Marina Fokidis is a curator and writer based in Athens Greece. In 2014, she was appointed Head of the Artistic Office, Athens and curatorial advisor for documenta 14. She is the founder of Kunsthalle Athena and South as a State of Mind, a bi annual arts and culture magazine.

In 2011 Fokidis was one of the curators of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial (www.thessalonikibienniale.gr). She has also been the commissioner and the curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 51rst Venice Biennial, (2003) and one of the curators of the 1st Tirana Biennial (2001). She was an adjunct curator at the Art Space Pythagorion - Schwarz Foundation, where she curated solo shows with newly commissioned works by Slavs and Tatars (2013) and Nevin Aladag (2014). From 2001 to 2008 she served as the co-director of Oxymoron a non-for profit organization in Athens dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art in Greece and on an international level.

She has written essays for different edited collections, for artists and exhibition catalogues and for several international art magazines and book publications including Frieze, Art-Agenda, Artinfo, Flash Art, Art and Australia, Manifesta Journal, Empires Ruins and Networks, A reception of Urban Ecology: Detroit and beyond, Articulating Power and Subversion, among others. She has also participated in many conferences and discussions internationally including Arco, Art Basel Conversations, Global Art Forum, Art Dubai, Liverpool Biennial, São Paulo Biennial Arco Lisbon, Vienna Contemporary, Berlin Biennial, among others She has been jury member for various awards, 2013 Furla Award, Bes Revelaco 2013 – Serralves Museum, Videobrasil 2017 awards, among others.

She has been a professional fellow in the Akademie Schloss Solitude, an international Artist-in-Residence-program, and one of the invited fellows on 2017 Vila–Sul, Goethe Institut residency in Salvador Bahia.

She has been teaching in various programs including Saas Fee Summer Institute of Arts in Berlin. Starting November 2018, she will be teaching a course on site sensitivity as a process of art and exhibition making, at UDK Berlin, as part of the Prof. Nina Fisher class on Experimental Film. In July – August 2019 she will be leading a curatorial course in Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts