YORGOS SAPOUNTZIS
*1976, Athens, Greece
Lives and works in Berlin (D)

Education

2004 - 2002 Berlin University of the Arts, in the studio of Rebecca Horn
2002 - 1998 Athens School of Fine Art, in the studio of George Lappas
1998 - 1995 University Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, Athens

Solo Shows (Selection)

2013
Freymond-Guth fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
The Protagonists, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
Urnerknabe am Schaufenster/ Empathie, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (CH)
Schinken und Käse, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (DE)

2012
Videos and Picnic, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim (DE)
The Gadfly Festival, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (DE)
Deus Ex Machina, Overgaden. Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen (DK)

2011 Sculptures and Mirrors, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
Fast Cast, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (DE)
Aparere, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (IT)
Head Zest, New Walls, Simone Subal Gallery, New York City (USA)

2010 One film - one week, Yorgos Sapountzis (The Heritage of its Architecture), Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
Pre-Bellevue, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, (E)
Charleroi, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens, (GR)

2009 Horizon Drop, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart (D)
MENSCHEN TIERE SENSATIONEN ancient vagrancy appolonian futurism, Yorgos Sapountzis/Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Kunstverein Arnsberg (D)

2008 ART BASEL STATEMENTS with Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Basel (CH)

2006 Forgotten Tactics, Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (D)

2005 Nightly, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens (GR)

Group Shows (Selection)

2013 Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach - seit 1980, Fellbach (DE)
Image into Sculpture, with Navid Nuur ,Beier Nina, Simon Denny,
Espace 315 Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Die Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital, cur. Rudolf Sagmeister, Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT)

2012
Physical! Physical!, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich (CH)
Track! Festival and Exhibition in Ghent, Performance and installation (BE)
Nach Bonn - Eine Montage, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (DE)
Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/
Main (DE)
Etna Carrara, Villa Romana Prize 2011/2012, Villa Romana, Florence (IT),
Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen(DE)
PINK CAVIAR- New works in the Collection 2009-2011, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen (DK)
The Big Inexplicable Paravant Illusion Pt.1/, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, DE
Independent, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, NYC, (USA)

2011 Based in Berlin, (D)
Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, (DK)
ReMap3, Athens, (GR)
Thessaloniki Biennale (GR)
PerformIC 2011, Kunstraum Innsbruck, (AT)
Humanism, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, (UK)
Informell Natur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (D)

2010 Arivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (I)
The First Image, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (GR)
Hüttendong, After The Butcher, Berlin (D)
Flüchtige Zeiten, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (D)

2009 Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (D),
Plan B. Contemporary greek artists from the Beltsios’ collection, DYNAMO project space, Thessaloniki (GR)
Souterrain, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin Mitte (D)
6th DESTE Prize, DESTE Foundation, at the Museum of Cycladic Art Athens (GR)
Ataxies. Contemporary greek artists from the Beltsio’s collection, Margari Foundation / Beltsios Collection,
Amfilohia (D)
Contour 2009: The 4th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Brussels (BE)
I was lookin‘ back to see if you were lookin‘ back at me to see me lookin‘ back at you, REMAPkm 2, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens (GR)

2008 Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered (curated by Jesko Fezer and Axel John Wieder),
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (D)
Athensville, Art Athina (curated by Marina Fokidis), Athens (GR)
Mariano Pichler Collection, Leftovers (selected by Luca Cerizza and Jennifer Chert), Micamoca, Berlin (D)
Common View (curated by Eleni Koukou and Ghislaine Dantan), National Theatre, Athens (GR)

