NITSA HADJIGEORGIOU

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Nitsa Hadjigeorgiou was born in Famagusta. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), where she studied on a scholarship, and was mentored by distinguished visual artists and art theorists such as Yiannis Moralis, Pantelis Prevelakis, Kostas Xinopoulos, and many others.

She has been an active artist for the past fifty years, an art teacher in secondary education for over thirty years, president of EKATE (Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts), and an examiner for entrance exams to Fine Arts Schools in Greece.

She has represented Cyprus abroad in various exhibitions and symposiums, most notably at the India Triennale in 1992, where she was awarded the gold medal for two works titled “Ecological Anxiety.” In 2022, a major honorary retrospective exhibition of her work was organized by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth and the Municipality of Larnaca at the Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery.

She has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows and symposiums in Cyprus, Greece, and abroad. Some notable ones include the 2022 Honorary Retrospective by the Deputy Ministry of Education and Culture in collaboration with the Municipality of Larnaca at the Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery; her 2020 Honorary Retrospective by the Municipality of Limassol at the Papadakis Warehouses; curation and participation in “Lefkaritiko Embroidery Lace: Modi and Modulations II” (European Parliament, Strasbourg, 2017); participation in the Malta Art Camp (2017); group exhibition “Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty” (Bratislava, Slovakia, 2012); group show “DiverCyty” (Strasbourg, 2008); representation of Cyprus at the 19th Alexandria Biennale (1995); exhibition at the “House of Cyprus” (Athens, 1993); representation of Cyprus at the Cairo Biennale (1992); group exhibition “Flag of the Earth” (Seville, Spain, 1992); symposium “Earth Sign Earth” (Gustrow, Germany, 1992); 7th New Delhi Triennale (India, 1991); Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Marseille, France, 1990); exhibition by the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia, 1989), among many others.

Her works are included in numerous collections and museums around the world.

 MEMORIES FROM THE PRESENT Following that major retrospective exhibition in Larnaca in 2022, Nitsa Hadjigeorgiou entered a new phase of creativity. For the past eighteen months, she has been painting tirelessly, resulting in a large number of new works, some of which will be presented at her exhibition at Gloria Gallery in April 2025.

What stands out in this collection is the diversity of the works—not only in technique and colour palette, but also in subject matter. The viewer gets the sense that the artist, like a whirlwind, revisited all the “creative periods” of her past during these eighteen months, bringing them into the present and reshaping them with a contemporary perspective.

Many of these works were started years, perhaps even decades ago. Now, however, the moment came when they once again captured her interest. It was a personal need to revisit and renegotiate her own past.

In a “consciously subconscious” creative state, it was as if every time she worked on a piece, she was transported back to the time she first began it—while naturally being unable to separate from the experience and artistic evolution she has acquired since then. It is as if each piece is a lightning-fast journey from past to present and back again. And despite this, in every work, one also sees her desire for something new—in forms, textures, and materials—expressing a deep need to create new worlds, new images, always driven by her emotions and inner psyche.