email: alogonom@gmail.com

Maria Mitsopoulou aka Maria F Dolores is a visual artist and performer and one of the founding members of AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts).

Education list

Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (1998-2003)
ERASMUS Visual arts, performance art and interdisciplinary techniques, Faculty of Fine Arts San Carlos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. (2001-2002).
Master on Studies and Projects on Visual Culture, University of Barcelona (2004 – 2006).
During my master studies my interest was in collective pedagogies and the democratization of tools of self-representation for youths in risk.
Master on Animation (2008) Universitat Pompeu Fabra


RECENT SELECTION

Participating as AMOQA at Rendering Research, transmediale, Berlin, 2022

Guest speaker: Queer(ing) museums and heritage, Center for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (Carmah) at Humboldt University, Berlin, 2020

Article publication: Maria F Dolores (2020) AMOQA, Athens Museum of Queer Arts: Inventing Survival Tools and Designing Dissident Itineraries, Museum International, 72:3-4, 166-177

Guest speaker: Queer politics/ Public memory, invited by Athina Athanasiou and Dimitris Papanikolaou, Romantso, Athens, 2019

Member of the International Advisory Board: ALMS 2019. QUEERING MEMORY – ARCHIVES – ARTS – AUDIENCES, HKW, Berlin, 2019 

Presentation and workshop: The game of amoq-ah. at PIGS Self-Management Meeting of self-managed queer collectives. PEI Obert,  MACBA, Barcelona, 2018

The Parliament of Bodies: How does it feel to be a problem? ALLIANCES OF MINOR INSTITUTIONS curated by Paul B Preciado, Documenta14, Kassel, 2017
34 Exercises of Freedom: #31 Voices of Trans and Queer Politics in the Mediterranean
Athens, 2016

(non)performance as method, symposium curated by Hypatia Vourloumis, Round Table – Collective performance as method, 2016

Institution as a practice. The Unstraight conference, curated by The Unstraight Museum, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, 2016

Full Fellowship START – Create Cultural Change, grant for the implementation of the project AMOQA, Athens Museum Of Queer Arts, a hybrid meeting point for the networking of researchers, activists and artists working on body politics, remembrance, gender and identity located in Athens, Greece, 2015

Whose Fictions? Upturning the Male Dystopian Narrative, Moderator: Erandy Vergara,
Panelists: Adrienne Maree Brown [US], Paula Pin [ES], Maria Mitsopoulou [GR/DE], Skawennati [CA], Sight & Sound festival, Science Faction, Montreal, 2014

OTHER Curatorial projects and collectives

Funding member and curator at Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA), Athens/ 2015 - 2020
Member of the curation group of Aphrodte project, queer film festival, Athens/ 2018-2020
Documenta14, Public Programs, curating and participating at the # 31.Voices of Trans and
Queer Politics in the Mediterranean, and the "Apatride" TRANSFEMINIST QUEER NIGHT/ 2016
coordinator and commissioner of the participation of Barcelona in the XIII BJCEM International Biennial by the association RAI (Resources of Intercultural Animation), Barcelona/ 2006-2008
Co-organizer of the "Muestra Marrana 01-02", queer post porn film festival, Hangar,
Barcelona/ 2008-2009

Workshops
2019 SLUT PRIDE #1. 2 .3 .4 curation of a series of events on self defense, Aphrodite project, AMOQA, Athens, 2018 The game of amoq-ah. at PIGS Self-Management Meeting of self-managed queer collectives. PEI Obert,  MACBA, Barcelona 2015 Bodies/Sounds/Instruments: Lab and discussion on gender, sounds and acts, ASFA BBQ, Fine ArtUniversity of Athens @ workshop The body as a sound post-gender instrument, Gender trouble, teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal @ workshop Noise as drag, soundActs- music performance identity, Κεντρο Ελεγχου Τηλεορασεων, Athens 2014 workshop leader at crisisRus curated by Shu Lee Cheang, kacerolada putipunk, Alpha-nova- kulturwerkstatt, Berlin, GER 2013 dressed for discourse: The body as a sound post gender instrument, Alpha-nova- kulturwerkstatt, Berlin, GER @ Glitch and noise workshop against patriarchy, 4th Athens Biennale AGORA, Athens, Greece @ 2012 workshop on noise and DiY for children, mARTadero, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Exhibitions, Performances

