Surroundings
4|7 - 30|8 2020
Art & Language, Tadashi Kawamata, Fischli & Weiss, Beat Streulli, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dan Graham, Jef Wall, Guy Van Bossche, Marc Vanderleenen, Bradley Kronz, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Jack Early, Andy Warhol
Mulier Mulier gallery Knokke - Zoute (BE)
Hypnagogia
Etudes-15 and Etudes-17 . 2020
on the groupshow Hypnagogia with works by
Rania Emmanouilidou | Aikaterini Gegisian | Maria Ikonomopoulou
Vangelis Gkokas | Mantalina Psoma | Anastasis Stratakis
5|3|2020 - 30|6|2020
Nitra gallery Athens
Anthology - opening speech by Kees Weeda
On my work table at home is a beautiful Perspex book display stand, the kind you see in better quality bookshops. The stand holds a book, an indecipherable book, which I often read. The pages are covered with lines, dashes, full stops, but they do not form letters. And yet I read it. I probably need to offer some explanation, even for a group of people for whom metaphors and paradoxes are everyday fare. The book, really more the size of a brochure, was made by two artists: Maria Ikonomopoulou and Anastasia Mina. They both made 6 drawings, and made 1 together. The book has two front covers and no back: when you have seen the work of one artist, you have to turn the book around to see the other’s work. Or keep turning the pages, in which case you’ll see half of the book upside down. Which, at the same time, subtly raises the issue of top and bottom in abstract art. It is produced on Moleskine Folio 100gsm acid-free paper. The cover is made from top quality Saunders Waterford watercolour paper, 300gsm, glued on 4 sides, acid-free and age-resistant, made in England. (This so that you can picture it). It is called syn[chrono]sides - with the word chrono in square brackets. I bought it in 2014.
How can you read a book that has no letters? You might say that you can only look through it, and in the first years that I had the work, that is what I did. But at some point I noticed that I started looking at the pages differently: I began to read them. (Read and touch because there are intervening pages that, like braille, consist solely of raised dots.) And then I ‘read’ the story of Maria. Admittedly, I have some prior knowledge, but even so, it is fascinating to think how this work is a kind of pars pro toto for Maria’s oeuvre. The precision, the love, imagination and the beauty of all her work are reflected in the pages of this little book. And if you buy the monograph, you will see – in so far as the connoisseurs don’t already know – that these qualities typify all of her work. And then – at least for me – a fascinating contrast emerges, which may not be that at all but, for the sake of argument, I assume it is. Those familiar with Maria’s biography might be surprised by the intricacy, perhaps even the unobtrusiveness of her work. A conversation with her soon turns to politics, the role of art and the artist in society, the deplorably scant resources this country accords the imagination, and the injustice of the world in general.
Such conversations clearly reveal Maria’s dauntless courage and perseverance. Qualities you sorely need, even in a country where everything seems to be well organised. Although it is generally the case that young artists struggle to build a professional practice after graduating, for someone still learning the language, and who doesn’t yet have a residence permit, things are a little more complicated. You can only survive by working a variety of jobs, and retrain so that you’re qualified to teach – preferably children in deprived communities. And, meanwhile, continue to work, keep working long and intensely. In his wonderful biographical sketch of Shostakovich, Julian Barnes writes, “Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
I could not describe Maria’s work with any greater accuracy. It is not the grand gesture of installations, fist-thick paint on copious square metres of canvas or ‘in your face’ socio-political critique. Even in her commissioned monumental work, such as the talisman cabinet for the Ronald Macdonald house (1998), she avoids the grand gesture and seeks compassion for the world in the precision of her visual power. Or the intervention at the Athens art fair in 2010: a series of vegetables and herbs in pots on the steps of the building, with the title of the work cut out above it as a garland: Growing Hope - in my opinion the main driver of her artistic practice. Whispered hope that will only grow stronger and more beautiful through the patina of time.
Hey, there you are, Maria said when she came by to pick up the work she wanted to photograph and saw the painting we bought from her in 1994 or thereabouts. She gently tapped it on the top and at that moment I understood why an artist feels the need to document her work, as we can see in the Anthology. Naturally, it’s primarily to create an overview, but there is also a need to hold the work, to see that it’s being well cared for. She herself feels in two minds about it: a monograph offers clear insights into her practice and yet reflecting on her own work is not Maria’s favourite pastime. I’m happier, she says, when I make things rather than reflect on them. The painting that Maria tapped is a small portrait of a child painted on wood, an intriguing, somewhat asymmetric face of a child looking at the viewer. A sober colour palette and great implicit expressiveness. The portrait is painted on plywood, with two panels mounted left and right, painted black, which fold together to close over the painted panel in the middle. If you do that (“if you’ve had enough of looking at it,” said Maria then), what you see on the wall is a black square.
The work dates from 1994 and over the years I started thinking about why I found it so intriguing. In the late 14th century the triptych rapidly emerged, mainly as an altarpiece, with scenes painted on the backs as well as the fronts of the panels. An efficient way to tell a story; if the piece is free-standing, the painter has six images to tell his tale, six images (and two when the panels are closed) that tell a coherent story. In Maria’s ‘triptych’ of the child's face, only 1 panel is painted, the other five are black. Open, it measures 69x34 cm. When the panels are closed, a square, black piece of wood measuring 34x34x5cm hangs on the wall. And instantly inspires another, unmistakable association, with the black Suprematist painting by Kazimir Malevich. The 14th century and Malevich, unified in a small portrait. The mystery of the painting emerges bit by bit. What initially seems to be an aid for the viewer is a portal into the mystique of painting: here is a work of art that combines the tradition of the 14th century pictorial narrative convention with one of the most revolutionary advances in painting: absolute zero, which Malevich wanted to attain. And the association goes a level deeper. When it went on display in the 1915 exhibition in St. Petersburg, the “Black Square” was hung in the ‘sacred corner’ of the room, the spot where Russians hang their Christian icons. Open the panels of the painting by Maria Ikonomopoulou, look at the portrait of the child in the white lace collar and you will appreciate what she has made: a beautiful icon.
