Alexandros Psychoulis

 

Born in 1966 in Volos, Greece.

 

 

Education:

 

1988-90    School of Fine Arts, Athens

1984-86    School of Graphic Arts, Athens

1993-94    Guest artist in the Research Center of Art and Sciences (KETE), established in Athens by the Greek sculptor Takis.

 

 

Individual Exhibitions:

 

2010 «Ailanthus Altissima», Zina Athanassiadou Gallery,Thessaloniki.

2009 «The Room/ Gragility makes me special», a.antonopoulou.art, Athens

2007 «Virginia», Old Tobacco House, Volos

2007 «Tags», Porfirogenio Foundation, Agria

2006 «PSYCOOGLEARTH/ shallows nest maker», a.antonopoulou.art, Athens

2005 «Mammals», Zina Athanassiadou Gallery,Thessaloniki

2003 «Body Milk», a.antonopoulou.art, Athens

2001 «Redesign Point», Zina Athanassiadou Gallery ,Thessaloniki.

2001 «NEUROTICA», A. Andonopoulou Art, Athens

2000 «Mediterranean Desert», Concerto for Piano, Harpsichord & Video, Music by Giorgos Koumendakis, Piano & Harpsichord Maria Metaxaki. Hellenic Center London, Hellenic American Union, Athens.

1999 «Speak about your life through materials that have no memory »,Lionheart Gallery, Boston Cyberart Festival

1999 «Do You Want?», Digital interactive installation, Epikendro Gallery, Athens

1998 «Do You Want?»,  Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK.

1998 «There's no place far enough for you to escape from images and the pain they caused you», Deitch Projects gallery, New York, USA.

1997 «Black Box», XLVII Biennale di Venezia (Greece), Levi Foundation, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice. BENESSE PRIZE.

1996 «The Nest Burning», Ladaba Gallery, Madrid, Spain

1995 «Machinery-Free Industry», Art and Cultural Centre Smaragda Ioannatou, Athens

1994 «The Ascension of Dionysios Solomos in Heaven», 4 Gallery, Volos, Greece

1994 «Machinery-Free Industry», Spirer Tobacco Warehouse, Volos, Greece

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

2011 «The Luminous Interval» Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

2011 «PIGS Case», Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm

2010 «THE ARK/ Old Seeds for New Cultures», Pavilion of Greece at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2010 «Belle Vu», Ιλεάνα Τούντα, Αθήνα

2010 «Space is the place», About, Athens

2008 «Exploring cultural means to combat global homogenization», Foukoutake Hall, Tokyo University, Tokyo

2008 «Games with out frontiers», Gallery Zouboulakis, Athens

2007 «In Present Tense, Young Greek Artists», National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2006 «MASQUERADES/ femininity, masculinity and other certainties», State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonikι

2006 «ON: THE CONTEMPORARY AND THE MODERN IN EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE CULTURE», Tokyo, Shizuoka Performing Arts, Thetre (S.P.A.C.)                 

2006 «What remains is future», Arssakeio, Patra

2006 «an outing», Leonidas Beltsios Collection, Milos, Trikala 

2006 "Tattoo My Art», a.antonopoulou.art, Athens

2006 «Positive Charge », State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonikι

2005 «BIDA» Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2005 «Dreamscapes»,”De Chirico” Art Centre, Volos

2005 «Old People’s home», Historical Archives - Museum Hydra, Hydra

2005 «Going Public’ 05/ communites & territories, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa

2005 «Lost in Translation», Hellenic American Union

2005 «Visions», Athens Imperial Hotel, Athens

2004 «38th Parallel – the Horizon», Skironio Museum Polychronopoulos, Attica

2004 «The Sneeze 80x80», Gazon Rouge, Athens

2004 «Body Works» Art Center of Municipality of Nicosia, Cyprus

2004 «Athina: Metropolis by mistake», Bios

2004 «BREAKTHROUGH!», Greece 2004, Contemporary Perspectives in the Visual Arts, Alcala, Madrid

2003 «Bureaucracy» Home Office of Greece, Athens

2003 «ϋber MENSCHEN», ACC Gallery, Weimar/Germany, Church S. Paolo, Modena – Civica Gallery, Sassuolo, Italy

2003 «Quite almost RADAR», “Lab” Gallery, Athens

2003 «Greece Now», Room#1107, New York, curator Dimitrios Antonistsis

2003 «Free Transit(?)» , Zappion Megaron, For the Hellenic Presidency of the EU, Athens

2003 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2002 «Digi 01», Digital Art Festival, Epi Kolono, Athens

2002 «Organ Channel prototype», Frankfurt

2002 «Sketching out Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday”, E. Averoff Museum, Metsovo

2001-2 «Technotaxia», Omonoia Square, Athens

2001 « Frankfurt 2001 – Mythologies of the BooK», Frankfurt

2001 «Language is a virus», Gallery Crac Alsace, Perpignan, France

2000 «SYNOPSIS 1», National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2000 «Benesse Prize Winners», Benesse Museum, Naoshima, Japan

1999 «OBJECTHOOD 00», Hellenic American Union, Athens, Rethymno Center of Contemporary Art, Crete

1999 «Magic Software», Gazi - Athens, Mylos - Thessaloniki

1999 «Europe in the Box», ACC Gallery, Weimar , Germany

1998 «Global Vision, New Art from The 90's, PART III», DESTE Fountation, Athens

1997 «RADAR 4», Z-OO, Athens, Greece

1997 «RADAR 3», Elefsina, Athens, Greece

1996 «Modernita Progetto 2000», Fondazione Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

1996 «In the Middle of Nowhere, the Unexpected in Communication», Thema Gallery, Athens, Greece

1996 «The Clients», «X» Gallery, Athens, Greece

1995 «RADAR 2» Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece

1994 «Across», Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens

1994 «Ancient Greek Myths in Contemporary Art», Art and Cultural Centre Smaragda Ioannatou, Athens, Greece

1994 «RADAR 1». Loulaki Gallery, Hydra, Greece

1993 Contemporary Art Museum, Reich, Yugoslavia

1992 «6th Biennale of Mediterranean Young Artists», Valencia, Spain

1990 «5th Biennale of Mediterranean Young Artists», Marseilles, France

 

 

Activities:

 

2006 “Me vima Argo” , Animation Graphics for a dance performance directed by Apostolia Papadamaki, Volos

2003 “PLAYBACK” , Installation/presentation  for the new edition of the writer Thanos Stathopoulos. “Lab” Gallery, Athens

2002 Animation Graphics for Multisession CD «Giorgos Koumendakis._4 works for Aris Christofellis».

2002 «Warholic», club event, club Plato, Athens, Greece. In colaboration with choreographer Konstandinos Rigos.

2000 «I don't believe in your eyes», Theatrical Performance. Theatre of New World, Athens, Greece.Directed by Emmanouil Koutsourelis.

1998 «Two street stories», Video, duration 7,25', in cooperation with group of dance artists «Sine qua non», Open Theater, Athens

1992 «Bacches», with the «Etaeria Katastasseon», Vorre Museum, Athens

1988 «Houses of memory, Houses of silence»,  Patras Festival, Patra, Greece

1987 «'87 Roads», musical impromptu with Irina Dimaki and Nikos Touliatos

 

 

Publications:

 

1990 «The Ascension of Dionysios Solomos in Heaven», handmade publication containing ten engravings.

1992 Founding member of the «Etaeria Katastasseon» and chief editor of the homonymous magazine.

1994 He set up RADAR in cooperation with Ioannidis Kostas and Giorgos Gyparakis and stared publishing the homonymous funzin.

2001 «Pit Bull» comix monography , OXY publications.