Eleni Mavronikola - Projects, Exhibitions & Participations

Trace and Inner Exploration

For me, printmaking is an experiential process of exploration—a way of approaching human existence through the silence of the incision. My work seeks to reveal the deeper essence of things and of the relationships that connect people to their fears, memories, the materiality of the body, as well as to the marks of life that time has left upon them.

Materiality and Green Printmaking

My relationship with the language of printmaking has been deeply influenced by the teaching of Elisavet Dionysopoulou and the principles of Green Printmaking, as I believe that the choice of materials and processes also constitutes an ethical stance towards art. I primarily work and create with linoleum and plexiglass, while I have also experimented with metal, exploring different qualities of line, light, and texture.

Lock

Year of Creation: 2025
Dry etching on Tetrapak
Digital Image and Traditional Engraving

The age of digital information has become an integral part of contemporary visual experience.

For me, technology functions primarily as a field of research and observation.

Form, Grid, and Transition

My forms often emerge through intense chiaroscuro (strong contrasts between light and shadow) and dense linear engravings, enclosed within grids, boundaries, or symbolic structures. Geometric elements, spiral lines, and organic motifs function as visual metaphors for psychological pressure, connection, memory, and repetition.

I am particularly concerned with the notion of passage: the transition from one state to another, the tension between confinement and freedom, and the human need to transcend their own limits. Black ink functions as a field of silence, while the white engravings act as cracks of light and breath.

Even the landscapes and objects that appear in my works function as psychological landmarks and existential metaphors. Roads, passages, bridges, or dark organic spaces become inner landscapes that call for multiple readings.

I am interested in an image that does not offer a single answer, but instead leaves an open space for the viewer to enter and create their own personal interpretation.

Awareness Is Three-Dimensional

Year of Creation: 2023
Mezzotint on Copper

I came from the other side of the world

Year of Creation: 2022

Plexiglass

A message that travels, seeking a recipient.

Beyond the Return

Year of Creation: 2021

Woodcut

A symbolic reflection on the inner journey and the moment of transition.

1888

Year of Creation: 2020
Drypoint (Plexiglass)
 

The Image as a Carrier of Memory, Time, and Personal History

 

Gates of fire

Year of Creation: 2021

Drypoint (Plexiglass)

A symbolic reflection on struggle, transition, and the shared human journey

 

Universal Truth

Year of Creation: 2025

Drypoint and Mixed Media

An artistic exploration of the relationship between Humanity, Energy, and the Universe.

Don't tell her

Year of Creation: 2022

2 Linoleum & Plexiglass Matrices

What remains unspoken takes on a power of its own.

Rizitiko

Year of Creation: 2023

Linoleum 

An Artistic Tribute to Collective Memory, Strength, and Human Resilience

 

Between day and night

Year of Creation: 2024
Linoleum

Love as an Act of Vulnerability, Sensitivity & Inner Truth

 
GALLERY

The works presented here do not function as autonomous pieces, but rather form part of an ongoing artistic journey. They are a selection from the annual series of Art in a Box, an artistic group engaged in a collective project based on a consistent, everyday artistic practice, in which I participated systematically through a series of daily exercises.

The creative process was informed by continuous observation of my surroundings and by personal photographic documentation, elements that were adapted and conceptually transformed within each series.

  • Cables everywhere
    Year of Creation: 2023
    Plexiglass

The physical relationship with the matrix, the dynamic quality of an engraved line, and the way the final result becomes visible on the surface of the paper function as integral elements of human presence within an artistic process.

I do not know whether art can truly explain the human being…

But I do know something that is difficult to express in words…

Fears, memories, absences, the need for connection, the need to exist a little more meaningfully within time—through printmaking, art may at least be able to touch them.

Exhibitions & Participation
  • Platforms Project 2026 – Art in a Box group, September 17–20, 2026, Tobacco Factory, Athens
  • Cartographies 2026
  • 2024 – Nea Makri, Marathon Month, exhibition presented in shop windows
  • 2022–2023 – Library of the Hellenic Parliament, exhibition Stories of Survival: Asia Minor Refugees and Work in Their New Homelands
  • 2020–present – Art in a Box