Maria Loizidou lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus.
2025 Biennial Year Find out more
Her practice interweaves personal and political references in relation to the history of colonialism, war, oppression, minorities, and the deprivation of social welfare in Cyprus.
Her work, combines drawings with pencil, animation, video, sculpture, and knitting through collective workshops. Recently, it has been presented in installations such as The place I am not in collaboration with Freud Museum London and Hellenic Center, London (2024), space of togetherness, in collaboration with NEON, Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece | School of Athens – Irene Papas, Athens (2024), Moi Balbuzard Migrant, in collaboration with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2023), A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920–2020, in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021), Portals, in collaboration with NEON, at the Former Tobacco Factory in Athens (2020).
In 1986, she represented Cyprus at the 43 Venice Biennale with the work The Myth of Ariadne in three acts, and in 2017 she participated in Documenta 14, with the work Collective Autobiographie (2011).
Her works activate public spaces, creating platform for interaction and discussion, emphasising the power of fragility. As a member of AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism Maria has the possibility to address such issues on an interdisciplinary level.
Liverpool Biennial 2025
'Where Am I Now?', 2025
Maria Loizidou’s art practice interweaves personal and political references in relation to the history of colonialism, war, oppression and minorities. Her artworks activate public spaces, creating a platform for interaction and discussion, emphasising the power of fragility.
For Liverpool Biennial 2025, Loizidou has created a beautiful and thoughtful installation which responds to the architecture of Liverpool Cathedral and the different species of birds that visit and nest in and around the building grounds. Hanging above us from the Dulverton Bridge, ‘Where Am I Now?’ is created using a common traditional weaving technique – the work is hand-woven with thin steel wire and crafted with needles in patterns reminiscent of Mediterranean and international crochet traditions.
Cyprus and Liverpool are both
Maria Loizidou’s art practice interweaves personal and political references in relation to the history of colonialism, war, oppression and minorities. Her artworks activate public spaces, creating a platform for interaction and discussion, emphasising the power of fragility. For Liverpool Biennial 2025, Loizidou has created a beautiful and thoughtful installation which responds to the architecture of Liverpool Cathedral and the different species of birds that visit and nest in and around the building grounds. Hanging above us from the Dulverton Bridge, ‘Where Am I Now?’ is created using a common traditional weaving technique – the work is hand-woven with thin steel wire and crafted with needles in patterns reminiscent of Mediterranean and international crochet traditions. Cyprus and Liverpool are both places marked and shaped by migration, and Loizidou references migratory birds that defy geopolitical borders to reflect on themes of freedom, migration, climate change, coexistence and survival. Made collaboratively with female artisan sewers, the piece invites us to pause and Courtesy of the artist. Co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool Cathedral, with support from Henry Moore Foundation.
'Where Am I Now?', 2025
consider our relationship with nature in our constantly changing world.
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Maria Loizidou, ‘Where Am I Now_’ 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at Liverpool Cathedral. Photography by Mark McNulty.
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Maria Loizidou, ‘Where Am I Now_’ 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at Liverpool Cathedral. Photography by Mark McNulty.
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Maria Loizidou, ‘Where Am I Now_’ 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at Liverpool Cathedral. Photography by Mark McNulty.
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Maria Loizidou, Moi Balbuzard Migrant, 2023, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris 2023-24. Photography by Maria Lund. -
Maria Loizidou, Moi Balbuzard Migrant, 2023, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris 2023-24. Photography by Maria Lund.
