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Hot Wheels Athens London hosting Maxwell Graham
On the occasion of Condo London 2024
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Hot Wheels Athens London and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York are pleased to present a collaborative exhibition of works by Cora Pongracz (b. 1943-2003) and Maria Toumazou (b. 1989, Nicosia) on the occasion of Condo London, 2024.
The two-person exhibition presents historical photographs by Pongracz alongside new sculptures and works on paper by Toumazou, each distinct in their approach towards radical portraiture informed by site and subject. One’s dedication to process-oriented repetition is met with the poetic seriality of the other’s images. Together, they articulate embedded languages of subversion, femininity, tenderness, and a shared commitment to leaving ends untied.
Bio
Cora Pongracz was born in 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died in 2003 in Vienna, Austria. Pongracz has had solo exhibitions at Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York, NY; Ost Licht, Vienna, AT; Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT; Galerie am Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT; the Maimonides Center, Vienna, AT; Galerie Steinek, Vienna, AT; FOTOHOF Galerie, Salzburg, AT; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT; and Antiquariat Wögenstein, Vienna, AT. Pongracz’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK (upcoming); Zürich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH; 21er Haus, Vienna, AT; Museum of Modern Art Salzburg Altstadt (Rupertinum), Salzburg, AT; Secession, Vienna, AT; mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, AT and elsewhere.
Maria Toumazou (b. 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus) lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus. Condo London will be Toumazou’s first time showing with the gallery at its London location, following a solo presentation at Liste 2022 and her solo show at the gallery in Athens in 2021. Recent solo shows include: SCRAP B, Point Centre for Contemporary Art at Moufflon Bookshop, Nicosia (2022); RHYTHM, CITIZEN, curated by Tom Engels, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2022); and Fair-face Elysée, curated by Peter Eramian, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, (2018). Toumazou’s work was also included in Biennale für Freiburg 2, curated by Paula Kommoss, Freiburg (2023); Jacqueline, Athens (2023); Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, curated by Tom Engels, Wiesbaden (2021); NiMAC, curated by Marina Christodoulidou, Nicosia (2019); and the Cyprus Pavilion at Biennale Arte, Venice (2017) with Neoterismoi Toumazou.