Incidentally, I have not often closed the shutters. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is just one more example of the beauty that can be seen in the wonderful Anthology. In my home its place will be next to the Perspex book stand.
lessOn my work table at home is a beautiful Perspex book display stand, the kind you see in better quality bookshops. The stand holds a book, an indecipherable book, which I often read. The pages are covered with lines, dashes, full stops, but they do not form letters. And yet I read it. I probably need to offer some explanation, even for a group of people for whom metaphors and paradoxes are everyday fare. The book, really more the size of a brochure, was made by two artists: Maria Ikonomopoulou and Anastasia Mina. They both made 6 drawings, and made 1 together. The book has two front covers and no back: when you have seen the work of one artist, you have to turn the book around to see the other’s work. Or keep turning the pages, in which case you’ll see half of the book upside down. Which, at the same time, subtly raises the issue of top and bottom in abstract art. It is produced on Moleskine Folio 100gsm acid-free paper. The cover is made from top quality Saunders Waterford... read more
Maria Ikonomopoulou . Anthology
8/3/2020 - 30/6/2020
book launch and exhibition
Walgenbach art&books, Rotterdam
Kees Weeda opening speech (NL)
rf - intervew
Intervew by Linda Selena
for ram foundation
Bright Days Ahead
5|12|2019 - 31|1|2020
artists of the gallery
Commeter gallery, Hamburg (DE)
100th anniversary I Kathimerini
During the last 10 years I often use editions of the Greek daily newspapers I Kathimerini as material for my artworks. A lot of editions my mother used to send me by post and more recent editions, which dear friends are collecting for me, have been transformed into art pieces.
Since the news paper is celebrating his 100th anniversary this year, Maria Katsounaki and Maria Kakaounaki have made a reportage about the readers. Video by Chronis Tsichlakis and Kostis Papadakis
100th anniversary I Kathimerini
Art Thessaloniki 2019
21/11 - 24/11
booth 12
Art Thessaloniki fair
with Mulier Mulier gallery, Thessaloniki (GR)
Black & Blue
works from the FKP collection
October 2019 - March 2020
Fougaro Art Center, Nafplion (GR)
kM Magazine
article by Anton Staartjes on kM-kunstenaarsmateriaal Magazine based on artists talk / interview by Frits Nolte
From the Book to the Book
pleased to have our our artists book with 13 original drawings by Anastasia Mina and me, in the show
syn[chrono]sides
2014
permanent marker, pencil on moleskine acid free paper
22 x 15 cm
ed. 45
Cover book Knot to Knot
I feel honored to have the image of my work 'Need to Grow-2' on the cover of the book 'Kompo ton kompo' (knot to knot) by Dimitra Louka.
It is a collection of narrated stories, written in the idiom of the speaking individuals. People of the Greek countryside with no higher education are telling their life stories by using the astonishing power of the Greek language. The book is beautifully published by Kichli Publishing.
Orde en Chaos
11 May - 14 July Sint-Joriskerk, Amersfoort
400 years after the cruel end of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt's life,
26 artists are invited by gallery The Ploegh in his birthplace Amersfoort,
to reflect on his heritage for The Netherlands.
I am proud to be part of the selection and contribute to this show inspired by his life and work with
'Names' 2019
cutout paper, charcoal, plexiglass
25 x 25 x 70 cm
opening word by Landa van Vliet
We don't know any better than mythology being thing of the past; tales of gods and goddesses, love, betrayal, war, births that happened centuries ago, and deaths of heroes and the vanquished, with endlessly branching family trees. No one needs an explanation to understand myths - tales of earthly and metaphysical societies, which are translated into contemporary retellings generation after generation. In the work of Maria Ikonomopoulou, we see the world around us. Greek by birth, lucky lady, from a family tree forged by a civilization thousands of years old. Do myths run in her blood?
What do we see? An amalgam of techniques and processes; reworkings of Greek newspapers, paper cutouts, embroideries and drawings on paper and photographs, photos, yarn, wool, beeswax - an oeuvre and a life of endless patience and surrender. Like an industrious curly-haired bee, every day she processes her observations and fashions them into a labyrinth at the hive's very heart.
Consider this: every newsprint flower is cut by hand; every newspaper flower has multiple layers held together by a small embroidered pistil baskets full. Baskets? Maria applies equal precision to minor details. The embroidered flowers, which will become the material for an artwork, are placed in one basket, not an ordinary container. Her practice is suffused with such refinement and love of the material. Like a myth, a family history and an allegory of the generally human, the attention she lavishes on minutiae is a reflection on the infinite.
The unhurried process of creation is often a social one in which she works with people who cross her path. Youn and old cut and embroider with her, using a variety of techniques. She uses the power of craftsmanship and connects people in her public works such as 'Growing Ground', where plants, herbs and chalk drawings are installed in the public space. It is not just the gesture, the myth of the artist who speaks out, who radiates power, but rather an invocation of public responsibilities; all of us must care for the young plants of the street. She 'softens' the city, she lets it touch our hearts.
