Marianna Strapatsaki (1947)
Greece


Biography :

"Founding member of the Audiovisual Arts Department, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (2004). Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University (2012-2014).

Marianne Strapatsakis was born in Athens. She began her studies at the Technological Institute of Athens, having a scholarship from the T.I.A. In 1969, having a scholarship from the Academy of Athens for five years, she continued her studies in Paris, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), in the department of Painting and Design. At the same time, she studied History of Art at the École du Louvre and Plastic Arts of the University of Paris I, in Sorbonne. She also participated in seminars organiged by Professors Roland Barthes, Rene Huyghe, Paul Lemerle, Michel Foucault, at the College de France.

Since 1973, she has begun her artistic career with distinction “Mention d’ Honneur” in the 9eme Prix de la Cote d’Azur exhibition. In 1984, she became involved in the movement of Video Art by being one of the pioneers of Video Art in Greece. Since then, her artistic work has been characterized by the combination of classic art media (painting, sculpture, drawing) with new media (video, interactive systems,sensors, etc.) presenting Video-installations and Audiovisual projects. During the course of her artistic career, she has presented forty-two solo exhibitions in Greece, France, England, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Chile and she has also participated in sixty-five group exhibitions in Greece, France, Germany, Holland, Spain and England.

Being the inspiring and one of the founding member of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University in 2004, she served as President of the Department, and she retired in 2014. She is also one of the founding members both of the Interactive Arts Lab (InArts Lab) and the Postgraduate Program entitled “Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age”. She had served as organizer for the annual Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Department from 2006 until 2014. In 2005, she was guest professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Her work is presented in all art encyclopedias, 170 articles in newspapers and magazines, television and radio broadcasts with focus on art, as well as in festivals in Greece and abroad. She has been honored for her visual interventions at Banks and Railway Stations in Athens. She has participated as a member in numerous visual arts jury committee. From 1980 to 2010, she had been served as Artistic Director for the magazine Archeology and Arts of Lambrakis Press and as collaborator of the Lambrakis Research Foundation (LRF). She has participated in conference and festivals on Art – Technology – Education.

In 2016, she was awarded with the Prize for the Art of New Media from the Group “EXALIPTRON” for arts, literature, culture and sciences, in Piraeus.

In 2018, she received an honorary plaque from the University of Crete, in Rethymno, for her contribution to Art and Education. Her works appertain in Greece: at the Ministry of Culture, the National Gallery of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Modern Art, the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Municipal Art Gallery of Rhodes, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, the Municipality of Rhobes, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki, the Art Gallery of Viannos, the Syros Gallery, the Charis Antoniou collection, the Pericles Sahini collection, the K.Fix collection in Austria, the T.Karavia collection in New York, and in private collections in Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States." (Source, website, InArts Lab)

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