Cynthia Gerothanasiou

Cynthia Gerothanasiou born in Thessaloniki-Greece in 1970. She is a visual artist graduated from the Fine Arts School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Greece in 1995. She studied painting, multi media video art and image digital processing. She has a master diploma in "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age” of the department Audio and Visual Arts, of the Ionian University in Corfu-Greece. Her artistic work also touches on the installation field while using mixed materials and multiple expressive means. She has performed several group and solo presentations in Greece and abroad, while her work has received international awards and found in private collections and museums. She often choose to work on a group artwork for osmosis and fertility in other artistic approaches. She is member of the art group “Vlaves”,
She also works as a scenery and costume designer in many theatrical shows. She is involved in garment creative design and she is a member of the experiment group of research of visual arts A4M, the drama group Machina and of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. Since 2016 she teaches at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia in Florina-Greece. The last years she lives and works between Thessaloniki-Florina and Vienna.

International presentation and awards
2017 Hyogo Board of Prefecture of Education Prize, “Oh my Gold!” project, Frotaz-collage International art exchange Kobe Japan2015 “odysseies II memories-threats” Installations, in interaction with art performing group A4M, https://vimeo.com/117539658 Hellenic participation, International Festival Space Design performance Prague Quadrenniall 2015, Prague Czech Republic.https://www.academia.edu/19168892/Catalogue_of_the_Hellenic_Participation-Prague_Quadrennial_of_Performance_Design_and_Space_2015Hyogo Board of Prefecture of Education Prize, “sea element” collage, International art exchange Kobe Japan. 2012 «The Migrants Departure» European Polytheatre Cultural Awarenes and Expression Laboratory, Grudvich, Rome, Italy2008-2009 “Clandestine Immigration” Forum Theatre, Workshop-Performance European program “C’Europe on Stage”, Malta      
http://www.club-austrialia.info/index.php?id=265&L=0“Island of Blessed-Barriers in the Heads” Forum Theatre, European program “C’Europe on Stage”, Workshop-Performance, Vienna , Austria  Environment Forum Theatre “Park of Antennas”  Hortiatis mount European program “C’Europe on Stage”. Workshop-Performance, Thessaloniki, Greece 
selected Individual exhibitions and personal presentations
2018 “HieRoToPY” installation-performance with video and sound, Alatza Imaret, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki. Preface Yiannis Ziogas Artist-President of the School of Visual and Applied Arts West Macedonian University, Dorothea Konteletzidou Art Historian, Thessaloniki Greece2017 “Homo Utopicus in Crisis”, “Oh My GOLD!” art installation, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Wing of Temporary Exhibitions “Kyriakos Krokos”, Greek-French association of artists Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.mbp.gr/en/exhibitions/homo-utopicus-crisis2015-2016 “sex S.O.A.P. (Simple Object Access Protocol)”, Vlassis gallery, Thessaloniki Greece. Curating Cynthia Gerothanasiou - Stelios Dexis - Myrto Vounatsou, Preface Maria Kenanidou Art Historian2013 “odysseies II memories-threats” Installations, Warehouse 10 at the Thessaloniki Port, 47th Dimitria, in interaction with art performing group A4M, Thessaloniki Greece https://vimeo.com/117539658 2011 “the sea that I see’’ collage and sound environment, Building monument Vodela-Limnos Greece  2009 “inner land” painting Building monument Vodela-Limnos Greece               group artwork 
2017 “Endagered II“ VLAVES, “ECO CHAMBER” 3D mapping and sound group installation ART THESSALONIKI, INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, International Exhibition and Congress Centre Greece. Curating Art Historian Vasiliki Vagenou.2016 Παύση/Pafsis entr‘ acte”, group light tubes installation ART THESSALONIKI. INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, International Exhibition and Congress Centre, Thessaloniki Greece2013 Made in Thessaloniki II, PARALLAXIS,”Fear of Vacum”, “e_random” video and sound installation in public space-agora, Thessaloniki Greece. http://parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki/thessaloniki-allios/vitrina-3-random-e-motion-20132002“SYMPOSIOUM” digital collage-prints, Warehouse B’, Port of Thessaloniki, Municipal Thessaloniki Greece