Lena Dimova

Lena Dimova was born and raised in Moscow. As the granddaughter of the Russian avant-garde art collector George Costakis, she became familiar with the work of Soviet constructivists of the early 20th century from an early age. She studied at the Stroganov Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in Moscow.
Lena Dimova currently lives and works in Athens, Greece.

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Solo exhibitions

Athens College Theater, Athens, Greece

Espace Kreonidis, Athens, Greece

Skoufa Gallery, Athens, Greece

Ekali Municipal Exhibition Center, Athens, Greece

Loudos Contemporary in Hotel Lazart , Thessaloniki, Greece

Tsichritzis Foundation for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece

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Group exhibitions

Aenaon Gallery, Athens, Greece

Municipal Gallery, Patmos,  Greece

Aenaon International Center of Visual Arts, Athens, Greece

Zervas Art Gallery, Patras, Greece

Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

Anemos Gallery, Athens, Greece

Cow Parade, Athens, Greece

Municipal Gallery, Paros, Greece

The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn, American College of Greece Art Gallery, Athens, Greece

Sexplosion, Booze Cooperativa, Athens, Greece

Sexplosion, Copenhagen, Denmark

XANIart “Welcome’ Krit, Chania, Greece

Museum of Fine Arts, Herakleion, Greece

Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams, St Petersburg, Russia

Museum of Asian Art of Corfu, Corfu, Greece

Art Thessaloniki International

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“In her works are discerned deeply assimilated elements of post-Byzantine Russian iconography with those of an analogous folk art. These elements appear imaginatively matched in expressive realism, surrealistic freedom, geometric abstraction and the climate of Pop Art.“

Athena Schina, PhD, Art Critic and Historian

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“…her work begins to arrive at a surprisingly unexpected result that is affected by chance. When tied together the geometrical patterns enter a dialogue amongst themselves and create a construction…“

Megakles Rogakos, Art Critic and Historian