Maria Chaniotaki

Maria Chaniotaki

Athens, Greece

About Maria Chaniotaki

Maria Chaniotaki MA Theatre Designer / Scenographer, Artist AGENT: Donald Scrimgeour Artists Agent - www.donaldscrimgeour.com blog : http://maria-chaniotaki.tumblr.com website: www.mariachaniotaki.gr

Education:

Studies:
-Techn. Civil Engineer (BA)
-Music, Piano
-MA in Theatre Design – Scenography
in Wimbledon School of Art, WSA, London (1995)

Seminar:
Theatre Design Summer School in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London(1993)

Events:

She was the Head of the team of the Laboratory of Scenography, Athens (LSA) that participated at PQ 2015 (student section) as part of the greek nation of the Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute.PQ2015 http://www.pq.cz/en/program/intro/.
She was the Head of the LSA at the participation at the [OUT]TOP/AS Exhiition at the Benaki Museum, Athens 2016
(in both Exhiitions, project: "Birds" by Aristophanes)

Exhibitions:

• "Transformations in Theatre and Scenography" at the MA of Theatre Design Graduation Exhibition in Wimbledon School of Art, London, July 1995.
• "Images in the process of a Scenography" at "Stavlos" Gallery, Athens, March 1998.
• "Fairies" at "Androgeo" Town Hall Gallery, Heraclion - Crete,
December 1998.
• "Crowd Images" at the "Doma" Gallery, Theatre of Neos Kosmos, Athens,
• November 1999. (Group Exhibition)
• "Mixed compositions" at "Monohoro" Art Gallery, Athens, November 2001.
• "Krinos and Anemoni" at "Technopolis – Gazi" (city of Athens), March 2002. (Group Exhibition)
• "Rainbow" at the "Art – Forum" Gallery, Thessaloniki, October 2002. (Group Exhibition)
• "Woman" at the "Art Center"Gallery of Athens, Athens, November 2003 (Group Exhibition)
• "Water Gems" at the "Monohoro" Art Gallery, Athens November 2004
• "Art and Theatre Design work" at the Basilica of Saint Mark Museum, Heraclion Crete,
January - February 2011.
• “ The 4 Elements of Nature”, Museum of Fine Arts, Heraclion Crete (October 2016)
• Artistic Director and Curator at Kazantzakis Museum “George Anemoyiannis ,Scenographer” ,Exhibition-Vassiliki Agiou Markou, Heraclion Crete (November- December 2016)

As Course Leader of the LSA at PQ 2015 (student section) and
[OUT]TOP/AS Exhiition at the Benaki Museum, Athens 2016