Rania Bellou was born in 1982 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She lives and works in
London. She is a multi-media artist, whose work questions the boundaries
between reality and illusion, real and unreal using fragments from the passage of
time. Rania Bellou is represented by Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki.
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
2020
Research Funding by Greek the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
2018
1st Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program.
2012-2013
Scholarship of the Onassis Foundation.
2000-2002
Scholarship of the State Scholarship Foundation. (I.K.Y.)
2003-2004
Scholarship of the State Scholarship Foundation. (I.K.Y.)
Recent Project:
2021
‘The City of Invisible Women’: inter-disciplinary art project as part of the
institution “All of Greece One Culture” of the Ministry of Culture and Sports;
Archaeological space of Heptapyrgion, Thessaloniki.
Artist workshop in collaboration with Irida – Women Center in Thessaloniki, as
part of the project ‘The City of invisible Women’.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
“Remembering Revisited”, Ps.u.Art Therapy Gallery, Athens.
“Immortal Love or Ode to the Past’” Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2015
“the story, like all stories is incomplete” (curator: Vali Mahlouji), Taymour Grahne
Gallery, New York.
2014
“One Story at a Time”, Action Field Kodra 2014: “I Need A Hero”, Thessaloniki.
“Forty Floating Moons”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2012
“Between I and Me”, Europe House, London.
2011
“Memory for Forgetfulness”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2009
“Living in a Cerebral Fortress” (curator: Dorothea Konteletzidou), Kalfayan
Galleries, Thessaloniki.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2019
“The Manual of the Perfect Traveller” (curated by Maria Dialektaki), Snehta,
Athens.
ARTWORKS Visual Arts Fellows 2018, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural
Center, Athens, Greece. 23 – 30 June 2019 | Summer Nostos Festival 2019
“Artists are the New Athletes”, The Edit Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
Artist’s Workshop ‘Drawing History Through Artifacts’, AnnexM, Megaron- Athens
Concert Hall, Greece.
2018
“After Babel” (curator Anna Kafetsi), AnnexM, Megaron, Greece.
“Inland Athens” (curator Nikos Vatopoulos), Mets Art Center, Athens, Greece.
2017
Group show (curated by Orestis Andreadakis). Parallel programme of the 58th
Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Beijing Biennale: Group show organized by the State Museum of Contemporary
Art of Thessaloniki.
‘Bookwatcher’ (curated Ronit Eden and Ton Offerman), 24h public screenings,
various locations, Amsterdam.
Retrospective – Action Field Kodra 2017, Thessaloniki
“The Garden Sees” (Curated by Anna Kafetsi), Megaron – Athens Concert Hall.
“Corfu in Colour” (curated by Sozita Goudouna), Ionian Parliament, Corfu island.
The Human Condition”. Session II. “Human and the Others: Love, friendship,
suspicion, aversion”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia.
NEW ACQUISITIONS: National Bank of Greece. Venue: Old building of the Athens
Stock Market, Athens.
“Good Painting” (urated by Yasmina reggad), IVDE gallery, Dubai.
2016
“ART BEATS ΙΙΙ: The art of disease.The disease of art”, organized by Onassis
Scholars’ Association, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Athens.
“Typography as an act of art” (curated by Maria Tsantsanoglou and Syrago
Tsiara), State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston), Thessaloniki.
“Massage the History: Historical testimonies and artistic practice” (curated by
Curator: Panos Giannikopoulos), Contemporary Greek Art Institute, Athens.
Erotimatiko? (group show of the finalists of the Young Mediterranean Artistic
Scene Prize), organized by HYAM, Artcurial, Paris.
2014
Anatallaxima, Mytilini, Greece.
Re-Culture III (group show), Patra, Greece.
“Body Memory” (curated by Syrago Tsiara), Contemporary Art Center,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
2013
“Afresh. A new generation of Greek artists”, National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Athens, Greece.
Aegeanale 2013, Kivotos Art Projects, Mykonos island, Greece.
2012
“Inconclusive Analysis”, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow.
2011
“British Perception” (Curated by Javier Caderón), National School of Arts (UNAM),
Mexico City.
“London Screen” (Curated by Javier Caderón), Ex-Teresa Museum, Mexico City.
2010
“Shape and Material”, the Vyner Studio, London.
LuccaDigitaPhotoFest, Lucca, Italy.
Action Field KODRA 10 (10th Visual Arts Festival), Thessaloniki.
“Qui Vive?” MMoMA projects, 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
(curators: Sergey Erkov, Daria Kamyshnikova), Moscow (catalogue).
“Oasis and A-oasis”, (curators: Dimitris Mihalaros and Panayiotis Famelis),
Skironeio Museum Polychronopoulos, Megara, Greece.
Art Athina: Exhibition with works by the Winners of the Jannis and Zoe
Spyropoulos Foundation Award, Athens. (Rania Bellou: 1st prize/2008)
2009
Active Resistance to Propaganda, Bloomsbury Ballroom, Forbidden London
Organised by Vivienne Westwood, London, U.K.
Acava Open studios, Unit 110-111 Mare Street, London.
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (co-coordinators: Ann Christopher,
Eileen Cooper and Will Alsop), London (catalogue).
“1001+1 Praxis” (curator: Dorothea Konteletzidou), French Institute, 2nd
Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greek State Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (catalogue).
“Siteshow @ Little Venice” (curators: John O’Hora and Jung Eun Yoo), London.
“Kiss Me Miss Me Presents 15 Minute Factory”, The Rug Factory, London.
2008
“Treble R”, The Rug Factory, London.
“Animate: Space Live”, The Others Gallery, London.
2006
Festival of Contemporary Performance, Camden People’s Theatre, London.
Action Field Kodra-06, Exhibition: “Rooms to Let”, Cultural organization of the
Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki (catalogue).
Scenoworks 2006, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and
Design, London.
Festival der Künste im Toni-Areal, Zurich.
Video Art Festival Miden 2006, Kalamata, Greece.
“Co-existence”, Gallery Zina Athanasiadou, Thessaloniki.
Workshops Center of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, (catalogue).
Rondgenplatz – ein portrait Zurich.
“Pixel Dance Festival” (organizers: In Flux Art Group), Army Field Kodra,
Thessaloniki.
2005
Onufri 2005, (curator: Eleni Laper), National Gallery Tirana, Albania (catalogue).
“Graduates 2003-2005”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
(catalogue).
Action Field Kodra-05, Exhibition: “Rooms to Let”, Cultural organization of the
Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki (catalogue).
space [ ], (curator: Christos Savvidis), Mark Goethe Gallery (catalogue with
essays by Dr. Sania Pappa, Maria Kenanidou).
RESIDENCIES
2014
Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki.
2012
Royal College of Art Sculpture residency at studio 60 : RCA, with Richard
Wentworth.
2004
Falu Konstgrafiska Verkstad/The Print Workshop, Falun, Sweden.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 – 2015
Film & video tutor, Urban Academy, Kids Company, London, UK.
