MARIA MAVROPOULOU
Maria Mavropoulou (b. 1989) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She holds a Master's in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Mavropoulou is a visual artist using mainly photography, while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN, and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by connectable devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the latest technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today.
Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent work correlates creativity and AI with the divine, as well as reflects on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images.
Her work is part of private collections and Vontobel art collection and has been exhibited in institutions and museums which are FOAM Amsterdam, Netherlands (2024); the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece – EMST, Athens, Greece (2023); MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy (2023); Sharjah Foundation, United Arab Emirates (2022); Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain (2022), Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia (2021); Miami Art Week, USA (2020), 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2019); Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece (2019); Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece (2019); Athens Conservatoire, Greece (2019), Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (2019); Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France (2018); Benaki museum, Athens, Greece (2018); Unseen Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); National Observatory of Athens, Greece (2018); Culturescapes festival, Basel, Switzerland (2017); Athens Photo Festival, Greece (2016); Athens Biennale, Greece (2015); Mois de la photo, Paris, France (2014).
Her first VR project, FAMILY PORTRAITS, has been awarded at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019), and she has also been selected among 30 Under 30 Women Photographers (2018) and a Young Greek Photographer by the Athens Photo Festival (2016).
