About the artist: Sofia-Maria Xenaki

Sophia-Maria Xenaki is a visual artist and performer. She was born in Chania in 1991.  Her interest in painting and dancing began since childhood. In 2009, she went to the Arts and Applied Arts Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on a scholarship, where she graduated in 2015. In the academic year 2013-2014, she attended the Universidad Complutense in Madrid with the Erasmus student exchange program. Since 2016 she lives in Chania, where she teaches painting and dancing.

Group Exhibitions:

'The amazing light of your very existence', Museum of Contemporary Art Chania-Olive Oil, 2018
Artists of Chania interpret the Tower of Babel, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, 2018
'Re-culture Festival', Patras 2016
Group exhibition of Greek artists, St Nicolas Bay Resort Hotel, Argonauts Gallery, Agios Nikolaos 2016
3 Circles of Life, Neorio Moro, Chania 2016
'Olympia beings in an escape', Art Space of Chania, 2016
'Alexandria-Thessaloniki: 45 + 4 visual proposals', Vafopouleio Spiritual Center, Thessaloniki 2015
'Anxious portraits ask for a reader', Morfes Gallery, Rethymno 2015
'Anxious portraits ask for a reader', Museum of Contemporary Art, Heraklion 2014
4th Agora 2013 Athens Biennale
'Small Forms', FixinArt Thessaloniki 2013
Center of Speech and Art Exodus, Messolonghi 2013
'George Tsakiris-Family Affair', Museum of Contemporary Art Florina, 2012
6th Biennale of Students, Athens 2011
 

Solo Exhibitions:

Animation Movement, Mare Gallery, Chania 2017
From the series "New Blood" of MARE GALLERY, aiming to contribute to the promotion of new and promising Greek artists

Labyrinth ', Center of Mediterranean Architecture, Chania 2015