Poka-Yio

Bittersweet

31 January - 28 February, 2009

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  BIOGRAPHY
 

Born in Athens Greece, 1970.  He lives and works in Athens, Greece.
 
Education
1991-96
Athens School of Fine Arts.
1995
Winchester School of Art.
2001-03
Postgraduate Studies in Digital Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens.


Grants and Awards
2001-3
State grant for painting.
1996
Melina Mercouri Artists' Award for Group Ilios.
 

Solo Exhibitions
2009
“Bittersweet”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
2008
“Eat Cake” (performance), Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens.
2006
KAKA, gazonrouge, Athens, Greece.
2005
FUCK OFF, THANK YOU, GOODBYE, gazonrouge, Athens, Greece.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection (curated by Jeffrey Deitch), DESTE, Athens, Greece.
2007
Visual Arts in Greece, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
In Present Tense - Young Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
Dream and Trauma - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Vienna, Austria.
2006
All that Remains is Future (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou), Patras, Cultural Capital of Europe.
Engage (curated by Polyna Kosmadaki), gazonrouge, Athens, Greece.
The Leonidas Beltsios Collection (curated by Sotiris Bahtsetzis), Trikala, Greece.
BLACK TUDA, Performance (with Dimitris Foutris), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece.
The Collection-Nikos Alexiou, Mac Gallery, XXII International Festival Sarajevo. 2005
Visions (group exhibition), Athens Imperial Hotel, Athens Greece, organized by Gallery Kappatos.
ProTaseis (Version IV: 935m), (curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Augustine Zenakos)
7 Performances and a Conversation, organized by LOCUS, Athens, Greece, Performance: Return from A-B Grave.
4th DESTE Prize, DESTE, Athens, Greece.
2004
Rimbaud, I 20 Gallery, New York, USA.
Cabinet de Curiosite, Piano Nobile Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
2003
Identite en deplacement, Le 102, Grenoble, France and Piano Nobile Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
Weird Pop, gazonrouge, Áthens, Greece.
2001
La verite est ailleurs, Centre pour l˘Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzwerland. 
1999
Hooligans, Technopolis, Municipality of the City of Athens, Greece.
1998
Southern Disco-mfort (with Eva Vretzaki), Piano Nobile Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
Polar, Municipal Galleries, Geneva, Switzerland.
The end of the line, Unlimited Gallery, Athens, Greece.
1997
Intimate Domesticity, Funny Urbanism, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece.
And the ship is still not in sight …, Thessaloniki, Greece & Bremen, Germany.
Inhuman essays, Unlimited Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Adv-Artizing, Pierides Museum, Athens, Greece.
…looks human, Babel Festival, Athens, Greece.
1996
Wasted eyes (with Eva Vretzaki) Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece.
1995
More DNA stories, ICEBOX Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Biennial of Young Artists, Rijeka, Croatia.
International Group Art, Cargo Art Center, Marseilles, France.
Fantasy Land, Athens, Greece.
1994
Biennial of Young Artists, Lisbon, Portugal.
Body Politic, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece.

Other Activities
• Co-curator of the Athens Biennial-1st International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2006 (with Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Augustine Zenakos)
• Director of Studio Alpha – Athens Centre of Contemporary Art - since 1999
• Founder of the artist group ˇPolitical Body˘ (1994-96)
• Member of the experimental music group Ilios, 1993 – 1996