Maria Karimpidi (b. 1989, Georgia) lived in Crete, studied at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki and has lived and worked in Germany since 2016. Maria observes everyday situations and transforms these experiences from her living world into architectural offsets and still life elements combine in her work with graphic perspective escapes, which are translated into the two-dimensional in an irritating way.

Abstract and figurative ensembles emerge from gentle architectural allusions, rougher backdrops, and plant additions, which, in addition to their reference to real models, always play with the pictorial means of color, surface, line, and space. The perspective alignment is seemingly exaggeratedly used as a means of design that goes beyond isometry. Torn from the context of a uniform illusionary space, these graphic means of suggesting plasticity create an unreal distance to the objects and play with the understanding of space and its representation without becoming cubist. Line and surface do not become architectural models, but subtly ironically twisted. Her illusory worlds remain pretty spaces of longing but seem visually grounded.Follow Maria on Instagram