Leda Kontogiannopoulou
«Nights»
Opening: Thursday 11th September 2025, at 19:30 – 21:30
Duration: 1th September – 11th October 2025
Skoufa Gallery happily presents Leda Kontogiannopoulou’s tenth solo exhibition, titled “Nights”, which opens on Thursday 11th September 2025 at 19.30 and will run until the 11th October 2025.
The exhibition is a natural continuation, a development but also an exceedance of her previous work (The House of Memory, 2021, Benaki Museum). Kontogiannopoulou’s new paintings are shown in four groups: figures, urban landscapes, still lives and interiors. In this new work, a game between light and shadow emerges once more, while night itself creates a sense of depth and intimacy.
Kontogiannopoulou is a modest painter who examines thoroughly her compositions and respects to the fullest their color gradation harmonies, while adding a poetic dimension to her figures and, transforms the spaces of her paintings into narrative scenes of untold secret stories. In the exhibition catalogue, Krystalli Glyniadaki notes: “I wonder, is this not what we are looking for in her paintings from the house on Agras street, Seferis’ house, from her previous exhibition? The “literary” elements that reveal details from the lives of those who lived there, and, therefore the way they perceived the world? Hidden secrets, a painting, a book, a carpet, a table lamp…”.
The viewer is guided to an inner journey: from the observation of the human glance up to the hidden life of the objects that liven up in the nocturnal light.
The poet Yiannis Antiochou writes about Kontogiannopoulou’s latest group of paintings: “Through her painting, we are invited to observe and ‘interpret’ night not as an end but rather as a beginning. A beginning for an inner journey, where the light not only reveals but also implies. Where a shadow does not hide, but also protects. Her painting, occasionally with scenes of people in kitchens or in living rooms, and at other times with lifeless findings of a transformed daily life, deals with light and shadows in an imperceptible spiritual game that draws details, bestows mysticism to objects and charges them with age”.
