Stefanos Tsivopoulos will represent Greece at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Born in Prague in 1973, he lives and works in Amsterdam and Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He was awarded the Golden Cube Award at the 25th Documentary Film Festival in Kassel, Germany, for his work “Untitled (The Remake)”. His art residencies include Platform Garanti Istanbul (2009), IASPIS Stockholm (2010) and ISCP New York (2011).
Solo exhibitions (selection): The Future Starts Here, Aeschylia Festival, Elefsina (2012) | The Blind Image, ISCP, New York (2011) | Amnesialand, Heidel- berg Kunstverrein, Heidelberg (2010) | The Real The Story The Storyteller, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (2010) | Lost Monument, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin (2009).
Group exhibitions (selection): The Rest is History, Manifesta 8, Murcia | On Morality-Act III, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Suspended Spaces, Centre Pompidou, Paris | Monitoring, Fridericianum, Kassel | Les Rencontres, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | Anatomy of Integration, 4th Sculpture Riga Quadrennial | Overlapping, Young art 5th Bucharest Biennial | Reading the City, ev+a, Limerick Biennale | Que Vive, Young art, 2nd Moscow Biennial | Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale | Scramble for History, SALT, Istanbul | One Giant Leap, BFI Southbank, London | Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella | In the Present Tense, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos is represented by Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani in Milan and Kalfayan Galleries in Athens.
Curator: Syrago Tsiara
