Maria Konomi
Visual Artist - Scenographer & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Scenographer – costume designer, visual artist and Assistant Professor in Scenography – Costume Design at the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens (teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels). She specialised in scenography and costume design at the University Arts London (Wimbledon School of Art: BA Theatre Design & Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design: MA Scenography). She holds a PhD in Greek Scenography. She has over ninety set & costume design credits in all kinds of performing arts and film, presenting her work globally at major theatre organisations, arts and film festivals and independent companies. Her research and publishing interests revolve around contemporary stage practice with emphasis on stage & costume approaches, the scenographic framework in performances of ancient drama, scenography in the expanded field, new spatial forms of theatre and site-specific performance, the interrelations between visual, performing arts and performance, theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to scenography. She has published around thirty articles and a monograph on modern and contemporary scenography. Co-curator for theory for the Greek participation in Prague Quadrennial 2015 and curator of a series of lectures at Benaki Museum, Αthens, themed Site-Specifics. She is co-curator of the Greek entry in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions and the Student Exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial 2023.
As a rare moment of art making and collaboration, the project was shaped through its dual presentation -art installation/performance- as an exploration of gendered and feminist spatialities. Initially, it was presented as a mixed media installation, a palimpsest construction of concepts and materials inspired by the multifaceted contribution οf women to the Greek War of Indipendance (1821-1829). Almost two years later, it was reinvented as a theatre piece with a common thematic core: women’s seminal contribution to major revolutions next to the harsh realities of domestic life and ongoing gender inequality and violence. The original performance text was inspired by the art installation, an allegory for the position of women. The white metal bed generates the dramaturgy, while functioning as a perpetually transforming/deconstructing spatial object (home/moving house, mental hospital, prison, guillotine, tomb), framing the intertwined flow of the narrative: from intergenerational family narratives of gender violence to excerpts from the popular Tselementes’ Cooking Guide to Olympe de Gouges’ first declaration of women’s rights.
ΑRTS EXHIBITION
Original Concept – Installation: Maria Konomi
Curators: Christoforos Marinos & Efrosyni Tsakiri
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Original Concept – Scenography – Costume design: Maria Konomi
Original Performance Text – Direction: Michaela Antoniou
Lighting Design – Photography: Christina Fylaktopoulou
Photos: Christina Fylaktopoulou, Maria Konomi
As a rare moment of art making and collaboration, the project was shaped through its dual presentation -art installation/performance- as an exploration of gendered and feminist spatialities. Initially, it was presented as a mixed media installation, a palimpsest construction of concepts and materials inspired by the multifaceted contribution οf women to the Greek War of Indipendance (1821-1829). Almost two years later, it was reinvented as a theatre piece with a common thematic core: women’s seminal contribution to major revolutions next to the harsh realities of domestic life and ongoing gender inequality and violence. The original performance text was inspired by the art installation, an allegory for the position of women. The white metal bed generates the dramaturgy, while functioning as a perpetually transforming/deconstructing spatial object (home/moving house, mental hospital, prison, guillotine, tomb), framing the intertwined flow of the narrative: from intergenerational family narratives of gender violence to excerpts from the popular Tselementes’ Cooking Guide to Olympe de Gouges’ first declaration of women’s rights.
Scenographer – costume designer, visual artist and Assistant Professor in Scenography – Costume Design at the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens (teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels). She specialised in scenography and costume design at the University Arts London (Wimbledon School of Art: BA Theatre Design & Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design: MA Scenography). She holds a PhD in Greek Scenography. She has over ninety set & costume design credits in all kinds of performing arts and film, presenting her work globally at major theatre organisations, arts and film festivals and independent companies. Her research and publishing interests revolve around contemporary stage practice with emphasis on stage & costume approaches, the scenographic framework in performances of ancient drama, scenography in the expanded field, new spatial forms of theatre and site-specific performance, the interrelations between visual, performing arts and performance, theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to scenography. She has published around thirty articles and a monograph on modern and contemporary scenography. Co-curator for theory for the Greek participation in Prague Quadrennial 2015 and curator of a series of lectures at Benaki Museum, Αthens, themed Site-Specifics. She is co-curator of the Greek entry in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions and the Student Exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial 2023.
ΑRTS EXHIBITION
Original Concept – Installation: Maria Konomi
Curators: Christoforos Marinos & Efrosyni Tsakiri
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Original Concept – Scenography – Costume design: Maria Konomi
Original Performance Text – Direction: Michaela Antoniou
Lighting Design – Photography: Christina Fylaktopoulou
Photos: Christina Fylaktopoulou, Maria Konomi
