Kostis Georgiou

KOSTIS GEORGIOU, painter, sculptor

BIOGRAPHY

Kostis Georgiou was born in 1956. He presently lives and works in Athens, Greece.
1982-1986: Painting and sculpture at the University of fine arts in Athens with Pr. Mytaras,Pr. P. Panouryias and Pr. D.
Kokkinides.
1985-1986: Royal College of Fine Arts in London with Professor Peter de Francia
1982-1988: Worked as stage designer in theatre and for the Greek television (ERT)
1988-1991: Taught painting and scenography at the L. Stavracos school of cinema in Athens

SOLO EXHIBITIONS-SELECTION

2004 FYROM MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - FYROM
2004 "AGATHI" GALLERY - ATHENS
2004 NIEDERHAUSER GALLERY LAUSANNE SWITZERLAND
2004 COVALENCO GALLERY HOLLAND
2004 ART POINT GALLERY BELGIUM
2003 PNYKART FOUNDATION PIRAEUS
2003 GALLERY ERMOS, THESSALONIKI
2002 CARTEL GALLERIES GRANADA - SPAIN
2002 COVALENCO GALLERY - THE NETHERLANDS
2002 TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
2001 KOUROS GALLERY NEW YORK - USA
2001 NIEDERHAUSER GALLERY LAUSANNE - SWITZERLAND
2001 CARTEL GALLERIES - GRANADA - SPAIN
2001 MORPHI GALLERY - LEMESSOS CYPRUS
2001 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR - ART ATHINA 9 - ATHENS - GREECE
2000 GALLERY K LONDON - ENGLAND
2000 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR LINEART 2000 (ART POINT GALLERY) GHENT - BELGIUM
2000 COVALENCO GALLERY - THE NETHERLANDS
1999 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR ART ATHINA 7 - (EIRMOS GALLERY) ATHENS - GREECE
1999 AGATHI GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1999 TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS GREECE
1999 MORHI GALLERY - LEMESSOS - CYPRUS
1999 ARTE+SUR - FERIA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO (Honorary partisipation) SPAIN
1998 CARTEL GALERIES MALAGA - SPAIN
1998 EIRMOS GALLERY THESSALONIKI
1998 CARTEL GALERIES GRANADA - SPAIN
1998 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR LINEART 98 (BLUE POINT GALLERY) GHENT - BELGIUM
1998 TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1998 BARBARA VON STECHOW GALLERY FRANKFURT - A.M GERMANY
1998 FERIA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE BALEARES (Honrary participation) - SPAIN
1998 FERIA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE ANDALUSIA - MALAGA - SPAIN
1997 OLGA GEORGANDEA GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1997 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR ARCO - MADRID SPAIN - SCULPTURE
1996 RHAPSODY OF THE PRESENT - SCULPTURE - TITANIUM GALLERY ATHENS - GREECE
1994 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TODI - PALAZZO PONGELLI - ITALY
1993 NIEDERHAUSER GALLERY - LAUSANNE - SWITZERLAND
1993 UNO - PALAIS DE CONGRESS (Honorary participation) GENEVA- SWISS
1993 GALLERY K - LONDON ENGLAND
1993 EIRMOS GALLERY - THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1993 TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1992 CATRIN ALTING GALLERY - ANTWERP - BELGIUM
1992 CIEL GALLERY - TOKYO - JAPAN
1992 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR TOKYO ART EXPO - TOKYO - JAPAN
1991 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR LINEART 91 - GHENT - BELGIUM
1991 SADLER WELLS THEATRE LONDON - ENGLAND
1991 GALLERY K - LONDON - ENGLAND
1990 TITANIUM GALLERY ATHENS - GREECE
1986 EIRMOS GALLERY - THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1986 ZYGOS GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1984 ASTIR PALACE GALLERY - RHODES GREECE
1984 ORA GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1981 NEPHELI GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1980 CULTURAL CENTER OF THESSALONIKI
1979 KYKLOS GALLERY - THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1978 KYKLOS GALLERY - THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1975 EDESSA CULTURAL CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
1974 GOETHE INSTITUT - THESSALONIKI - GREECE