Maria Ikonomopoulou said to me: You can keep pointing a finger shouting and saying: They have to change it (see her series 'Wallpapers' and 'Zero' in which, with paper flowers and embroidery critique, she meditates like a monk on worldly affairs). THEY, the politicians, have set us on this slippery slope, but the only thing we can and probably should do, is tackle things together, stop pointing at each other. Don't grieve for the lack of guides, a theme she incorporated into 'Lost', a work inspired by a sculpture, the charioteer of Delphi with the broken reins. We're looking for people who seize the reins and lead the country in the right direction. For decades, the powerbrokers and politicians have believed in their own credibility, hiding behind sham solutions then suddenly reappearing and brazenly proposing short-term solutions. How can that happen? 'Corruption' is her sobering answer.
Ten years of crises, twelve new laws concerning the tax system. We, here, have the good fortune of enjoying her gently provocative artworks, with their pensive reflections and lightheartedness. It is the lightest form of crisis criticism imaginable - it stymies the myth of power struggles and affirms myth as poetry. It is Rotterdam-Greek-European-Taoism.
Keep travelling and returning home in your work, wherever that may be: Athens, Antwerp, Rotterdam. I hereby present you with a skein of scarlet wool to make sure we don't lose you, and you 'll never be without yarn. Stay with us, like Ariadne, to offer consolation and help to put this world into perspective in this mire of greed and misuse of power and the struggle for existence.
Landa van Vliet
May 2019
speech given during the exhibition Fragments 2013-2019 in the Goethe Institut, Rotterdam | translation by Lisa Holden | photo by Marieke van der Lippe
lessWe don't know any better than mythology being thing of the past; tales of gods and goddesses, love, betrayal, war, births that happened centuries ago, and deaths of heroes and the vanquished, with endlessly branching family trees. No one needs an explanation to understand myths - tales of earthly and metaphysical societies, which are translated into contemporary retellings generation after generation. In the work of Maria Ikonomopoulou, we see the world around us. Greek by birth, lucky lady, from a family tree forged by a civilization thousands of years old. Do myths run in her blood?
What do we see? An amalgam of techniques and processes; reworkings of Greek newspapers, paper cutouts, embroideries and drawings on paper and photographs, photos, yarn, wool, beeswax - an oeuvre and a life of endless patience and surrender. Like an industrious curly-haired bee, every day she processes her observations and fashions them into a labyrinth at the hive's very... read more
Fragments 2013-2019
3 May - 24 May 2019
solo show, Ubergangsweise # 8
Goethe Institute Rotterdam
Art Brussels 2019
25 - 29 April | Art Brussels fair
with MulierMulier gallery
Stand A.02, section Prime
Finding Ling-Ling's Head
Gorgeous four pages in the catalogue Works and archives from the Verhaegen Family Collection [part II]
with a text by Luc Lambrecht
Cookie Butcher
collection of EMST in NAMOC
28/11/2018 - 17/1/2019
At the Beginning Was the Word
part of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens EMST collection travels to National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
curated by Katerina Koskina and Anna Mykoniati
Alexis Akrithakis, Nikos Alexiou, Stephen Antonakos, Katerina Apostolidou, John Baldessari, Pandelis Chandris, Stathis Chrisikopoulos, Savvas Christodoulidis, Costis, Bia Davou, Pavlos, Iran Do Espιrito Santo, Alexandros Georgiou, Phoebe Giannisi, Gary Hill, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Ilya Kabakov, Yael Kanarek, Yorgos Lazongas, Maria Loizidou, Mateo Lopez, Vlado Martek, Nina Papaconstantinou, Theodoros – sculptor, Rena Papaspyrou, Nausika Pastra, Jannis Psychopedis, Alexandros Psychoulis, Yorgos Sapountzis, Kyrillos Sarris, Angelos Skourtis, Anastasis Stratakis, Chryssa, Dilek Winchester, Pantelis Xagoraris, Georgios Xenos, Vana Xenou, Dimitris Xonoglou, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Vadim Zakharov
Meermanno Museum
the edition 11/45 of our artists book syn[chrono]sides with 13 original drawings by Anastasia Mina and Maria Ikonomopoulou is now part of the collection Meermanno Museum, House of the Book in The Hague
Canvas tv
A short documentary (spoken language : dutch) about the works related to crisis in Greece.
Interview : Jan Blondeel
Camera : Louk Voncken
canvas.be
30 years Mulier Mulier gallery
City Flowers - Bodoni (BL)
3/8/18 - 30/9/18
Mulier Mulier gallery Knokke (BE)
be glazed and fired
Unuseful Money. 2018
bisquit red clay, white engobe
contribution to the group show curated by Vasilis Zografos about the contemporary use of ceramics in the practice of architects, designers and artists
20/9/18 - 28/9/18
VZstudio Thessaloniki (GR)
Old editions of Kathimerini trasformed ...
"Old editions of Kathimerini transformed in pieces of Art and beauty" article by Margarita Pournara
I Kathimerini newspaper 14.06.2018
Unguided Tour
Vasilis Zografos . Irini Bachlitzanaki . Maria Ikonomopoulou
7 - 30 June 2018
Martinos gallery Athens (GR)
Museum III
Bright Days Ahead
6/12/17 - 30/1/18
group show with the artists of the gallery
Commeter gallery Hamburg (DE)
Women's Methodology
8/10/17 - 10/12/17
Nancy Spero . Maria Ikonomopoulou . Judy Rifka . Karen Kilimnik . Jenny Holzer . Niki de Saint Phalle . Annette Messager . Claude Lalanne . Kimsooja . Kara Walker . Marthe Wéry . Barbara Kruger
Mulier Mulier gallery Knokke Zoute (BE)
Een 'carte postale' from the Greeks...
