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

ongoing - upcoming - past

Stacking Stories - the video . 2024
10 min | Englisch subtitels
interview/camera: Angeliki Douveri | editing : Marios Koutsourelis now available, watch here here
A short documentary about the making process and some reflections on my installation for the exhibition Eleonas 2023 - Chthonic and Anthropocene curated by...
All Included
15/1 - 28/2 2026
solo show | Citronne gallery | Athens (GR)
Maria Ikonomopoulou's exhibition All Included is a collection of questions. Each room is a step in her ongoing search for balance in a world full of contradictions. From the familiar to the collective, from the personal to...
Journeys in Art
24/5 - 2/11 2025
Artworks from the Bank of Greece Collection
curated by Charis Kanellopoulou
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania (GR)
Delighted to participate with Growing Care Athens 5 and Growing Care Athens 8 Growing Care Athens, two of my pieces that they are included in this...

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...