"I can hardly absorb
the daily world news
in the newspapers.
Transforming them into art
is the only way for me to cope."
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maria ikonomopoulou

ongoing - upcoming - past

Verhalen van thuis - Mijn Nationale Bloem
13/11/2026 - 7/2/2027
Flower Art Museum Ten flowers, ten home countries, ten European artists, one theme: the national flower.
curated by Karina Tan
opening Friday 13 november 15.30 h
Kudelstaartseweg 1 | Aalsmeer
ruis en silte
8/11 - 19/12 2026 | galerie de zaal | Delft (NL)
opening 8 nov 15.00 h
Korrie Besems, Lon Godin, Gracia Khouw, Maria Ikonomopoulou noice and silence
on painting, texts, and the layers in between How do you make sense of the world? How do words bring order to the abundance of...
AIR - TOT art project
1/6 - 1/10 | artist in residence | TOT Art Project | Rotterdam (NL) Fascinated by the big question of how we share the public space in contemporary big cities I am observing since 2005, how citizens take care of plants on public sidewalks, through which they ‘donate’ greenery to the city on...

work

Civilisation 2023
For some time now I try to cope with the overflow of information coming through the daily press. I tend to block out world news. In the rapidly changing world of the recent past, my interest in the concept of the boundary/ limit/ orio in het Grieks becomes more and more urgent.
In...
Similarities . 2024
The shape of squares forming a net fascinates me.
This drawing was inspired by a piece of discarded fishing net picked up on the Belgian coast. I wanted to make it in blue, thinking of the wonderful blue of the Greek sea. For this I used the blue Bic pen of Stappers-lawyers, an office...
Complexity . Daily Wisdoms . Plexida . Plexi .
Complexity is a monumental braid made from hundreds of pieces of newspaper spun into yarn by using an excessively time-consuming procedure. The Greek word for braid -plexida- includes -plex- which appears also in the word com-plex-ity.
It is about the complexity of these times and a reference...