Charoula Nikolaidou

Charoula Nikolaidou is a visual artist based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
She graduated from Visual and Applied Arts of Aristotle University in 2010.
In 2021, her work was published in international Bluebee Magazine, Volume 6, Amaryllis, in Voice of Artists Magazine, Issue #12, by Artitnet and Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 15, April 2021.
She has exhibited in London, Paris, Geneva, Marbella, Madrid, Iowa (USA), Cyprus and Greece.
Her work has been collected extensively in private collections worldwide.

My work interweaves figurative painting with a combination of abstract expressionism and elements of
pop art and can be categorized into “luminous” paintings that incorporate vibrant colours of both figures
and spaces. Colour definitely is the primary way to communicate emotion. I’m influenced by artists ranged
from Egon Schiele, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.
My work can be assessed as an active stage where the body and the spirit converge and diverge, the
external and internal world, love - loneliness, emphatically emphasizing the animosity of life and the poetry
of painting, as a cathartic value against agony.
Perhaps some sort of narrative can be created by the viewer afterwards, but I like to not have a huge amount
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B.A. Faculty of Fine Arts of Aristotle University

2022 UVNT Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2022 Marbella Gallery Weekend Art Fair, Marbella, Spain
2022 "Unknown Faces", solo exhibition, Abghari Gallery, Marbella, Spain
2022 Winter group exhibition, Moberg Gallery, Iowa, USA
2021 "Everything starts somewhere", group exhibition, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 Summer group exhibition, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 "Lush Art in Difficult Times", group exhibition, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 "Not Applicable", Virtual group exhibition, Cream Athens
2021 "Togeth_her", Group exhibition and charity sales at the Monnaie de Paris
2020 "I shall be your Eve", Four person exhibition, The Blender Gallery, Athens
2020 "SALO VIII", Group exhibition, Paris, France
2020 “L'art n’a pas de frontieres”, Group exhibition, French Institute of Thessaloniki
2020 “Lush Art in Austere Times”, Group exhibition, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2019 "Anorioton - Object of the Imagination", Two person exhibition, J/M Gallery, Notting Hill, London
2019 Group exhibition, presented by Varvara Roza Galleries, La Galleria Pal Mal, Mayfair, London
2019 "Situations", Solo exhibition, Is Not Gallery...