Maria Andrikopoulou is a visual artist and educator based in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was born in Kalavryta, Achaia. She studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), and completed her postgraduate studies in the Master’s Program “Art and the Public Sphere”, co-organized by the School of Fine Arts and the Department of Political Sciences at AUTH. In 2021, she co-founded the independent curatorial and artistic collective “ fast filly”.

Her practice primarily focuses on multimedia installations, exploring the relationship between space, time, memory, and recollection. Nature and the urban landscape function  as a kind of “archaeological excavation.” In composing her works, she draws on diverse fields such as architecture, archaeology, and agronomy.

Her methodologies include walking, field recording, mapping, 3D scanning, collecting discarded urban materials, plants, and weeds, as well as gardening. These actions are followed by meticulous documentation, archiving, and reconfiguration of the gathered material to create new “sensorial spatialities.” Her recent work investigates the hybrid nature of physical and digital states within everyday life, along with a shift in the understanding of interspecies relationships.

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

2021

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 CROW WEEDS” An Eco – sensory workshop, Maria Andrikopoulou – Eva papanikolaou,  the_esque_studio , 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