Marina Xenofontos
4.4 – 15.6 2025
Mint, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Opening: 4.4, 17:00–20:00
Overnight Coup Plan is a fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory, including a newly commissioned short film and sculptural works. The exhibition marks the first presentation of Xenofontos’s work in Sweden.
Following a group of girls’ journey from Limassol to Ayia Napa, Marina Xenofontos’ short film tracks the motions of an average night out, while simultaneously navigating the more obscure undercurrents of the landscapes and locations they inhabit.
Marina Xenofontos’ work employs film and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalisation of personal narratives in civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow for a remembrance of symbols and errors in their functions. Power structures of civic spaces are reimagined via an exploration of anecdotal stories and coincidental epitomes that represent sardonic reflections on mechanisms of production and understandings of history.
Marina Xenofontos (1988, Limassol) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent solo exhibitions include Eternal, Returns at Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; View From Somewhere Near at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2024); Public Domain at Camden Art Centre in London (2023); In Practice at SculptureCenter in New York (2023); Carousel at AKWA IBOM in Athens (2022); I don’t sleep, I dream at The Island Club in Limassol (2021). She is the recipient of the Frieze Emerging Artist Award 2022 and recently participated in the 15th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania.
Marina Xenofontos’ work employs film and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalisation of personal narratives in civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow for a remembrance of symbols and errors in their functions. Within this approach, traditional methods and processes embrace the ephemeral individual position within broader collective memory. In order to unravel the mechanisms of canonical representations, Xenofontos researches vernacular processes related to architectural forms and biographical sociopolitical contexts. Power structures of civic spaces are reimagined via an exploration of anecdotal stories and coincidental epitomes that represent sardonic reflections on mechanisms of production and understandings of history.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna and is supported by the Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus
Image: Marina Xenofontos, Things We Lost, 2025. BTS: Marietta Mavrokordatou