BIO//​ Freiderike (Freideriki Papastavropoulou) is a multimedia artist, based in Greece and Poland, working mainly with painting and installation. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and School of Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2018.
She is the general administrator of the artist-run organisation "Art of Life Collective" based in Greece.​ As a member of the collective, in addition to her artistic work, she is involved in organising, curating and setting up exhibitions and interdisciplinary events. She is a creator of written content for art books and other media buplished by the collective.
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​STATEMENT// The artistic work is the co-product of an extended vision on art, the Art of Life. I see art as a service, with the purpose to channel energy. The images on the canvases arise from the need to create a physical depiction of something beyond reckognised matter, to capture some of the glamour of other worlds. Within this two-dimensional space on the canvas and within the range of my abilities and materials, an impression is instilled.
It's a journey where I feel like a wayfarer who wants to capture some of the light or a stone to remember the places she has been. These mementos are my artworks. All this endeavor to connect the seen with the unseen , I believe, helps people to raise their gaze, to see the depth of their own world. For me, art is a gate of remembrance, both the final work and the process.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS//​
2021 - Metaphysical Landscapes, DelMare Estate, Halkidiki, Greece
2019 - Metaphysical Landscapes, Kostis Palamas Cultural Center, Patras, Greece
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS//​
2025 - The abundance of five-part 2 (Performance), Art of Life Collective, Pelion, Greece
2024 - Fleeting and Eternal, Art of Life Collective, Cultural Center of Ex-Ursuline School, Naxos, Greece
2023 - Eros the bridge builder, Art of Life Collective, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece
2023 - The abundance of five-part 1 (Performance), Art of Life Collective, Delphi, Greece
2023 - 3rd Festival of Arts Culture and Olympism "Kostis Palamas", Agora Argyri, Patras, Greece
2022 - You are the eyes through which Creation knows Itself, Art of Life Collective, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece
2019 - ART AND YOGA, Relations of Light and Color, studio Gnothis s’auton, Thessaloniki, Greece
2019 - Opportunity 4all, Govedarou Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 - 58+26, Yeni Mosque, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 - Down the Cellar, multispace VAULT, Athens, Greece
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PUBLICATIONS//
2024 - Consciousness' journey to the Trancendent - Tuning the Finite to Infinity, Artbook published by Unity in Philia
2022 - You are the eyes through which Creation knows Itself, Artbook published by Art of Life Collective
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PRESS//
2024 - Fleeting and Eternal Exhibition - Naxos Times
2023 - Art and yoga: Two paths to self-discovery - MATAROA
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CONTACT// freiderike.artist@gmail.com
