| ARTIST NAME |
Kostis Velonis |
| TEAM NAME |
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| GROUP |
Group XXXIV, Apr 2012 - Sep 2012 |
| DISCIPLINE |
Architecture |
| WEBSITE |
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| BIO |
Born 1968 in Athens, Greece
Lives in Athens
Education
Architecture, N.T.U.A University of Athens, Greece
Cultural Studies, The London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA) London, United Kingdom
Art, Paris VIII University, (Maitrise, D.E.A) Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
- “Newtopia: The State of Human Rights,” Kazerne Dossin Museum and Documentation Centre of the Holocaust and of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium
- Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
2011
- “The Promise of Happiness,” Signal Center for Contemporary Art, IASPIS Artist in Residence, Malmo, Sweden
- “Bulding the Stage,” Omikron Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2010
- "Loneliness on Common Ground: How Can Society Do What Each Person Dreams," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- "Pastoral Dreams in the Days of Bankruptcy," Dana Charkasi Gallery, Vienna, Austria
- “Marx in Arcadia,” Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece (Solo Exhibition
2009
- “How one can think freely in the shadow of a temple," Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (Solo Exhibition
2008
- “Craft Boy,” Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
- “Revolution Essentielle,” Academy of Fine Arts, Sarayevo, Russia
2007
- “...was einmal über heute gesagt werden wird: Köln Show2,” BQ Gallery, European Kunsthalle, Cologne,Germany
2005
- “Blind Date,” Galerie Kamm, (with Katharina Jahnke) Berlin, Germany
- The Breeder Gallery, Athens.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
- “Melanchotopia,” Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- “A Rock and a Hard Place,” 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
- “Dirty Humanism,” Faggionato Fine Art Gallery, London. UK
- “An Elusive Object of Art," Dana Charkasi Gallery, Vienna, Austria
- “The Marathon Marathon project,” Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
2010
- "Politics of Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2009
- “The World Question Center,” 2nd Biennial Athens, Palaio Faliro, Greece
- “Mediterranean,” Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy
2008
- “Show me, don’t tell me,” Brussels Biennial 1 for Contemporary Art, Former Post Sorting Center, station Bruxelles Midi, Brussels, Belgium
- “Laugh track”, YUM 21C, Brussels, Belgium
- "Collage. Cut, paste," State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonica, Greece
2007
- “The History of a Decade that Has not Been Yet Named,” 9e Biennale de Lyon, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
- “In Present Tense,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2006
- “Don Quijote,” Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- “The Grand Promenade,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- “Give(a)way”, EV+A Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
- “Poetry in the backyard,” Art-Concept Gallery, Paris, France
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| PORTRAIT |
© Kostis Velonis |
| FINAL PROJECT |
untitled
© MAK Center / Mark Escribano
Project Details...
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| JURY |
Andreas Hapkemeyer
Dorit Margreiter
Karolin Schmidbaur
Florian Waldvogel
Martina Kandeler-Fritsch |
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