I am Christina Mavi (Mavropaidi), an architect and a visual artist.
In 2013, I created ADDMYVIEW (Art Defined Differently), because of my constant need to explore the boundaries and the “conversation” between architecture and art.
My work is influenced and stimulated by everyday life, through an anthropocentric and spatial observation. For me, what gives substance to the architectural site, is exclusively the people who inhabit it. Their actions, as well as the relationships they develop in it, are the field of my constant research.
Architecture, however, combines applied science and art, opening paths of unsurpassed creativity. Basically for me, they are an inseparable unity! I think there are no dividing lines between them. They are like communicating vessels that feed each other uninterruptedly. Their osmosis generates special and distinct ideas. Their relationship is very dynamic and this provides me with new data and increases my creativity.
As an artist, I try to attribute my personal sense of human’s “social moments” into site at all levels. Through the art of design, painting and photography, I have the opportunity to isolate these actions, to comment and to visualize them on another level. So I want my work, not to simply record the reality, but also the substance beyond the visible.
The peculiarity and complexity of this process, leads me to use geometry and symbols, but also a variety of materials, methodologies and techniques, always depending on my position in front of every project. This creates my personal narration and identity.
Through the action in each of my projects, I seek the reaction. I have the feeling that this process, leads me to new facts and ultimately to my personal next stage. In my opinion, every form of art, is in itself a challenge and stimulates me towards a personal breakthrough.
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition «In and Out Covid 19»
Member of the Group Constant Art, Archaelogical Museum, Thessaloniki_6/2020
Fabriano In Aquarello 2020
Member of the Greek group Fabriano 2020_5/2020
OnlineExhibition «Resilience Project»
MOMUS,Thessaloniki_5/2020
Group Exhibition «Love @ First Sight»
Blank Wall Galery, Athens_2/2020
Group Exhibition «We shape reality»
Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki_2/2020
4th ART THESSALONIKI, TIF-HELEXPO
Group Exhibition “Constant Art”
Member of the group Constant Art _11/2019
Group Exhibition «S-Θήσεις»
Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki_10/2019
Group Exhibition «Art the 5th Element»
Gallery tou Notou, Piraeus_10/2019
3η ART THESSALONIKI, TIF-HELEXPO
Group Project “Ou Topos” as a member of ARC (Art Revisited Collective)_11/2018
Group Exhibition “Constant Art 1”
Bensousan Han , Thessaloniki_3/2018
Painting Exhibition “Addition in Substrauction”
Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki _2/2018
Graduates of Arte di tre seminar FHE1
Café bar Urania, Thessaloniki _2/2015
Imagine the City, Byzantine museum of Thessaloniki _6/2011
Personal project “Sliding Yard»
Team project “Urban Infoscope”
Photography team Click Clickers
Café bar .ES, Thessaloniki _6/2011
Graduates Photography seminars by 5th Borough of Thessaloniki
5th Borough of Thessaloniki _6/2010
Education
School of Architecture AUTH
Graduate Architecture _ 2012
- Senior thesis: Sliding Yard (bioclimatic urban design)
- Project research: Principles of bioclimatic urban design
Public ΙΕΚ Kalamarias _ Thessaloniki
Graduate Decoration _ 2000
- Senior thesis: interior Design of a Piano Bar
Public ΙΕΚ Epanomis _ Thessaloniki
Graduate Designer through Computer Systems _ 2002
- Senior thesis: 3D design of a home prototype
Seminars
Photography FHE 2, Photography Home Edition expert
Proponent: Arte di Tre Studio_3-6/ 2015
Photography FHE1, Photography Home Edition beginners
Proponent: Arte di Tre Studio_10/2014-1/2015
Effectively Negotiations
Pro Seminars Executive Professional Studies, Proponent: Dimosthenis Papakonstantinou_11/2013
Social Media “Less Technology, More Human
Pro Seminars Executive Professional Studies, Proponent: Apostolos Fotitzidis_11/2012
Photography Studio Phos
Proponent: Maria Thamnidou_9/2010-6/2011
Photography for beginners
Photography seminars by 5th Borough of Thessaloniki
Proponent: Maria Thamnidou _2-6/2010
«Clean Tecknologies», bioclimatic architecture
Agent: Anelixi, Non Profit organization _1-2010 έως 6-2010
Awards – Distinctions
Distinction Best first project of a new Architect for the years 2012-2016
Project title: “X-mas Machine” _Domes Awards 2017
Installations
Monument for the executed residents of Vogatsiko from the Italian Army 1943
Position: Prosilio_ Vogatsiko, Kastoria, Greece _2018
X-mas Machine, during the annual exhibition “Asterocosmos”
Position: TIF-HELEXPO Thessaloniki_2015
Presentations in Scientific Conferences
3rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Standardization and Quality_ 2010Presentation: “Implementation Capabilities of the Greek Protagoras System (ESRP) in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Rapporteurs: Angelos Zachariadis, Mavropaidi Christina
6th International Conference Standardization Protypes & Quality_“A Means of Balkan Countries’ Collaboration” _ 2009 _Presentation: «Training Services as a means to transfer protypes, standards and rules – Tηe Greek quality system and its application in training , Rapporteurs: Mavropaidi Christina, Ioannis Adam
Workshops
«Green roofs, vertical gardens»
Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, Rapporteur: Gernot Minke_2012
“City Cracks” , Biennale of Architecture Thessaloniki
Project: Urban Infoscope, School of Architecture Auth_2001
XXL Architectural Design and Digital Technologies
Project: “Reflecting Bites”, Zefxidos str, Thessaloniki, School of Architecture Auth _2001
Publications
ART THESSALONIKI 2018
Exhibition Catalog _ 2018
“Me liga roucha aimatomena”
Memorial album for the 14 executed residents of Voigatsiko from the Italian Army in 4/41943.
Editing editor: Nontas Tsigas. Edition: Municipality of Argos Orestiko _ 2017
Domes – International Architecture Inspection
Best first project of a new Architect for the years 2012-2016_ Awards 2017
Imagine the City
Edition: Byzantine cultural museum, Thessaloniki _2014
ARCHITECTURAL MODEL LEAD TO DESIGN
XXL Architectural Design and Digital Technologies, “Reflecting Bites”
Edition: DAMDI AND DESIGNERS _ 2010
Member of SKETVE, Association of Fine Arts Artists of Northern Greece, since 2020
