Eleni Nicolaou
b.1999, Larnaca, Cyprus.
Eleni is a visual artist currently based in Athens, Greece. She studied fine arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the supervision of Dr Erato Hadjisavva (1st-6th year) and Marios Spiliopoulos (1st year). Her work is characterized by an expressionistic aesthetic. She is creating mostly mixed media/material installations and large scale paintings incorporating materials such as clay, fabric, charcoal, soil, marble dust and oils. Her works are characterized by an unflinching willingness to confront her culture's dark past.
EDUCATION
2018-2024
Integrated MA, Athens School of Fine Arts.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Peri Zografikis II” Detections of the Abstract,
Mets Arts Centre,
Athens, Greece.
2023
’Silk&Soufli’
Grekiska Kulturhuset, Idungatan 4B,
Stockholm, Sweden.
"Ethnic Recruitment, Contemporary Portrayals 1923-2023",
18th Nafplion International Meeting, Vouletiko, Nafplio.
"When the times extinguished the moonlight..."
Historical Visual Processes - Smyrna
Athens, Greece.
2022
Siden & Soufli
Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
Athens, Greece.
PIREAS ARTPORT II
in collaboration with Michael Cacoyannis Foundation,
Athens, Greece.
«ΕΚ-Πατρίδες»
To treno sto rouf,
Athens, Greece.
Platforms Project Net independent art fair ASFA OPEN STUDIOS
13th Studio ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
2021
“Today as Tomorrow as Yesterday”
Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino,
Italy.
Platforms Project Net independent art fair ASFA OPEN STUDIOS
13th Studio ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
2019
“Poetry and painting Titus Patrikios”,
Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Athens,
Athens, Greece.
2016
“CRISIS- CHALLENGE from Cyprus to Strasbourg",
Strasbourg, France.
2014
19th International Biennial Of Children’s And Young People’s Graphic Art
Torun, Poland.
WORKSHOPS
2023
Cold Wax Batik textiles workshop,
ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
Greening Dry Cleaning,
ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
2022
“Creative Studios”
ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
“open dialogues”
ASFA,
Athens, Greece.
“A common thread”, Artistic exchange Sweden-Greece,
ASFA,
Soufli, Athens , Greece.
2019
Educational conference of Swedish Students and Greek Students of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Soufli, Greece.
2017
Educational conference "The return of Agapinor" in the framework of the activities of the International Network "Arcadia",
Tripoli, Greece.