis, Diaspora and the Screaming Body, exhibition catalogue, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002-2026 Freelance Visual Art Practice
2025 & ongoing, Hotel Herodion, Athens. Large paintings on wooden panels
2017: Open Schools of the Municipality of Athens, video animation project at Athens elementary schools. Exclusive donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
2015-16: co-creator of video animation project non stop motion animation by people in motion, for & by refugee children, adolescents and adults from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Cameroon, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, and others, residing in shelters in Athens. http://www.nonstopmotionanimation.com/
1991-2001: ART DIRECTOR for over 80 commercials and music videos for cinema and television with Greek leading production companies: Kino, Cinegram, Filmiki, Orasis, Movielab, Eggs and Bacon, Cinemax, Le Spot, Omicron, VCA.
AS CURATOR (selection)
2005-2009: HEAD OF EXHIBITIONS, Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The exhibitions were festival parallel events accompanying film tributes to directors Nico Papatakis, WernerHerzog, William Klein, Wim & Donata Wenders, Eve Sussman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Rustam Khamdamov, Guillermo del Toro, Jan Svankmajer, Cao Fei, and others.
2009-Why Cinema Now? National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation
2009-Werner Herzog, Signs of Life. Old Ice Chambers, Port of Thessaloniki
2007- William Klein, Films+Photos, Books, Paintings, USA, Greece, Paris, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
2006- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey Cinemascope, Stoa Bezesteni, Thessaloniki
2006- Wim & Donata Wenders, Still Images of Moving Pictures. Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
2006- Cao Fei, New Films from China, Yahudi Hamam, Thessaloniki
2005 – Nico Papatakis, Diaspora and the Screaming Body, Alatza Imaret, Thessaloniki
SCENE DESIGN, THEATRE & FILM (selection)1995-96: art director for Greek Public TV channel ET2 & Greek Children’s Television Centre
1996-97: Interior design of Recording Studio of Minos EMI, Athens
1994: painter for Alain Robbe-Grillet film Un Bruit Qui Rend Fou, Hydra island
6 to Six, Feature film by G. Petropoulos (National Prize Best Feature Film 1997)
2000 As You Like It, W. Shakespeare, Greek National Theatre experimental stage
1994 A King who Listens, Italo Calvino, Lisbon Young Artists Biennale
1991-92 The Double Bass, Patrick Süskind, Amore Theatre, Athens.
1990 Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, Claudio Monteverdi, Opera Ensemble of New York
1991 The Sands, by Joshua Astrachan, Samuel Beckett Theatre, New York
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2001-02 Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Opera Bastille, Paris, Scenery department
1992-2000 Athens Concert Hall (OMMA): Publications department: The Russian Music Cycle & Electra Cycle. Production Department: I Lombardi alla PrimaCrociata, Giuseppe Verdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Claudio Monteverdi,directed by Luca Ronconi.
1999 translation & editing for the Cannes Film Festival, Greek Film Center
1989-91 Consultant & Translator for the Greek Broadcasting Program, WNYC Communications Group New York City