Maria Exarchou

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Mask made from paper, paint and salvaged objects.

Naive, 2025
Mixed media
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Mask made from paper, textile, cement and found objects.

Complicated, 2025
Mixed media
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Found paper, objects and paint on found canvas.

Urban Wall, 2025
mixed media, 100x70
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Handmade photo- and poetry book.

Repetition, 2025
printing and bookbinding, 11x12
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A micro-song over the importance of passion.

Care, 2024
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The experience of womanhood in fragments. A video poem.

Metaphors, 2024
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Chapter I

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A poem (with music) on shared frustration caused by social challenges and alienation.

Chapter I, 2023
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The phone booth as a point of connection and struggle.

Call Me, 2023
Acrylic on canvas, 80x90
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Handmade book on handmade paper.

Distance, 2023
mixed media
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Video poem on expectations, identity and the feeling of alienation.

Stubborn , 2023
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An assemblage of found objects and found paper accompanying a poem.

No, not Love, 2022
Mixed media

Multidisciplinary artist interested in the topics of (social) infrastructure, language, identity.

Transmedia installations and participatory elements are central in my practice. I aspire to explore wider social questions, to encourage reflection and instigate dialogue between my pieces and their audience.

Websites

My latest projects.

www.sans-systeme.com

Platform for artistic development and cultural engagement. Collaboration and inclusivity.

philomuse.org

Social media

www.instagram.com/m.xrwho/

Curriculum vitae

Education

2023 - 2025

Experimental Publishing Rotterdam, Piet Zwart diploma
2013 - 2016

Creative Writing Malmö Univerity
2007 - 2009

MA in Culture, Media and Cultural Management Humboldt University Berlin diploma
2005 - 2006

Literary Translation metafrasi School of Translator Training
2000 - 2004

BA English Language and Literature Aristotle University of Thessaloniki diploma

exhibitions

2025

Floating Buitenplaats Brienenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands MFA Graduation Show www.pzwart.nl/blog/2025/06/24/floating-xpub-graduation-show-2025-buitenplaats-brienenoord/ Group
2025

Public Moment Leeszaal West Rotterdam, Netherlands XPUB group show. www.instagram.com/p/DHTcDMAILhT/?hl=en Group
2024

Counter-Tourist Information Center Sign Project Space Groningen, Netherlands A group project during a zinefest that published among others in newspaper format the results of fieldwork and public participation. sign2.nl/websign/events/spread-zinefest-3/ Group

Projects

2025
Identitours Buitenplaats Brienenoord Rotterdam, Netherlands sans-systeme.com/archive/item/186-identitours An audiotour with sculptural elements exploring stereotyping and identity.
2025
Systemic biasing Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Netherlands sans-systeme.com/archive/item/185-systemic-biases An atmospheric installation including an interactive application and a video piece, exploring how stereotypes are reinforced through association and exclusion.
2024
Subjective Map SIGN Project Space Groningen, Netherlands sans-systeme.com/archive/item/183-subjective-map-groningen A site-specific installation based on fieldwork on the infrastructure of Groningen and its surroundings.

Publications

2025

Shifting Identities Book zelf gepubliceerd Maria Exarchou The Hague, Netherlands sans-systeme.com/archive/item/187-shifting-identities A hybrid, experimental publication, where the theoretical part works as inner dialogue on the topic of stereotyping and identity, and the literary part brings it to performative life.

Secondary art-related activities

2025 - --

Started my own cultural initiative On-going
2023 - 2025

Tutor Greek Language and Culture
2018 - --

Translator trainer (literature) On-going
2006 - --

Publications (translator and editor) On-going