2007 In Present Tense, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
UP TO, AND INCLUDING THE LIMITS (curated by Katerina Gregos), Media Lounge, ARGOS, Brussels (BE)
Contemporary art in Greece through the collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Denis Zaharopoulos), Benaki Museum, Athens (GR)
House Trip, special exhibition (curated by Ami Barak), Art Forum Berlin, Berlin (D)
1st Athens Biennale, Destroy Athens (curated by Xenia Kalpakstoglou, Poka Yio, Augustine Zenakos), Athens (GR)
The Tree Bring Forth Sweet Ecstasy (curated by Caroline Eggel and Christiane Rekade), Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH)
Supernova (curated by Yiannis Toumazis), The Old Powerhouse, Nicosia (CY)
her(his)story (curated by Marina Fokidis), Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (GR)
Who is Here? (curated by Dennys Zacharopoulos), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (GR)
TOPOS: Engonopoulos, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, (GR)
Believers & Illusionists R. T. Hansen (curated by Lars Morell), Gormannstrasse 19 A, Berlin (D)
CROSSINGS (curated by Yiannis Toumazis and Androula Michael), NIMAC, Nicosia (CY)

2006 Für die Ewigkeit, Was Wäre Wenn #6, Jet, Berlin (D)
Urban Appearances, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str, Berlin (D)
Contemporary, Magazzio d’arte, Rome (I)
100 Tage = 100 Videos, Kunstverein Heidelberg (10 videos selected by Anne-Catharina Gebbers), Heidelberg (D)
MIND GAMES (The Art of Video Games), London Games Festival Fringe Event, (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini and David Gryn), London (UK)
Crossing - a contemporary view , Fort St Angelo-Malta, Malta
An outing: Beltsios Collection, Matsopoulos Mill, Trikala (GR)
Arrivals-Albania, Vangjush Mio, Korista (AL)
Crivelli’s Nail, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (UK)
Nikos Alexiou Collection, Mac Gallery, XXXII International Festival Sarajevo, Sarajevo (BIH)
What Remains is Future, Patras, Cultural Capital of Europe (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou), Patra (GR)
BLACK AND WHITE, American Hellenic Union, Athens (GR)
GREEN NIGHT, Espace Croisé, Roubaix cedex (F)

2005 THE GESTURE. A VISUAL LIBRARY IN PROGRESS, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki (GR)
Quarter, Center for Contemporary Art, Florence (I)
THE MIND IS A HORSE (Part 2), Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK)
LANDMARKS, Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris (F)
VISIONS, Athens Imperial Hotel, Athens (GR)

2004 Videozone 2, The 2nd International Video Biennial Tel Aviv (IL)
Plain Sight, Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK)
Berliner Zimmer, Actionfield Kodra, Kodra former military camp, Thessaloniki (GR)
In the beginning there was the journey, 28 BIENNAL OF PONTEVEDRA Pontevedra (E)
THE SNEEZE 80x80, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens (GR)
Roads ans Roots, Gallery Kunst im Heppächer. Esslingen (D
Breakthrough! GRECIA 2004: Contemporary Perspectives in the Visual Arts, ARCO, Madrid (E)

2003 A DOG NAMED GARAGE - FIRST COLLECTION (concert with video, music by Øyvind Torvund), Oslo Sinfonietta, Oslo (N)
SCOPE, Dylan hotel New York (USA)

2002 Holy Spirits, Galerie Wieland, Berlin (D)
SEEING IS BELIEVING, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens (GR)

2001 Auras and Avatars, 1st Public School of Hydra, Hydra (GR)
Beyond Origin, American Hellenic Union, Athens (GR)
Photography as Art as Language, American Hellenic Union, Athens (GR)

Performances (Selection)

2011 Fondazione Maurizio Morra Greco, Naples (IT)
Trial & Error, Kunstraum, Insbruck (AT)

2009 Schalen der Zeit / Ist das Jetzt Zeit? (Shells of time / Is the Now time?, 15. Internationale
Schillertage, Mannheim (D)

2008 After Electricity - Forth, ART BASEL STATEMENTS, Basel (CH)
After Electricity - from the life of the people (curated by Luca Cerizza and Jennifer Chert),
Micamoca, Berlin (D)
After Electricity - the festival, National Theater, Athens (GR)

