Photo by Sally Potter, Brazil, 2000
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Leda Papaconstantinou, born 1945 in Ambelonas, Larissa, Greece, studied Graphic Design at the Athens Technological Institute Doxiades, Fine Arts at the Loughton College of Art (London) and Maidstone College of Art (Kent Institute of Art and Design, University of Kent). She lives and works on the island of Spetses, Greece.
She is one of the primary and few artists in Greece who has used performance as an expressive medium during the ’70s and ’80s and her presence is constant and continuous since the late 60’s. Her work, apart from performances, consists of installations, paintings, sculptures, video and film. Since 1969, her work has been presented in numerous group and solo shows worldwide, including: 1970 “Greek Performance”, Bloomsbury Theater, London (1970); “Still Life II,” Emerging Images, Europalia ’82, Hellas & ICC Antwerp, Belgium ( catalogue); “Sculptures”, Sao Paolo International Biennial (1986) (catalogue); “Liquid forest”, Ileana Tounta, Athens (1992) (catalogue); “Post Champions”, BIDA-Biennale of Sport in Art, Seville (2005) (catalogue); "Performance, Film, Video 1969-2004”, Benaki Museum, Athens & Bei Hamam, Thessaloniki (2006) (catalogue); “In the name of ”, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007) (catalogue); “Live Art on Camera: performance and photography”, SPACE London, UK (2007) (catalogue); “Premiere Image”, SETE, France (2007) (catalogue); “Forever", Aeschyleia Festial, Elefsina, Greece (2009) (catalogue); "Time in My Hands", site-specific installation, commission for the “Monastiraki” station, Attiko Metro, Athens (2010); “Yes + No”, The Bath of the Winds, Museum of Popular Art, Athens (2011) (catalogue). Works of hers belong to public and private collections: National Gallery, Athens, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Contemporary Art Museum. Rethymnon; and the collections of: Leonidas Beltsios, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Prodromos Emfientzoglou, Dimosthenis Kanakis, Florika Kyriakopoulou, Eleni Martinou, Gavrilos Michalis, Grigoris Papadimitriou, Manos & Evi Pavlidi, Dimitris Pieridis, Zaharias Portalakis, Ileana Tounta, Alpha Bank, and Nestle. |