Maria Filopoulou
She was born in Athens in 1964. She studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under Leonardo Cremonini. She completed her postgraduate studies at the same school, with a scholarship from the French government.
With Maria Filopoulou’s paintings viewers can feel the cool water caressing their skin, the warm sun embracing their body, the vitality of the air, the pleasure of diving into the deep and the eroticism people feel in the water. Breath-taking turquoise blues and greens intertwine, seep and crystallize on her broad canvases. People immersed in the well-being, the relaxation, the union with nature. There is no time, only place.
She presented her work in twenty solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows in galleries in Athens, London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Istanbul, Venice, Melbourne, Miami, and Beijing .Her works are in the permanent collections of the Greek National Gallery of Art, the Greek Parliament, the Bank of Greece, the Goulandris Museum, the Kouvoutsakis Art Institute, the Frissiras Museum, the Sotiris Felios Collection, the Anthony and Asia Hadjioannou Collection, and many other public and private collections in Greece and internationally.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, “Her long hair a shadowy breeze”
Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania, Splantzia Square, Turkish Fountain, “Splantzia”
Academy of Fine Arts, Nikos Kessanlis Hall, Athens, “Heroes in the trash”
Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens “Born in Chania in 1953 “
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, «One meter» (Kleanthi-Christina Valkana)
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Archaeological Museum of Chania, (Retrospective) «The Space of Time»
Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia
Ekfrasi – Fizz Galleries, Athens
Citrone Gallery, Poros
Perfect Tense, Falatados School, Tinos
Artforum Gallery, Thessaloniki
C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia
Nees Morphes Gallery, Athens
Artforum Gallery, Thessaloniki
Rossi and Rossi Gallery, London
Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
Opus Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
Artforum Gallery, Thessaloniki
Titanium Gallery, Athens
Europe Art, Geneva
Titanium Gallery, Athens
Main Group Exhibitions
«Cultures», Professors from the Academy of Fine Arts, Agicultural University of Athens
«Scent of A Woma», from the collection of the National Gallery, Theoharakis Foundation, Athens
«Memorium of rthe Revolution» State Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (G. Bolis)
«Genii Loci. Greek Art from 1930 to the Present», Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
SOMATOGRAFIES Modern Greek Painting, Collection from Sotiris Felios, NATIONAL GALLERY, Nafplion, Sparta
«Ellenico Plurale-Dipinti dalla Collezione Sotiris Felios», Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, (Giuliano Serafini)
«35 artists for democracy», Zappeion Megaron, Athens (Takis Mavrotas)
«The Dynamic of an Image», B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music (Dora Iliopoulou Rogan)
«Classical memories in modern Greek art», Capital Museum of China, Beijing
«Mickey Mouse Meets Art», Hellenic American Union, Athens
«Near Likeness, Approaches to a Portrait of Antonis Benakis», Benaki Museum, Pireos Street, Athens (Th. Moutsopoulos)
«Classical Memories in Modern Greek Art». Ataturk Cultural Center. Hellenic Presidency of the European Union, Istanbul (M. Lambrakι-Plaka)
«Sketching Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday», Averof Gallery, Metsovo (Lina Tsikouta)
«Leonidas Beltsios Collection», Trikala, (M. Stefanidis)
«Karaghiozis, the Theater of Shadows and Fine Arts», Municipal Gallery of Patras, (B. Papadopoulos)
«Contemporary Greek Art – Three Generations of Greek
«Homage to P. Pantazis», Averof Gallery, Metsovo (O. Metzafou)
«Precious metals» Giannis Kontos presents his artists, Nees Morphes Gallery
«The loss of form within space», Nees Morphes Gallery, Athens, (E. Vakalo)
«Ten Greek Painters», Palermo, Catagne, Italy, (M. Stefanidis)
«Vl. Fryssiras Collection», Byzantine Museum, Zakinthos, (T. Mavrotas)
