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Curator · Museum director · Cataloguer

Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel

fl. 1984–2014 · Cyprus

Curator of the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia who coordinated the catalogue of Colours of Medieval Cyprus; quoted as director of the A. G. Leventis Gallery in 2014.

Biography

Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel wrote the account of how the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia built up its medieval pottery collection. The exhibition catalogue Colours of Medieval Cyprus credits her as a co-curator of the exhibition, with Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi and Elena Poyiadji-Richter, and as coordinator of the catalogue. The exhibition, "Aspects of Daily Life 1191-1571", was held in London to mark Cyprus's accession to the European Union and to honour Constantine Leventis1. Vassos Karageorghis calls her "Director of the Leventis Municipal Museum" in his foreword, while her own note and the credits give "Curator"1.

In that note she sets out how the museum acquired its medieval ceramics. It bought 26 pieces from Petros Colocassides in the summer of 1986 on behalf of the Friends of the Leventis Museum, and 115 pieces from Pavlos Neophytou in 1996, paid for by the Leventis Foundation. In January 2003 it agreed to buy 180 pieces from Dr Thanos Gregoriades1.

In 2010 Karageorghis thanked "Mrs Loukia Hadjigavriel, the Museum's curator" for her help with the catalogue of the Phylactou Collection, lent to the museum long term by Chris Phylactou and installed for the opening of the new wing, and for help with the second edition of the Severis Collection catalogue2,3. With A. Constandinide she carried out a 2004 study of Cypriot private museums for the Ministry of Education and Culture4. In 2014 she was quoted as director of the A. G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia4.

Life and work

  1. 2003–2004
    Co-curator, with Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi and Elena Poyiadji-Richter, of 'Colours of Medieval Cyprus: Aspects of Daily Life 1191-1571' at the Hellenic Centre, London, marking Cyprus's EU accession and in memory of Constantine Leventis; also coordinator of the catalogue. The Ministry of Education and Culture asked for proposals in April 2003 and the project 'came to fruition' a year later

    LondonPapanikola-Bakirtzi 2004

  2. January 2003
    Leventis Museum's purchase of 180 medieval ceramics from Dr Thanos Gregoriades, agreed January 2003; her note in Colours tells the history of the collection's acquisitions (26 pieces bought from Petros Colocassides 1986; 115 pieces from Pavlos Neophytou 1996)

    NicosiaPapanikola-Bakirtzi 2004

  3. 2009–2010
    Handled the Museum's side of the long-term loan of the Phylactou Collection and was thanked for organising its installation in the new Constantine Leventis Wing; helped Karageorghis in the final study before publication

    NicosiaKarageorghis 2010

  4. 2010
    Helped with the layout of the second edition of the Severis Collection catalogue and with Karageorghis's study of the new material

    Karageorghis & Severis 2010

Connections

6 people
Vassos KarageorghisConstantine LeventisDemetra Papanikola-Bakirt…Elena Poyiadji-RichterChris PhylactouPavlos LoizidesLoukia Loizou Hadjigavriel
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi (2004). Colours of Medieval Cyprus: Through the Medieval Ceramic Collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Nicosia, The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (ed.) (2010). Cypriote Antiquities in the Phylactou Collection. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis, D. C. Severis (2010). The Severis Collection of Cypriote Antiquities. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  4. 4.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.
  5. 5.L. Loizou-Hadjigavriel, A. Constandinide (2004). Cypriot private museums. Nicosia, Leventis Municipal Museum.
  6. 6.L. Loizou-Hadjigavriel, D. Theodotou (2009). A Guide to the History of Nicosia through the Leventis Municipal Museum. Nicosia, Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia.
  7. 7.L. Hadjigavriel (2014). “A. G. Leventis Gallery Q & A”. A. G. Leventis Gallery. Online