Dimitris Tsoumplekas (Athens, 1967) is a visual artist working mainly with photography. For the most part, his works focus on the relationship between the private and the public and how our personal and collective environment shapes personal and social experience. His practice is dominated, literally and metaphorically, by the landscape.
His latest solo exhibition was Amazonios, which inaugurated the new programme Extra Muros of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens ΕΜΣΤ in the spring of 2022.
Dimitris Tsoumplekas has also participated in several group exhibitions: Elefsina Mon Amour, Eleusis – European Capital of Culture (2023), Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Athens Conservatory (2019), The Decline of Heroes, Antikenmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2017), No Country For Young Men, BOZAR, Brussels (2014), La première image, CRAC, Languedoc-Roussillon, France (2009), Dynamics of Urban Culture, IX Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2006), The Mediterraneans, MACRO, Rome (2004), Self Aboutness, Sala de exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid (2004), Time Capsule, Art in General, New York, (2002), The Faded Ideal, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin (2002).
Parallel to his artistic work Tsoumplekas has edited several photo books and catalogues, contributed to publications and curated international exhibitions.
His latest curatorial project was Chryssa Romanos, The Search for Happiness for as many as possible, 2023, EMST, Athens.
He has taught photography in the Athens School of Fine Arts and in many workshops around Greece and in Europe.
He has been working for many years as a writer and editorial consultant in Kathimerini newspaper and as an illustrator in several magazines and publications.