Studies
1990-1994 Studied Visual and Performed Arts at the University of KENT Canterbury, England (BA with Honors). Her studies included courses of art history from the ancient times until the 20th century, history of aesthetic theories, analysis of art works and museology.
1994-1995 History of Art at Goldsmiths’ College at the University of London
MA, Art of the Twentieth Century.
Professional experience
2001- Today She is the Director of the Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos.
1998- Today She is the producer (research and presentation) of the program “Cultural Mosaic” of the Third Program of the Cyprus Broadcasting Cooperation.
1995-1999 She was responsible of the cultural page of “Trianda” magazine.
She collaborated by writing critical essays on art for the Cyprus newspaper “To Vima”. She also collaborated with Politis newspaper and its cultural pages.
1996-1997 She worked for the Cybc television program “Panda Techni Esti”
presenting the visual art exhibitions.
1997-1998 She collaborated with the program “Radio newspaper”(critical reviews and interviews for cultural issues)- First program of CYBC.
She curated many art exhibitions in collaboration with cultural institutions in Cyprus. She also collaborated with the Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, organizing guided tours for exhibitions.
She has written several texts on the work of Contemporary Cypriot artists in books, exhibition catalogues and for the everyday press.
She is also writing poetry. In 1999 she published the poetic collection “Bottles of the same Perfume” and in 2006 the poetic collection “The Raining Wagon”. In June 1999 she represented Cyprus in the section of Poetry, of the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, in Rome. She took part with poetry in the research symposium of art and design“Millennium fetish”, organised by the Educational Centre of Contemporary Art & Design Artstudio Laboratories.
Selected Publications
2006 “Memory. Controlling the past”, catalogue of the exhibition, “Meeting Europe- Cyprus”, Apollonia-European Art Exchanges, Strasburg, France.
2005 Lia Lapithi, catalogue of the exhibition “OPEN 2005” Venice.
2003 “Maria Perendou - False Witness”, Contemporary Cypriot Art, EnTypois publications.
2002 “Melita Couta- Osmosis”- Contemporary Cypriot Art, EnTypois publications.
2002 “Klitsa Antoniou - Traces of memory”, Contemporary Cypriot Art- EnTypois publications.
2001 “Maria Papacharalambous- Vertical Horizons”, Contemporary Cypriot Art, EnTypois publications.
2000 “Michael Ch. Kasialos- The hidden fascination of painting”, Larnaca Municipality, Pierides Foundation.
In 2006 she collaborated with Apollonia-European Art Exchanges, Strasburg, France for the exhibition “Meeting Europe Cyprus” ( Strasburg, La Chataignerie- The Walloon Contemporary Art Centre, Belgium, the National Museum of Szczecin, Poland.)
