MARGARITA BOFILIOU
Visual arts
Margarita Bofiliou (1979, Athens) lives and works in Athens. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, where she studied on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. She has been awarded the Spyropoulos Award and the National Magazine Award. In 2004 she was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts.
Solo shows include: «Everything’s wrong», «Xerxes», «State of Concept» Athens, «Blue eyes on route to the best brothel of paradise», Athens, «Trypanosome», Margarita Bofiliou and Juliette Blightman (duo) Athens. Selected group shows include: «State (in) Concepts», Kadist, Paris, «Jump Ball», Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece, «The Equilibrists», Benaki Museum, Athens, «Innate Memories», State of Concept Athens, «Cabinets of Miracles-Zone D», Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, «ReMap2» (IBID Projects), Athens, «Alpha Exotica», Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece, «The Lobby», IBID Projects, London, «True Romance», «The Breeder», Athens, «Satellites (i-cabin baggage)», Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, «60 Seconds», Southwark Gallery, London, «New Contemporaries 2004», (Liverpool Biennial) & The Barbican, London. In her work she deals with the confusion, loneliness and the structural violence that the subject experiences.