From Santorini to Athens

Maria Alexandrou
Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus on 1990. Graduate of the University of Crete, Department of Applied Mathematics (2013). Since 2013 : School of Fine Arts Department and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Painting class).

Group exhibitions:

• 2017 , Thessaloniki. Without a Hero Painting Exhibition held in co-operative Bookstore Café Poeta.
• 2016 , Thessaloniki. Visual dialogues with the city.
• 2016 , Stageira Chalidiki. Exhibition of the school of Fine Arts for Aristotle.
• 2014 , Thessaloniki. Paraliart, ephemeral art between the city and the sea.

Alexandros Alieas
The girl in black and the woman in blue, oil on cardboard and silver leaves, 100x70cm

Born in Alexandria in 1954. He studied Graphic Arts , Cinema. SOLO EXHIBITIONS • Arena, 1985 • AD Gallery " The Blood of Painting " 1988 • Gallery Link « The Liquid Hell " 1993 • Diana Yiulia Gallery «Sam Pekinpa-Egkon Sile-Konrant- Tiger " 1999 • Gallery Libra " The Hundred Virgins and Danae ' 2003 • Cultural Centre Nice ' Stalingrad ' 2004 • Dipilon " Ntrouna . Painting loves Vermeer Japanese women and Comics » 2004 • Athens Municipal Art Gallery "The Violent Immortality of Painting in the 21st Century" 2005 • Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki , Yeni Mosque "The Violent Immortality of Painting in the 21st Century" 2005 • Municipal Gallery of Cyprus , "The Violent Immortality of Painting in the 21st Century" 2005 • Manifactura « Give me your Dirty Love " 2007 • Eos gallery, 2013. Lots of group exhibitions.

Giota Andriakaina
Weaving a New Eco-Narrative, Thread on textile, 69x85 cm

She was born in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, as well as ,a degree in Fine Art from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Visual and Applied Arts.
Solo exhibitions: Not a day without a line, Artis Causa, Greece, 2016 // If life were a thread, Telloglion Art Foundation Museum, Greece, 2016 // From A Thread ,Museum of Contemporary Art of Florina Greece, 2015 // Representations ,Choros 18, Greece, 2013.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions.

Christos Artemis
Untitled, oil on wood, 135X128 cm

He was born in 1989. He graduated Athens School of Fine Arts (painting). He mainly creates large paintings, in which elements of nature are in relation with human beings. During one year he studied at the FBA of Lisbon (erasmus) where he started video art. He participated to many group exhibitions and since 2016, he is the curator of the Kinono Tinos Art Gathering.
He lives and works at Tinos island and Athens.

Athanasios Bathas
Falling Τree Enamel paint, acrylics, ink, oil 100x150 cm

He was born in Agrinio in 1981. He studied Fine Arts (ASFA) in Athens with professor Yannis Psychopedis and graduated in 2012. He composes,plays and listens to lots of music. He has been involved with the hagiography of Byzantine churches and taught painting and drawing to children and adults.

Athanasios Beroutsos
“Kore” , 2016 copper wire, transparent paper, led strip, clothes, shoes, wood. Figure: 110x35x25cm _ Box: 40x40x40 cm

1969 born in Baden, Switzerland. 1991 – 1999 Degree in Sculpture. Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). 2000 – 2003 Master in Digital Arts (ASFA) 2007 – 2013 Lecturer (Teaching Permit) The Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art at the University of Ioannina.
Lives and works in Galatsi/Athens.
Solo Exhibitions 2016 “T - Lymphocytes ”, Eos Gallery, Athens. 2015 “ΠΔ 407/80” Municipal Gallery of Ioannina. 2008 “True – False”, Eos Gallery, Athens. 2008 “20th Century” Morfes Gallery, Rethymnon. 2001 “Civilization”, Eos Gallery, Athens. 2000 Bosch Gallery, Athens

Christos Charisis
Urban Landscape / Diary, 2009, Acrylic on canvas attached on plexiglass, 43x35cm

(1966) is an artist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and at the Vakalo School of Graphic Arts, Athens.
He has presented various solo and collective exhibitions and his work is consisted by paintings, assemblages and public installations.
The meaning of public space has been very important in his work, not only in his public installations, like “Balloo”, the work he presented in the exhibition “Athens by Art” in 2004, but also in his late painting work. In his last series of painting he uses his mobile phone camera to isolate contemporary urban views and then he renegotiates the public space on the painting field.

