biography Lina Theodorou
Lina Theodorou was born in Athens in 1970.
Education:
1989-1993 School of Graphic Arts and creative Studies, TEI, Athens.
1994-1999 BA Fine Arts, National School of Fine Arts, Athens.
1998 School of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Multimedia, The Hague, Holland.
Solo exhibitions:
2004, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.
2003, «Spiritual & land», Private house, Athens.
2001, « Hippodrome», «Epi Colono» Cultural Centre, Athens.
2000, «Helping Dr.Boom», Will Lutz Gallery, Delft, Holland.
Selected group exhibitions
2006, The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
2006, ART FAB, Women of Europe, Saint-Tropez, France.
2006, An outing: Contemporary art in Greece in the 21th century, Beltsios collection, Milos Matsopoulou cultural centre, Trikala, Greece.
2006, Flowers in contemporary art, New Benaki museum, Athens.
2006, Give(a)way, 6th Biennial exhibition of contemporary art, Limerick, Ireland.
2006, Common place 2: The return, 'Epi Colono' Cultural Centre, Athens
2006, Home sweet home, private house, Athens.
2006, The historicity of image and the time, Turkish Baths, Athens
2006, Into the pill, E31 gallery, Athens.
2005, Critique of pure image-Between fake and quotation, Center for Contemporary Art - PlovdivArt Today Lab, Bulgaria.
2005, Capturing utopia, Fournos, center for digital culture, Athens.
2005, Girl Power 4 Men, Spillioti projects, Athens.
2005, ”Other voices, Other rooms”, curator Alessandro Riva, curator of the Greek participation: Dafni Vitali ,"Le Ciminiere", Catania, Sicely.
2005, “The Gesture. A visual library in progress.”, curators Marina Fokidis, Daphne Vitali, Sergio Risaliti
Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
/Quarter, The New Center of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy.
2005, Art Athina 05, Zina Athanasiadi Gallery, Elexpo, Athens.
2005,”Dhen milao ellenika/Non parlo Italiano”, Shared Identities in contemporary art within two Mediterranean costs, Ex Convitto Palmieri,
Lecce, Italy.
2005, Summer show - New works, Ileana Tounta Gallery , Athens.
2004, Video Zone 2:The 2nd International Video Biennial,Tel Aviv, Israel.
2004, ”Channel Zero”, curator Katerina Gregos, Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, Holland.
2004, “Monument to now”, the Dakis Joannou Collection, curators Dan Cameron, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector, Alison M. Gingeras, Jeffrey Deitch, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens.
2004, Videokunst-Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Locus, Athens.
2004, “The other body”, 4th Human rights arts festival, Eugenides Foundation, Athens.
2004, “Soul destinations”, Aigli, Zapeion, Athens.
2004, “Athens, Metropolis by accident?”, Bios, Athens,
/Giorgio De Chirico foundation, Volos.
2004, Art Athina, Athens Hellenikon airport.
2004, “Art now”, Zina Athanasiadi Gallery, Thessaloniki.
2004, ARCO 04, Madrid, Ileana Tounta Gallery, Spain.
2004, “Nine Muses I Presume?, curators, Katerina Gregos, Sania Papa, Dennis Zaharopoulos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2003, «Testimonies:Between Myth and Reality»,curator Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
2003, ”Brave new world”, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.
2003, «Poetic justice»,curator Dan Cameron, 8th international Istanbul Biennial.
2003, «In the gorges of the Balkan»,curator Rene Block, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel,
2003, «Blurring Boundaries», Borusan Art gallery, Istanbul.
2003, «M-ARS. Art and War», curator,Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
2002, “Senses”, Technopolis, Athens.
2002, Art Athina, Helexpo Exhibition Centre, Athens.
2002, «Interfaces», Delphi, Greece.
2002, «Fusion Cuisine», Deste Foundation, Athens.
2002, «Big Social Game», International Biennial of Young Art, artistic director Michellangelo Pistolleto, Turin, Italy.
2001, Tirana Biennale 2001, curator of greek section Marina Fokidis, Albania.
2001, 24X24, EXEDRA, Center for Contemporary Art, Hilversum, Holland.
2000, Nobody called the cops, Permanent exhibition commissioned by Dakis Joannou, curated by Katerina Gregos.
2000, «Thrilos 2001», Flourmills, Piraeus.
2000, «The artists of Spyropoulos museum», Centre for Hellenic union, Athens.
1999, medi@terra, Fournos, Athens.
1999, 1st DESTE price, «Metro», New trends in contemporary Greek Art, Curator Dan Cameron, Deste Foundation, Athens.
1999, Four Rooms, Kappatos Gallery, Athens.
Awards: Jannis Spyropoulos Foundation award 1999.
