Martha Fyrigos

After my permanent relocation from Athens, Greece, to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, I successfully completed my studies at the Dutch Art Academy, in 1994. Two years later, I was awarded a stipend by the Mondriaan Fund, formerly known as the Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB).
Since then, I live and work in Amsterdam and exhibit regularly; ‘samples’ of my artistic production can be found in domestic and foreign private collections, but also, in cultural institutions, in the Netherlands and abroad.

In my paintings, color, bright light and nature have always been my main sources of inspiration; landscapes, organic forms and their evolution, abstract compositions with the floral or geometric element. Important aspect of my work remains the balance between color and light. This is the element that dictates how the shape will gradually develop. While certain color blends, combined with a given shape, potentially intensify subtle erotic qualities, other elements form aesthetic landscape(s) and organic matter.
In my earlier work, however, I chose to place large volumes in landscape compositions.

The last few years, I have been working on a series of paintings based on the theme Nature. In these creations, I incre...

1989-1994: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Nederlands.

Grant
1996: Startstipendium, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, The Nederlands.

Solo exhibitions (selection):
2021 Kraijenhoff broedplaats, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
2019 Kraijenhoff broedplaats, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
2013 Galerie Zwijsen, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2010 Schouwburg Het Park, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2009 Galerie Zwijsen, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2008 Galerie De Kleine Hoogstraat, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2007 Schouwburg Het Park, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2007 De Meervaart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Tem Gallery, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2002 W.G. Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Milieudienst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Aenaon Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998 W.G. Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 Galerie Joghem, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Group exhibitions (selection):
2024 De Onafhankelijken, Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2023 Creatieve Kosmos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 BBK Exposeert, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Attic Gallery, Corfu, Greece
2019 Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2018 Artzaanstad Event, Zaandam, The Netherlands
2018 CBK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2016 Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013 Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2012 Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 W...