born
1967
lives and works
in Athens
Education
1985-1987:
Institution of Professional Journalism, Athens
1987-1990:
Hellenic Cinema & Television School Stavrakos
Professional Experience
1990-2012:
Editorial photography in various magazines and publications
2000-2002:
Photo editor in Ammos publishing house
2002-2004:
Photography consultant in Cleverbank, branding and communication company
From 2015:
Creative consultant in Kathimerini’s newspaper travel and corporate publications
2017-2018:
Professor of Photography in Athens School of Fine Arts
from 2020:
Editorial photography and illustrations
Solo Exhibitions
2022:
Amazonios - We are sailing with a corpse in the cargo, ΕΜΣΤ Extra Muros, Athens
2012:
Texas-the problem with our current situation,
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2008:
Family Affairs, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Family Affairs, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2005:
Die Gans, eine Familiengeschichte, Zagreus project, Berlin
2004:
Future Athens, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2003:
Open Kitchen-(Broken Homes), Treffpunkt Rottebuhlplatz, Stuttgart
2002:
Satori in Maroussi, Ileana Tounta Con/Temporary, Athens
2001:
Open Kitchen-(Broken Homes), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
1997:
Lisboa?, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
1996:
What Shall I Do When I Die, Gallery 3, Athens
1995:
Thrown Photographs -The Colour of Time, TheTree, Rhodes
1994:
Notes on Leonardo, Gallery 24, Athens
1988:
Naked Sheets, OFPA, Athens
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023:
Elefsina Mon Amour, Eleusis – European Capital of Culture, (curated by Katerina Gregos)
2019:
Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Swartz Foundation, Athens Conservatoire,Greece.
2017:
The Decline of Heroes, Antikenmuseum Basel,Culturscapes festival, Basel, Switzerland.
2016:
Omonoia, 5th-6th Athens Biennale of Contemporary Art.
2015:
Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. (curated by Katerina Gregos)
2014:
Depression Era, Benaki Museum, Athens (curated by Petros Babasikas, Pavlos Fysakis, Giorgos Prinos, Dimitris Tsoumplekas, Pasqua Vorgia)
2013:
No Country For Young Men, contemporay Greek art in time of crisis Bozar- Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (curated by Katerina Gregos)
The Mediterranean Experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for the circulation of ideas and meaning, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. (curated by Denys Zacharopoulos)
2011:
Remap 3, (a parallel project to Athens Biennale 3), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.
2010:
Visual Dialogues, Onassis Cultural Foundation, projections in public places, Athens.
2009:
La premiere Image, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussillon (C.R.A.C.), Sète, France, (curated by Denys Zacharopoulos)
Remap 2, (a parallel project to Athens Biennale 2),Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Face to Faces, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Institut Francais de Thessalonique, (curated by Angeliki Grammatikopoulou-Barbaut, Isabelede Montfumat)
2008:
Bargain Prices on Elephant Gun, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, (curated by Katerina Nikou)
2006:
Dynamics of Urban Culture, IX Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
2004:
Mediterraneans, Macro al Matattoio, Rome, (co-curated by Katerina Gregou)
Everyday Hellas, WhiteBox, New York City, (curated by Heather Felty Kouris)
Self Aboutness, Sala de exposiciones Canal de Isabel II , Madrid, (curated by M. Karra)
Holla Grecia!, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Arco Madrid Making the news, Zappeio Megaron, Athens, (curated by Nadia Argyropoulou)
Athens-Metropolis by chance? , Cheap Art, Athens, (curated by Olinka Miliaressi -Foka)
2003:
Fassouli-Mouvement for the Abolition of Money, performance in Haritos str., Athens
Curatorial Projects
2024:
Then and Again. Rethinking Ritual in Contemporary Balkans (with Yorgos Prinos), a project by Goethe-Institut in collaboration with ΜΙΕΤ–National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki.
2023:
Chryssa Romanos, The Search for Happiness for as many as possible, (with Eleni Koukou), EMST, Athens.
2019:
Anatomy of Political Melancholy, (curatorial consultant), Swartz Foundation, Athens Conservatoire, Greece.
2018:
Depression Era in UNSEEN CO-OP, Unseen Festival, Amsterdam.
2018:
Amour – an interpretation of Nikos Kessanlis photographic archive, House of Cyprus, Athens.
2017:
Depression Era Collective in the Antikenmuseum Basel, Culturscapes festival, Basel.
2015:
Depression Era Collective in the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.
2014:
Depression Era Project, Benaki Museum, Athens.
Filmography
2023:
AMOUR, Chryssa in the cities, 2023, single channel video, colour, sound, 16’ 43’’. Direction, cinematography : Dimitris Tsoumplekas. Story : Amanda Michalopoulou. Post production supervisor : Georges Salameh. Editing : Alexandros Salame
2022:
CARGO, 2022, single channel HD video, colour, sound, 11’ 16’’ Direction, script, cinematography : Dimitris Tsoumplekas. Editing, sound design : Georges Salameh.
Residencies
2012:
Creatives in residence – Sunhoo, Zhejiang, China
2005:
Stiftung Kunstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Germany
1995:
“D’ autres images de l’ autre’’, Ecole National de la Photographie, Arles, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn