Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 1954, in Athens.
Draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, video artist. Multimedia.
Michalis Arfaras first studied painting at the school of fine arts in Athens between 1972 and 1974. He continued his studies at the college of fine arts in Brunswick in Germany where he specialised in engraving and produced book illustrations and comic strips. He now lives and works in Hildesheim where he teaches graphic art at the university....
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Engraver, mixed media.
Yannis Bouteas studied at the school of fine arts in Athens where he learned engraving. From there he progressed to produce conceptual work involving tracing and lines made from string or neon.
Bouteas, Yannis: ‘Entretien avec Pierre Teisserenc’ in ...Greek, 20th century.
Born 1921, in Tripolis.
Painter, mixed media.
Constantin Karahalios studied at the school of fine arts in Athens between 1947 and 1952, and then went on to train at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied frescoes. He studied engraving at the École Estienne between ...
Greek, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active also active in France.
Born 1956, in Athens.
Painter (mixed media).
Klairy Korelis studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she graduated in stage design and costumes for the theatre. She exhibits in France and Greece. She won the town of Antibes painting prize in ...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Painter, mixed media. Landscapes, flowers.
Yannis Kottis painted landscapes and flowers in a naive design in pastel tones on a white background made of small plaster panels. The Zoumboulakis Gallery showed a number of his works at the FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) (...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in Italy from 1956.
Born 23 March 1936, in Piraeus.
Sculptor of assemblages, painter.
Arte Povera.
Jannis Kounellis started his artistic training in Greece and left for Rome in 1956. He attended courses at the Accademia di Belle Arti and he discovered the works of Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana and the international avant-garde with Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni....
Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.
Installation artist.
Nikos Navridis works with latex and makes works that float in space. He featured in the 23rd São Paulo Biennale in 1996.
Greek, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in France from 1980.
Born 1959, in Athens.
Painter, digital artist, installation artist.
Arghyro Paouri lives and works in Malakoff (Hauts de Seine). She is a longstanding member of the group
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1958.
Born 1930, in Filiatra (Peloponnese).
Collage artist, sculptor, poster artist. Stage sets.
Even though Pavlos was a student at the fine arts school in Athens from 1949 to 1953, he only truly discovered painting in 1954...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA from 1948.
Born 14 September 1936, in Kastoria.
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, happenings artist, sculptor of assemblages, photographer, mixed media.
Neo-Dadaism.
In 1948 at the age of 12, Samaras arrived in the USA with his family. He became acquainted with Allan Kaprow and George Segal, a major factor in his development, at Rutgers University between ...
Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France from 1981.
Born 20 June 1950, in Amphissa.
Assemblage artist, sculptor.
Skiloyannis studied at the school of fine art in Athens, then studied in Paris. He produces assemblages from time-worn wooden planks. He took part in collective exhibitions in ...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1955, from 1969 in the USA.
Born 29 October 1925, in Athens.
Sculptor, installation artist.
Kinetic Art.
Takis had no formal training. He left Greece in 1954, lived in London in 1955 and then Paris, where he was connected with the members of Nouveau Réalisme and their defenders Yves Klein, César, and Iris Clerc. In ...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active from 1960 to 1970 in Paris.
Born 24 May 1930, in Athens.
Painter, sculptor, installation artist.
Costas Tsoclis studied initially at the school of fine art in Athens then in Rome from 1957 to 1960. His work is both a comment and a play on the ambiguity of perspective. Having produced wooden reliefs of seats, tables and furniture with surprising perspectives, he constructed three-dimensional objects while observing the laws of the illusionism of perspective applied to the flat image. These trompe-l'œil in relief are surprising, annoying, slightly weakening the way we usually perceive things and exciting the imagination. Writing his own history and the history of Greece into his work, Tsoclis developed his work with videos and installations and also produced portraits linking painting and virtual image and relief paintings to the appearance of enormous pebbles, ...
Greek, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 2 November 1959, in Athens.
Painter (mixed media), collage artist.
Erietta Vordoni studied at the schools of fine art in Athens and Paris. She works on her material, gluing together paper, tracing paper, tinfoil, accumulating layers of paint, exploring various strata and the effects of transparency, rummaging through the world of her memories and feelings and recreating them in a lightning stroke. Occasionally escaping from this scope, her painting goes beyond emotions, particularly in her harbour scenes from her childhood, and frees the past while breaking up the images....
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1955 (naturalised French citizen).
Born 1931, in Cairo.
Painter (including gouache/mixed media), graphic designer, assemblage artist, environmental artist, screen printer.
Kinetic Art.
Constantin Xenakis moved to Paris in 1955, where he studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière. In ...
