Biography

The visual artist Maria Stamati

 

Maria Stamati is a visual artist and poet. She was born in Amfilochia and she lives in Athens.

She studied privately next to Ryne Bergström (professor at the Gothenburg School of Fine Arts). She also apprenticed at Michalis Veloudios’ art studio and, for a short time, at Costas Niarchos’ atelier.

Her works are to be found in collections in Greece and abroad. She has created covers for many books. Her essays and texts on art have been published in various cultural and literary magazines.

Six poetry collections of hers have been published.

Her works are included in art publications outside of Greece and her poems in many contemporary anthologies.

She has received 6 awards for her work.

She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, the National Society of Greek Authors and the Union of Etoloakarnanian Authors.

  1. 2023 (February – March) «Without Which, Not / Sine Qua Non», curated by Efi Michalarou, Ikastikos Kiklos DL, Athens
  2. 2022 (October – November) «PARADOXA / Act and individual starting point 2», curated by Anna Isopo and Martina Scavone, CROCETTI Museum, Rome, Italy
  3. 2022 (September – October) «Act and individual starting point 1», curated by Anna Isopo and Martina Scavone, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy
  4. 2022 (September) «Art Athina 2022», Zappeion Mansion, Athens
  5. 2022 (March) «Assumption of Responsibility», Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy
  6. 2022 (January – February) «Present with Perspective of the Future», Diocesan Museum “Francesco Gonzaga”, Mantua, Italy
  7. 2021 (November) «Change in Completeness», Hellenic Foundation for Culture, 18th Thessaloniki Book Fair (18th TBF)
  8. 2021 (September) «When Phenomena could become Events», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, organized by Tandem Art, Barcelona, Spain
  9. 2021 (March) «Contemporary Elements», Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy
  10. 2019 (February – March) «With multifaceted shading», IANOS, Athens
  11. 2018 (May) «End of Thread, End of Meaning», Italian Cultural Institute of Athens
  12. 2016 (July) «Traces», Margari Gallery, Amfilochia
  13. 2015 «Wishes», Bookstore Euripidis, Chalandri
  14. 2014 «Here in the South…», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  15. 2012 «In the Middle of Night, In the Middle of Day», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  16. 2011 (April – May) «Art by Geneve», Switzerland Fair
  17. 2008 «Complex, Adjacent, Unique», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  18. 2005 art gallery EURYDIKI, Volos
  19. 2004 «All That Remains», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  20. 2002 «30 Works Out of the Museum», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  21. 2000 «COSMOS», ELEMENTS Gallery, Athens
  22. 2000 AETOPOULIO (curated by Christos Konstantopoulos)
  23. 2000 ERT – GALLERY ON LINE
  24. 1999 «Cosmogony», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  25. 1997 «Cellular Memory», Poznan Congress Center, Poland
  26. 1996 «1994-1996», private coaching school THEMELIO, Athens
  27. 1996 «12 Women», THOLOS Gallery, Athens
  28. 1996 «Winds», Bouziani Hall Hall, Athens
  29. 1994 Old town hall of Chalandri, Athens
  1. 2023 (October) «Transparent as a Dragonfly», curated by Anna Isopo, Martina Scavone, Rita Carta Manias, and Lesley Bunch, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy
  2. 2023 (October) «Quintessenza», curated by Anna Isopo, Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Vatican, Rome, Italy
  3. 2023 (September) «Overview», curated by Monica Ferrarini, Galleria della Biblioteca Angelica, Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
  4. 2023 (July) «I viosi tis anemelis ammou», Old Mill and Theater of Pirgi Thermis, Lesvos, Greece. Organized by: University of the Aegean, Demou Ergia Koinsep, Dreamideamachine resident-Athens.
  5. 2023 (July) DIPOLA, «Labyrinth», curated by Efthimis Lazogas, Red House, Chalkida, Greece
  6. 2023 (July – August) «nature, nature, nature Vol. 2», curated by Efi Michalarou, Match More Art Gallery, Platanias, Chania, Crete
