kostas maros is a swiss photographer who currently lives in Basel and works in Switzerland and worldwide for international editorial-, corporate- and advertising clients.

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He grew up bilingual, speaking german and french. After school he studied law at a swiss university and worked for several years as a lawyer. Realizing that law was not what he wanted to pursue he went travelling and started to work as an intern for a newspaper. Meanwhile his interest for photography grew and it became his main occupation.

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kostas maros is represented by the photographers agency 13PHOTO for his commercial work and by the Gallery WERTHEIMER and the Gallery 94 for his art work

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PUBLICATIONS

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MONOGRAPHS

HIDDEN - Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz (2018), Christoph Merian Verlag

CABARET BIZARRE (2022), Christoph Merian Verlag

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COLLECTIONS

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Forum Würth art collection

Christoph Merian Stiftung art collection

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG art collection

Kellershals Carrard art collection

Permamed art collection

various private art collections

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EXHIBITIONS (selected)

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2024

works of the book 'Cabaret Bizarre' exhibited at Leica Store Basel

series 'Myths of Everyday Life' exhibited at Gallery Monika Wertheimer, Basel (upcoming, 15.3.-20.4.2024)

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2023

works of the book 'Cabaret Bizarre' exhibited at Leica Store Basel

works of the series 'Human nature' exhibited during Projekt 16 at Space 25 Basel

A work of 'Cicatrice' exhitbited at IPFO, Olten / 13photo

'Human nature' exhibited at Gallery 94, Switzerland (25.05.-01.07.23)

works of the series'Human nature' exhibited by Gallery 94 at the Photo Basel international Art Fair

works of the series 'Myths of Everyday Life' exhibited by Gallery Monika Wertheimer at the Photo Basel international Art Fair

works of 'Cicatrice' exhibited at Space 25 Basel

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2022

exhibition at FARB (Fondation Anne et Robert Bloch pour le création culturelle dans le Jura)

2022 Weissgrad & 13Photo, ADC Galerie, Zürich

'Cicatrice' exhibited at swiss cabinet, Art Salon Zürich

'Gempen I' exhibited by Gallery 94 at the Photo Basel international Art Fair

A work of 'HIDDEN' exhibited at the group show 'BEDS' at Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery Zürich, Switzerland (4.3.-23.4.22)

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2021

'Cicatrice' exhibited at Space 25 Basel, Projekt 7 (1.12.21-30.1.22)

'Cicatrice' exhibited by Gallery 94 at the Photo Basel international Art Fair

'Cicatrice' exhibited at Verzasca Photo Festival

2021 HOME - single works - PHOTO IS:RAEL, Fotofestival

'Fall Studies' exhibited at the group show 'H2o' at Gallery 94, Switzerland

'Cabaret Bizarre' exhibited at Gallery Tosei-Sha, Tokyo, Japan

(07.05.-29.05.21), -cancelled due to coronavirus-

'Cicatrice' exhibited at Gallery 94, Switzerland (04.03.-01.05.21)

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2020

works of 'Janguru, ジャングル', exhibited by Gallery 94 at Photo Basel Berlin / POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2020

works of 'deliver us from poverty' and 'fall studies' projected at the festival Image Vevey

'Cabaret Bizarre' exhibited at Gallery Tosei-Sha, Tokyo, Japan (4.9.-26.9.20) -postponed due to coronavirus-

works of 'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' and works of

'Janguru, ジャングル', exhibited at Photo LA virtual (27.06.-28.06.20)

works of 'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' and the work 'Jungle' exhibited at the fair Photo Basel virtual edition (17.06.-21.06.20)

'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' exhibited at the fair Photo Basel

(17.06.-21.06.20) -postponed due to coronavirus-

A work of 'Janguru, ジャングル', exhibited in the group show 'See you again' at Gallery Monika Wertheimer, Basel

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2019

The book 'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' shown at Athens Photo Festival

A work of 'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' shown at the official swiss opening of the Venice Biennale

'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' exhibited at museum Forum Würth Arlesheim (24.1.19-19.4.20)

'Janguru, ジャングル', exhibited at Gallery Monika Wertheimer, Basel

'Janguru, ジャングル', exhibited at the Photo Basel international Art Fair

'Failed escape' exhibited at Swiss Press Photo Award, Landesmuseum, Zurich

The book 'HIDDEN, Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz' shown at Book Fairs all over Europe within Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 18/19