Marianna Stefanou

As things slow down, time expands, manufactures dreams, becomes isochronous with life. Children dream, women sew memories in black and white. Is it reality which lures? Fish, birds, tattered children’s toys, all become a living organism, a story in progress. Time has always been a crucial element throughout my painting. Participation and complicity in the theme is recorded on canvas by way of a complex scenario, a journey through day and night, reconstructing memories into a deep existential form. It is memory which lures, it is existence in the internal rhythm of the natural world which attracts. / Marianna Stefanou was born in Athens, Greece, in 1954. In 1974-1979 she studied painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts, under the guidance of renowned Greek master painters Lefteris Kanakakis, Dimitris Mytaras and Panayiotis Tetsis, and fresco under Konstantinos Xynopoulos. She was awarded a distinction in semi-nude painting. During 1982-1983 she continued her studies independently in Paris.

As Director of the Nea Chalkidona Municipality Art Workshop (2001-2006), and in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture for the promotion of artistic education, she worked in an artistic educational pilot programme, which was aimed at schoo...

1974-1979: Studied Painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts, under the guidance of renowned Greek master painters Lefteris Kanakakis, Dimitris Mytaras and Panayiotis Tetsis, and Fresco under Konstantinos Xynopoulos. She was awarded a distinction in semi-nude painting.
1982-1983: Undertook independent study in Paris.

1982 Ora Gallery, Athens – painting
1987 Gallery 3, Athens – 12 portraits
1992 Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens – painting and sketches
1997 Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens – painting and dry pastels
1999 Vaso Milonogianni Art Space, Chania, Crete – painting and dry pastels
2000 Chrysothemis Gallery, Athens – painting and dry pastels
2000 Anny Balta Gallery, Thessaloniki – painting and dry pastels
2005 Gallery 3, Athens – painting

She has also taken part in many group exhibitions since 1983.