Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born choreographer, performer, and visual artist who lives and works between Paris, Athens, and New York. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Since the early 2000s, she has developed a distinct practice based on the relationship between the live body, the still image, and the sculptural object. Concentrated on stillness, deceleration, and aesthetic precision, her works—spanning performance, installation, photography, sculpture, sound, and moving image—reflect on concepts of time and representations of the human figure. Her solo exhibitions and presentations include: Tai Kwun Contemporary (2023), LUMA Arles (2022), OGR Torino (2022), Secession (2021), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2019), Mudam Luxembourg (2019), Centre Pompidou (2018), Onassis Stegi (2017), Walker Art Center (2017), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016), The Kitchen (2019, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006), and Stedelijk Museum (2015). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions and festivals at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Museion, Gropius Bau, Performa, Serralves Museum, and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. She also participated in documenta 14 (2017) and the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Hassabi was an Onassis resident (2019–2022). She has received major honors, including the Performa Malcolm McLaren Award (2019) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011).