About Andromachi Giannopoulou
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Education
2008 - 2009
University of the Arts London, Chelesa College of Art and Design
1999 - 2005
Athens School of Fine Arts
Awards
2007
she was awarded a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece
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Event: Larnaca Biennale "Home Away from Home"
Dates: 11 Oct 2023 - 24 Nov 2023
With more than 25000 visitors and spectators at the main exhibition and parallel events, Larnaca Biennale is the biggest and most popular international art and culture event in Cyprus. The next edition will take place between October – November 2023. In addition to the main exhibition, the Biennial will host a series of artistic and culture events in the city such as concerts, theater, performances, lectures, and workshops. Co-organiser is ARTION Cultural Association of Larnaca. Main supporter of the Biennial is the Municipality of Larnaca and several art organizations and institutions including “The Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, E.KA.TE” and ‘’WAVA, World Association of Visual Arts’’. If you’re an artist, join us for the competition. If you are an art lover join us to experience the Larnaca Biennale 2023.
Event: The Castro
Dates: 7 Jul 2021 - 21 Jul 2021
The Castro, a group show curated by Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris, for which participating artists responded to an open call. The exhibition title refers to the famous San Francisco district that since the 1960s has become one of the most well-known centers of LGBT activism and culture in the world. The title’s double meaning is the antithesis of a free environment, that of a traditional castle as a walled-in, exclusive and restrictive institution.
Artists were asked to play with the word castro, and its double meaning, presenting the bright and open castle of freedom, acceptance and equality, as well as the dark and enclosed castle of racism, homophobia and violence. The show comprises a wide variety of media: drawing, painting, photography, video and sculpture.
Biography
My practice moves between memory and imagination, between the visible and the barely felt. I approach art-making as a form of intuitive excavation — an attempt to trace the inner rhythms of experience before they become words.
I work across a variety of mediums and styles, often guided more by sensation than by structure. The result is a body of work that resists uniformity, but often returns to recurring themes: dreams, animality, domestic space, desire, and transitional states of consciousness.
Some of these works unfold in loosely defined series:
• dreams — images that drift between memory and dream, capturing fragile or surreal fragments of the subconscious
• Festum Animalium — a celebration of wildness, instinct, and the symbolic presence of animals
• Pleasure is not allowed — a reflection on the tensions between desire and repression, tenderness and constraint
• The poetics of space — intimate pieces exploring the emotional charge of domestic interiors and personal space
• Hypnagogia — works born from the threshold between wakefulness and sleep, where images appear and dissolve
This is a living archive, not a fixed identity. I welcome dissonance, shifts, and the freedom to move between languages — visual, emotional, and symbolic.
Andromachi Giannopoulou was born in Australia. She went to school in Athens, Greece, and studied Painting in Athens School of Fine Arts. She was awarded a scholarship for studies in Art and Design from the State Scholarship Foundation, and studied Graphic Design and Communication at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She lives in Athens and works as an art teacher.