  7. 2023 (June – November) «HUMAN RIGHTS? #HOPE», international exhibition of AIAPI – UNESCO, curated by Roberto Ronca, at the Opera Campana dei Caduti, at the Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, and at the Urban Center, Rovereto, Italy
  8. 2023 (June – October) «The Other Side of History», curated by Efi Michalarou, Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion, Hydra, Greece
  9. 2023 (June) «SOLILOQUIO», curated by Anna Isopo and Martina Scavone, Tempio di Pomona, Salerno, Italy
  10. 2023 (May – June) «Interspaces: Beyond the Tangible», curated by Monica Ferrarini, Galleria La Pigna at the Palazzo Maffei Marescotti, Rome, Italy
  11. 2023 (May – June) «Paper», curated by Fiona Mouzakitis, THE EUROPEAN CENTRE/Contemporary Space Athens, Athens
  12. 2023 (May) «nature, nature, nature Vol. 1», curated by Efi Michalarou, Dreamideamachine resident-Athens, Athens
  13. 2023 (May) «Cries for Help», curated by Louiza Karapidaki, MELINA Cultural Center, Athens
  14. 2023 (April – May) «Gestural Symbolism», curated by Paris Capralos, Luminous Eye, Athens
  15. 2023 (March) «Invisible Threads», curated by Anna Isopo, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy
  16. 2023 (March) «Ink on Paper 7», curated by Paris Capralos, Myró Gallery, Thessaloniki
  17. 2023 (March) DIPOLA, «Eternal Womb», Heraklion Art Gallery, Heraklion, Crete
  18. 2023 (January – February) «International Contemporary Art», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, organized by Tandem Art, Barcelona, Spain
  19. 2022 (December) «Weaving the Future VI», curated by Efi Michalarou, Municipality of Salamina Folk Art and History Museum, Greece
  20. 2022 (November) «Unforgotten Homelands: Symbols and Memories», Remezzo Art Center, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
  21. 2022 (October) «PLATFORMS PROJECT 2021», curated by Louiza Karapidaki, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
  22. 2022 (September – December) International exhibition by MAMAG Modern Art Museum at the Villa am Kaiserweg, Persenbeug, Austria
  23. 2022 (August) «Aegean Blue», curated by Georgia Trouli, Oasis Gallery, Bodrum, Istanbul, Turkey
  24. 2022 (August) «Weaving the Future V», curated by Efi Michalarou, Old Municipal Market of Hydra, Greece
  25. 2022 (June – October) «HUMAN RIGHTS? #NO-GAP», international exhibition of AIAPI – UNESCO, curated by Roberto Ronca, at the Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy
  26. 2022 (July) «Future-Nature», curated by Efi Michalarou, Isternia, Tinos
  27. 2022 (June – July) «Back to Athens 9», curated by Efi Michalarou, Isaiah Mansion, Athens
  28. 2022 (June) «Capsule Art Collection», curated by Monica Ferrarini, Gangemi Editore, Rome, Italy
  29. 2022 (June) «Ink on Paper 3», curated by Paris Capralos, Myró Gallery, Thessaloniki
  30. 2022 (May – June) «Sublimina», curated by Anna Isopo, Museo Diocesano San Matteo, Salerno, Italy
  31. 2022 (May) «Personal Data», curated by Georgia Trouli, at Myró Gallery, Thessaloniki
  32. 2022 (April) «The SKG Bazaart», Myró Gallery, Thessaloniki
  33. 2022 (March – November) «Art between thoughts and spontaneity», PAKS Gallery, Munich, Germany
  34. 2022 (March) «Weaving the Future IV», curated by Efi Michalarou, Maison de la Grèce, Paris, France
  35. 2022 (February – March) «Tatavla», Greek Primary School in Tatavla, Istanbul, Turkey
  36. 2022 (January – March) «New Contemporary. The Unique World», PAKS Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  37. 2022 (January – February) «State of the Art», Galleria La Pigna at the Palazzo Maffei Marescotti, Rome, Italy
  38. 2021-2022 (December 2021 – January 2022) «Exposición colectiva de Navidad», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, organized by Tandem Art, Barcelona, Spain
  39. 2021-2022 (December 2021 – January 2022) «Natale in Arte 2021», Galleria Spazio Porpora, Milan, Italy
  40. 2021 (November) «I Segnalati», international exhibition curated by Salvatore Russo, at Pinter Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  41. 2021 (November) «New Normal», Chili Art Gallery, curated by Paris Capralos, organized by ARTgrID, Thiseio, Athens
