Lena Spania

Lena Spania was born in 1958 and studied architecture at the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1976-1982). She worked as an architect (1983-2023) in Greece and abroad, focusing on public and private building studies and participating in 31 architectural competitions, Greek and international, receiving a total of 28 awards and distinctions. Her main concern is reducing the perceptual volume of new buildings and emphasizing the “significance” of their “special meaning.” In 1990, after entrance exams, she attended the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for two years, aiming for systematic and parallel engagement with painting and architecture, as well as exploring the way painting and architecture overlap and complement each other as part of the synthetic process and as a means of expression. In 2012, she organized a solo painting exhibition in Cyprus. In 2023, she participated in 11 thematic group exhibitions in Athens and Thessaloniki.