Curriculum Vitae
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece
Lives and works betwenn the UK & Greece
2015 Golden Lion Winner, Armenian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale
Solo Exhibitions
| 2015 | (in)visible territories, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece |
| 2014 | Is This Why I Cannot Tell Lies?, Tintype Gallery, London, UK |
| 2012 | Who Doesn’t Like a Good Old Story?, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece |
| 2011 | Pentalogy, Omikron Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 2010 | Diego Garcia, Picture This Atelier Space, Bristol Diego Garcia, Center of Contemporary Art, Thesaloniki Falling in Place, Elefsina Cultural Center ‘L. KANELLOPOULOS’, Greece |
| 2008 | ‘Hold Everything, Dear’, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki |
| 2007 | Accidental Woman, Kalfayan Galleries – Project Space, Athens, Greece (collaboration with Despina Stokou) |
| 2006 | When I was there, you had already left, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece |
| 2005 | In their wake…, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece (collaboration with Ella Bissett Johnson) |
Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | Alanica. The experimental method, 5th Moscow Bienalle, Moscow, Russia I Remember The Armenian Genocide…, CAC – LA Travere, Alfortville, France Artissima 2015, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki, Torino, Italy In Flux, Elefsina Cultural Center, Elefsina, Greece (catalogue) Magic Inventions, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey Armenity, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Golden Lion Winner) (catalogue) |
| 2014 | Re-Tracing the Land, NARS Foundation, New York, USA Visualising the Ottoman City, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, London, UK |
| 2013 | Sensible Action, Vladikafkaz Fine Arts Museum, North Ossetia, Russia Waiting for the Barbarians: Report to Cavafy, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece Art Brussels 2013, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki, Brussels, Belgium Salon MashUp, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK Art India 2013, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki, New Delhi, India |
| 2012 | Places of Memory, Fields of Vision, Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki The protest that Never Ends, ArtHysterium, Tbilisi, Georgia Artists Postcards, Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, UK Art Dubai 2012, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki, Dubai |
| 2011 | Art Athina 2011, Kaflayan Galleries, Athens Art Platform LA, Kaflayan Galleries, Athens |
| 2010 | Happy End, Yinka Shonibare Space, London.Curated by Yu-Chen Wang & Georgia Korossi What if an exhibition was a road movie?, Performance Lecture, Art Athina 2010, Athens (Loukia Alavanou & Aikaterini Gegisian) |
| 2009 | Treasures of wisdom, Kaflayan Galleries, Athens, Part of ReMap KM 2, a parallel exhibition of the 2nd Athens Biennial Fucking Tourists!,Part of ReMap KM 2, a parallel exhibition of the 2nd Athens Biennial. Curated by Konstantinos Dagritzikos & Yael Messer, Greece & Israel |
| 2008 | And Now?,State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. Curated by Xrisitna Petrinou (catalogue)6th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Armenia. We used to be painters, Plan 9 Gallery, Bristol |
| 2007 | Karaoke Poetry Bar, a project by intothepill, 417 Space, Athens / A Parallel program of the 1st Biennale of Athens (catalogue) FEET, B.I.G. Project Space, online group show: http://www.bigprojectspace.com What do you do, Center Space Gallery, Bristol Atropa Vanitas, Cosmos of Culture, Athens Attic with a view, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece People, Athens International Art Fair, Art Athina 2007, Athens (catalogue) 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue) trans·par·ent 2nd edition, Kunstklub Berlin, Berlin |
| 2006 | The sea, dreams and illusions, 5th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Armenia (catalogue) trans·par·ent, B.I.G Contemporary Art Project Space, Athens, Greece Landscape, Galerie Parissud, Paris, France |
| 2005 | MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK (catalogue) Point-of-view, Espace Croise Gallery, Lille, France 36 Graven Street, Franklin Benjamin House, London, UK |
| 2004 | Manderley, Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 2003 | Variations in Balkan spaces, Eptapirgio & Bey Hamam, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue) |
| 2002 | Mobile Utopia, Aristotelio University, Thessaloniki, Greece 5th Trash Art Festival, Texnopolis, Athens, Greece |
Screenings
| 2012 | Estonian Fair of Photographic Art, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2009 | North West Film Forum, Seattle, USA CineCity Festival, Lighthouse, Brighton 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester People, Margaris Foundation, Amfilohia, Greece Videoclub, Hold and Freight Gallery, London Synch Festival, Technopolis, Athens. Greece. Curated by intothepill |
| 2006 | 52 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
| 2005 | Strange Screen 5, Museum of Cinema, Thessaloniki, Greece Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London Art In the Age of New Technologies, 2nd International Media Art Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st Athens Video Art Festival, Thira Texnis, Athens, Greece |