2007 After Electricity - the remains of a start, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
Sculpture Garden, June 2007, The Tree Bring Forth Sweet Ecstasy 1 (curated by Caroline Eggel and Christiane Rekade), Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH)

2006 No Spaghetti Editon, (music Øyvind Torvund), Stavanger (N)
Around the Clock, LISTE Artfair with Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, Basel (CH)

2005 FICUS-FLORENCE, The gesture, Quarter, Florence (I)
Architecture-Thessaloniki, Protaseis (Version IV:935m), Thessaloniki (GR)
3 times tragic, 7 PERFORMANCES & A CONVERSATION, Athens (GR)

2004 West, Loewenpalais, Berlin (D)
LECTURE/Cragg class (music by Øyvind Torvund), Pontevedra (E)
einschlafen (falling asleep), Lange Nacht Museum, Museum of Communication, Berlin (D)
3Bfountain, 2nd Berlin International Festival of Literature, Berlin (D)

Other Activities (Selection)

2013- 2014
Kunstzeitraum Residency, Munich (DE)

2002 - 1998

Set designer and Assistant director for the Diplous Eros Theatre:
HAMLET (1998) William Shakespeare

(official participant BITEF International Theatre Festival in Belgrade)
AGAMEMNON (2000) Aeschylus

(official participant International Festival of Caraccas, Venezuela and International Festival of Tbilisi, Georgia; Theater Gessnerallee, Zurich)

NATIONAL ANTHEM: A THEORIMA OF TEAMWORK (2001, 2002)
(Kerkyra, Athens, Thessalonica, Tbilisi, Florence, Theater Gessnerallee, Zurich)

Catalogues (Selection)

2009 Scorpio’s Garden (curated by Kirstine Roepstorff), Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Verlag Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (D)

2007 1st ATHENS BIENNALE, DESTROY ATHENS. A NARRATIVE, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio, Augustine Zenakos, Theophilos Tramboulis, futura Publications and Athens Biennial, Athens (GR)
SUPERNOVA – CONSTELLATIONS, Andreas Constantinou, Imprinta, Nicosia (CY)

2006 7 PERFORMANCES & A CONVERSATION, Theophilos Tramboulis, Locus Athens and futura Publications,
Athens (GR)
POSSIBILITIES: INTERVIEWS WITH GREEK ARTISTS, Christoforos Marinos, Futura/ GAP Files #2, Athens (GR)
AN OUTING: CONTEMPORARY ART IN GREECE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, THE BELTSIOS COLLECTION, Sotiris Bahtsetzis, Futura publications, Athens (GR)
THE SNEEZE 80x80, Peter Lloyd Lewis and Natasha Makowski, Article Press, Birmingham (UK)
FUR DIE EWIGKEIT, Henrikke Nielsen, JET, Berlin and The green box, Berlin (D)
WHAT REMAINS IS FUTURE, Nadja Argyropoulou, Patras Cultural Capital of Europe 2006, Patras

2005 The Gesture, A Visual Library in Progress, Marina Bistolfi, Pietro Gagliano, Artout, Maschietto Editore (I)
VISIONS, Christoforos Marinos, Gallery Kappatos, Athens (GR)

2004 BREAKTHROUGH! GRECIA 2004: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN THE VISUAL ARTS, Katerina Gregos, Dr. Sania Papa, Denys Zacharopoulos, ARCO, Spain VIDEOZONE 2. THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL VIDEO BIENNALE TEL AVIV, Sergio Edelsztein, Center of Contemporary Art (IL)
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE JOURNEY, 28 BIENNAL OF PONTEVEDRA, David G. Torres and Miguel von Hafe Perez, Pontevedra, Deputacion de Pontevedra (E)
THE GESTURE, A VISUAL LIBRARY IN PROGRESS, Marina Bistolfi, Pietro Gagliano, Artout Maschietto Editore (I)