  42. 2021 (November) «Art Athina 2021», ART ZONE 42 Gallery, Athens
  43. 2021 (October – November) «New Visions», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, organized by Tandem Art, Barcelona, Spain
  44. 2021 (October) «PLATFORMS PROJECT 2021» (Platforms 48 & 23), Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
  45. 2021 (September – …) «Discovery of Urban Sites», ad – Arte in Dimora, from September 18 on
  46. 2021 (September – October) «I was a child in ’21», Bouziani Museum, under the auspices of the Committee “Greece 2021”, Athens
  47. 2021 (September – October) «Lifeline», Biblioteca Angelica, Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
  48. 2021 (September) «Before the Kingfisher Days are Over», Chili Art Gallery, Thiseio, Athens
  49. 2021 (September) «Lisbona Contemporanea», Atelier Natália Gromicho Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
  50. 2021 (August – October) «Meet our spirit», The Royal Blue Resort and Spa, Panormos, Crete
  51. 2021 (August – September) «Crete in recent years», The Royal Senses Hotel, Rethymnon, Crete
  52. 2021 (August – September) «BORDERS | FUTURE LANDSCAPES», Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
  53. 2021 (August) «Ink on Paper 2», The Attic Gallery, Corfu
  54. 2021 (July) «Infinity Art», Sala Prado, Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  55. 2021 (July) «Saló d’ estiu», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, organized by Tandem Art, Barcelona, Spain
  56. 2021 (June – October) «HUMAN RIGHTS? @WORK», international exhibition of AIAPI – UNESCO, curated by Roberto Ronca, at the Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy
  57. 2021 (June – October) «Explore your senses», The Royal Senses Hotel, Rethymnon, Crete
  58. 2021 (June – July) «Go with the Flow», Medina Gallery, Rome, Italy
  59. 2021 (June – July) «I was a child in ’21», European Cultural Center of Delphi, under the auspices of the Committee “Greece 2021”, Delphi
  60. 2021 (June – July) «Dialogue Among the Antitheses», CROCETTI Museum, Rome, Italy
  61. 2021 (June) «In Contemporanea Arte tra Sperimentazione e Ricerca», Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Department of Culture and Education, international exhibition curated by Anna Isopo, Rome, Italy
  62. 2021 (June) «BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2021», Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  63. 2021 (May – June) «PLATFORMS PROJECT NET 2021»
  64. 2021 (May – June) «VENICE International ART FAIR 2021», Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
  65. 2021 (May) «Ink on Paper», Chili Art Gallery, Thiseio, Athens
  66. 2021 (May) «Trame Contemporanee» (Contemporary Plots), Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Vatican, Rome, Italy
  67. 2021 (April – May) «Canvas | Mixing Identities», THE LINE Gallery, London, UK
  68. 2021 (April) «Daydreaming», Galleria Ess&rrE, Lido di Ostia, Rome, Italy
  69. 2021 (April) «PLATFORMS PROJECT NET 2021 Teaser»
  70. 2021 (March) «THE BODY LANGUAGE – ITSLIQUID International Art Exhibition 2021», THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, St. Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy
  71. 2021 (February) «Something Beautiful», Galleria La Pigna, Palazzo Maffei Marescotti, Rome, Italy
  72. 2021 (February) «CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021», THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, St. Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy
  73. 2021 (January – April) «ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0», ARTBOX Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  74. 2021 (January – February) «La obra y su autor – International Abstract Exhibition II», Hotel Arrahona de Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
  75. 2020 (October) «No Instructions For Use», Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Vatican, Rome, Italy
  76. 2020 (October) «Human Perceptions», coGalleries, Berlin, Germany
  77. 2020 (September – November) «I Can’t Breathe», on the website of EETE
  78. 2020 (September) «Chromatic Harmonies», CROCETTI Museum, Rome, Italy
  79. 2020 (September) «GENESIS», BELLINI Museum, Florence, Italy
