Eleana Stoikou

The Berlin Wall, the concept of the border, conflict, war, removal and the union of two or more points have been functioned as a trigger to create my works. My work depict the present, the East-West dichotomy, the relationship between “Eastern” and “Western” nations and their attempt to dominate or to come to the fore. Through my work is attempted initially a reference to memory and therefore to the Berlin Wall and generally to borders, visible or not, that surround us and consequently are seeking their gradual degradation through the combination of accident and the preform. My work began on the occasion of the study of conflict, but also of the two-point union, as happened with the Berlin Wall. Moreover bacing on the "formalist of expertise" of Clement Greenberg and the theory of his "puristic" speech, I focused on morphological types and I created this series of works, which have as basical elements the form, the composition, the neutral color and the texture.
Compact autonomous forms with bright enclosing shape, which are suspended centrally in the space or expanded out of it, linked together harmoniously, conversed with other more transparent and sometimes they are provoke tonal explosions expressing a conflict or a war (econo...

She studied History and Archaeology with specialization in the field of history at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She continued her studies at graduate level in the field of Art History at the Aristotle University, and submitted M.A. thesis “The border art. The case of Berlin Wall” with honors. Alongside she studied painting in Faculty of Fine Arts, departments of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at second painting workshop with teachers Kyriakos Mortarakos. She is a PhD candidate in Art History at School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.