About Marion Emmanuela Maniou

Event: Size the Moment, CHEAPART ATHENS 2021, Artist

Dates: 12 Dec 2021 - 23 Dec 2021

Upcoming Group Exhibition

Event: Two Worlds. Ai Stratis: at the edge of earth, Curator, Workshop Instructor & Performer

Dates: 13 Aug 2021 - 23 Aug 2021

"Two Worlds. Ai Stratis: at the edge of earth" is a second in a series of exhibitions by Transition Lands, a practice-based research project aiming to bring together cultural practitioners and people living in remote communities to shape a conversation around confinement, land and identity.
Two Worlds explored the relationship between the natural habitat and the historical memory of Ai Stratis, the most isolated island of the Aegean Sea that used to be an exile place for thousands of Greece’s political dissidents. The exhibition took place at the Museum of Democracy and the community of Ai Stratis Island which is included in Natura 2000, a network of protected areas covering Europe's most valuable species and habitats.

Event: World Collage Day 2021 - Hope, Artist

Dates: 1 May 2021 - 15 May 2021

Participation with collages in Virtual Exhibition, with the theme ''Hope''

Event: Artens Festival 2020, Artist

Dates: 16 Dec 2020 - 20 Dec 2020

Participation with Collages

Event: Transition Lands - The Rules, Curator

Dates: 26 Dec 2019 - 13 Dec 2020

Curating the Solo Exhibition "The Rules" of the Greek Artist Antonis Maros.

Event: Emerging Differences - Xouth Festival, Artist

Dates: 18 Dec 2019 - 22 Dec 2019

Marion Emmanuela Maniou participated with Hand cut Collages. XOUTH Festival was organised by ARTENS Cultural Organisation, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. The festival curated a narrative opposing discrimination, inequalities and marginalization to promote both social coherence and a participatory culture. It draws inspiration from I. Pitsipios novel Monkey Xouth or the Morals of the Century (1848) in which Bartholdy, a well known traveller of the 19th century, commits a crime, loses his voice and escapes to a faraway place. There, the contemplation of his crime and the hard conditions in nature leave their marks on him so much, that, when he is captured, he gets classified as a ‘monkey’ and is sold to various young male masters of the era as their servant.

Event: Material Returned, Perfomer

Dates: 12 Jun 2016 - 15 Jun 2016

Performative lectures on mixed media installation created by Greek Artist Antonis Maros, in collaboration with the 4th Studio of the department of Visual Arts at the Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition.

The mixed-media installation includes images, cards, and other items that were sent to a prisoner and were either approved by the control system or censored and returned back to me. The items exchanged formed a score for a series of performative lectures.

Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Hall, Athens School of Fine Arts, GR. Curator & Performer - Lecturer, 2016

Event: Haptic Vision, Curator & Performer

Dates: 15 May 2014 - 15 May 2014

Group Performance, curated by Marion Emmanuela Maniou and created by the Greek artist Antonis Maros, in the spirit of collaboration between Athens School of Fine Arts and Institut Superieur des Beaux Arts de Besancon. Seven students of the Department of Visual Arts and two children participated in the performance. Men and women, adults and children with closed eyes appear as a microcosm which is inescapably located within the boundaries of our bodies. Each one of the performers exists to the extent that the artificial blindness obstructs the “distant” touch of the vision in favor of the actual touch. The array of bodies moves along a threatening queue, following a line of benches which forms an elevated stand. Therefore, each person feels threatened by a potential fall, so the presence of the others becomes more and more necessary for each one’s survival. A life co

Athens School of Fine Arts & Institut Superieur des beaux Arts de Besançon, GR. Curator & Performer, 2014