  80. 2020 (August – October) «HUMAN RIGHTS? #THE FUTURE’S SHAPE | WOMEN CAN SAVE THE WORLD», international exhibition of AIAPI – UNESCO, curated by Roberto Ronca, at the Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy
  81. 2020 (August – October) «Summerize», The Royal Blue Resort, Rethymnon, Crete
  82. 2020 (August – September) «Element – Environment – Energy», Industrial Museum D. Nomikos, Santorini
  83. 2020 (July) «Summer is Art», Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy
  84. 2020 (July) «What will the world say?», Art Revisited Collective (ARC), Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki
  85. 2020 (June – August) «Greece: “Field of War” or Sea of Peace», on the website of EETE
  86. 2020 (June – August) «We Stay Strong», on the website of EETE (Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece)
  87. 2020 (June – July) «Pitch and Feathers», Greek-French Association, Kolonaki, Athens
  88. 2020 (June – July) «S(tr)ay a little payer for me», Tsichritzis Foundation for Fine Arts, Kifissia
  89. 2020 (May) «PLATFORMS PROJECT NET 2020» (Platforms 52 & 26)
  90. 2020 (February – March) TRINIT art, Prato, Tuscany, Italy
  91. 2020 (February) Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, London, UK
  92. 2020 (February) «Love @ first sight», Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
  93. 2020 (January – February) «20/20 High Vision», ART ZONE 42 Gallery, Athens
  94. 2019-2020 (December 2019 – January 2020) 3rd ArtExpo «Opportunity4all», Govedarou Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
  95. 2019 (December) «Little Paris (Koukaki) – Untouched by Time», TRII ART HUB Gallery, Athens
  96. 2019 (December) «Representation and Subtraction: Selective Affinities», ArteVisione, Athens
  97. 2019 (December) «Feelings without Place», Myró Gallery, Thessaloniki
  98. 2019 (November) «Exposing Violence», Tsichritzis Foundation for Fine Arts, Kifissia
  99. 2019 (October – November) «Artists like cats, Soldiers like dogs», ART ZONE 42 Gallery, Athens
  100. 2019 (October) «Exhibition of applications of the visual arts, part A», Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, MELINA Cultural Center, Athens
  101. 2019 (September – December) «HUMAN RIGHTS? #CLIMA», international exhibition of AIAPI – UNESCO, curated by Roberto Ronca, at the Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy
  102. 2019 (September – October) «Sin as a Portait», Chili Art Gallery, Athens
  103. 2019 (July) «Dream Big Too», ART ZONE 42 Gallery, Athens
  104. 2019 (June) «La Vie En Rose», Piraeus Bank Conference Center, Thessaloniki
  105. 2019 (May) «PLATFORMS PROJECT 2019», Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
  106. 2019 (May) «8th DESIGN FOR LIFE», Italian Cultural Institute of Athens
  107. 2018-2019 (December 2018 – January 2019) «Three Generations of Greek Painting-Engraving-Sculpture, 2nd cycle», Collection of Contemporary Art of Ch. & S. Moschandreou, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens
  108. 2018 (November) «Black in white: The book in art» at the PIOP Historical Archive (Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation), in the context of the celebration Athens 2018 – World Book Capital
  109. 2018 (September – October) Project 2 Team, «The Book as an Artform – Contemporary Artists’ Books 2», Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
  110. 2018 (March) «Three Generations of Greek Painting-Engraving-Sculpture, 2nd cycle», Collection of Contemporary Art of Ch. & S. Moschandreou, Agrinio
  111. 2017 (October) «6th DESIGN FOR LIFE», Italian Cultural Institute of Athens
  112. 2016 (October) «5th DESIGN FOR LIFE», Italian Cultural Institute of Athens
  113. 2016 (September) «Contemporary Artists’ Books», Gallery MANIFACTURA
  114. 2015 (December) Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace, MELINA Cultural Center, Athens
  115. 2014 «Ships», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  116. 2014 «Art goes to… Islands – Papagalos Hydra», curated by Efi Michalarou
  117. 2014 «Landscape in Thunderstorm – A tribute to El Greco», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens, 25/6/2014 – 19/7/2014
