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Biography

Stella Meletopoulou (b.1964, Athens) studied drawing and illustration at ESAG Penninghen and Academie Charpentier in Paris (1983-87). After her studies, she worked as an illustrator in Athens, Greece. She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Z. Arvanitis and A. Antonopoulos as her teachers, sculpture with N. Tranos and iconography with P. Samios (2002-8). She graduated from ASFA with Honours and was a scholarship nominee in 2004 and 2006. Meletopoulou has held six solo exhibitions: Origins, Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece, 2022;  Papers scissors on the rocks, TWOS concept store, Paros, Greece, 2018; Game of threads, Karouzou gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018; Invisible threads, Skoufa gallery, Athens, 2016; Human Geographies, Nitra gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011; and Modern Aesthetics,Astrolavos art gallery, Athens, 2009. She has participated in more than 50 group exhibitions in Greece, France, Turkey and Switzerland. Some of them are: Art Athina, Greece, 2021 and 2019; Art Skope, Basel, Switzerland, 2018; A heap of broken images where the sun beats, Aegean Center, Paros, Greece, 2018; Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2012; and Sismanogleion Megaron and Theological School of Chalki, Istabul, Turkey, 2010. Meletopoulou mainly works with abstract painting and, since 2016, has incorporated three-dimensional wall-mounted works in her practice, using threads and symbolic elements, developing and evolving at the same time a personal semiological expression. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Origins

Gallery Skoufa, Athens, Greece

2018

Paper Scissors on the Rocks

Two's concept store, Paros, Greece

2018

Game of threads

Galerie Karouzou, Zurich, Switzerland

2016

Invisible threads

Skoufa gallery, Athens

2011

Human geography

Atrion gallery (Nitra), Thessaloniki, Greece

2009

Modern aesthetics

Astrolavos gallery – Dexameni, Athens, Greece

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Have a seat

Hellénique American Union, Athens, Greece

Inner sanctum- Reality check II

Dafni psychiatric hospital, Athens, Greece

2021

First flag

Skiathos, Greece

2020

Synopsis of August

Gallery Anti, Antiparos, Greece

2019

POP in

Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece

Love me if you dare

Museum of visual Arts, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Nice island

Kastro, Sifnos, Greece

2018

Participation at Scope Art Show

Basel, Switzerland

A heap of broken images where the sun beats

Aegean Center of Fine Arts, Paros, Greece

Small Geographies of Painting

Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, Greece

Magic Touches

Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece

2017

Color fields

skoufa Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

Remember

Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece

Charity auction

Byzantine Museum, Athens, Greece

Silent night

Skoufa Gallery, Athens, Greece

N. Kazantzakis: Places

Historic & Folklore Museum, Aegina, Greece

2016

Art in loft

Ianos art gallery, Athens, Greece

Asylum for the incurables

Athens, Greece

Tribute to G.Seferis

Ianos Art gallery, Athens, Greece

150 years National Archaeological Museum

Ianos art gallery, Athens, Greece

Silent presence

Hellenic American Union – G. Zongolopoulos Foundation, Athens, Greece

2015

Group Exhibition, gallery Nitra

Thessaloniki, Greece

2014

Art of giving IΙ

Athinais Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

A Jewel made in Greece

Grand Resort Lagonissi, Athens, Greece

Invisible towns

Italo Calvino, Ianos art Gallery, Athens, Greece

2013

Art of giving I

Athinais Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

Talking for the future

Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

2012

To be, tribute to W. Shakespeare

Ianos Art gallery, Athens, Greece

From the heart of our city

gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece

90 letter cards from Smyrni

Ianos Art gallery, Athens, Greece

L’ Art en capital

Grand Palais, Paris, France

2011

Easter 2011

Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece

Visual arts polyphony

Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece

2010

New gazes

Atrion gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

 

Group exhibition of collaborators

Tsichritsis Foundation, Athens, Greece

Speak, don’t be frightened

Visual Arts Quests, Athens, Greece

Sweet summer

Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina, Greece

Tracing Istanbul

Theological School of Chalki, Istanbul, Turkey

Brinies (Sloping fields)

Kyriakides Estate, Porto Heli, Greece

Summer breeze

Visual Arts Quests, Athens, Greece

Human Scales

Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

Xmas Highlights’ 10

Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece

Group exhibition

Sismanoglio megaro, Istanbul, Turkey

2009

Ophthalmophanes: obvious to your eyes

Technopolis, Athens, Greece

It happened in Athens

Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

The human figure in art

Technopolis, Athens, Greece

2008

Three women suggest

G. Karydes Centre for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece

2007

Gipsies

M. Mercouri Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

2006

Angels

Stoa tou vivliou (Book Arcade), Athens, Greece

2005

Poetry in images

Intistut Français d’ Athènes, Athens, Greece

2004

Dreams

G. Karydes Centre for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece