About The Artist
Eleanna Martinou was born in Athens (1981). Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006) and graduated with a MA in the Arts (2009). She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions, art fairs and festivals in Greece and abroad.
Solo exhibitions :
2016 Eyewitnesses Eleftheria Tseliou gallery Athens | 2016 beDesign, Houston, Texas|2015 Akto & Eleftheria Tseliou gallery, Athens | 2012 Batagianni gallery, Athens | 2010 Apotheke gallery, Nicosia.
Group exhibitions (selected) :
2015 the Art Gallery of DEREE - The American College of Greece 2016 Artik gallery, Quito, Ecuador | 2016 Ekfrasi galley, Athens | 2016 BeDesign, Quito, Ecuador | 2014 Ennea gallery, Athens| 2014 The Loft, Αthens | 2014 Eleftheria Tseliou gallery, Αθήνα | 2014 Four Artaz artists, Houston Texas, 4411 Montrose Blvd | 2014 14 rooms, Mykonos | 2013 Cultural Bridges Athens-Quito, Ecuador | 2013 Batagianni gallery, Athens | 2012 Mihalis Kakogiannis foundation, Athens | 2012 Hidden Cities, cur. Luca Curci , Istanbul | 2011 AAO project, Parsons The New School for Design, Benaki museum, Athens | 2011 Liquid Cities & Contemporary Identities, International Artexpo & Elmur, Street Screenings, Lleida, Spain | 2011 Layering Athens, Beton7 gallery, Athens | 2011 BIOS, Athens | 2011 Nikos Kessanlis factory, Athens school of Fine arts MFA Graduates | 2010 Hidden Athens, Τaf, Athens | 2005 French Institute, Athens
Performances :
2006 Patras, Choephorae, by Jenny Rogers & Lee Breuer, sand painting.
2014 "Pulsating Fields", in the Ancient Agora of Athens
by Aemilia Papaphilippou, With the support of NEON Foundation.
2015 Tama & Votives installation by Eleanna Martinou In-situ installation at 9 ENNEA, 2015
2016 Silent Stone I / Deucalion and Pyrrha An installation - performance by Eleanna Martinou.
Workshops :
2016 Sensing Silence. A workshop about silence and the body in the empty EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens by Geert Vermeire (performance artist), Stefaan Van Biesen (visual artist), Christos Kakalis (architect) and Andromachi Vrakatseli (sound artist).
2011 AAO academic workshop with Parsons The New School For Design, New York. Instructors: Lydia Matthews, Michael Morris, Lina Stergiou, Radhika Subramaniam.
2011 AAO academic workshop Université Paris 8, CΙTU research center of Paragraphe Laboratory. Coordinators: Maurice Benayoun, Robin Gareus, Lina Stergiou.