MATAROA

MATAROA is a platform aiming to promote Greek contemporary artistic creation and cultural activity abroad.

An initiative of the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece.

02/12/2025

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⭕️VASSIŁINA |

🗣 "Pop is often dealt with prejudice, labeled as a ‘light’ or ‘shallow’ music, a stereotype that fails to recognize its multidimensional nature. In London, through my connection to various music scenes, I began to embrace the deeper meaning of pop and love its flexibility and dynamics".

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/vassilina-2/

24/11/2025

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⭕️Christina Morali |

🗣 "Memories of the past keep the flame of ceramics burning up until today, and admirable works are still being produced in Greece. Clay is inscribed in our DNA after all".

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/christina-morali/

12/11/2025

⭕️ Dimitris Efeoglou |

✍️ The painter recalls fragments of Northern Greece landscapes from his memory, where he has lived and walked on ever since a child, with the aim of reshaping them into piecemeal and atemporal landscapes.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/dimitris-efeoglou/

03/11/2025

⭕️ Odysseas Tsakalidis |

✍️ It is the power endowed in his violin bow, the maturity of the timbre, the expression on his face, the movement of his body and the sincerity of his music that gallop inside of you like a purebred horse, forming an experience that feels like poetry.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/odysseas-tsakalidis/

21/10/2025

⭕️ Thanos Papageorgiou |

✍️ An artist who reaches out to music with no strings attached and that is why music responds back to him, in a beautiful communication that evolves into passionate melodies.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/thanos-papageorgiou/

13/10/2025

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⭕️ Αlexandros Kallifatidis |

✍️ The therapeutic powers of art and its meaningful impact on the psyche and the spirit have been consolidated ever since ancient times.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/alexandros-kallifatidis/

08/10/2025

The 2nd MATAROA Street Contest in four points!

⚫ 20 street artists from this year’s and last year’s competitions have transformed the Mediterranean Garden into an open-air street art museum.
⚫ The Pumping Station on Thessaloniki Promenade has been newly decorated on one of its sides with a collective mural created by eight street artists.
⚫ A new, imaginative installation by artist and writer Thanasis Lalas, a car turned into a work of art, stands at the heart of the Garden.
⚫ In parallel, clean-up interventions took place along Thessaloniki Promenade, removing visual pollution in collaboration with Kärcher and the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

This initiative by the Cultural Society, in the context of the MATAROA project and in collaboration with the Municipality of Thessaloniki, offers citizens and visitors a public space that celebrates the power of art in everyday life — fully aligned with the “culture of everyday life” we envision for our city!

Special thanks to our sponsors/supporters: Giorgos & Zoi Papageorgiou, EYATH S.A., Isomat, and TECHNOMAT S.A.

🎬 Watch the video and discover all the artworks and actions of this year’s event!

03/10/2025

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⭕️ Fikos |

✍️ The more abruptly a society moves forward (whatever that means), the more persistently its die-hard romantics will cast their glance backwards.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/fikos/

29/09/2025

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⭕️ STEFANOS ROKOS

✍️ The intricate, versatile and thrilling visual artist Stefanos Rokos maintains a longstanding passionate relation with cinema, expressed in a multitude of ways: through a series of works that have accompanied films, as well as in the worldview and the origins of his own art. Having all the above in mind, the commission and undertaking the visual identity of the upcoming 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival was definitely no surprise.

👉 Check it here: https://www.mataroa.gr/update/stefanos-rokos-2/

22/09/2025

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⭕️ Alexandros Plomaritis

✍️ Under the title “Becoming a Ghost”, the Greek visual artist Alexandros Plomaritis, well-known for his performances, explores the human body, its very state of beingness and its performative role, in various and in good parts unknown spaces and locations, both in Belgium and in Greece.

👉 Check it here: https://www.mataroa.gr/update/alexandros-plomaritis/

11/09/2025

⏳ Final countdown!

📢 H Nέα Παραλία υποδέχεται το 2ο MATAROA Street Contest!
🗓 Παρασκευή 12 Σεπτεμβρίου | 18:30
📍 Κήπος της Μεσογείου, Νέα Παραλία

Μια πρωτοβουλία της Πολιτιστική Εταιρεία που για δευτερη χρονιά, σε συνδυασμό με τις εκτεταμένες παρεμβάσεις καθαρισμού και αισθητικής αναβάθμισης του παραλιακού μετώπου, αναδεικνύει τη δύναμη της τέχνης στο δημόσιο χώρο, ενισχύει τον διάλογο ανάμεσα σε δημιουργούς και το κοινό, ενώ υπογραμμίζει την αξία του δημόσιου χώρου για τον «πολιτισμό της καθημερινότητας» στην πόλη μας.

Βe there!

10/09/2025

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⭕️ Vassilis Moralis |

✍️ Art is open and universal by definition, a co-creator in all aspects of our life.

👉 Find the article here: https://www.mataroa.gr/portrait/vassilis-moralis/

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