Opening: Thursday, June 18, 2026, 19:30

Duration: June 18 – July 18, 2026

On June 18, Uni.Versus Art Room inaugurates the exhibition FORMA | Objects in Conversation, bringing into dialogue two creators who have consistently shaped their own distinct position in the field of contemporary ceramics, sculpture, and art jewelry.

Marilena Michopoulou and Dora Haralambaki present sculptures and jewelry resulting from years of research into matter, the handmade process, and the symbolic power of the object. Their encounter highlights two different visual languages converging on a common reflection: the way an artwork can convey memory, knowledge, experience, and cultural meaning through its very materiality.

The title of the exhibition derives from the Latin word forma, a term that runs through the history of aesthetics, philosophy, and art. The word describes the shape, the structure, the organization, the way something gains presence in the world. In this exhibition, forma is approached as an active process. Each work is the result of a sequence of decisions, technical knowledge, gestures, and material transformations that remain visible in its final existence. Clay, glazes, hagiography powders, silver, bronze, and acrylic paints compose a complex material vocabulary through which the creative process takes form. The surfaces bear traces of treatment, incisions function as inscriptions, colors organize rhythms and intensities, while fire completes a process that connects manual labor with time.

A few words about Marilena Michopoulou

Marilena Michopoulou is one of the important figures in contemporary Greek ceramics, with a career of over three decades dedicated to exploring volume, structure, and the relationship of the artwork to space. The works she presents, made of ceramic stoneware, glazes, hagiography powders, bronze, and silver, capture a deep knowledge of materials and their possibilities. The characteristic incisions and blue color pathways that develop on the surfaces of her works create the sense of an internal organization system, a structure that runs through the volume and connects the part with the whole. The presence of metal and gold-plated surfaces adds layers of materiality and highlights the relationship between ceramic tradition and contemporary sculptural practice.

Her long-standing educational activity through the “Ceramic Forms” workshop, as well as her participation in major events in Greece and abroad, have made her work a benchmark for contemporary Greek ceramics. In this specific exhibition, jewelry appears as a natural continuation of her sculptural research, as small-scale works that retain the same structural thinking and the same dedication to materiality.

A few words about Dora Haralambaki

Dora Haralambaki has formed a recognizable visual language where art jewelry and micro-sculpture function as facets of the same creative process. Her sculptures and jewelry, made of clay, acrylics, hagiography powders, varnishes, glazes, bronze, and silver, constitute a body of work with a strong material and sensory presence. Surfaces develop through successive layers and treatments, while her characteristic red color series function as a constant identifying element of her practice.

Starting with painting and subsequent studies in jewelry design, Haralambaki has shaped a visual identity that moves consistently between art jewelry and micro-sculpture. Her presence in international events, as well as her long-term educational activity through the Craftit workshop, have contributed significantly to the promotion of contemporary art jewelry in Greece.

The meeting of the two creators highlights a broader direction in contemporary visual practice, where the boundaries between sculpture, micro-sculpture, and art jewelry function as fields of creative expansion.