ARTIST NAME Kostis Velonis
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XXXIV, Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE
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
PORTRAIT
Kostis Velonis portrait
© Kostis Velonis
FINAL PROJECT
untitled
untitled image
© MAK Center / Mark Escribano

Project Details...
JURY
Andreas Hapkemeyer
Dorit Margreiter
Karolin Schmidbaur
Florian Waldvogel
Martina Kandeler-Fritsch