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Marios Fournaris was born in 1981 in Piraeus. He studied painting and sculpture with emphasis on new expressive media at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) and in 2012 he obtained a postgraduate degree with honours from the University of Dundee, specialising in new media and artistic practice in the public sphere. A 2009 and 2010 ICY Fellow, and recipient of the ICY Award for Excellence in 2010, he was awarded a full PhD research fellowship in 2012 by the UK government's scholarship body. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Marios Fournaris' works - sculptural constructions, installations - are sometimes the result of a spontaneous creative production and sometimes a reflection on everyday, political and social issues, balancing between symbolism and contrasts. He has presented his artistic and theoretical work in six solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, as well as in workshops, residencies and conferences, while he has curated and participated in intercultural projects such as Musing For The Wild -SKG Bridges Festival 2019 (MOMus Thessaloniki Experimental Arts Centre, May 2019), etc. Since 2019 he is a member of the group SHARE THE PERAMA, participating in a series of artistic projects.