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SPYRIDOULA POLITI (Greece, Aetoloakarnania, Houni b. 1957 / act: Athens) |
Spyridoula Politi was born on 15 December 1957 at Houni of Aetoloakarnania, Greece. She studied at the National Conservatory, Athens (1976-1982). Subsequently she enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA (1983-1988). She took courses in philosophy at ASFA (1990-1991).Spyridoula Politi presented the following personal exhibitions: Athens Art Gallery, Athens (1987); Gallery 7, Athens (1995, 1998, 2002, 2004); and TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (2006); and Nea Smyrni - Neos Kosmos, Ekfrasi - Yianna Grammatopoulou, Athens (2011). She also took part in the following group exhibitions: 150 Painters from the European Community, Athens Conservatoire, Athens (1982); Panhellenic Art Exhibition, Athens (1987); Athens Visual Arts, Arts Centre, Parko Eleftherias, Athens (1987); Encounters-highlights-juxtapositions, Cultural Centre of the City of Athens, Athens (1988); Epikentro Gallery, Patras (1990); Obedient to the Inner Word, House of Cyprus, Athens (1994); Gaea Aphrodite, Nicosia, Cyprus (1994); Ecotopia ΙΧ, Technopolis, Athens (1997); Art Athina #5, Helexpo Palace, Athens (1997); Bouzianis House, Daphne, Athens (1998); Aeschylia: We are elsewhere, and going elsewhere, Eleusis (1998); Ideas & Reflections, Campus Art, Athens (2000); Visual Testimonies, House of Cyprus, Athens (2000); Is there something that unites us? Vafopoulion Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki (2000); Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki (2000); Festival de Merida: 7 Greek Artists, Asamblea de Extremadura, Merida, Spain (2001); Memory & Depiction, Batagianni Gallery, Athens (2001); Dialogue, School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain (2001); Minimal - Maximal: 4 Greek Versions, Cultural Centre, Maroussi (2002); I, Me, Myself, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete (2003); Art Athina, Helexpo Palace, Athens (2003); Reverse Selection, Old Primary School, Kardamyli, Peloponnese (2006); Visual Arts in Greece, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2006); Running Water, Teloglion Art Foundation, Thessaloniki (2006); Once Upon a Time there was Penelope Delta, Athens College, Psychiko (2006); Trans-Mission, Kardamyli, Lefktra (2007); Common Place III: Urban Legends, Kolonos, Athens (2007); Quiet Time / Love's Labour, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, USA (2007); Indoors: M. Kassi - V. Nomidou - S. Politi - M. Christea, 34-36 Karneadou Street, Athens (2008); Mutation, K-art, Athens (2008); Pantolfini-Siaterli Athens Engraving Center: The Story of a Workshop, Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens (2008); Koumidis Workshop: Climate Change, Nicosia, Cyrpus (2009); Thessaloniki Bienniale: Indoors is Moving Out, Thessaloniki (2009).
Spyridoula Politi currently lives and works in Athens.
[Megakles Rogakos 12/2008]
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
POLITI, SPYRIDOULA Spyridoula Politi: To Annie Costopoulou 1998 Gallery 7 Zalokosta, Athens
KOSKINA, KATERINA Spyridoula Politi: The Materiality of the Non-Real 2002 Gallery 7 Zalokosta, Athens
MOUTSOPOULOS, THANASSIS Spyridoula Politi: Blood-Soaked Candy 2004 Gallery 7 Zalokosta, Athens
PAPANTONOPOULOU, LENIO Spyridoula Politi 2006 TinT Contemporary Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