  118. 2013 «Summer Ascent», 2013 TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  119. 2013 (summer) Santorini ART SPACE
  120. 2012 (September) «Open workshop», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  121. 2012 (April – October) «Santorini I Dreamed», ART SPACE – Santorini
  122. 2011 (January) «With One Drachma In Art», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  123. 2010 (November) «We walk with lyrics and colours», exhibition on Greek-Japanese Friendship, Cultural Center of Athens, Akadimias 50
  124. 2010 (October) «Open Workshop – Nikos Kavvadias», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  125. 2009-2010 «THE HUMAN FORM IN ART», with EETE, Technopolis, Athens
  126. 2009 (December) «Bearing Gifts», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  127. 2009 (February) «Open Workshop», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  128. 2008 (September) «Visual artists exhibit for peace», Parko Eleftherias «Arts Center»
  129. 2008 (February) «Open Workshop II», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  130. 2007 (February) «19 years», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  131. 2006-2007 «Bearing Art Gifts», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  132. 2006 «Open Workshop», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  133. 2005 «Visual Panorama», AENAON GALLERY – LAVRIO
  134. 2005 «3rd ART FESTIVAL», OMMA-NEORIA-CHANIA gallery
  135. 2005 «26+4=30», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  136. 2004 ART TOWER gallery, Athens
  137. 2004 «…and all the best», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  138. 2003 ART SPACE gallery, Santorini
  139. 2002 «Media and Spectacle», Old slaughterhouses, Patras
  140. 2002 «Exhibition of young artists», EETE, Technopolis, Athens
  141. 2001 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
  142. 2001 «Month of Visual Arts 2001», EETE, Technopolis, Athens
  143. 2001 Group exhibition of collaborators, ELEMENTS gallery, Vembo theater, Voula
  144. 2001 Group exhibition of collaborators, ELEMENTS gallery, Kamena Vourla
  145. 2001 «Summer Ascent», TITANIUM YIAYIANNOS GALLERY, Athens
  146. 2001 Cultural center, Amfilochia
  147. 2001 Group exhibition of collaborators, ELEMENTS gallery, Athens
  148. 2001 «Visual Panorama», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  149. 2001 With the Group THEASIS, Old Hospital of Patras
  150. 2000 Group exhibition of collaborators, ELEMENTS gallery
  151. 2000 «The child in visual arts», Patras – Amaliada – Pyrgos, organized by the National Gallery
  152. 2000 Group exhibition of collaborators, ELEMENTS gallery
  153. 2000 «Visual Panorama», AENAON GALLERY, Athens
  154. 2000 «Face to Face», Istanbul (17 Greek and 17 Turkish visual artists)
  155. 2000 CHRYSOTHEMIS Gallery
  156. 1998 «Visual artists exhibit for peace», with EETE at M.Mercouri Cultural Centre
  157. 1997 Cultural Center of Melissia, Athens
  158. 1996 Cultural center, Evritania
  159. 1995 «MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE», Nicosia, Cyprus
  160. 1995 «Creators of Aitoloakarnania», Nafpaktos
  • 2020 «Artist of the Month – December 2020» by the international organization ITSLIQUID
  • 2018 Honorary Distinction in the «7th DESIGN FOR LIFE»
  • 2005 Praise «1st Thessaloniki Poetry Festival»
  • 2003 «Literature and Arts Award 2003», «Award of 10»
  • 1997 Honorary praise of «Periplanitis» magazine
  • 1979 Panhellenic student poetry competition, University of Athens

  • 2022 «Capsule Art Collection», Gangemi Publications, Curator Monica Ferrarini
  • 2021 «Artists of Today and Tomorrow», Gangemi Publications, Curator Monica Ferrarini
  • 2021 «Segnalati Budapest 2021», Curator Salvatore Russo
  • 2017 Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature Harry Patsis
  • 2003 launch of the poetic work at ANNUS ANBARUTHENICUS BELARUS
  • 2002 6th poetry symposium, launch by Dimitris Kranis
  • 1998 2nd poetry symposium, launch by Dinos Taxiarchis
  • 1997 (November) Participation in an international poetry symposium, Poland
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