Maria Mavropoulou

Maria Mavropoulou (1989) is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. Using the most novel technology available to her, Maria creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent projects correlate creativity and AI with the divine as well as reflect on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images. Maria holds an MA in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is part of private collections and Vontobel Art Collection and has been exhibited in institutions and museums in Greece and abroad among which are FOAM Amsterdam (2024), the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece EMST (2022), MAST Foundation (Italy, 2023), Sharjah Foundation (UAE, 2022), Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia, 2021), Miami Art Week (USA, 2020), 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece, 2019), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece, 2019), Unseen Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2018). Maria has also been selected among 30 Under 30 Women Photographers (2018) and a Young Greek Photographer by Athens Photo Festival (2016). Maria lives and works in Athens, Greece.