Marina Xenofontos’ work employs film and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalization of personal narratives in civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow for a remembrance of symbols and errors in their functions. With this approach, traditional methods and processes embrace the ephemeral individual position within broader collective memory. Marking the first solo presentation of Xenofontos’s work in Austria, Things We Lost, is a fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory.
Things We Lost was co-produced by the Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus and supported by KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS, Vienna and Mint, Stockholm.
- Marina Xenofontos
Marina Xenofontos (1988, Limassol, Cyprus) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent solo exhibitions include: Eternal, Returns at Fondazione Morra Greco (2025); View From Somewhere Near at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2024); Public Domain at Camden Art Centre in London (2023); In Practice at SculptureCenter in New York (2023); Carousel at AKWA IBOM in Athens (2022); I don’t sleep, I dream at The Island Club in Limassol (2021). She is the recipient of the Frieze Emerging Artist Award 2022 and recently participated in the 15th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania.
Marina Xenofontos film shoot Things We Lost, 2025. Photo: Marietta Mavrokordatou
Marina Xenofontos film shoot Things We Lost, 2025. Photo: Marietta Mavrokordatou