'Een carte postale from the Greeks of Rotterdam'
article by Dimitris Athinakis
Ι Kathimerini 1/11/2017
Rotterdam Metamorfosen
Verhalenhuis Belvedere Rotterdam
Be my Guest
Close . 2017
cutout prints on Hahnemühle paper, nails
wallmounted
190 x 130 cm
29/9 - 6/10/17
with Angeliki Douveri and Kyriaki Maurogeorgi
curated by Vasilis Zografos
VZ studio Thessaloniki (GR)
School Etymology - Kassel
12/8/17 - 16/8/17
public intervention during
Documenta 14 Learning from Athens
Friedrichsplatz, Kassel (DE)
Hellenic Centre - London
7/6/17
syn[chrono]sides
presentation and panel discussion
Anastasia Mina, Maria Ikonomopoulou
Nathalie Boobis
Hellenic Centre, London (GB)
The Greek Counter Example
6/4/17 - 12/4/17
curated by Thanassis Moutsopoulos/Manos Stephanidis
with MulierMulier gallery
Diplareios School, Athens (GR)
School Etymology - Athens
6/4/17 - 16/7/17
public intervention during
Documenta 14 Learning from Athens
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Such a Tender Nothingness
2/12/16 - 17/12/16
155 images, published on Facebook have been selected by the curator of the exhibition, Angeliki Douveri
Dutch Institute Athens (GR)
Growing Ground on Skai TV
Growing Ground, interview with Stavros Ioannidis on Skai TV (3/10/16)
Review by Yannis Constantinidis
Hommage to Nikos Alexiou, review by Yannis Constantinidis lifo.gr
Hommage to NIKOS ALEXIOU
Nikos Alexiou
Lefteris Alexiou
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Lefteris Tapas
Dimitris Tataris
Stratis Tavlaridis
16.09.16 - 15.10.16
CAN gallery, Athens (GR)
29th Moscow International Book Fair
Delighted to announce that syn[chrono]sides of Maria Ikonomopoulou and Anastasia Mina is part of the selection made by the Greek State Museum of Thessaloniki to be presented at the 29th Moscow International Book Fair (RUS) from the 7th to the 11th of September 2016.
The Cologne Art Book Fair
19/8 - 21/8
proud to announce that syn[chrono]sides will be part of The Cologne Art Book Fair (DE)
rho[e]mb-[asm]-i
cover for a notebook commissioned by Cube Art Editions
23,5 x 15,5 cm /56 blank pages
folded silkscreen
ed. 400
The Rhombus as an option for the letter O was the beginning of this drawing. The state of Musing (that in Greek has the same origin as the word Rhombus) is what happens during the process of drawing.
Typography as an act of art
12/4/16 -20/9/16
syn[chrono]sides is part of the show
Greek State Museum Thessaloniki (GR)
finding Ling-Ling's head
April 2016 - September 2016
Works from the Verhaegen Family Collection (Part II)
cookie butcher Antwerp (BE)
Greece Land of Honey
14/11 - 22/12 2015
Takis, Vlassis Caniaris, Maria Ikonomopoulou
MulierMulier gallery Knokke Zoute (BE)
Browsing Sessions @ Het Wilde Weten
Browsing Sessions @ Het Wilde Weten
Sunday October 4th 2015
Art Calendar Rotterdam 2015
Contribution for page 4/5/2015
a piece inspired by the poem 'Tulips' of the dutch poet T. van Deel
Art Eco - Attitudes
Cc Strombeek Grimbergen, Brussels (BE)
Dream On...
Dream On... (works on paper)
10/1 - 28/2
with Paul Klemann, Victor Ekpuk and Isabel Ferrand
galerie Sanaa Utrecht
Art Therapy / Beton 7 artradio
On tuesday 13/1 between 21.00-22.00 h talking about art with Artemis Potamianou and George Oraiopoulos beton7artradio
syn[chrono]sides
A handmade book in limited edition (45) with drawings by Anastasia Mina and Maria Ikonomopoulou, will be launched in Rotterdam on Sunday, November the 30th in Rotterdam.
Transformation
with Christina Mitrentse, Elias Kafouros, Eva Marathaki, Giorgos Tserionis, Ino Varvariti, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Nikos Papadimitriou, Thanos Klonaris
curated by Artemis Potamianou
DEPO DARM Contemporary Art Space, Athens
α for Athens Voice
ntvg Magazine
Growing Care Athens - 1 since 2012 part of the collection of the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, placed at the radiology department, has been used for the cover of The Dutch Magazine for Medical Science, 1/2014.
Not About Flowers
2/6/14 - 31/8/14
galerie Wilms
The work of Maria Ikonomopoulou is many-sided. Using a range of modern and traditional techniques she creates beautiful pieces that raise a lot of questions about contemporary society.
Since 1991 Maria Ikonomopoulou has built up a small art collection. Four artists represented in her collection are invited to show new work: Alexandra Roozen, Katrijn Verstegen, Margriet Thissen en Rien Jansen.
Augustus 31 at 15.00 Maria Ikonomopoulou will talk in the gallery about her work and about her collection.
The Rule of Law and the Right to be Human (cat.)
cataloge concept and design by I. Melanitis
The Rule of Law and the Right to be Human
30/4 - 13/6
Athens School of Fine Arts, 'Nikos Kessanlis' Exhibition Venue, Athens
curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos
O
special contribution Tortuca #34
O - Tortuca #34
10/5 at 16.00 h
launching of Tortuca #34 at the Poetry Center, Gent (BE)
with the special contribution O by Maria Ikonomopoulou
Art - Athina 2014
15/5-18/5
Art Athina fair with MulierMulier gallery, Athens
Reflections on Art and Literature
22/2/14 - 22/3/14
curated by Artemis Potamianou and Thalia Vrachopoulos rosalux Berlin
Rebecca Agnes, Isabel Baraona, Kostas Bassanos, Tiny Domingos, Cris Giannakos, Meg Hitchcock, Richard Humann, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Barbara Knight, Imni Lee, Renee Magnanti, Christina Mitrentse, Robert C. Morgan, Giorgos Papadatos, Nikos Papadimitriou, Artemis Potamianou
Tulips, 2014
ispired by a poem of T. van Deel
vpro radio De Avonden
een interview with Anton de Goede
vpro radio
villa vpro radio
Lecture
Sunday August 11 at the auditorium of the Coda museum in Apeldoorn, 15.00h
Lecture about the two new pieces, Wallpapers and Crisis Transformation, I made for the exhibition Coda PaperArt. Both pieces are inspired by the economical and social crisis that Greece has to deal with since 2009. Background information and more about the conditions during the making process will be shared with the public during the lecture. As well as the similarities of the new installations with earlier ones and my relation with paper.
