Maria Filopoulou
Born in 1964 in Athens.
She studied painting in Paris at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts under Leonardo Cremonini, during the period 1984-1988. Continued with postgraduate studies at the same school, with a scholarship of the French Government, during the period 1988-1989 (lithography under Αbraham Hadad).
Her works are to be found in the National Gallery, in the Greek Parliament, and in private museums and collections in Greece and abroad.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Retrospective Exhibition, Cyclades Gallery, Syros, Greece
2006
Millenia Fine Art, Time Warner Center, New York
Gallery Κ, London
2005
Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris
2002
Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
2001
Mati Gallery, Katerini
2000
Gallery Tzamia-Krystalla, Chania
1999
Diary 1999 of the Herakles Group of Companies, Municipality of Athens
Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
1998
Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki
1997
Galerie Flak, Paris
1996
Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
1994
Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki
1993
Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
1991
Eonnet Dupuy Gallery, Paris
1990
Ora Gallery, Athens
Group Exhibitions
2011
«Körpez-topoi / Bodies/Places», from the Anthony and Asia Hadjiioannou Collection, Greek Foundation for Culture - Berlin (curated by: Iris Criticou).
«Spring 2011», Palaeontological and Historical Museum of Ptolemais (curated by: Tatiana Spinari).
«Places of the Sea», Ermoupoleia, Syros (curated by Yiorgos Altouvas).
«Natura 2011», Evgenideios Foundation, Athens (curated by: Athena Schina.
«Contemporary Greek art from Antonis and Azias Chatziioannou collection», Griechische Kulturstiftung Berlin, Berlin
2010
«Johhanes Gennadios and his world», Gennadios Library, Athens
Gallery Kouros | Accrochage, New York
«Tracing Istanbul» (cur. Iris Kritikou), Gazi, Athens
Gaia Art Gallery, Seas exhibition (cur. Euridice Trichon-Milsani), Athens
«Deconstructing canvas, inventing the image», art collection Antoni and Azia Chatziioannou, Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Municipal Gallery
«Nude», Frisira Museum, Athens
Art London, Ariel Sibony, London
«Human Measures» (cur. Iris Kritikou),Melina Mercouri Foundation, Municipality of Athens
2009
«Greek landscape painting 18th-20th Century», Foundation for the fine arts and music B & M Theoharakis, (cur. Haris Kambouridis), Athens
«Greek Colour», Sotheby's, London (cur. Mariza Kalogeropoulou- Fassianos, org. Ministry of Tourism)
«4 Seasons», Artexpertise, Army Museum, Athens
«Ambassadors of Contemporary Art», Hellenique Museum, (cur. Haris Kambouridis,
org. Alexandra Ghika), Melbourne, Australia
2008
«Visual Arts in Greece 2007», State Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki (cur. Haris Kambouridis)
Millenia Fine Art, Time Warner Center, New York
«Experiencing Greece: travels through an enchanted landscape», Ministry of Tourism, Beijing (cur. Iris Criticou)
«Athens in front page»,Athens Voice, Benaki Museum, Athens
«Hearts in Athens», Athens
«Human Rights Protection», Cultural Centre, City of Athens
«Sketching the personality of Dionisios Solomos», Messolonghi, Venice, Athens (cur. Iris Criticou)
«Greek Art Today», Belgravia Gallery, (org. G. Stathopoulos), London
«Summer 2008», Citronne Gallery, (cur. Tatiana Spinari-Pollali), Poros
2007
Millenia Fine Art, Νew York
«Art London», Galerie Ariel Sibony
«New acquisitions», National Gallery, Athens
AGET Heraklis, Municipal Gallery, Ioannina
«Greek Artists, Antonis and Azia Hatzioannou Collection», Municipal Gallery, (cur. Iris Criticou), Chania
«Once upon a time there was Penelope Delta», American College, (cur. Iris Kritikou), Athens
