About
Marina Velisioti
(b. Thessaloniki, Greece)
Multidisciplinary Artist | Athens, Greece
Marina Velisioti is a multidisciplinary artist based in Athens, Greece. A graduate of the Department of Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, she further enriched her studies with courses in scenography, video art, and the psychological and psychoacoustic themes of music at the Theatre Department. Velisioti’s diverse practice integrates a variety of techniques and mediums, including collage, sculpture, tapestry, engraving, and both analogue and digital photo printing.
Her work explores complex themes of psychology, psychoacoustics, and the surreal worlds of science fiction and UFO culture. Drawing inspiration from the intersections of past and future, Velisioti’s latest series merges elements of ancient architecture, 1980s pop culture, and symbolic motifs into strange, dreamlike universes. Through vibrant symbolism and playful imagination, her works create an uncanny atmosphere, blurring the boundaries between reality and the fantastical.
A passionate scholar of UFOs, monsters, and speculative worlds, Velisioti distorts historical and cultural references to construct fantastical landscapes that feel both familiar and entirely alien. In addition to her visual work, she is the founder and former editor of Bebabebo, an art zine she published until 2013.
Velisioti’s exhibitions span across international venues, including solo shows and biennials, with notable recent presentations such as the 2024 solo exhibition Monuments to Space at Untiled Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria, and participation in the 2023 Turkish Textile Biennial in Izmir. In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship.
Grants and Awards
2022 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS
Selected Exhibition
2024: Hate Hard Boiled Eggs, Misc, Athens (Publication/Solo Show) Outraged by pleasure, Nobel Building, Athens
2023 Turkish Textile Biennial, Izmir
2023 Selasforos, Anoihta Pania, Chania, Crete
2022 Sheltered Gardens, A Commision by PCAI Polygreen, Diomedes Votanical Garden, Athens
2021 Thessaloniki Film Festival, The Rules of The Game, Thessaloniki Harbor
2021 Head2Head, A project by A-dash, Athens and Kling&bang, Reykjavik
2020 Cra(u)sh or How to make me kiss the Pavement, Group show, Grace, Athens
2019 ΗΛΕΚΡΙΣ / How to think like a mountain, Samothraki, Greece
2018 Matter Over Matter, Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 Suddenly There's A Valley, In situ Instalation, Dimitra Danika hairsaloon, Athens
2017 Landscape Revisited, group exhibition, Elika Gallery, Athens
2014 Nature Immortelle, Solo Show, Romantso, Athens
Publications
Αthens Voice, May 2017, Athens
Platform Platvorm Magazine, issue 2, 2015, Netherland
Soul magazine Issue 81 , August 2014, Greece
Funzine Stukah issue 14 , May 2013, Netherland
fuctART mag. issue 10, May 2011, Greece
︎ mail : marinavelisioti@gmail.com
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