| 2004 | Projected Visions, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece Hertzoscópio – Experimental & Trans-disciplinary Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal Device, Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK exposure 1, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK Painting with light, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2003 | Strange Screen II, Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki, Greece Lux Open, Royal College of Art, London, UK Reel Live, Cinematheque, Brighton, UK |
Collections
| The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki, Greece The State Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki, Greece Russian Centre of Contemporary Art, North Caucasus Brunch, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia Private Collections in Greece, UK and Canada |
Education
| 2010 – 14 | PhD by practice, University of Westminster, UK |
| 2010 – 12 | Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Westminster, UK |
| 2005 | MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK |
| 1998 – 01 | BA (Hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton, UK |
| 1995 – 97 | BA (Hons) in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK |
Awards
| 2010 | CREAM PhD Studenship, University of Westminster, London |
| 2010 | Step Beyond Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, Holland |
| 2010 | Arts Council England, South West, UK |
| 2009 | Artist-to-Artist Award, Visiting Arts, UK |
| 2009 | Arts & Ecology International programme, Visiting Arts and RSA, UK |
| 2009 | Arts Council England, South West, UK |
| 2009 | Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Greece. Production Bursary |
| 2008 | Small Wonders, Picture This Moving Image Agency, UK |
| 2007 | NAN New Collaborations Bursary, UK |
| 2005 | Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK |
| 2004 | The Arts Council England, UK |
| 2002 | Research Bursary. South East Arts Council, UK |
| 2001 | 1st Prize, Nagoya University of Arts, Japan |
Residencies & Workshops
| 2014 | Visiting Scholar – Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Department of English, USA |
| 2013 | Alanica 2013, North Ossetia, Russia |
| 2011 | ACOSS Residency Programme, Yerevan, Armenia |
| 2010 | Utopiana, Yerevan, Armenia |
| 2010 | ARC Residencies Cairo (June – July 2010) |
| 2009 | London in Motion, UCL and Bartlett Film Society |
| 2007 | International Workshop for Young Artists, Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
| 2006 | Armenian Open University, Department of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia |
| 2004 | University of Brighton, Brighton, UK |
Teaching
| 2015-to present | Research Fellow in Fine Art, Teesside University, UK |
| 2010-2014 | Visiting Lecturer. Contemporary Media Practice. University of Westminster, London |
| 2006-09 | Digital Projects Coordinator, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol |
| 2004 | Visiting Lecturer. Fine Art New Media, University College Chester |
| 2003 | Visiting Lecturer. Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton |
Public Talks & Presentations
| 2014 | Visualising the Ottoman City, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, London, UK CAA 102nd Annual Conference, Chicago, USA |
| 2013 | Reading Cavafy in Difficult Times. University of Oxford, UK |
| 2013 | Art and Geography, Conference. University of Lyon Lumiere 2, France |
| 2012 | Strategies of (Un) Silencing, Conference. American University of Armenia, Armenia |
| 2012 | Spaces of Reckoning, Conference. University of Westminster, UK |
| 2009 | Mahatma Ghandi Institute, University of Mauritius, Mauritius |
| 2006 | Armenian Open University, Department of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia |
| 2005 | Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK |
| 2004 | The School of Fine Art, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 2003 | Leleg Symposium, Gumusluk Academy, Bodrum, Turkey |
Reviews & Press
| 2014 | Kart Barron (1 July) Visualising the Ottoman City. In: Photomonitor (UK) |
| 2011 | Maria Xatzithanasiou (10 July) Pentalogy. In: O Fileleutheros (Cyprus) Athina Karsera (24 July) Pentalogy. In: The Cyprus Weekly (Cyprus) |
| 2009 | Aline Groeme-Harmon (20 April) Recontre. In: L’express (Mauritius) Sara Raza (January) Armenia. In: ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2009 |
| 2008 | Lena Euagelou (5 April) New Creators. Between Fiction and Reality. In: Ta Nea (Greece) Yiota Sotiropoulou (18 March) Personal Archives. In: Angelioforos (Greece) Elsa Spiridopoulou (16 March) Combing Fiction and Documentary. In: Makedonia, p. 60 (Greece) Maria Kenanidou (March 2008) Hold Everything, Dear. In: City Urban Living Magazine, p.36 (Greece) |
| 2007 | Andrea Gilbert (6 December) Fatal Circumstances. In: Uncovered City (Greece) Adonakis Christodoulou (23-29 November) Accidental Woman. In: Blow magazine, p.43 (Greece) Despina Zeukili (22-29 November) In: Athinorama, p. 91 (Greece) Pari Spinou (2 September) Presenting …. Art. In: &7 Magazine, p.28 (Greece) Maria Kenanidou (August) Attic with a View. In: City Urban Living Magazine, p.36 (Greece |
| 2006 | Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Christoforos Marinos (December) In: Velvet Magazine (Greece) Manina Bazeou (27 May) Globalised Dead ends. In: The First, p. 16 (Greece) Iliana Fokianaki (25 May) When I was there, you had already left. In: City 210, p. 45 (Greece) Daphe Dragona (May) In: Velvet Magazine, p. 30 (Greece) Iliana Fokianaki (18 May) B.I.G Transparent In: City 210, p. 46 (Greece) Patricia Gianopoulou (11 May) In: Lifo Magazine, p.29 (Greece) Avgoustinos Zenakos (29 April) Transparent, In: To Vima (Greece) |
Aikaterini Gegisian 