Kunstenfestival Watou 2013
Graanschuur
THOMAS BOGAERT - JOHAN DE WILDE - félix - JONAS VANSTEENKISTE - MARIA IKONOMOPOULOU - NATASJA LEFEVRE - DIRK VAN BASTELAERE - SARA BENHAMOU - PAUL DE VREE
CODA Paper Art 2013
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn Clemens Behr, Aldo van den Broek, Natasha Bowdoin, Claire Brewster, Peter Callesen, Publishing House Eloisa Cartonera, Movana Chen, Caterina Crepax, Dylan Graham, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Li Hongbo, Mia Wen Hsuan Liu, Couzijn van Leeuwen, Alicia Martin, Andrea Mastrovito, Studio Jo Meesters, Regula Maria Muller, designer label Vij5, Wendy Plomp, Bronia Sawyer, Dieuwke Spaans, Jill Sylvia, Rob Voerman, Anouk Vogel
Ms Europa 2
'City Flowers - Futura' in the collection of MS Europa 2 cruise ship next to a piece by Peter von Felbert
Meeting Greece #1
curated by Guy Van Bossche
Vlassis Caniaris, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Varvara Liakounakou, Eleni Paschalidis, Takis 8/6 - 21/7 MulierMulier gallery, Knokke-Zoute (BE)
Art Athina 2013
16/5 - 19/5
Art Athina fair
Faliro Pavillion, Athens
MulierMulier gallery, booth D5
Maria Ikonomopoulou, Sol Le Witt, Guy Van Bossche, Tadashi Kawamata, Art & Language, Varvara Liakounakou, Robert Barry yatzer.com
Wilms gallery
4/5 -15/6 Wilms gallery
Group show with the artists of the gallery in the new building at the Nieuwstraat 50 in Venlo
Temporary / Timeless
You are very welcome to the inauguration of the floor piece Temporary / Timeless a commission for the entrance of FOM institute AMOLF's newly built home in Amsterdam, next Thursday - January 10 - at 16.00 by the director of AMOLF, Albert Polman.
The floor piece is based on visual elements and textual phrases from current research projects;
many researchers from AMOLF's different laboratories contributed to this art work.
AMOLF Institute FOM
LUMC collection
Two pieces of the series Growing Care - Athens are now part of the LUMC collection, Leiden
Novosibirsk- Graphic Arts Triennal
The Dutch participation at the Novosibirsk Graphic Art Triennial 2012 with Caspar Hoogzaad; Saskia de Maree; Wim Konings; Raw Color; Maria Ikonomopoulou; Ellen Vomberg; Hillegon Brunt; Inez Odijk; Odine de Kroon; Anuli Croon; Margriet Thissen; Alexandra Roozen; Marilou Galdermans; Barbara Witteveen; Phoebe Maas; Inge Aanstoot; Marcha van den Hurk; Jaron Kovinus; Marie Civikov won the 1e curatorial price
Graphic Arts Triennal
the "Love Letters" are going to the Graphic Arts Triennal at the State Art Museum in Novosibirisk (RUS)
Dimensions of Paper
A group show with works by Celio Braga, Charlotte Mc Gowan-Griffin, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Lidy Jacobs, Ed Pien en Karen Sargsyan. The piece "Growing Interweaves" is being especially realized for the show.
trendbeheer.com LUMC gallery Leiden
10 x 10
12/6 - 14/7 2012
10 x 10, ten artists 'read' ten writers
Choros Tehnis 24 gallery, Athens
Following the Thread
Margherita Dessanay discusses the use of embroidery in contemporary art, Elephant #9 Elephant #9
Re:Rotterdam
Myths in Critical Times
Re : Rotterdam art fair
"Critical Times" 2012
embroidery on cut out financial daily news papers
70 x 100 cm
OCC (one Original Certified Copy one)
3/12/2011 - 14/1/2012
group show curated by Eleni Riga
L. Athanasopoulou, N. Alexiou, K. Antoniou, D. Baboulis, V. Gavaisse, M. Ikonomopoulou, E. Ioannou, S. Kallinikou, A. Karastergiou, Z. Keramea, T. Klonaris, T. Makris, N. Papadimitriou, M. Papamichail, V. Paspalis, T. Ploumi, V. Stylianidou, L. Tapas, D. Tataris, S. Touboura, F. Theodoridis, N. Triantaphyllou, C. Tsiota, I. Ximeri, Wersaweiss
TinT gallery, Thessaloniki (GR)
50-1 gallery, Limasol (CY)
Art Calendar Rotterdam 2012
City Fowers - Theokritos is the contribution for the page 10/2/2012
Art Calendar 2012
11/11/2011
Launch of the Art Calendar 2012 with contributions of 366 artists, phtographers and architects based in Rotterdam
Reisberichten publication
Reisberichten presentation
Article by Nelly Abravanel
17/4/2011
article by Nelly Abravanel at the 'Kathimerini' news paper about the exhibition Polyglossia
My page
Catalogue Polyglossia
edited by Marilena Karra, designed by A4 artdesign
Polyglossia
Onasis Cultural Center, Athens (GR)
14/3/11 - 30/6/11
Nassos Daphnis, John Christoforou, Philolaos, Takis, Stephen Antonakos , Pavlos, Constantin Xenakis, Chryssa, Cris Gianakos, Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras, Athena Tacha, Steve Gianakos, Lynda Benglis, Maria Klonaris / Katerina Thomadaki, Kalliopi Lemos, Jenny Marketou, Zoe Keramea, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Effie Paleologou, Evanthia Tsantila, Miltos Manetas, Katerina Christidi, Christina Dimitriadis, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Dimitris Tzamouranis, George Drivas, Maria Antelman, Giorgos Gripeos, Maria Zervou
Travel Messages
The project Travel Messages commissioned by the Kunstgebouw has started. Citizens of the neighbourhood Hoofdsteden (capitals) in Vlaardingen are sharing their travel stories with me.