2021 WASTE/D FILM, A series of film screenings curated by PAT (The Temporary Academy of Arts) 2015 Procne & philomila, soundActs- music performance identity/ Κεντρο Ελεγχου Τηλεορασεων, Athens @ Procne & Philomila, Transcend.t, Maus Habitos- espacio de intervencion cultural, Oporto,Portugal @ Glamorous2be, blasted collective exhibition, Beton art space, Athens @ Territories of crisis, performance jam with Pocha Nostra, Theater of ASFA, fine art school of Athens, Athens 2014 instillation Kindred, Peninsula, Berlin,GER @ Technical Direction and Design for WATCH ME WORK, a performance by Liad Houssein Kantorowicz, City of Women, Ljubliana, SLV @ WATCH ME WORK: WOMEN AND QUEER ECONOMIES curated by Tobaron Waxman at BBK, Koln, Ge @ MISSY-Konferenz: Fantasies that matter. Images of Sexwork in Media and Art (Int.Sommerfestival Kampnagel) participation to the collective performance with annie sprinkle & WATCH ME WORK, Hamburg, GER @ AKLR cyborg performance & workshop the body as a sound post gender instrument & panel, sight and sound festival, Montreal, Ca 2013 AKLR cyborg performance, Hangar.org, Barcelona, SPAIN/ @ Medea New media, 4th Athens Biennale AGORA, Athens, Greece 2012 AKLR YAKU performance, Martadero, Cochabamba, Bolivia 2011 Filtered Intimacy, Piksel11, Bergen, Norway @ Filtered Intimacy, LABoral, Gijon, Spain @ clitorian stones, Silver Wedding, Pati de les Dones, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain 2009 Live Cinema Mix IKU, performance Fantasia, directed by Shu Lee Cheang, Hangar, Barcelona

Pannels
Queer(ing) museums and heritage, Center for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (Carmah) at Humboldt University, Berlin, 2020
Queer politics/ Public memory, invited by Athina Athanasiou and Dimitris Papanikolaou, Romantso, Athens, 2019
Documenta14, Public Programs, curating and participating at the # 31.Voices of Trans and
Queer Politics in the Mediterranean
(non) performance as method, curated by Hypatia Vourloymis,Green Park, Athens, 2016
The unstraight museum international conference, Ethnographic Museum of Stockholm 2016
Whose Fictions? Upturning the Male Dystopian Narrative, Sight & Sound festival, Science
Faction, Montreal, Ca, 2014

Publications and self/publicatios

Maria F Dolores (2021) we met at the bars, scientific research Anni Simati, 300 copies, AMOQA
Maria F Dolores (2020) AMOQA, Athens Museum of Queer Arts: Inventing Survival Tools and Designing Dissident Itineraries, Museum International, 72:3-4, 166-177


Bibliography

2013 reference to Akelarre Cyborg in the text by Beatriz Preciado, “Occupy Sex. Notas desde la
revolucion feministapornopunk, “Genealogias feministas en el arte espanol: 1960-2010, catalogue
published by this side up
2012, article on Akelarre Cyborg, Vol 6 : Nuevas violencias de genero, cultura visual
yglobalizacion. La politica de las imagenes/ by Miriam Sola & Pedro Ortuno, revista de
investigacion de la universidad de Murcia
2006, reference to my work as performance artist, Eικαστικες Δρασεις, published by Αποπειρα,
Δαναη Χονδρου

Teaching
2006, annual video workshop for youths in risk, TEB association , Barcelona, Spain

Residencies

the island resignified, akelarre cyborg the book, Lefkada, 2016, Greece
summer school visual ethnography of cityscapes, Nederlands Institute of Athens, Athens, 2015,
Greece
Martadero, Cochabamba, 2012, Bolivia
Laboral, Gijon, 2011, Spain
Mugatxoan workshops: Marten Spangberg (Del 21 de Junio al 4 de Julio) Arteleku, Donostia
San Sebastian, Pais Vasco workshops: Inazio Escudero, Itziar Okariz (Del 5 al 18 de Julio.)
Teatro de la Laboral, Gijon. workshops: Xavier Le Roy y Gary Stevens (Del 20 de Septiembre al 3
de Octubre.), Fundacao de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal, 2010

Fellowships:

stART fellowship 2015-2016, “stART – Youth Culture Initiatives in Greece”, a program of the
Robert Bosch Stiftung conducted in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the
Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V.