With her exhibition “Kaleidoscope,” Maria Diakodimitriou opens up a world where reality and memory are refracted into multidimensional patterns. Each of her works functions as a lens that reconstructs experiences, images, and emotions into constantly changing forms, like the colors of a kaleidoscope.

The viewer is invited to wander among sensitive and flexible materials ranging from paper and acrylic paints to multimedia and installations, experiencing art as a process of personal and collective discovery. The exhibition explores how perception and memory reshape reality, offering an experience that is constantly changing, like the repetitive but unique variations in a kaleidoscope.

At Kaleidoscope, art becomes a field of dialogue, exploration, and reflection—a space where every observation opens up new perspectives and every glance creates a personal story within the common mosaic of the exhibition.

Archaeologist and art historian Iris Kritikou, speaking about Maria Diakodimitriou’s work, says: “Drawing on every recess of her inexhaustibly fertile imagination, Maria Diakodimitriou constructs from scratch a dense universe where primary knowledge and archetypal images are used as a reservoir and a tank, as a labyrinth and a mirror of the mind, using interactive and simultaneous methods. The use of multimedia runs through and unites the agile kaleidoscope of these images, contributing to the exciting unfolding of the virtual narrative and defining the surrealistic result of the heterochronous and heterotopic composition.”

Art historian Christina Sotiropoulou notes … “Through a series of works that essentially constitute a sequence of visual snapshots, of an environment that becomes an autonomous narrative vehicle operating in terms of scenography, she engages the viewer in a captivating three-dimensional, multi-level game. The creator herself becomes a peculiar flaneuse who wanders around and, with her visual gaze, captures the results of her observations in color, transforming places and landscapes of urban everyday life into compositions of historical timelessness, urban portraits that transcend time and reflect, according to Christopher Butler, “the eternity of transition,” depicting “the poetic in the historical.”

Maria Diakodimitriou was born in Athens and studied English Literature at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She continued her studies with a master’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK. She has studied Set Design and Three-Dimensional Modelling.

She has taught at the Technical Educational Institutes of Athens and Piraeus (now PADA) and has held management positions in educational organizations. In 2003, she worked in print design and in 2004 she published the magazine Epoches.

She has presented seven solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, while her works belong to collections internationally.

Artistic style and themes

The artist creates multi-layered compositions characterized by surrealism and an archetypal aesthetic. The images depict scenes with intense colors on black and white backgrounds, phantasmagorical scenes that seem to float in a dream. She intertwines the personal with the collective, allowing the viewer to choose their own path through the narrative.

The opening ceremony will take place on Friday, October 10, and the exhibition will run until Saturday, November 1, 2025.

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Friday 10: 00 -13: 00 & 17: 30 -20: 00

Saturday 10: 30 -13: 00

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