Haris Epaminonda
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Artist’s Biography
Haris Epaminonda
Haris Epaminonda (Nicosia,Cyprus 1980) often uses existing materials such as photographs sourced from books, found objects, sculpture, text and collage, assembled and combined with structures and supports she has designed herself. Her installations conjure up visual puzzles that suggest a multitude of meanings. Her language often tends to abstraction, meanwhile her exhibition displays and interventions on architecture evoke mysterious atmospheres that defy precise classification.
She won the Silver Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale of 2019, “May you live in interesting times”. In 2007, Epaminonda co-represented (together with Mustafa Hulusi) Cyprus at the Art Biennale. Her presence in the Biennale was followed by participation at the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008, at the 1st Triennale, New Museum, New
York (2009); the 9th Sharjah Biennial (2009) and an invitation to dOCUMENTA(13) in 2012. Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to her by Malmö Konsthall (2009), Tate Modern in London (2010), MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York (2011), Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (2011), Modern Art Oxford (2013), Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia (2013), Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice (2014), Frac île-de-france in Paris (2015), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville (2016) and VOL. XXII, Aspen Art Museum (2017).
Her most recent solo exhibitions have been: ‘The Infinite Library’, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo - Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2020); VOL. XXVI, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia (2019); VOL. XXIV, Significant Other, Vienna (2018) and VOL. XXIII, Secession, Vienna (2018).