Why do we travel? What is it that we are looking for? Why do we need to share our travel experiences with others? How it comes that we observe differently our travel places than our living places?
Those are some of the questions we try to find answers on. Every week a new story is to read at the web site of the local free press.
Drawing Stories extended
The exhibition at the 50-1 gallery Limassol, Cyprus is extended until February the 26th.
Dimitris Foutris, Lefteris Tapas, Anastassis Stratakis, Nina Papaconstantinou, Nikos Navridis, Fryni Mouzakitou, Savella Michael, Panayiotis Michael, Eleni Kamma, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Elina Ioannou, Maria ikonomopoulou, Philippos Theodorides, Katerina Christidi, Pandelis Chandris, Yannis Scourletis, Eftihis Patsourakis, Antonis Donef, Dimitris Baboulis, Maro Michalakakos, Maria Loizidou, Thanos Klonaris, Christos Delidimos
WONDERBOOK
The Wonder of Our Art Collection on Allure of the Seas
produced and editied by International Corporate Art
Drawing Stories
20/12/10 - 16/01/11
group show at
50-1 gallery Limassol, Cyprus
Dimitris Foutris, Lefteris Tapas, Anastassis Stratakis, Nina Papaconstantinou, Nikos Navridis, Fryni Mouzakitou, Savella Michael, Panayiotis Michael, Eleni Kamma, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Elina Ioannou, Maria ikonomopoulou, Philippos Theodorides, Katerina Christidi, Pandelis Chandris, Yannis Scourletis, Eftihis Patsourakis, Antonis Donef, Dimitris Baboulis, Maro Michalakakos, Maria Loizidou, Thanos Klonaris, Christos Delidimos
GROOT GRAFIEK
3/12 - 10/1
Krabbedans Eindhoven
opening Friday, December 3, at 16.00 pm
Inge Aanstoot, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Jaron Korvinus, Wim Konings, Phoebe Maas, Saskia de Maree, Raw Color en BCXSY.
During a year a group of artists and designers from Rotterdam and Eindhoven have being working on big size pieces in collarobation with the graphic studio Daglicht in Eindhoven. On show the results of the experiments.
Groot Grafiek
13/11 - 6/12
City Art Center Rotterdam
opening Sunday, November 21, at 16.00 pm
Inge Aanstoot, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Jaron Korvinus, Wim Konings, Phoebe Maas, Saskia de Maree, Raw Color en BCXSY.
During a year a group of artists and designers from Rotterdam and Eindhoven have being working on big size pieces in collarobation with the graphic studio Daglicht in Eindhoven. On show the results of the experiments with graphic techniques together with previous works of the participants.
Fantastische Fotografie:De Rotterdamse school toen
9/10 - 7/11
curated by Rommert Boonstra
Kimberly Clark, Iris van Dongen, Margi Geerlinks, Risk Hazekamp, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Juul Krayer, Ilse Leenders, Desiree Palmen, Schilte&Portielje, Bert Sissingh, Jean Marc Spaans, Marie Cecile Thijs, Lorelinde Verhees, Edwin Zwakman
City Art Center Rotterdam
trendbeheer
Allure of the Seas
Taseis Figis - Escapism
27/9 /10 - 23/10/10
Kourd gallery , Athens (GR)
Andreas Angelidakis, Andreas Vais, Giorgos Gyparakis, Lydia Dambassina, Irini Karagiannopoulou, Thanos Klonaris, Panos Kokkinias, Dimitris Baboulis, Kostas Bassanos, Socratis Nikoglou, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Nina Papaconstantinou, Rania Rangou, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Thanasis Totsikas, Iris Touliatou
Emma van Drongelen - Maria Ikonomopoulou
19/9/10 - 7/11/10
NEW UNTITLED gallery Venlo
House & Garden Magazine
'Techni ipo Skian' article by Dora Christidou, House & Garden Magazine (GR)
Sinopale 3
7/9 - 14/9
'Hidden Memories, Lost Traces' Sinop Art Biennial Sinopale 3, Sinop (TR)
Maria Ikonomopoulou - Raf Thys
19/6/2010 - 17/7/2010
VAN DEN BERGE hedendaagse kunst
Goes (NL)
Spice Lamp . 2010
Private commission for a lamp at the house of a professional cook in Rotterdam
Names of spices for cooking can be read during a dinner on the inside of the lamp
# 15 100 x 100
4/6 - 6/6
Zwervende Tentoonstellingen
Koetshuis, Rotterdam
Art Athina 2010
In-scribe
Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition 'In-scribe' at the galleries of the American Union from february 3 through march 9, 2010, curated by Iris Kritikou.
