MELINA APOSTOLIDOU
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Born in 1974
Lives and works in Nicosia and Athens
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Education
1995 BFA Painting, School of Fine and Performing arts,
             SUNY New Paltz, New York.



Solo exhibitions.
2020 The Height of the Horizon
Astrolavos art Gallery, Athens.
2012  City recollections, Gloria Gallery,Nicosia.
2009  Urban Traces, Astrolavos art Gallery, Athens.
2004  Gloria Gallery, Nicosia
2004  Monohoro Gallery, Athens.
2000  New works, Gloria Gallery,Nicosia.
1998  Gloria Gallery, Nicosia.


Selected group exhibitions.
2025 Αποκαλύπτω /Reveal, exchange exhibition of Korean and Greek artists, curator C.Y. Han 
City of Athens cultural centre Melina, 
2025 Art Athina and more, Astrolavos art galleries. Athens.
2024 Exceptional Today and yesterday, Astolavos art galleries, Athens.
2024 Summer group exhibition at Astrolavos art galleries, Athens.
2023 Greek art over decades, An evolution, Astrolavos art gelleries.
2023 X-lights 22-23 at Astrolavos art galleries, Athens.
2022 Exclusives 2022 at Astrolavos art galleries. Athens.
2022 Art Athina, Astrolavos art galleries , International contemporary art fair in Athens,Zappeion megaro.
2022 X-plore Art, Astrolavos art galleries
2021 Highlights 2021-2022, Astrolavos art galleries.
2021 Inspiration from Greece, ​Astrolavos art galleries.
2020 Art Athina ​online virtual rooms, Astrolavos art galleries.
2020 Exclusives Astrolavos art gallery, 
2020 Highlights 2019-20, Astrolavos art gallery , Athens.
2019 Art Athina, international contemporary art fair of Athens,  Astrolavos art galleries.
2019 Group exhibition , Astrolavos-art gallery.
2018 A panorama of modern greek art, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2018 Exclusives 2018 , Astrolavos art gallery.
2017 Highlights 2017-18, Astrolavos art gallery, 

2017 Exclusives 2017, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2016 Exclusives 2016, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2015 Highlights 2015, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.  
2014  Highlights 2014, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2013  Highlights 2013, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2013  K.P Kavafis Poems, an illustrated journey, Gloria gallery, Nicosia.
2013  Old city, New city, Athens Fringe festival, Athens.
2012  Exclusives, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens
2010  Group exhibition, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2010  Visual arts rhythms , Fifty years of Cyprus artistic creation,curator Marina Schiza,
          Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia.
2010  Aegean Art travels, Andros Island.
2009  Group exhibition, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2009  Art Athina, International contemporary art fair of Athens. Astrolavos art galleries, Athens. 
2009  Sketch it out, APW gallery, Long Island,  New York. 
2008  Rendez vous des Arts, Exhibition center at Elliniko , Athens.
2008  Music, Second triennial EX LIBRIS of Lefkas. Cultural center of Lefkas. 
2007  Under construction-alternative museum spaces, Nicosia municipal arts center, Nicosia.
2007  Belle Arte Lamia, International contemporary art exhibition, Lamia.. 
2007  Young Cypriot Artists , Akamantis space, Nicosia.
2004  Group exhibition, Monohoro gallery, Athens.
2003  Lookout art projections, Athens.
2000  Group exhibition at Gallery Gloria, Nicosia.
2000  World Festival of Art on paper, Krantz, Slovenia. 








                              






Statement 2022

My work explores how we perceive, organise, and translate visual information—how memory, imagination, and the subconscious shape the realities we create. Drawing is central to my practice, particularly its connection to writing and to the structural logic of maps.

Each painting begins with a dense field of repetitive marks in charcoal or pastel, recalling the rhythm of handwriting. This all-over linear pattern serves as a reservoir of potential forms. Through erasure, layers of oil paint, and shifts in colour, I extract shapes and structures from this initial pattern. I allow earlier layers to remain visible, emphasising the work’s development and the accumulation of thought.

I integrate symbols and motifs derived from vintage and digital maps, architectural plans, manuscripts, diagrams, and natural patterns. These fragments create points of reference within the composition, prompting associations and suggesting open-ended narratives.

My aim is to construct visually complex surfaces that invite viewers to slow down, explore, and question. The work balances intuitive mark-making with a cartographic sensibility, merging personal expression with a multi-layered interpretation of the world.





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