Eleni Stathopoulou: The Geometry of Colours

Dynamic painter Eleni Stathopoulou - one of the female pioneers of abstract art in Greece - was a fertile force on the domestic art scene between the 1950s and 1970s. Sadly, much of her compelling work has now fallen into the shadows. The National Library of Greece, in collaboration with the SNFCC, is on a mission to bring Eleni Stathopoulou out into the spotlight where she rightfully belongs, with the first retrospective exhibition of her broad creative output. 

The Athens-born painter studied at the elite Athens School of Fine Arts before following her sculptor flame Memos Makris to Paris as one of the passengers of the now-legendary RMS Mataroa, the ship which spirited many Greek intellectuals out of Athens during the Greek Civil War. View around 150 paintings from the entire spectrum of Stathopoulou’s ouvre: from her student years and the German Occupation, from her time in Paris (1945-1949) and spanning her Aegean landscape period and tilt towards abstract art. The exhibition ends with her monumental abstract compositions, created in the 1980s, to give a fully rounded overview of this exciting artist for the very first time.

Masks are compulsory for all visitors to the exhibition.