Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 1 September–14 November 2025

Maria Toumazou is an artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Working predominantly with sculpture, she shapes objects, materials, and situations through creative processes informed by site and biography.

Photo: Oskar Lee

Installation view, Maria Toumazou, Light Industry, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE

At IASPIS, she will research the genre of exhibition catalogues in historical collections, as a way to deepen her inquiry into how artworks are mediated before and after exhibitions.

She attended Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Frankfurt) and holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, and The Glasgow School of Art. Toumazou’s work was recently included in Boxes, a. SQUIRE, London (2025); Echo’s Hunger, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2025); Part 2, Parthenon 11, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (2025); the 15th Baltic Triennial: Same Day, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2024); Against Nature, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (2024); Phenomenon 5, Kerenidis Pepe, Anafi (2024); Biennale für Freiburg 2: Das Lied der Straße (The Song of the Street), Freiburg (2023). Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Light Industry, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2025); Half Frame, Overbeck-Gesellschaft – Kunstverein Lübeck, Lübeck (2025); Detour is method (with Lenard Giller), Bar Civil, Düsseldorf (2024); 2, Condo London (with Cora Pongracz), hosted by Hot Wheels Athens, London, and Essex Street/Maxwell Graham, London (2024); Subjective & Confessed (with Dora Budor), Jacqueline, Athens (2023); RHYTHM, CITIZEN, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2022).