Mania Efstathiou
Oblivion- From the series “Brain-scapes” 2016. Digital collage printed on Plexiglas // 65x65 cm

She was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. She studied Medicine and specialized in Nuclear Medicine in Thessaloniki and worked in hospitals and medical laboratories in Greece. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, Greece and ever since she is working as a full-time artist in Greece. She has three solo exhibitions, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad including the Beijing Bienalle at 2015.Efstathiou’s works have been included in Pepi Rigopoulou’s book ‘The Body-Art and Medicine’. Her works have been acquired by the National Museum, Beijing, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Municipal Culture Center of Corinth, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Dentistry, and private collections in Greece and USA. 

Tzeni Faliaridou
Untitled, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 40x40 cm

She born in 1973 in Thessaloniki, where she lives and work until today. She studied Interior, Graphic Design and Fine arts to School of Visual and Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2000 she and her partner up their own design studio, the “artnoise designers”, which they keep until today.

• 2016: Paintings without a Hero, 16/11/2016 - 15/1/2017, Painting exhibition, Poeta, Thessaloniki.
• 2016: World Philosophy Congress Aristotle Year, Visual activity, 2/7, Ancient Stagira, Chalkidiki.
• 2016: Visual dialogues with the city,Painting and engraving exhibition, 14/6 - 1/7, Old Archaeological Museum in Thessaloniki.

Stelios Gavalas
Utopia, coper - iron - acrylics - swarovski rocks, 85x35x30cm

Born in Athens 1966, Greece. 

• 1985: He attended the School of Fine Arts in Athens where he majored in sculpture under the guidance of two of Greece's most respected professors G. Nicolaidis and T. Papagiannis. At the same time he studied casting, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, experimenting also with various other materials.
• 1990: He graduated with honors.
• 1992 - 1994: He lived in Syndey, Australia where he experimented with various materials for casting in conjunction with the School of Arts in Sydney.
• 1998: He is currently working at the Archaeological Receipts Fund of the Ministry of Culture in Athens. He has also worked in conjuctions with the Byzantine, the Numismatic ans the Archaeological Museum where he has producted casts from original ancient artifacts.

Savas Georgiadis
Vermigion”, 2016, Oil on canvas, 125x100cm

Savas Georgiadis was born in Limasol in 1975. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Dimitris Mytaras, and graduated with a first class degree. During the course of his studies (1995-2000), he held a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation. He has held up to now nine personal and has taken part in a number of important group exhibitions. Works by Georgiadis are to be found in the Benaki Museum, the Vorres Museum, and in private collections in Greece and broad. During the period 2006-2007, he produced copies for the needs fo making the full-length film El Greco, directed by Yannis Smaragdis.

George Kazakis
Meyer – Joystick”, 2009, Glitter on paper, 89x119cm

George Kazazis was born in Athens where he lives and works. He has
been teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1990
(Associate Professor today).

Dimos Kipouros
Private Paradise, 2017, oil on canvas, 90x120cm

Dimos Kipouros was born in Orestiada in 1987, Greece.

