Athanasios Argianas (b. 1976 Athens, lives in London) has held solo exhibitions and performances at institutions including : EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens (The Length Of A Strand Of Your Hair, Of The Width Of Your Arms Unfolded), The Barbican Art Gallery, London (The Length Of Your Arms Unfolded, 2011) and The Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, The Serpentine Gallery, London (We All Turn This Way, with Nick Laessing 2008), and group shows at:
Kunsthalle Wien, (The Promise Of Total Automation), GAM Milano, Villa Reale, Milan, Fondazione Prada, Ca Corner,Venice (Art Or Sound) ,  The Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts, St Louis, MO, Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain / CRAC Alsace, Arnolfini, Bristol and Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (Pale Carnage), Art Now, Tate Britain, London (Art Now Live), and La Galerie Noisy Le Sec, Paris, Eastside Projects, Birmingham,

In 2012 his work was featured in The Imminence Of Poetics - The 30th Biennale Of Sao Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Brazil, in 2013 at PERFORMA 13 Biennial New York, and in 2017 at Antidoron, at Documenta14, Fridericianum, Kassel.
He also participated in the 2nd Athens Biennial, The 3rd Thessaloniki Bienniale, and the 1st Prague Biennial.

Education

2003 - 2005

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1999-2000

Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (Prof. Jannis Kounelis), Dusseldorf, Germany

1994-1997

School Of Fine Arts, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Solo Exhibitions

current & forthcoming

2018

2017

Camden Arts Centre, London (Fellowship 2018-19, solo exhibition 2020)

Songs
(with Andreas Ragnar Kassapis), He.Ro Amsterdam

reading machines moving machines On Stellar Rays, New York
Freshly Broken Surfaces galeriepcp Paris (with Rowena Hughes)


2015

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers +), Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Swimmer’s Arms Are Oars, On Stellar Rays, New York

2014

A Sequencer**, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Silence Breakers Silence Shapers, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam

2013     

A Sequencer*, On Stellar Rays, New York

2011

Laid Long, Spun Thin Max Wigram Gallery, London
The Length Of A Piece Of String Cut At The Width Of Its Circumference The Breeder, Athens
Of The Length Of Your Arms, Unfolded (performance), The Barbican Art Gallery, The Barbican Centre, London

2010

Art Nova, Art Basel Miami (with Pavel Büchler), FL, USA The Legth Of A Strand Of Your Hair, Of The Width Of Your Arms, Unfolded EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Manifesto Of Nondurational Time, La chambre, Galerie Xippas, Paris.

2008

We All Turn This Way, (with Nick Laessing) Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Sing Sideways, Sing From The Middle To The Start/End, Galleria Alessandro de March, Milan.
Athanasios Argianas Arquebuse, Geneva
Athanasios Argianas & Len Lye, Arcade, London (with Len Lye)

2007

Athanasios Argianas, remap KM, The Breeder, Athens.
Mimicking, Falling & Falling, Max wigram Gallery, London.
On Aether, Cell Projects (With Nick Laessing), London
Athanasios Argianas, The Breeder, Athens

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017

Antidoron : The collection of EMST at Documenta 14, D14, Fridericianum, Kassel.
Every Line Tells Its Own Story
Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna
NP Or The Possibilities Of A Life, Tsami Karatasou 5, cur. Locus Athens, Athens

2016

The Promise Of Total Automation,Kunsthalle Wien, Museumquartier, Vienna. (cur. Anne Faucheret)
Line, Lisson Gallery, London. curated by The Drawing Room.

2015

Terrapolis, French Archaeological School, Athens -Whitechapel Gallery, London & NEON, Athens.
Don't Shoot The Painter, UBS Collection GAM Milano, Villa Reale. (cur. Francesco Bonami )

2014

Art Or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Ca Corner Della Regina, Venice (cur. Germano Celant)
Art Of Its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts, st Louis.(cur. Gretchen Wagner)
Der Kubist Marcel Duchamp Mag Nicht Malen Thomas Schulte, Berlin (cur. Michael Muller)s

2013

PERFORMA 13 Biennial, New York
conceptual materialism, Der Trost Der Dinge, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
NEVERMORE
, On Stellar Rays, New York
SilentSpaceStandStill, Tzisdaraki Mosque, cur. Locus Athens, Athens.
In The Air Tonight, Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden (cur. Christine Nippe)*

2012

The Imminence Of Poetics The 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (cur. Luis Perez Oramas)
Coquilles Mecaniques Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain CRAC Alsace (cur. Joanna Fiduccia)
'In The Air Tonight' Gebr. Lehmann Galerie, Berlin *
SonicTime / Sound/Speech/Silence EMST Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens (cur. Anna Kafetsi)
Happy People Have No Stories Deweer, Otegem.

2011

Odd Time BeatRODEO, Istanbul. (cur. Adnan Yildiz & Sylvia Kouvali)
Art Now Live, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (cur. Katharine Stout & Lizzie Carrey-Thomas)
A Rock And A Hard Place, The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki.( cur. Marina Fokidis, Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta)
Ντερτι Humanism, Faggionato Fine Art, London cur. Nadja Argyropoulou
An Action Event Or Other Thing That Occurs Or Happens Again, One ThoresbyStreet & Bonington Galleries, Nottingham University, Nottingham
TheRiot Act, Mor Charpentier, Paris (cur. Nazli Gurlek)

2010

The Marathon Marathon Project, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, The New Acropolis Museum, Athens (performance)
Recent British Sculpture, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam (cat.)
Actors and Agents, The Hub, Athens
Cometa Rossa, Fluxia, Milan
Arrivals-Departures, Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona

