Androniki Chila “Into It”

Androniki Chila was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied Painting at the School of Fine Arts of Athens, at the side of Chronis Botsoglou, from 2001-2006. She also attended Religious painting, Fresco with Pavlos Samios and Mosaic with Dafni Agelidou. She followed the scholarship Erasmus-Socrates at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, at the side of M. Quilez, (2004-2005). She studied Restoration of Works of Art in Athens and practiced in the A’ Neoclassical Ephorate of Ministry of Culture. She attended Hagiography with Vasilis Kokorakis. Since 2013, she is a member of the Metallwerkstatt Tacheles, in Berlin. She is co-initiator of the Metal Workshop Tacheles, in LilienKulturgarten in Berlin, opens up in June 2013. Her works can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art – Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation and in other public and private collections.
Lives and works in Athens and Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

«πΑΡΟΝ», ΣΤΟart Korai, Art space of the National Insurance, Athens.

2017

Oxy Gen, Art space Roidis, Syros, Greece.

2015

“Present”, Renata & Maths Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2014

“X’oros”, Art House 12 acropolis, Amorgos, Greece.

“Ambrosia”, Poems and Crimes Art Gallery, Athens.

2013

“Pro- Dromos”, Art House 12 Acropolis, Amorgos, Greece.

2009

“Painting”, Gallery Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

7Ply project, Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Bilderladen gallery, Weimer, Germany.

GeoArt, Kunstinitiative Map4, Tharandter Wald, Weimar, Germany.

2015

“Berlin Artists Exhibition”, The Ballery Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

MAP#3, AOS, Istanbul,Turkey.

2014

“Genius Loci” – Metallwerkstatt Tacheles, Lilienkulturgarten, Berlin, Germany.

Group exhibition, Kapsioti Gallery, Piraeus, Greece.

“Aenaes symptwseis II”, art gallery Vrysaki, Athens, Greece.

2013

“December Celebration”, Kapsioti Gallery, Athens, Greece.

“Narkissus Gaze”, Rosewood Gallery, Chania, Crete, Greece.

“Mosaics”, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos, Crete, Greece.

“White- Black Dreams”, Contemporary Art Museum- Olivepress, Dromonero, Crete, Greece.

“Conversation with painter Bouziani, Museum Bouziani, Athens, Greece.

2012

“100 years Balkan Wars”, War Museum, Athens / Vafopouleio Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, Greece.

“Sports and Art”, Panathenaic Stadium, Greek Olympic Committee, Athens, Greece.

2011

“2+1 Art Exhibition”, atelier Filopappou, Athens, Greece.

2010

“People – Color – Iron 4”, Shipbuilding Area of Perama, Athens, Greece.

2009

“The Human Form in Art”, the Municipality of Athens Technopolis, Gazi, Athens, Greece.

“Neighbourhoods of Piraeus”, gallery Art Prisma, Museum of sporting Club I.s.f.p., Piraeus, Greece.

2008

“Conversations”, gallery Art Prisma, Piraeus, Greece.

“Figures”, Tiny Art Gallery Georgantas, Athens, Greece.

“The Piraeus brings with colors”, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Greece.

“People – Color – Iron III”, Shipbuilding Area of Perama, Athens, Greece.

“Spring 2008”, gallery Art Prisma, Piraeus, Greece.

“Eye s and Is”, the Municipality of Athens Technopolis, Gazi Athens, Greece.

“Graduates 2005-2006”, exhibition room of the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece.

“Image-Space-Action 2“, the Municipality of Athens Technopolis, Gazi Athens, Greece.

“The Piraeus brings with colors“, interactive visual animation, Piraeus, Greece.

2007

“Body and soul”, Archaeological Area of Rethymno, 21st Fortetsa Renaissance Festival in Rethymno, Crete, Greece.

2005

“Painting”, Municipal Gallery, Kallithea, Sophia Laskaridoy, Athens, Greece.

“60 years after”, Visual Arts Center, Athens, Greece.

Views of Greece-Vol.1

Many different sides of Greece are presented in the new group exhibition opening at i-D ProjectArt on February 22 (8.00pm) titled “Views of Greece Vol. 1”. Artistic aspects of our country that make reference to its historical origins, stand in the land’s natural beauty to reach today’s everyday life to show off all that we look at, but we no longer see. All these important aspects that we take for granted.
Participants (in alphabetical order) are the artists: Yiannis Adamakis, Chryssa Verghi, Erieta Vordoni, Maria Giannakaki, Yannis Kottis, Dimitris Koukos, Helene Pavlopoulou, Pavlos Samios.
Maria Xanthakos is the organizer and curator of ProjectArt and the exhibition.
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 February 2018, 19.00pm
Lasts until: April 21st, 2018.
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 10.00 -19.00. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10.00-21.00
i-D ProjectArt: Canari 12, Kolonaki, 10674, tel. +30 2103221801.

Maria Giannakaki

Born in Athens in 1958. She studied painting under P. Tetsis and mosaic under G. Kolefas at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1977-1982). She furthered her education on a scholarship from the Greek State at the Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China, where she received a postgraduate degree in the techniques of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy (1983-1985). Her first solo exhibition was held in Beijing (1986, Beijing Artists’ Gallery). Along with painting, she is also involved in book illustrations and book cover design. From 1985 until the present day she has participated in a significant number of group exhibitions in Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, China, Egypt, India et al.