Cora Pongracz: 8 erweiterte portraits with Marietta Mavrokordatou
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Nov 02, 2025 — Nov 30, 2025
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The second dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with works by Cypriot artist Marietta Mavrokordatou, which complement Cora Pongracz’s media-reflective and expanded understanding of portraiture and identity with the dimension of embodied and situated experience.
Drawing on a phenomenological understanding of vision, Mavrokordatou repeatedly uses the camera in her artistic practice as an extension of the body – as an instrument that not only mediates perception, but also constitutes it. In this sense, her works operate in the interplay between body, medium, and perception and, much like Cora Pongracz, explore the potential of the photographic medium with regard to self-determined, experience-based forms of expression and multi-perspective narratives of the self.
With reference to the exhibition architecture, both works developed in dialo…
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Cora Pongracz: 8 erweiterte portraits with Marietta Mavrokordatou
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Nov 02, 2025 — Nov 30, 2025
Press Release
The second dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with works by Cypriot artist Marietta Mavrokordatou, which complement Cora Pongracz’s media-reflective and expanded understanding of portraiture and identity with the dimension of embodied and situated experience.
Drawing on a phenomenological understanding of vision, Mavrokordatou repeatedly uses the camera in her artistic practice as an extension of the body – as an instrument that not only mediates perception, but also constitutes it. In this sense, her works operate in the interplay between body, medium, and perception and, much like Cora Pongracz, explore the potential of the photographic medium with regard to self-determined, experience-based forms of expression and multi-perspective narratives of the self.
With reference to the exhibition architecture, both works developed in dialo…
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