Expanded Drawing
8/4 - 5/6
Isabel Hurley gallery Malaga (SP)
curated by Pilar Ribal
Raymond Chaves & Gilda Mantilla, Guy Goldstein, Sybille Hotz, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Takehito Koganezawa, Katie Paterson, Michal Shamir, Sophia Tabatabadze, Stephan Thiel, Mariana Vassileva, Brigitte Waldach, Gal Weinstein
ALL ABOUT WORDS
15/2 - 25/3 2010
Mulier Mulier gallery, Knokke (BE)
Art & Language, Robert Barry, Georg Brecht, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Hanne Darboven, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Filliou, Jenny Holzer, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Arthur Köpcke, Josef Kosuth, Richard Long, Marcel Mariën, Michel Majerus, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Raymond Pettibon, Cheérie Samba, Guy Van Bossche, Ben Vautier, Bernar Venet, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner
In-scribe
3/2 - 9/3
curated by Iris Kritikou
Hellenic American Union, Athens (GR)
Agrafiotis Demosthenes, Apostolidou Katerina, Argianas Athanasios, Bournias Yannis, Chalyvopoulou Efi,
Chryssa, Fanouraki Lina, Fexis Filippos, Geka Penny, Gonou Eirini, Hatziargyrou Ersi, Karageorgi Tina,
Karagianni Eleni, Keramea Zoe, Ikonomopoulou Maria, Papadimitriou Elena, Papadopoulos Giannis,
Papanikolopoulou Magdalini, Pentzikis Nikos-Gavriil, Psychopedis Giannis, Skourogiannis Dimitris,
Spiliopoulos Marios, Tserionis Giorgos, Valaoritis Nanos, Vetta Nana, Xenakis Konstantinos, Xenos Giorgos,
Xenou Vana, Xonoglou Dimitris, Zervas Stamatis, Ziogas Giannis, Zouroudis Dimitris
WildBookMarket
Het Wilde Weten presents the WildBookMarket during the Art Rotterdam fair of 2010
Opening: Saturday 6 February 2010 at 14:00 Location: Het Wilde Weten
WBM is also open on 7 February from 14:00 to 19:00
Nowadays the artist's book encompasses and reflects every imaginable form of presentation and publication as well as different modes of distribution. In view of an explosive growth in the phenomenon of artist's publications and the number of publishers, Het Wilde Weten is presenting a selection during the WBM. The WBM represents an ideal opportunity to explore, bring along or exchange artist's books. Het Wilde Weten will be showing books published between 2010 and 2006.
www.yatzer.com
15/12/09
interview by Apostolos Mitsios at the brillant site yatzer
with photography by Odysseas Lekkas
maria ikonomopoulou and the art to be pure at *he*art
Intimate Distances
5/11 - 31/12
curated by Christina Petrinou
Martinos antique & art gallery Athens (GR)
photography by Odysseas Lekkas
What is making?
Symposium in the frame of the textile weekend, Tilburg
Gamma Epsilon Delta
22/10 - 28/11
Tint gallery Thessaloniki (GR)
curated by Els Hanappe
Lena Athanasopoulou, Dafni Eleonora Barbageorgopoulou, Dora Economou, Zoi Gaitanidou, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Despina Isaia, Zoe Keramea, Maria Konti, Maria Loizidou, Nina Papaconstantinou, Antigone Pasidi, Maria Polizoidou, Eleni Riga, Eleni Theofilaktou
Let a thousand flowers bloom
the piece has been successufully installed at his definitive location
the main hall of the new building of 2 primary schools
designed by N2 architects
Schere 39 . Rotterdam
Seasons Magazine
'Griekse Zonnesteek' artikel by Margriet de Groot (page 15,16 )
Lychnari
'Water aan het woord'
article by Wim Oudshoorn
Lychnari Magazine (3/2009)
www.lychnari.nl
'Water aan het woord'
article by Wim Oudshoorn
Lychnari Magazine (3/2009)
www.lychnari.nl
AMOLF
working on the sketch for an art piece at the entrence of the new building of AMOLF
institute in Amsterdam
City Flowers - Athens at Expanded Ecologies
Growing Interests at Expanded Ecologies
Expanded Ecologies
'Expanded ecologies. Perspectives in a Time of Emergency'
curated by Daphne Vitali
11/06-04/10/2009 National Museum of Contemporary Art
Andreas Angelidakis
Nikos Alexiou
Urban Void
Giorgos Gyparakis
Coti and Dimitris Charitos
Guerilla Optimists
Intothepill
Kostas Ioannidis
Eleni Kamma
Apostolos Karastergiou
Thanos Klonaris
Alexia Kokorelia and Nomint
Maria Konti
Zissis Kotionis
DeAnna Maganias
Mo Y_Katerina Chryssanthopoulou / Benoît Durandin
Vassili Balatsos
Jennifer Nelson
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Giorgos Papadatos
Eftihis Patsourakis
Angelo Plessas
Socratis Socratous
Iris Touliatou
Eleanna Horiti
Alexandros Psychoulis
Weimar Public
Art Athina 2009
Textiel Plus
'The spaces between us' article by Marjolijn van Duyn
Textiel Plus
water aan het woord (water speaking)
Ringdijk, Wilnis
'let a thousand flowers bloom' is in the final phase and almost ready to deliver
booking the book
artists book with works of Evangelia Biza, Penny Gkeka, Vasso Gaivasse, Nina Papakonstantinou, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Giorgos Tserionis, trekst by Maria Aggeli, designed by Evangelia Biza.
ed. 50
almost ready
water aan het woord almost ready at the studio of Zuliani in Zoetermeer
in progress
taking the last descisions about the colors of the piece water aan het woord for Wilnis
ArtistInTheWorld
a project of André Smit, with artists portraits in their studios
dredd.nl
Art Rotterdam 2009
art rotterdam / booth 65 / Mirta Demare international visual art
Avant/Apres/Nu
5/12 - 11/01
Julio Cesar Cervantes, Gerardo Esquivel, Lirio Garduno, Marja Godoy, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Alfredo Juarez, Julio Castillo<
Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro (MX)
Mexico
29/11 - 23/12
residency in Queretaro, invited by the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro for a 10 day's visiting lectures at the Art department
http://trendbeheer.com/2008/12/14/queretaro-mexico
Source
Threads of origins passing into the present
28/11 - 11/01
Mirta Demare Rotterdam
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Fatima Barznge
Isabel Ferrand
City flowers
Growing Care (Rotterdam)
During some months Ikonomopoulou took pictures of outer wall gardens that citizens of Rotterdam individually take care of and offer tp the public space.
