Marios Stamatis

Statement

Marios Stamatis is an Athens-based artist, designer, and educator. His practice includes sculpture, performance, video, sound, and text. Through decentralised physical and neural fluidity in the form of expression, his work explores the increasing influence and growing impact of new forms of intelligence on the human psyche, intellect, and ultimately the body. By embracing the interconnections between organic and non-organic life, affect becomes the catalyst for reimagining these transformative co-existences.

He holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University of London, and was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship ARTWORKS 2022. He has participated in various artist residency programmes such as Villa Bergerie, and has presented his work in galleries and institutions internationally. He has worked collaboratively as an artist duo with artist Lea Collet. Currently, he teaches at the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts.

GlogauAIR Project

Midcore

Drawing inspiration from the fields of anatomy, and algorithmic cognition, this new body of work examines human relationships through technology. The research focuses on notions such as symphysis, hybridism/mutation, parasitism/vampirism, becoming and togetherness. Additionally, future discourse on the potential singularity* will round out this set of references, examining the dynamic tension between humans and artificial intelligence. This new work consists of an installation (sculptures, objects and sound). It addresses the contemporary phenomenon of midness reflecting our current environment by highlighting physical fatigue associated with media saturation and the accompanying sense of unease and awkwardness.

* typically refers to a hypothetical future point in time when artificial intelligence and machine intelligence could surpass human intelligence and capabilities.

CV Summary

Solo & two-artist Exhibitions & Performances

• 2023 Heartbroken by AI, ARTWORKS, Athens, GR
• 2021 Tactile Ghost, cur. Elina Axioti, Castle, Antiparos, GR
• 2018 SLOW FADE, cur. Felice Moramarco and Sayori Radda, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
• 2018 Soft Anonymity, Goldsmiths, London, UK
• 2017 Scenarios of the Pool, cur. Natalija Paunić, Peckham Experiment, London, UK
• 2017 How Deep is your Love?, cur. Rebecca Sainsot-Reynold, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, UK
• 2016 I am eager to see how you look on the outside, commissioned by Nathalie Boobis and Insa Langhorst

Selected Exhibitions & Performances

• 2024 Whispers, cur. Stella Christofi, Niokastro Pilos, GR
• 2024 And All Our World is Dew, cur. Eva Vaslamatzi, ACG Collection, Athens, GR
• 2024 Hell Remains, cur. Arepo, Haus N Athen, Athens, GR
• 2024 Shifting, cur. Florent Frizet, One Minute Space, Athens, GR
• 2023 UNBOXING CALLAS, cur. ATOPOS CVC, Greek National Opera, Athens, GR
• 2023 Garden Shed, cur. Jonathan Hammer, Villa Bergerie, Aragon, SP
• 2022 Tassos Vrettos: The Forest’s Riddle, cur. Nadja Argyropoulou, Nobel Building, Athens, GR
• 2022 Dirty Laundry, cur. Marian Luft and ION, Keiv, Athens, GR
• 2022 Collector’s House, cur. David Krnansky, 38.17429042141923, 23.58474316242082, GR
• 2022 Back to Athens, cur. Ariadne Tzika, Apart, Athens, GR
• 2022 Up there my eyes were breathing, cur. Frauke Alina Becker, Raus Project, Athens, GR
• 2021 Art Athina 2021, cur. Konstantinos Lianos, Keiv, Athens, GR
• 2021 Every Offbeat Step, Every Footprint Left, cur. Matyas Malac, Prisoning Museum, Uničov, CZ
• 2021 Beyond Nostalgia Hijack, cur. Konstantinos Giotis, CAN Gallery, Athens, GR
• 2021 PLAGUE SHIP, cur. Proto Gallery System, Mediterranean Sky, Elefsina, GR
• 2021 Gardening (an indoor activity), cur. Georgia Liapi, Zoumboulakis, Athens, GR
• 2020 Urban Antibodies, cur. Konstantinos Giotis and Natalia Janula, weekend, Athens, GR
• 2020 Lovebug, cur. Jinho Lim, Outsight, Seoul, KOR
• 2020 Please Please me, cur. Vassiliki Plavou, The Symptom Projects, Amfissa, GR
• 2020 Cra(u)sh, cur. Vassiliki Plavou, Grace, Athens
• 2019 Most Dismal Swamp, cur. Dane Sunderland, Arebyte, London, UK
• 2019 Startpoint Prize 2018, cur. Radek Vana, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NED
• 2019 Unstitched Resources, cur. Insa Langhorst, Studio One Oh Six, Los Angeles, USA
• 2019 Vocalis, cur. Alice Jacobs, Beaconsfield, London, UK
• 2019 Genesis 2.1, cur Vassiliki Plavou, Kappatos, Athens, GR
• 2018 Non-Standard, cur. Mattia Giussani, t-space, Milan, IT
• 2018 Total Refreshment, cur. Felice Moramarco, London, UK
• 2018 Accidental Encounters, cur. Hyperlink Athens, Grace, Athens, GR

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