This body of work is a natural continuation of my three-dimensional practice. Although created on canvas, the works function not as surfaces but as spaces. Painting moves beyond flatness, acquiring depth, volume, and movement, becoming a field of experience.

The works exist between the organic and the cosmic. Layers, structures, and forms evoke tissues, neural networks, fossils, and vast universes at the same time. Extreme zoom in and extreme zoom out coexist.

Movement is constant. Attraction, absorption, expansion, and mutation reflect inner states, tensions, and processes of evolution. Nothing remains fixed; everything is in continuous transformation.

Within this experience emerges a sense of awe rooted in knowledge — the awareness of immensity, of countless galaxies, of scales that exceed human comprehension. Alongside awe exists fear, not as threat, but as an existential realization of our smallness, of being a mere dot within an unfathomable universe.

The works do not lock into a single interpretation. They remain open, like the worlds they suggest. They do not seek to explain, but to be experienced — as energy, as scale, as an encounter with boundlessness, knowledge, and transformation.

Ermina Avramidou

Location

Born in Thessaloniki. Lives and works between London and Thessaloniki.

Education

  • 1992-1996 : College of Applied Arts, Thessaloniki Graduated with a bachelor degree in Interior design
  • 1991-1992 : Beaux Arts Institute, Thessaloniki Studied visual arts next to Professor Ksenis Sahinis
  • 1988-1991 : School of Applied Arts, Thessaloniki Studied free-hand and line drawing
  • 1985-1988 : Papioti School, Thessaloniki Studied painting and drawing

Publications

  • Glow Magazine, April 2024
  • FAD Magazine, Top 5 exhibitions to see , London – “The future is Female”
  • Sunday Telegraph, London – “The future is female”
  • Trebuchet magazine, London – “The future is female” 
  • Daily mail, London – “The future is female”
  • Hello! magazine, London – “The future is female”
  • Times radio , London – “The future is female”
  • Flo London, London – “The future is female”
  • Cent magazine – London, “The future is female”
  • SheerLuxe – London, “The future is female” 
  • Time out – London, “The future is female” 
  • ΒΗΜΑgazino  – February 2024
  • Metro Newspaper , “Best Art” London 
  • The Female Issue The Power of “SHE” – Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki – June 2022 – November 2022
  • The Mediterranean Issue – Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki – December 2021 – May 2022
  • WSI Mag – 2021
  • Efthimis is around – 2021
  • Eventbrite – 2021
  • Art Week – 2021
  • Art Rabbit – 2021
  • Art Plugged – 2021
  • Niji Magazine 2021
  • Kathimerini.gr, Group Exhibition, January 2021 (I Shall Be Your Eve)
  • Culturenow.gr, Group Exhibition, December 2020 (I Shall Be Your Eve)
  • Vimagazino, magazine Sunday edition, July 2019 (Artist Artwork)
  • Axia, newspaper, 2019 (Solo Exhibition in Athens)
  • Briefing news, online platform, 2019 (Solo Exhibition in Athens)
  • It’s only arts , online platform, 2019 ( Solo Exhibition in Athens)
  • Glow magazine, 2015 (Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition Entry)
  • Royal Academy of Arts, Edition Publication, 2015 (Summer Exhibition Entry)
  • Newspaper, 2014 (Solo Exhibition in Thessaloniki )
  • Artists Spectrum, 2013 (Art Beat, Artist Review)
  • Art takes Miami, Edition Publication, 2011 (Selected Artwork)
  • Glow magazine, 2010 (Artist Review)
  • Glow magazine, 2005 (Apartment Design)
  • Glow magazine, 2002 (Villa Design) 

Exhibitions

  • Elements in Harmony, New York, NY – From September 10–30, 2025
  • The Future Is Female,  Garrison Chapel – Group Exhibition – March – London, April 2024
  • Metamorfosis Gallery – Solo Exhibition – Thessaloniki, April – May 2024
  • Artsy, Solo Viewing Room, Online, 2 Feb 2022, 28 Feb 2022
  • Varvara Roza Galleries || Blender Gallery – Solo Exhibition – London, 9 Dec 2021 – 22 Dec 2021
  • Art Athina, Blender Gallery, Group Exhibition, Athens 21 Nov – 21 Dec
  • Blender Gallery – Varvara Roza Galleries – Group Exhibition, Athens 19 Dec 2020 – 30 Jan 2021
  • Alfa Gallery – XS Group Exhibition, 21 Oct – 29 Nov 2020
  • Alfa Gallery – Miami, Booth 7, 07 Jun – 15 Sep 2020
  • Megaro FAATH, Loudos Auctions, Thessaloniki –
    Group Exhibition – Charity Auction, 4 – 7 Dec 2019
  • Astrolavos Gallery, Group Exhibition, Athens, 20 September – 12 October 2019
  • Art Athina, Astrolavos Gallery, Group Exhibition, Athens, 14 September – 16 September 2019
  • Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 10 June – 12 August 2019
  • Astrolavos Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Athens, 6 February – 1 March 2019
  • Cactus Gallery, Solo Exhibition, London, 1-22 December 2016
  • C.John Gallery, Group Exhibition, London, 21 May – 20 June 2016
  • Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, 08 June – 16 August 2015
  • Elements Gabriel Fine Arts, Group Exhibition, London, 23 May – 28 June 2015
  • Metamorphosis Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Thessaloniki, May – June 2014
  • Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Group Exhibition, Thessaloniki, June 2014
  • Agora Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, April – June 2014
  • Metamorphosis Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Thessaloniki, June – July 2011
  • Skopje, Group Exhibition, September – October 2011

Awards and distinctions

  • Royal Academy of Arts, 2019 – Summer exhibition – London
  • Royal Academy of Arts, 2015 – Summer exhibition – London
  • Art Takes Miami, 2011 – International Art Competition
  • Ermina Avramidou selected as one of the 200 best artists
    from several thousand entries.
  • Awarded with special edition publication