• 2006 – 2011, School of Fine & Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia, workshop of Υ.Kastritsis.
• 2012 - 2014 worked as a drawing tutor in Thessaloniki.
• 2014 - 2015 studied for an MA in Fine Arts with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation at Chelsea College of Arts. He has exhibited solo and participated in several group exhibitions, some of his significant participations are in art-athina 2016 with the technohoros gallery and in the group exhibition “Offering” held in the National Archaeological Museum curated by Manos Stefanidis. His work can be found in private collections in Greece and abroad and in the Christos and Sophia Moschandreou Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Manolis Merabeliotis
Untitled, Mixed media on canvas, 110x120 cm

Born in Athens in 1961.He studied at School of Fine Arts in B’ studio of painting(1991-1996).
Erasmus scholarship in Edinburgh College of Art(1994).
Annual State Bursary Athens (1997-1999).From 2000 he works in School of Fine Arts(educational assistant).He has 5 solo exhibitions and he participated at various group shows in Greece

Konstantinos Michalos
Merge, Acrylic on Canvas – mixed media, 100x80 cm

He studied at Athens school of fine arts with P, Tetsis as his mentor. He has conducted 5 personal exhibitions in Greece as well as abroad as in Titanium gallery of Athens 2015. Underflow gallery 2015. Art Athina2016. And Art Moor House gallery of London 2016 in cooperation with Malou art consulting and gallery. His work is characterized by symbolic expressionism and his subjects are derived from a study and a connection with the subconscious

Panagiotis Siagreece
Vertigo, 2015, Acrylics and oil on canvas, plexiglass, 60x60 cm

He was born in Piraeus in 1966.He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1985-1990). He has held ten solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Alexis Spathoulas
Gazer, Acrylic on m.d.f. , 100x120cm

Alexis Spathoulas born in Athens at 1980. He studied painting at University of Fine Arts of Athens during the period 1999-2003. He graduated from university with full marks by professor Mr. Partraskidis , B.Vlastaras ,P.Siagris. At 2001 he participated to Erasmus program in Madrid at Facultad de Bellas Artes. He also followed photography lessons at University of Fine Arts by professor mr.Babousis.

Katerina Veliou
Untitled, oil on canvas, 140x100,

Born in Halkidiki. She studied (2008-14) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at the Second Painting Workshop under Kyriakos Mortarakos. She continued (2014-15) with post-graduate studies on architectural design at the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. 2017, Rooms 2017+, Cappatos Gallery, Athens // 2016, Metamorfosis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki. She participated and honored in exhibitions, symposiums, workshops and Biennales of young artists in Greece and abroad: 2014, Mikrogeografies, in the frame of STOREFRONT For Art and Architecture, New York // 2013, 4th TRANSFORM, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania // 2013, 2012, INSPIRE Festival, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki // 2011, 2th TRANSFORM, National Gallery of Foreign Arts - National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria // 2011, SYMBIOSIS, 15th Biennial of Young Artists, Thessaloniki // 2010, 2nd Mediterranean Biennale of Cologne, Stadt-Museum gallery of modern art, Germany.

Konstantinos Tolis
“Pregnancy harmony”, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 100x90 cm

Born in Ioannina in 1966. He lives and works in Athens.He studied at the Fine and Applied Arts Department of University of Thessaloniki with direction in painting. Since 1991 he held 23 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group ones as well. Last cooperating gallery's: Titanium, Bonikos Gallery, EIKASTIKOS KYKLOS in Athens, Cube Gallery, Patra. Αlso took the painting eight churches in Attica, Thessaloniki and Arta. He also completed smaller sets in other cities of Greece and in New York

Dimitris Zouroudis
Boat on the coast, 2016. oil, embroidered gold thread on canvas with gold plated wooden framework, 192 x 162 cm

Dimitris Zouroudis was born in Piraeus. He studied at A.S.F.A. He lives and works in Athens and Thessaloniki. He teaches painting at the School of Visual and Applied Arts at the Aristotle University. His work in presented in thematic categories and being exhibited as installations. As means of expression he uses traditional techniques, random found objects, digitally processed images and videos, which he combines with the manual practice of embroidery, trying to discuss matters of the contemporary art. His compositions pursue to explore acts with ideological background and matters of religious fanaticism. The correlation of the used communicative symbols produces messages that pursue the awareness of the viewer. His works can be found in public and private collections.