Haris Epaminonda

Haris Epaminonda (born 1980 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot photographer, and video and multimedia artist, who lives and works in Berlin.

Haris Epaminonda studied at the Royal College of Art and Kingston University in London, graduating in 2003. Epaminonda and her partner Daniel Gustav Cramer (born 1975) have worked on their collaborative project, Infinite Library, since 2007. They have exhibited their work on a number of occasions, including in 2012 at the Kunsthalle Lissabon and in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.

Haris Epaminonda's work incorporates collage, installation, film, and photography. Initially, Epaminonda sourced photographic images from French magazines and books from the 1940s to the 1960s. From 2005, she started focusing on black-and-white collages of illustrations of people and architecture. In 2007, she began concentrating on color images and paper. Epaminonda creates idiosyncratic image compositions, which are created by photographing found photo materials, such as in her Polaroid-Serie (2008–09). Epaminonda also makes films with a Super8 camera, which she then digitally cuts—this, consequently, creates movie loops of different lengths.

The focus of her work centers on expansive collages and multilayered installations, which result from a combination of images, films, photographs, sculptures, and found objects. The room installations have a certain orientation, but can also become a labyrinth, which sets viewers on a particular path. Epaminonda was nominated for the 2013 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

Solo exhibitions

• 2017: VOL. XXII, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
• 2015: VOL. XVI, Le Plateau, Frac-ile-de-France, Paris
• 2013: Haris Epaminonda-Chapters, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
• 2013: South of Sun, Künstlerhaus Zürich, Zürich
• 2012: Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav: The Infinite Library (Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
• 2011: Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2011: Haris Epaminonda, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
• 2010: Level 2 Gallery: Haris Epaminonda, VOL. VI, Tate Modern, London
• 2009: VOL. I, II & III, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö

Group exhibitions

• 2017: The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• 2016: Thomas Demand: L’Image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan
• 2015: Every inclusion is an exclusion of other possibilities, Salt, Istanbul
• 2014: Conceptual and Applied III: Surfaces and Pattern, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
• 2013: Preis Der Nationalgalerie Für Junge Kunst 2, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
• 2013: Suicide Narcissus, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
• 2013: Ciclorama, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
• 2013: The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
• 2012: Documenta (13), Kassel
• 2012: Prompts & Triggers: Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam
• 2011: Geld ist nicht alles!–Jahresgaben 2011/12, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
• 2010: Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
• 2010: Amor Parvi oder Die Liebe zum Kleinen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen
• 2009: Sounds And Vision, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 2009: The Generational Triennial: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York
• 2008: 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
• 2007: 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• 2005: Fresh!–An Exhibition of French Video Art, Macau Museum of Art, Macau

• Early Summer The End of Summer Late Autumn, Mousse Publishing, Daniel Gustav Cramer und Haris Epaminonda, 2014, ISBN 978-9-89982-1-330
• Haris Epaminonda. Late Autumn, Walther König, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-0-185
• Haris Epaminonda, Malmö Konsthall, 2009, ISBN 978-9-17704-1-177