«Greek Art Today», Belgravia Gallery, London (org. G. Stathopoulos)
«Reshaping open space»,Atrion Art Gallery (cur. Haris Kambouridis), Thessaloniki
«Birth place», Alpha Trust, Benaki Museum (cur. Iris Criticou), Athens
2006
«Art Miami», Miami USA, Galerie Ariel Sibony
«Art London», Galerie Ariel Sibony
«Reflections from Greece, Contemporary art from Greece», The National Arts Club, (org. G. Stathopoulos), New York
«Cow Parade», Athens
«Ta Nea», 2006 calendar, 12 months, 12 painters, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
2005
«Art Miami», Miami USA, Galerie Ariel Sibony
«Art London», Galerie Ariel Sibony
«In arte veritas», Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, (cur. Athena Schina), Andros
«Vision and touch, two complementary senses in contemporary art», Atrion Art Gallery, (cur. Haris Kambouridis), Thessaloniki
«Visit Halepas», (cur. Iris Criticou), Tinos
2004
«Art London», Galerie Ariel Sibony, London
Absolute st Augustine Gallery, Florida, USA
«Agonon Polis», The City of Games, Technopolis, (cur. Athena Schina, org. the Municipality of Athens within the Olympic Games 2004), Gazi
«In our image after our likeness», Frissiras Museum, (cur. Martha Chalikia), Athens
«National Representations», CK Art Gallery, Cyprus
«Encomium of the Olive», Academy of Athens, Athens
2003-2004
«Olympic spirit» (itinerant exhibition), Thessaloniki Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, (cur. Peggy Kounenaki, org. Athens Municipality for the Olympic Games 2004),Chania
2003
«New Eikonolatria», Fine Arts Gallery, (cur. Haris Kambouridis), Athens
2002
«Art Paris», Zoumboulakis Galleries, Paris
2000
«Greek Realists of the French School of Art», Frankfurt
«2000 tins», Lithographer of Pireaus street, (cur. Niki Nikonanou, Nikos Stefanou, Alexis Veroucas), Athens
«Ultramarine blue», Vernicos Centre of Modern Art, (cur. Flavia Nessi, Iris Critikou), Pireaus
«Personal Relations», Ekfrassi Gallery, Athens
1999
«Greek landscape painting 19th-20th Century», from the collection of the National Gallery and the Euripides Koutlides' Foundation, Teriade Museum, Mytilene
1998
«Focalisations du Regard», Greece's Presidency, (cur. Athena Schina), Brussels
«Greek landscape painting 19th-20th Century», from the collection of the National Gallery and the Euripides Koutlides' Foundation, National Gallery, Athens
1997
«Greek landscape Painting 19th-20th Century», National Gallery of Athens
«The sources of gaze»,Centre of Contemporary Art, (cur. by Athena Schina), Larissa
Museum of Man-Natural History, Jardin des Plantes, Paris
1996
«Designs», Kouvoutsakis Art Institute, Athens
«Homage to Paul Verlaine»,24 Gallery, French Institute of Pireaus
«Painting in the poetry of Odysseas Elytis», Municipality of Athens
1995
«Tribute to El Greco»,National Gallery, Athens
«Eros and Art», Terrakotta Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
«Grands et des Jeunes d'aujourd'hui», Gallery Flak, Paris
«Little Paintings»,Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
«Mediteranean Summer»,National Gallery of Tirana (org. Zoumboulakis Gallery)
1994
Poliedro Gallery, Patras
«Small works», Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
1992
«Honoris Causa», Ora Cultural Center, Athens
«The Frissiras Collection», The Byzantine Museum,(cur. Takis Mavrotas), Zante
1991
«Greek Artists from the Frissiras Collection», Pierides Art Gallery and Municipal Gallery of Athens
1990
Eonnet Dupuy Gallery, Paris
«Towards a new humanism», Centre Culturel de Villejuif, (cur. Marina Lambraki-Plaka), Paris
1989
«SARP», Palais Zamovski, Warsaw
Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki
1988
«Utopias of the Real», Titanium Gallery, Athens
Museum of Fine Arts, Mons, Belgium
1987
French Academy of Fine Arts, Paris
«Αtelier Cremonini», Galerie de la maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Salon de Vitry, Paris