Draft:Stella Meletopoulou

Stella Meletopoulou is a female Greek-born artist based in Athens, Greece.

Biography

Meletopoulou was born in 1964 in Athens, Greece. Her interest in the arts and architectue began from an early age as she is the daughter of renowned Greek architect Ilias Meletopoulos. Meletopoulou mainly practices with abstract painting and, since 2016, has incorporated three-dimensional wall-mounted works in her practice, using threads and symbolic elements, developing and evolving at the same time a personal semiological expression. She has also developed a keen interest in site-specific works and installations responding to the unique and diverse elements and characteristics of unique spaces.

She studied drawing and illustration at ESAG Penninghen and Academie Charpentier in Paris between 1983 and 1987. After graduating, she worked as an illustrator in Athens.

Fifteen years later in 2002, she was submitted at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) to study painting. Her tutors in painting included professors Zacharias Arvanitis and Angelos Antonopoulos as well as professor Nikos Tranos in sculpture and Pavlos Samios in iconography. She graduated from ASFA in 2008 with an Honours degree.

She was a scholarship nominee in 2004 and 2006.

Exhibitions (selected)

Solo exhibitions


 * Origins, Gallery Skoufa,   Athens, Greece (2022)
 * Paper Scissors on the Rocks, Two's, Paros island, Greece (2018)
 * Game of threads, Galerie Karouzou, Zurich, Switzerland (2018)
 * Invisible threads, Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * Human geography, Atrion gallery (Nitra), Thessaloniki, Greece (2011)
 * Modern aesthetics, Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece (2009)

Group exhibitions


 * The Butterfly Effect,, group exhibition curated by Kostas Prapoglou at the Mouzakis - Butterfly textile factory, Athens, Greece (2023)
 * Have a seat, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece (2022)
 * reality check chapter II: inner sanctum, Dafni Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece (2022)
 * First flag, Skiathos, Greece (2021)
 * Synopsis of August, Gallery Anti, Antiparos, Greece (2020)
 * Evzones, Athens City Museum, Greece (2020)
 * POP in, Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece (2019)
 * Love me if you dare, Museum of Visual Arts, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2019)
 * Nice island, Kastro, Sifnos, Greece (2019)
 * Love Me if you Dare, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, Greece (2019)
 * Scope Art Show, Basel, Switzerland (2018)
 * A heap of broken images where the sun beats, Aegean Center of Fine Arts, Paros, Greece (2018)
 * Small Geographies of Painting, Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, Greece (2018)
 * Magic Touches, Skoufa gallery, Athens, Greece (2018)
 * Color fields, Skoufa Gallery, Mykonos, Greece (2017)
 * Remember, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece (2017)
 * Charity auction, Byzantine Museum, Athens, Greece (2017)
 * Silent night, Skoufa Gallery, Athens, Greece (2017)
 * N. Kazantzakis: Places, Historic & Folklore Museum, Aegina, Greece (2017)
 * Art in loft, Ianos art gallery, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * Asylum for the incurables, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * Tribute to G. Seferis, Ianos art gallery, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * 150 years National Archaeological Museum, Ianos art gallery, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * Silent presence, Hellenic American Union – G. Zongolopoulos Foundation, Athens, Greece (2016)
 * Group Exhibition, gallery Nitra, Thessaloniki, Greece (2015)
 * Art of giving IΙ, Athinais Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2014)
 * A Jewel made in Greece, Grand Resort Lagonissi, Athens, Greece (2014)
 * Invisible towns, Italo Calvino, Ianos art Gallery, Athens, Greece (2014)
 * Art of giving I, Athinais Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2013)
 * Talking for the future, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2013)
 * To be, tribute to W. Shakespeare, Ianos Art gallery, Athens, Greece (2012)
 * From the heart of our city, gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece (2012)
 * Papadiamantis, University of Patras, Greece (2012)
 * 90 letter cards from Smyrni, Ianos Art gallery, Athens, Greece (2012)
 * L’ Art en capital, Grand Palais, Paris, France (2012)
 * Easter 2011, Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece (2011)
 * Visual arts polyphony, Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece (2011)
 * New gazes, Atrion gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2010)
 * Group exhibition of collaborators, Tsichritsis Foundation, Athens, Greece (2010)
 * Speak, don’t be frightened, Visual Arts Quests, Athens, Greece (2010)
 * Sweet summer, Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina, Greece (2010)
 * Tracing Istanbul, Theological School of Chalki, Istanbul, Türkiye (2010)
 * Brinies (Sloping fields), Kyriakides Estate, Porto Heli, Greece (2010)
 * Summer breeze, Visual Arts Quests, Athens, Greece (2010)
 * Human Scales, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2010)
 * Xmas Highlights’ 10, Astrolavos gallery, Athens, Greece (2010)
 * Group exhibition, Sismanoglio megaro, Istanbul, Türkiye (2010)
 * Ophthalmophanes: obvious to your eyes, Technopolis, Athens, Greece (2009)
 * It happened in Athens, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2009)
 * Modern Aesthetics, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece
 * The human figure in art, Technopolis, Athens, Greece (2009)
 * Three women suggest, G. Karydes Centre for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece (2008)
 * Gipsies, M. Mercouri Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2007)
 * Angels, Stoa tou vivliou (Book Arcade), Athens, Greece (2006)
 * Poetry in images, Intistut Français d’ Athènes, Athens, Greece (2005)
 * Dreams, G. Karydes Centre for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece (2004)