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 Beat, RODEO, 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 Doute, La 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 |
2016
2015
2013
2012
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 |
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