Maria Andromachi Chatzinikolaou is a PhD candidate in the Department of History - Archeology of the University of Patras, visual artist and researcher, she holds a master’s degree in Public History from the Hellenic open University (2020), she is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (1999-2004), the Graphic Arts Department of T.E.I. Athens (1992-1997) and has also studied at the London School of Printing Technology (1997-1998). Since 2019 she is a lecturer (P.D. 407) at the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Univ. Thessaly. She is a founding member of the Filopappou group, founder, and inspirer of the research-artistic group Artspirators, as well as a member of the Oral History Association. Her works are realized through artistic actions and visual designs that have at their core an in situ, site specific, performative, and collective character. Through the polyphony of her narratives, she seeks the recall of collective memory, activation of the local communities, and other social groups that live and work where she performs her works. She uses methods akin to public history and creates original archives comprising the products of her research and interviews.
She has participated in many exhibitions and projects in Greece and abroad.

Indicative group exhibitions: The Butterfly Effect, textile manufacturing El.  D. Mouzakis  SA 'Butterfly', Athens 2023;Theorems 2: About History, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2020; [un]known destinations, chapter II, shell // the politics of existence, Athens 2018; [un]known destinations, chapter I, Athens 2017; Pigs, Spain-Portugal-Italy 2016; The Bankorgs, Performance Dinners No 8, Athens 2015; Nomadics Vol 3 / Das andere Wo / "The other Where, Vienna 2014; ROOMS 2010, Athens; KODRA Action Field, Thessaloniki 2007; Parallel Lives, Lisbon 2006; Egnatia Road: a path of Displaced Memories, Geni Mosque, Thessaloniki 2005 

Indicative participations and curated projects: With a boat of memories and dreams, a different memory walk, Nea Ionia Volos, Astrspirators, 2022; Hidden in plain sight, an interactive/participatory project, Artspirators, Tinos 2022; Stories and the viewing of the "other", an experiential journey of memory in the Pagasitic Gulf with sailing boats, Artspirators, 2019; Yellow Warehouse, freeing the memory, Artspirators, Volos 2018; Refuge project I, II, Artspirators, Milos 2013-14; Sanatorioproject, Artspirators, Pelion 2011-2012; Adelphia/Fratelli the children of Evaristo de Chirico, 2009-2010 Pelion- Rome; Egnatia Project, Athens- Thessaloniki- Italy 2004-2005

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