Maria Filippakopoulou: Radiant Landscapes of Color at Kourd Gallery

The Kourd Gallery presents the new solo exhibition of Maria Filippakopoulou, titled “Radiant Landscape of Color”, curated by Eleni Varopoulou. This marks the artist’s third solo collaboration with the gallery.

The exhibition features a series of painted landscapes in which color takes center stage, shaping a serene world devoid of human presence and inhabited by only a few elements from the animal kingdom. Clean lines and luminous surfaces render hills, rivers, skies, and waters with clarity and abstraction, infused with a vibrant, color-driven sensibility.

As curator Eleni Varopoulou notes: Maria Filippakopoulou’s painting produces a chromatic rhythm, elevating color to a fundamental element of composition. She is drawn to the spiritual dimension of nature, emphasizing the metaphysical quality of the natural landscape by valuing the idea of it more than its precise depiction […] Her landscapes do not represent nature as a present, detailed reality. They do not narrate an idealized or utopian vision of nature, nor do they express nostalgia for lost natural paradises. Ultimately, they speak of the metaphorical-even magical-meaning of nature, of the beauty found in minimalism, emptiness, and the indeterminate place.

Maria Filippakopoulou was born in Athens in 1973. She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under T. Patraskidis and A. Christakis, and photography with M. Babousis. During her studies, she was awarded a scholarship and prize from the State Scholarships Foundation. She also studied theatre at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece and completed a Master of Arts (MA in Theatre Arts/Performance) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a degree in German Literature from the University of Athens. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, and is included in museum and private collections in Greece and abroad. She teaches visual arts in primary education and lives and works in Athens.

The exhibition opens on May 6 and runs through July 4. It is also worth noting that Kourd Gallery has introduced extended evening hours every Tuesday, from 18:00 to 23:00, offering visitors the opportunity to experience art in a more relaxed and contemplative setting.