Helene Black is an artist, educator and co-founder of the interdisciplinary NGO NeMe (www.neme.org). Since 1992, she lives and works in Limassol, Cyprus.
From 1998 until 2013, she focused on the exploration of the inconstancy of memory and questioning the forms in which history, place and language are proposed.
Her works from 2014 to present focuses on reprocessing colonialism and about revealing the ingrained and often overlooked contradictions when there was no room for public debate. Not only were political and social histories displaced, but environments, ecologies were ruined, degraded, or exploited.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 The substance of shadows, Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2009 The Strangeness of Natural Things, Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2006 The Secrets I am Telling are Yours, Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2002 NoThing, Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2002 No Choice, Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
2001 No ID, Monagri Centre of Contemporary Art, Monagri, Cyprus.
1997 Messages of Lost Cities, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1996 Steel Towns, Stainless Memories, Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
1995 Stainless Waters, Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
1994 Steel Life – A Mixed Method, Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
1990 Inherent Identity – War and Surveillance, Gallery 77, Sydney, Australia.
1987 Form and Space, Hakone Civic Centre, Kanagawa, Japan.
1986 Cultural Iconographies, Piper Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1976 Mixed Media, Upwey Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1972 Urban Image, Gallery 99, Melbourne, Australia.
ART COMPETITIONS | PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2006 Cyprus High Court: Art competition. First prize for my proposal Multiple Folds for position B.
2006 Olympic House, Nicosia, Cyprus: Sculpture competition curated by Marina Vryonidou for proposals Stainless Dreams and Higher Faster Stronger.
2004 Platforma: Cyprus national dance competition. First prize for the artwork Squaring the Circle. Collaborative dance performance with ‘Omada En Drasi’.
2003 First prize for proposals A Place in Time and Passing Moments for the competition for the creation of artwork for the Hellenic Bank Head Offices.
2000 Competition for the Cyprus representation in the Medi@terra exhibition and symposium, Athens, Greece. First prize on CDROM section for On exit frame me and Mirror. In collaboration with Yiannis Colakides.
2000 Competition ‘Twin Cities’ for the creation of the sculpture Framed Views installed in the Limassol sculpture park.
For more information: www.hblack.net
