Ioanna Neophytou was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1986. She is a multidisciplinary artist, director and researcher, based in Athens, Greece. She currently works as an art professor in Greece. She graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2011 and she continued her studies in Paris, where she graduated from the University Paris 8, obtaining a masters in «Contemporary art and new media». She is currently a PhD candidate in the Aix-Marseille Université in France, conducting a research under the title The images of war and the war of images: contemporary art and documentary in the necropolitics era.

Her artistic projects have been presented in many collective exhibitions worldwide, and her documentaries have been screened in many well-known festivals in Europe, earning her multiple awards. In addition, she is interested in collaborating and co-creating with other artists and non-artists, as well as in attempting to integrate the public into the work of art.

Her artistic practice and her research focus on conflicts and their meta-narrations, on the importance of images as a tool for history narration and as an object of instrumentalization in the conflict. With a long-standing interest in concepts such as geopolitics, ideology, historiography, national identity and contemporary wars, her artistic practice has resulted throughout the years in multiple forms such as documentaries and short films, video installations, performances and sculptures. Her works, redefine the importance of politics, participation and collectivity, aiming to the re-appropriation of public sphere.

Education

Scholarships/Honours:

• Award of first monographic edition by the editions Tribew, in the 64^th Salon de Montrouge, 2019


• First Award in the international student contest «Crossing the borders. Perspectives on the First World War» organized by the National Archives of Paris and the University Paris 8, 2014


• ΙΚΥ (State Scholarship Foundation Greece)
  Scholarship for the master at the University Paris 8, France, 2013–2015

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• Sponsorship from Ministry of Education and Culture and Youth Board of Cyprus, for the participation in Santorini Biennale of Arts, Greece and Itinerant Performance Art Festival, New York, USA, 2012

Publications

Residencies

Lectures and talks

• Round Table Discussion «Overlapping Circles», June 10th, 2021.
  Organised by «Visual Voices» (Cyprus) and Anadolu Kültür (Turquie).
  Discussion accessible online: https://www.facebook.com/…
  



• International Conference AI Fictions
  3-5 June 2021, online: https://ia-fictions.net/en
  Presenting the paper: «Cybernetique Ecology: The return of utopia or a possible alternative?» (Écologie cybernétique : Le retour de l’utopie ou une alternative possible?).
  Presentation accessible online:
  https://ia-fictions.net/fr/participants/…
  Live discussion: Friday, June 4^th, 11:15-12:00 (GMT+2), under the theme «Art, Play, Mechanics».
  Discussion accessible online:
  https://ia-fictions.net/fr/sessions/…



• Conversation Exhibition
  Thurdsay, June 3^rd 2021, online event
  “Contemporary interpretations of European identity and the local social and cultural memory of Cyprus”, organization: Visual Voices
  



• Artist Talk, EESAB, Bretagne, France, 2017
  The curators of the exhibition «The Opposing Shore», discuss with the artists Ioanna Neophytou, Bady Dalloul and Aslan Gaisumov.



• Festival de l’histoire de l’Art, Fontainebleau, France, 2014
  Invited in the program «Rencontres Interantionales»
  Organized by National Institute of History of Art (INHA)

Documentary Festivals

• 22^nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2020
• 5^th Peloponnesus International Documentary Festival, Kalamata Greece,2019. Special Mention of the committee
• Docfest – 12^th Greek Documentary Festival, Chalkida, Greece, 2018
• Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2018
• 9^th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2018
• 8^th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus – ISFFC, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018
• Beyond the Borders, Castellorizo, Greece, 2018
• Balkan Film Food Festival, Pogradek, Albania, 2018
• Festival Paul Va Au Cinéma, Montpelier, France, 2018
• Ecrans Documentaires, Paris, France, 2018
• Marmaris International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2018
• 5^th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, Crete, Greece, 2018
• Dublin Greek Film Festival, Ireland, 2018
• Diversions International Short Film Festival, Zagreb, Serbia, 2018
• 4^th Festival of Greek Documentary, “With the eyes open”, Athens, Greece, 2018
• 20^th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2018. Audience Award

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions (selected)

• Crossing 24/31: I always confuse south to north, north to south, Goethe Institute Nicosia, Cyprus, 2020
• 64^ème Salon de Montrouge, France, 2019
• Et on essayait d’y être, Montreal, Canada, 2018
• SIMUL, ensemble, Centre Culturel François – Villon, Enghien-les-Bains, France, 2018
• The Opposing Shore – 77^th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 2017
• *Restrictions apply, London, UK, 2016
• I am NOT Tino Sehgal, Nahmad Projects Gallery, London, UK, 2016
• Rooms 2016, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2016
• La Manifiesta, of Charles Pennequin and the Black Army, Le Générateur, White Night of Paris, France, 2014
• ARTERIES Project, Limassol, Cyprus, 2013
• Aeschylus’ Festival of Elefsina, (parallel events), Elefsina, Greece, 2012
• 1^st Santorini Biennale of Arts, Santorini, Greece, 2012
• Itinerant Performance Art Festival New York, Staten Island, New York, USA, 2012
• 12 Wagon festival, To treno sto Rouf theatre, Athens, Greece, 2011
• The plan Sotiria: Memory and disease in Arts, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece, 2010
• Bipolar Disorder and Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, 2010

Stage Design

• Omfalos, Palio Xidadiko, Limassol, Cyprus, 2016
• CITY GHETTOS OF TODAY – Miranda gazes upon the sea, Warsaw, Poland, 2014
• CITY GHETTOS OF TODAY – Les voix des Calibans, Paris, France, 2014
• Alert, Limassol, Cyprus, 2010
• Se sas pou mas akoute, Limassol, Cyprus, 2009

• Round Table Discussion «Overlapping Circles»
• Colloque International IA Fictions — Ioanna Neophytou, “Ecologie Cybernétique: Le retour de l’utopie ou une alternative possible?”
• IA Fictions, live discussion Art, Jeu et Mécaniques, with Beatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Claire Chatelet et Philippe Boisnard, Ioanna Neophytou, Hermes Salceda et Philippe Bootz.
• Antonis Georgiou — Interview with Ioanna Neophytou for the documentary Hands in Bleach in the 22^nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2020
• Theodora Caragioulach – Interview with Ioanna Neophytou for the documentary Hands in Bleach in the 22^nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2020
• Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Hands in Bleach
• Salon de Montrouge, 64^ème édition — Presentation of the participating artists — Ioanna Neophytou
• Fondation Françoise pour l’art contemporain — Presentation of the artists — Ioanna Neophytou
• Fondation Françoise pour l’art contemporain — Portrait #4 Ioanna Neophytou – Montrouge 2019
• Fondation Françoise pour l’art contemporain — SALON DE MONTROUGE – Interview with Ioanna Neophytou
• Inrockuptibles — Salon de Montrouge (1/3) : Ioanna Neophytou redonne leur voix aux “Spectatrices invisibles”
• Editions Tribew — WC (Writing Creative) d’Ioanna Neophytou
• Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Painting
• Feelsales — Painting documentary
• Cinemagazine, Με το βλέμμα στον κόσμο: Εντυπώσεις από το 5o Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ Πελοποννήσου (critical review of the documentaries Painting and The Fairs):
• Balkan Beyond Borders — The fairs (film presentation)
• Greek Stage Review, Anastasia Hassiotis — Interview with Ioanna Neophytou for the installation Room 518
• e-agenda review — Room 518: Βίντεο‑Εγκατάσταση της Ιωάννας Νεοφύτου στο πλαίσιο της έκθεσης Rooms 2016