Marina Xenofontos, Overnight Coup Plan 2025
Mint invites you to a guided tour by the exhibition’s curator, Emily Fahlén.
Mint is a non-profit exhibition space situated in the Workers’ Educational Association in central Stockholm. Focusing on contemporary art, sound and poetry, Mint is embracing experimental practices, cross-generational encounters and site-specific interventions.
Curator-led tour of Marina Xenofontos – Overnight Coup Plan 4.4 – 15.6 2025
Overnight Coup Plan by Marina Xenofontos (1988, Limassol) is a fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory, including a newly commissioned short film and sculptural works. The exhibition marks the first presentation of Xenofontos’s work in Sweden. Following a group of girls’ journey from Limassol to Ayia Napa, Marina Xenofontos’ short film tracks the motions of an average night out, while simultaneously navigating the more obscure undercurrents of the landscapes and locations they inhabit. Marina Xenofontos’ work employs film and sculpture to consider the inevitability of failure and the marginalisation of personal narratives in civic spaces. By shaping interpretations and meanings, she explores interrelated facets of simulations, objects, and translations that allow for the remembrance of symbols and errors in their functions. Power structures of civic spaces are reimagined via an exploration of anecdotal stories and coincidental epitomes that represent sardonic reflections on mechanisms of production and understandings of history.
Marina Xenofontos (1988, Limassol) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent solo exhibitions include Eternal, Returns at Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2025); View From Somewhere Near at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2024); Public Domain at Camden Art Centre in London (2023); In Practice at SculptureCenter in New York (2023); Carousel at AKWA IBOM in Athens (2022); I don’t sleep, I dream at The Island Club in Limassol (2021). She is the recipient of the Frieze Emerging Artist Award 2022 and recently participated in the 15th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania.
Opening hours Mint:
Wed – Fri: 13–17
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