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Yorgos Sapountzis

born in 1976 in Athens, lives and works in Berlin
Villa Romana Fellow 2012

Biography

2002 – 2004
Uinversität der Künste Berlin, Prof. Rebecca Horn

1998 – 2002
Athens School of Fine Art, Prof. George Lappas

After Electricity, The Festival (Performance / 2008), Common View, National Theatre, Athens
duration: 6 hours; music: Øyvind Torvund; Courtesy of the artist and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

Charleroi. In memory of wealth, celebration and religion (2009), Mechelen, Belgium
installation with two videoprojections, metal tubes, plastic tubes, fabrics, tapes
music: Oyvind Torvund; court. the artist and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, DE
Westfälischer Kunstverein
Kunstverein Frankfurt/M (Performance)

2011
Head Zest, New Walls, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Fast Cast, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
APPARERE., Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Sculptures and Mirrors, Freymond Guth Fine Arts, Zurich

2010
Chalaroi Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens
Pre-Bellevue, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES

2009
Horizon Drop, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart

2008
ART BASEL 2008, STATEMENT with Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Basel

2006
Forgotten Tactics, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin


Group Exhibitions

2011
Based in Berlin, Berlin
performIC 2011 - Trial & Error, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Informell Natur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Nterti Humanism Faggionato, London

2010
Arivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, IT
The First Image, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Flüchtige Zeiten, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster

2009
Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
6. DESTE Prize, DESTE Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athen

2009
The 4th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Brussels

2008
Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Mariano Pichler Collection
Leftovers, Micamoca, Berlin

2007
In Present Tense, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
1st Athens Biennale, Destroy Athens, Athen
The Tree Bring Forth Sweet Ecstasy, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
her(his), Museum of Cycladic Art, Athen