2009

Look! No hands. , Cell Project Space, London (cur. Milika Muritu)
Paint-id Contemporary Painting in Greece, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur. Sotirios Bachtsetzis)
Deste Prize, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
For The Straight Way Is Lost, Heaven, Athens Biennial 2, Athens ( cur. Diana Baldon)
In Praise of Shadows, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
SCULPTURE SHOW, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (cur. Gavin Wade & Ruth Claxton)

2008

Manifesto Of NonDurational Time, at Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (cur. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Nicola Lees)
L'aprés Moderne, Project Midi, Brussels (cur. Charles Danby)
Fables du DouteLa Galerie - Centre d'art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France (cur. Simone Menegoi)
The Show Will Be Titled After Its End Formcontent, London (curatorial project)

2007

Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol & Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee .( cur. Martin Clark)
Supernova, NIMAC The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia 
In Present Tense / Young Greek Artists, EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens ( cur. Stamatis Schizakis, Tina Pandi, Dafne Vitali)
Invisible, Max Wigram Gallery, London 
Not Just, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam  

2006

Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva,
Artsessions, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna (screening, cur. Emanuel Layr)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Liverpool Biennial 2006), Club Row, Liverpool (touring to Roschelle School, London)
Dialogue II, Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
Social Ocean, Temporary Contemporary, London

2005

All Personal, VTO London 
Time Pop 2005, Artprojx, Prince Charles Cinema, London

2003

Prague Biennale 1, selected by the Deste Foundation, National Gallery, Prague  (cat.)

2000

Athanasios Argianas, Ian Kiaer, Nick Laessing, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

1999

New Contemporaries 99, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool / Various Venues London

Awards

Shortlisted for The Deste Prize 2009
Elephant Trust, Artist Production Grant, London 2011
International Artist In Residence, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna 2014.

Selected Collections

EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens
Collection of Aaron & Barbaba Levine, Washington DC
THE EKARD COLLECTION
Michael Haas, Berlin
Heiner Bastien, Berlin
UBS Collection, London / Zurich

Selected Bibliography

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2011

2010

The Promise of Total Automation, Art Review, April 2016
Bazhenova, Ekaterina. “’Line’ Exhibition at Lisson Gallery, London.” Purple (January 3, 2016) [online][ill.
Compton, Nick. “Fine Line: London’s Lisson Gallery" Wallpaper (January 25, 2016)

Herbert, Martin “Previewed: Athanasios Argianas.”ArtReview (April 2015) [ill.]
Bailey, Stephanie. “Critic’s Pick: Terrapolis.” Artforum (July 8, 2015)
Banks, Grace.“Art among the ruins.” The Guardian (May 27, 2015)
Bier, Arielle. “Athanasios Argiana at Aanant & Zoo, Berlin.” Artforum (October 19, 2015)

Bronner, Julian Elias. “500 Words: Athanasios Argianas.” Artforu.com Interview
(October 28, 2013)

Millard, Coline. “Athanasios Argianas.” Modern Painters (February 2012)
Morton, Tom. 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale (review) Frieze Magazine (Jan-Feb 2012)
Reeves, Theo. “Evison An Action, An Action, Event Or Other Thing That Occurs Or Happens Again (review) Frieze Magazine (march 2012)

“Top 100 Artists.” Flash Art, No. 281 (December 2011)
Menegoi, Simone. “Artforum Critic's Pick: Athanasios Argianas at MaxWigram, London.” Artforum

Tom Morton, Athanasios Argianas, (review) National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Frieze Magazine, November 2010

2009

Chris Sharp, Frames of Reference, (feature article), Flash Art Vol. XLII, November- December 2009, p.52-54 
Martin Herbert, Best of 2009: Athanasios Argianas, Artforum, December 2009, p. 203 
Helen Sumpter, Athanasios Argianas: In the studio, Time Out, September 2009
Francesco Pedraglio and Caterina Riva, Whatever Happened to the London Night?, Kaleidoscope Issue 01, March-April 2009, pp. 132
Marco Tagliafiero, Cometa Rossa, Artforum online Critic's Picks

2008

Sam Thorne, Focus; Athanasios Argianas, Frieze Magazine, issue 119, Nov-Dec 2008 
JJ Charlesworth, Voodoo Modern, Art Review, issue 26, Oct. 2008 
Chris Sharp, Athanasios Argianas, Arquebuse, review, Frieze online
Paola Noe, Athanasios Argianas Critic's Picks Artforum online, January 2008 
Martin Herbert, Athanasios Argianas, Modern Painters Magazine, pp. 50-52, March 2008 
Diana Baldon, Athens Biennial, Art-Forum, pp. 276, January 2008. 
Ossian Ward, London's 40 Best Artists, Time-Out London, 21 oct. 2008 
Focus London Artists Dictionary, Flash Art International, oct 2008 
Athanasios Argianas Interview, Athinorama Magazine, Issue 400, pp. 99 17th January 2008

2007

Interview by Simone Menegoi, Athanasios Argianas, pp. 13-16, Mousse Magazine no 10, Milan/ Berlin 
Interview by Foteini Barka, Sculptures Translating Music, Eleftherotypia newspaper, 6th February, Athens 
Christopher Marinos, Athanasios Argianas, Flash Art International, issue 254, Milan 
Lucy Steeds, Pale Carnage, Art Monthly, No. 305, April 2007, pp.23-4, London 
David Shariatmadari, Pale Carnage, Art Review, Issue 11, p.31, London 
Esther Lemy, The Visual of Music, Athens Art Review, Issue 10, Feb 2007, pp. 42-7 
Focus Greece Artists Dictionary, Flash Art International