Maria Andrikopoulou is a visual artist and educator based in Thessaloniki. She was born in Kalavryta, Achaia. She studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), as well as in the Interdepartmental Master’s Program Art and Public Sphere, jointly organized by the School of Fine Arts and the Department of Political Science at AUTH. In 2021, she co-founded the independent curatorial and artistic collective fast filly.
Her practice focuses on multimedia installations that investigate the intersections of space, memory, and ecology. Drawing from architecture, archaeology, and agronomy, she approaches both nature and the urban landscape as sites of excavation. Her methodologies include walking, mapping, field recordings, 3D scanning, and gardening, often combined with the collection of abandoned urban materials and spontaneous vegetation. These actions are accompanied by meticulous documentation, archiving, and re-composition of material, aiming at the creation of new “sensory spatialities” that blur the boundaries between the natural and the digital.
Her recent work explores interspecies relations, with an emphasis on symbiotic forms of cohabitation. Through the creation of hybrid pseudo-ecosystems, she develops installations that function as experimental fields of care, resilience, and survival within the urban environment.
Her artistic practice is closely intertwined with her educational work. She currently works in primary education as a visual arts teacher, while her practice unfolds through participatory workshops that she co-coordinates with Eva Papanikolaou, art theorist. These workshops approach space, nature, and urban ecosystems as collective, experimental fields of creation and care, inviting participants to develop narratives and practices of cohabitation with non-human entities and environmental instabilities. In this way, the projects combine theoretical analysis, artistic experimentation, and participatory learning, highlighting the dynamic relationships between humans, plants, and place.
Solo exhibitions
2023
- “Gaze shift“,PHĒNO, Curated by PHĒNO, Thessaloniki, GR
2022
- ”Behind the screen”, School of Visual and Applied Arts, AUTh, Thessaloniki, GR
2019
- ”Sense of place”, Curated by Emmanouela Andrianaki, Eirmos Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
2018
- “leaf ing the city #2”, Curated by Emmanouela Andrianaki, To Pikap ”The Room”, Thessaloniki, GR
- “leaf ing the city”, Curated by Emmanouela Andrianaki, two elephants – artworks and dwarfs, Heraklion, GR (catalogue)
Group exhibitions
2023
- “(in)habit”, Curated by fast filly , wom.a festival, Athens, GR, (catalogue)
2021
- “kato”, Curated by fast filly , To Pikap kato,Thessaloniki, GR, (catalogue)
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Pixels, Curated by miss dialectic, pixelsthedisappearingwall.com, Thessaloniki, GR
2020
- INSPIRE PROJECT 2020, Dream Archives: Dreams as a primal material for artistic creation and practice, Curator Domna Gounari, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, GR, (catalogue)
2019
- ”VISUAL MEETS VINYL”, Curators Dimitris Aggelis, Domna Gounari, The Project Gallery, Athens, GR
- ”To Pikap Community – Art In Thessaloniki – 2018-2019”, Curated by Dimitris Aggelis and Domna Gounari, Casa Bianca, Thessaloniki, GR
2017
- “2014-2017 Graduates”, Final show of Aristotle University Fine Arts School of graduated students, MMCA, Thessaloniki, GR (catalogue)
2016
- ‘‘Hubs of Nature”, Curator O. Karydas, MetamaticTAF, Athens, GR (catalogue)
- “Gulf’s settlers”, Curator Th. Misirloglou, Alaja Imaret, Municipality of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR (catalogue)
2014
- Heroes are Dead. Long Live the Heroes! Action Field Kodra,
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR (catalogue) - “Biennale of Greek students”, B & M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, GR (catalogue)
- “TRANS-FORM”, Brancusi Hall, Parliament, Bucharest, RO (catalogue)
2013
- “In Art”,Zina Athanasiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
- “Connecting the Dot” 6th international student triennial, Istanbul, TUV (catalogue)
2012
- “In Art”,Zina Athanasiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Artist talk
2023
invited artist of the program “detecting the unseen, tracing the upcoming” Curated by Konstantina Kalara for the post-graduate program Advanced Design:Innovation and Trans-Disciplinarity in Design, Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, AUTh
workshops
2025
“HOW TO GROW WEEDS” An Eco – sensory workshop, Maria Andrikopoulou – Eva Papanikolaou, the_esque_studio , Thessaloniki, GR
“HOW TO GROW WEEDS#2” An Eco – sensory workshop, Maria Andrikopoulou – Eva Papanikolaou, Visual and Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, GR
Curation
2023
- Group exhibition “(in)habit”, Curated by fast filly , wom.a festival, Athens, GR
2021
- Group exhibition “kato”, Curated by fast filly , To Pikap kato, Thessaloniki, GR
e-mail: andrikoma@gmail.com | instagram: maria__andrikopoulou