Yota Ioannidou

Born 21.09.1976 in Athens-Greece. Lives and works in Athens and Amsterdam.

2000-2006 Studied Visual Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts

2005-2006 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Erasmus program)

2007-2009 Master in Fine Arts/Public Art, Dutch Art Institute, Enschede/Netherlands

 

Selected Projects and Exhibitions

2011
• Archive-Public, Yota Ioannidou participates with the on-going project Restage Radio_A, Patra (GR)
• Drachma: Speculations on Symbolic Value, workshop, Participants: Nikos Arvanitis, Robin Bhattacharya, Juliana Borinski, Jack Hernie Fischer, Assaf Gruber, Yota Ioannidou, Mo Y, Georgios Papadopoulos, Amelie Rydqvist, Société Réaliste, Liv Strand, Anna Tsouloufi – Lagiou, Elizabeth Ward, Annex of Athens School of Fine Arts, Hydra (GR)
• WildBookMarket – WildeBoekenMarkt 2011, Art books published between 2007-2011, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam/NL

2009

• Time is Running Out a public debate hosted by André Catalão in collaboration with Tatjana Pieters and Marko Stamenkovic, Guests: Yota Ioannidou, Matija Plevnik, Elena Sorokina, Tijana Zakula, Sofie Van Loo/Time Festival, Gent/Belgium

• STRATAGEM - A project on factories’ relocation, de-industrialization and the effects of contemporary economical processes on individual’s and society’s life according to this transformation, Athens/Greece- Havlickuv Brod/Czech Republic

• First to be saved...  – Collaborative project (Yota Ioannidou - Sevgi Ortac - Viki Semou) for the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency (a project initiated by Partizan Publik in collaboration with the Dutch Art Institute), Detroit-Michigan (USA)

• We Correspondents - A project developed by Dutch Art Institute in collaboration with Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory organized by Binna Choi, director of Casco and co-curator of Electric Palm Tree

2008

• Sparkling fields - Armenia Dreaming - A project on post Soviet urban imaginaries by Partizan Publik and
Dutch Art Institute, Yerevan/Armenia

• A monument for Newton – A game as a monument – The “Newton project” by the Dutch Art Institute in collaboration with Florian Göttke

2007

• Public Exchange Store forAgorafolly outside - Art-walk, Brussels/Belgium

• “Early Morning Glory” for Agorafolly inside, La centrale électrique, De elektriciteitscentrale, Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels/Belgium

• Schisto: View from the mountain, group project, “Heterotopias”, Public Screening, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale/Greece

• “5 rooms” Five curators propose young artists, Kappatos Gallery, Athens/Greece

2006

• “Attitude” video festival, Cultural Center “Magazza”, organizer: Center for Contemporary Public Arts Elementi, Bitola/ FYROM Macedonia.

• What Remains is Future: participation with group project (visual artists-architects) “Patra-Ancona and v.v.”, Patra, old Arsakeion school, organization: a.antonopoulou.art.

2005

• Gemine Muse: Young Artists in European Museums. Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessalonica, December 2005.

2004

• “Memory Game”: group project-action at Zoumberi of Attica. Participation at “Paradigmata” for the 9th International Architectural Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia.

2003

• “Locus Solus”: an experiment on the collectivity of artistic action. Group project. Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens/ September 2003. Ithaca/ August 2003.

 

Workshops

2007 “The artist as opinion leader”, Nieuwe Grond, Vrede van Utrecht, Utrecht/Netherlands (participation supported by the Dutch Art Institute)

2004 and 2002 1st and 3rd Summer Workshop of Architecture and Visual arts in situ – Theory and Practice – Chania – Centre of Mediterranean Architecture.

 

Residencies

2008 “Open studios”, Skolska 28, Prague – Czech Republic, 2 months residency