Lila Nikolaou
Born 1990 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Lives and works in Thessaloniki.
INTRODUCTION
She was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, in 1990. She graduated from the Department of Business Administration of University of Macedonia and in 2022 completed her postgraduate studies in Art Management at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
BIO
With her studies as a starting point, she was interested in discovering the way a group moves, through diversity of roles, with the common goal of “creating” and implementing a vision. She entered the art field by working as an assistant organizer in art festivals. She was inspired by the joy of people coming together through art and culture, communicating and creating new conditions of action and interaction.
Art for her is a tool that brings to the surface questions that stimulate an internal dialogue with the Self and a means that activates the individual and sharpens their senses and perceptions.
She found yoga at a young age. Even though she loved her contact with this practice from the very beginning, she changed many types of yoga until she met her Teacher, Naya Karnava. In her person as well as in her Teaching she recognized what she was looking for: the expansion of consciousness as a useful tool for one’s own life. She views the union of Matter and Spirit, of the I and the Being, as an eternal and evolving journey of awareness.
Her studies and interests center on the role of art in contemporary society. During her internship at the Venice Art Factory gallery, she took on responsibilities related to exhibition curating. Through her master’s thesis, “AS ONE: MAI + Neon, an artistic project for raising consciousness in Greece”, she examined the performing arts, the expansion of artistic boundaries, and public engagement with art.
She is a co-curator of three art exhibitions of Art of Life Collective from 2022 to 2024. Art exhibitions based on the artists’ three-year personal and collective research in the thematic section: Eros – Death – Creation.
Alongside the research and together with the team, she began engaging with performativity. She has been driven by a desire to re-explore the body’s rhythm, and to connect curatorial practice with movement, narrative, and other disciplines. Currently apprenticing with choreographer Olga Spiraki, exploring the intersections of movement, dance, performance, breathing.
She explores and practices contemporary dance as an embodied tool for learning, expressing emotions of freedom, and articulating ideas with curiosity and awareness.
“Art is not just a visual means but a way of life. Through art’s redefinement and repositioning in society, man gains access and interacts with it. In this relationship the essence of Art is recognized, i.e. the Beauty, the inspiration, the creativity and the courage that every Individual-Creator can bring to their Work and to their Life.”
“A creative, meditative process can open a wellspring of possibilities and form a bridge connecting the individual to the cosmos.”
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Education
2019 – 2022 I Master in Arts Management, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
2009 – 2013 I Bachelor in Management and Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki GR
Cultural & Artistic activities
2025 – Performer, The abundance of five-part 2 (Performance), Art of Life Collective, Pelion, Greece
2024 – Co- Curator, Fleeting and Eternal, Art of Life Collective, Cultural Center of Ex-Ursuline School, Naxos, Greece 2023 – Co- curator, Eros the bridge builder, Art of Life Collective, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece 2023 – Performer, The abundance of five-part 1 (Performance), Art of Life Collective, Delphi, Greece
2023 – Selected participant of Curators Lab 2023 and Discovering: Architecture and Landscape Lab2023, Das Haus- Creative Labs
2022 – Co- Curator, You are the eyes through which Creation knows Itself, Art of Life Collective, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece
2021 – Gallery Assistant, Research, Venice Art Factory and SPUMA (Space for the Arts), Venice, Italy, Research 2021 – Supervisor, Illustradays, Athens, Greece, Illustration Festival: “The Next Day” in collaboration with “Le immagini della fantasia”, Fondazione Štěpán Zavřel, Sarmede
2020 – Participant, Workshop of ritual singing and dancing with Dina Khuseyn & Mariele Baraziol, DK ‘Zattere’ studio, Rite Now, Venice
2015 – Logistics & Sales, MAMMA MIA, International Tour, Badminton Theater, Opera House of Thessaloniki
2013 – Production Assistant, Cultural Festival of Dimitria, Thessaloniki
2009/2010 – Production Assistant, International Film Festival, Thessaloniki