Antrea Tzourovits (b. 1987, Serbia Montenegro) lives and works in London and Athens.
2020-2022
MFA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, with a scholarship from NEON Organisation for Culture and Development
2015-2020
BA in Fine Art from Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece [2015-2020].
Prizes-Awards:
The Kenneth Armitage Foundation Postgraduate Sculptor Prize 2022
UCL East Provosts Art Prize 2022
Hari Art Prize (TBA) 2022
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, 2022.
Solo Shows:
2024
“Hot , Cold, Pain, Pressure”, Incubator, London.
2023
“Counting Rests”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2020
“APORIA”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
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Recent group shows include:
2024
“SPACE OF TOGETHERNESS”, NEON, Drama School of the Greek National Theatre, Athens.
“My Dreams Were Dashed Against Your Walls” (Curated by Akis Kokkinos), DEO projects, Medieval Village of Vessa, Chios island, Greece.
2023
“Encore – New Greek Painting” ( cur. Eleni Koukou, Christoforos Marinos, Theophilos Tramboulis), Municipal Art Gallery of Athens
“Lines In The Sand” (group show), Incubator, London, UK.
2022
“Doomed Companions. Unsubstantial Shades” (curated by Akis Kokkinos). Organized by NEON, the D. Daskalopoulos Organisation for Culture and Development. Hellenic Residency, London, UK.
Tzourovits has worked as a Trainer in‘’Perasmata’’ (an experimental initiative of UNHCR in Greek schools raising awareness among young people about issues of racism and the need to protect vulnerable social groups. 2013-2014 and as a Stringed instrument Art luthery craftsman, Neorion Music Workshop – Handmade Music Instruments, Piraeus, Greece – 2014-2020. His excellent technical knowledge in fields ranging from interior and exterior mural painting to instrument making, coppersmithing, ceramics, music and even the construction of air conditioning systems, translates into works of art that demonstrate Tzourovits’ deep knowledge and research on the interactive relationship between matter, space and spectator.
In his work he employs a wide range of means of expression: sculpture, painting, installation, video and music. Recently, he has been fascinated with the qualities and mechanisms of memory as well as the role of personal and collective trauma. He is interested in the relationship between ‘play’ and ‘conflict’ and in the way these two different actions can create a feeling of both humour and uncertainty in the work. He adopts familiar material and popular symbols within the technical handling of the work so that the imagery itself can resonate with the viewer, emphasizing the poetic-philosophical content of objects and situations. Through a poetic narrative exploring the fluid nature of the ‘real’, he wants his work to have a metaphorical function of empirical personal memory.