At the City Art Center presents the installation City flowers of cut out prints as flowers and creates her own garden in the shape of climbing plants.
In a serie of other works details of the outer wall gardens, first names of their owners and names of the plants become all together a lace of cut out paper.
Growing care has been presented before in Athens Growing Care (Athens) and similar projects are planed during 2009 in Thessaloniki(GR) and Queretaro (MX)
Growing Care - Rotterdam
11/11 - 14/12
Rechtsachter
CBK Rotterdam
opening : 14/11
16.00 - 18.30 h
rechtsachter
URBAN GREEN
26/10 - 21/12
Poonberg gallery, Rotterdam
Maria ikonomopoulou
Greetje Kamps
Fleur Kooiman
Don Sars
Let a thousand flowers bloom
Publication 'water aan het woord'
the book - designed by Esther de Boer and tekst edited by Simon Butter - contains stories the people of Wilnis have shared with the artists and is the source of inspiration for the definitive work, which will bear selected text fragments set in ceramic
ISBN 978 90 813 3771 7
‘water aan het woord’ is a collaboration piece of Elspeth Pikaar and Maria Ikonomopoulou, commissioned by the Municipality of Mijdrecht to create a monument on the spot the dyke burst 5 years ago in Wilnis and flooded a large area of the village
delivery : 11/3/2009
Flower Power
Art Athina 2008
Judy van Luyk
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Martijn te Winkel
Pablo Campochiaro
León Ferrari
booth B27
May 22 - 25
Athens
Art Athina
Mirta Demare
Mijn grootouders en ik
kunst van de dag
Synergy
25.11.07 - 15.01.08
solo show with some visual thoughts about togetherness
at Mirta Demare, international visual art, Rotterdam
Mirta Demare
Domicilliary Tradition
Emergency Room
An art format brought to action by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel with the participation of Greek and foreign artists
www.emergencyrooms.org
03.09.07 - 06.10.07
“EMERGENCY ROOM”‘s daily action starts at the Ileana Tounta Centre for Contemporary Art on 3rd September 2007, at 12:30 sharp.
The formal celebration / opening will take place on 8th September 2007 at 20:00
The exhibition’s concept, the instruction guidelines and the recruiting format are attributed to Thierry Geoffroy Colonel.
EMERGENCY ROOM is an open art format in constant movement and daily change at 12:30pm until the 6th of October.
Restart Art Athina 2007
'The Secret' in the AON collection
Het werk 'The Secret', vorig jaar aangekocht door de AON collectie heeft een ere plaats gekregen in de Tollenaar en Wegener zaal van het kantoor op de Admiraliteitskade in Rotterdam.
Art Rotterdam 2007
8 - 12 februari
Museum Nagsael . 11 years
The publication about Museum van Nagsael, with colour photographs of all 132 exhibitions and essays by Tanja Karreman, Marcel Möring and Ben Zegers, is published by Veenman publishers.
page 243.
You by Me
YOU and ME
5 october – 18 november 2006
Ileana Tounta Center of Contemporary Art, Athens
Ground floor: Maria Ikonomopoulou
1st floor: Lidy Jacobs, Lie van der Werff en Schilte&Portielje
curated by Maria Ikonomopoulou
www.art-tounta.gr
Panorama
9 september – 22 november 2006
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
curated by Thanasis Moutsopoulos
www.visualarts.gr
Handle with Care
7 september - 3 december 2006
ladenkast project Phoebus gallery
www.phoebus.nl
Christine Saalfeld
Jeanette Ephraim
Noëlle Cuppens
Bibo
Netty van Osch
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Kim Zieschang
Lidy Jacobs
Anuli Croon
Loréne Bourguignon
Dagmar Baumann
Lizan Freijsen
Alexandra Roozen
Anneke A. De Boer
Karin Trenkel
Anne Wenzel
Sannetje van Haarst
Opening "Geef me je woord"
Woensdag 14 september om 14.00 uur
de tentoonstelling GEEF ME JE WOORD is verlengd tot 23 november!
Boekpresentatie en opening tentoonstelling GEEF ME JE WOORD
In de bibliotheek van de Afrikaanderwijk, Paul Krugerstraat 61 in
Rotterdam. (010.48.58.453)
Looking Through
20 october - 19 november 2005
Projectroom of TinT gallery
13 Chr.Smyrnis str.
THESSALONIKI
Mensbeeld
24 juni - 30 juli 2006
Artstore
Groot Handelsgebouw, Rotterdam.
www.artstore-rotterdam.nl
Looking Through
3 maart - 13 april 2006
Galerij Erasmus, Rotterdam.
Art-Rotterdam Fair
16 - 20 februari 2006
Mirta Demare,
Welcome Home Laika
28 February - 19 March 2006
Alti Aylik, space for contemporary art
Mumhane Cad. 162 kat.2
Karakoy, Istanbul.
(curated by Sylvia Kouvalis)
www.altiaylik.blogspot.com