MARILENA KARAGKIOZI
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTE POVERA
METALSMITHING
Instead of a bio-note,
a touch of randomness, uncharted territory that brings a peculiar thrill; thinking out loud
why is it necessary to explain what has been created?
shouldn't the act of creation suffice?
politics: search for the magpie parliaments
It looks like a piece of jewelry but how do you even wear it?
We like old things;
individuals who have long departed, yet their stuff endures
The “I don’t want to destroy it” paradox: the moment that an impulse threatens a pre-planned creation with no going back.
how can i dress small bursts of violence and frustration into a playful style?
studies
Preventive Conservation of Works of Art, Certificate of Training, National Kapodistrian University of Athens 2023-2024
War: Inspiration, Concept, Design, Communication: workshop, ZLR Betriebsimperium, Athens 2020
Diploma, Krama Institute of Contemporary Jewelry, Athens 2017-2018
Bachelor of Arts in History, Archaeology & History of Art, National Kapodistrian University of Athens 2012
Jewelry & Object design and construction courses, Y. Siotis 2008-2012
Seminar at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School of Florence, Peter Bauhuius 2007
Classic Jewelry courses, M. Panagiotou 2005-2006
exhibitions (selected)
SMCKONREEL, Jewelry Video Festival// Civilization Rebooted:
Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Gallery
ISHO complex
National Library of Romania
National Museum of History of Moldova
Munich, Timisoara, Bucharest, Chisinau
2022, 2023
SMCK ON REEL Jewelry Video Festival at SCHMUCK jewelry week, WELTRAUM Gallery, Munich 2022
Metamorphoses, e-residency, and exhibition, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Gallery, Munich 2022
Is your contemporary jewelry body positive?, TempContemp, virtual exhibition 2021
Metal + ? = , Splop design, virtual exhibition (juror Robert Ebendorf) 2021
Show Us your ‘Rona, TempContemp, Bridget Kennedy project space, Sydney 2020
ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ//WAR, WELTRAUM gallery, Munich 2020
Athens Jewelry Week, Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry museum, Athens 2018, 2019
Schmuck/Schmock, TempContemp, Northcity4 gallery, Melbourne 2019
Gioielli In Fermento:
Villa Braghieri Castel San Giovanni
Oratorio di San Rocco
The Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair,
Reinstein Ross Gallery
Piacenza,Padova, Chicago, NY
2016,2018
Autor International Contemporary Jewelry Fair, National theatre, Bucharest 2016, 2018
Eunique International Fair for Applied Arts & Design, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre 2017
Filmideo 2017 with Dreality video, Index art center, New Jersey, USA 2017
Joya Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair, Barcelona 2016
awards
1st place, “Objects as Ourselves” photography competition, T.K Smith for the Artrepreneur platform, USA 2020
Full scholarship, Krama Institute of Contemporary Jewelry, Athens 2017-2018
Special Mention, The Italian Association of Contemporary Jewelry (AGC)
for the originality of my work Organic Cement,Gioielli in Fermento,Piacenza 2016
Bronze A' Design Award and Competition, Urban Fiction design team with Urbanoids. 2013
commissions
Jewelry for the film Crimes of the future by David Cronenberg, Argonauts Productions SA 2021
Body piece for music video Threesome by George Zervos 2017