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 "HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART" - KOBE - JAPAN
2004 "KOSMOPOLIS" - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - MONI LAZARISTON - THESSALONIKI
2004 "AGONON POLIS" - TRACKS IN MODERN GREEK PAINTING - TECHNOPOLIS - GKAZI - MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS - ATHENS
2004 "BOHNAMS" - GREEN SALE - LONDON
2004 ABSOLOUTE AMERICANA MUSEUM-GALLERY, FLORIDA USA
2004 CITY OF THE RACES ATHENS GREECE
2004 MODERN ART MUSEUM OF SKOPJE
2002 RHODES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - RHODES - GREECE
2001 TOULOUSE LAUTREC - THE MYTH OF THE WOMAN. ( Framed by the exhibition, the Myth of the woman in contemporary Greek
painting) MUSEE D - ART CONTEMPORAIN - FONDATION BASIL ET ELISE GOULANDRIS - ANDROS - GREECE
2001 CAESAREA GALLERY - BOCA RATON - FLORIDA - USA
2001 ART ESSENTIALS - CALGARI - CANADA
2001 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, ART TEXAS 2001
2001 THE BODY - VAFOPOULION CULTURAL FOUNDATION - GRECE
2001 SUMMER ASCENSION - YIAYIANNOS GALLERY- ATHENS - GREECE
2001 CONTEMPORARY GREEK ARTISTS - PIERIDES MUSEUM ATHENS GR
2000 ART 21 - LAS VEGAS - NEVADA - USA
2000 CAESAREA GALLERY - BOCA RATON - FLORIDA - USA
2000 GREEK SCULPTURE IN HOLLAND - COUZI GALLERY - HOLLAND
1999 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR - LINEART 99 - ART POINT GALLERY GHENT - BELGIUM
1999 FUTURE NO FUTURE - HOTEL DU VILLE - BRUSSELS-BELGIUM
1999 MORHI GALLERY - LEMESSOS - CYPRUS
1998 PARALLELS IN LITERATURE AND ART-DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS-DIMITREIA 98-THESSALONIKI BASILICA OF SAINT
MARCUS - HERAKLION-CRETA
1998 BYZANTIUM AS A DRIVING FORSE - ATHENS - ZURICH - BRUSSELS
1997 MEDITERRANEAN ENCOUNTERS - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DUBROVNIK (in collaboration with Greek ministry of culture and VORRES
MUSEUM) DUBROVNICK - JULY - OCTOBER 97
1997 ARTESUR - ARTE CONTEMPORANEO GRIEGO - A TRIBUTE TO CONTEMPORARY GREEK ART - GRANADA - SPAIN
1997 X I INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF CULTURE - SKYRONION MUSEUM ATHENS - POLICHRONOPOULOS MUSEUM - KORINTH GR
1996 ATHENS-ATTIKI: PLANNING, INTERVENTION, PROJECTS FOR A VIABLE DEVELOPMENT- MODERN GREEK SCULPTORS - (dp. Of Environment,
planning and public works) ZAPEION MEGARON - ATHENS
1995 GREEK SCULPTURE- GREEK CENTER OF PRODUCTIVITY - ATHENS
1995 TRIBUTE TO DOMINICOS THEOTOCOPOULOS - NATIONAL GALLERY OF GREECE- ATHENS
1995 BRITAIN IN GREECE- FRIENDS OF THE NATIONS - ATHENS - LONDON CONTEMPORARY GREEK ARTISTS - NATIONAL GALLERY OF RHODES -
GREECE
1995 PSYCHOANALYSIS OVER COLOR - TITANIUM GALLERY ATHENS - GR
1995 STILL LIFE IN GREEK PAINTING 1949 - 1995 EIRMOS GALLERY THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1995 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR-ART ATHINA 3 - EIRMOS GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1995 HONORARY PARTICIPATION IN THE XXI TODI FESTIVAL - ITALY
1994 VOLKSWAGEN GROUP COLLECTION - TITANIUM GALLERY ATHENS
1993 XX PREMIO DI SULMONA INTERNAZIONALE - MUSEO CIVICO - PALAZZO DELL - ANNUNZIATA (1st PRIZE)
1993 CONTEMPORARY TENDENCIES IN GREEK PAINTING - GIORGIO DE CHIRICO MUSEUM - VOLOS - GREECE
1993 OSAKA TRIENNALE 93 - OSAKA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OSAKA - JAPAN (SPECIAL AWARD)
1993 ART 93 - BUSINESS DESIGN CENTER - LONDON - ENGLAND
1992 EIRMOS GALLERY - THESSALONIKI - GREECE
1992 CONTEMPORARY TENDENCIES IN GREEK PAINTING - COTOPOULI MUSEUM - ATHENS - GREECE
1992 CIEL GALLERY - TOKYO - JAPAN
1992 CATRIN ALTING GALLERY - ANTWERP-BELGIUM
1992 NEW BP COLLECTION - BP GALLERY - BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
1992 ART PUZZLE - ZAPPEION MEGARON - ATHENS-GREECE ART PUZZLE - MUNICIPAL CULTURE CENTER OF ATHENS
1992 NOCTURNAL PASSAGE - TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS-GREECE
1992 EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART - MITO CITY - JAPAN
1991 GALLERY K - LONDON - ENGLAND
1991 GREEK ARTISTS IN INTERNATIONAL ART CENTERS - TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS-GREECE
1991 VICKY DRACOS CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART - ATHENS GR
1991 SUMMER 91 - TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1990 YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS - BP GALLERY - BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
1990 OSAKA TRIENNALE 90 - OSAKA - JAPAN
1990 GREEK ARTISTS IN INTERNATIONAL ART CENTERS-TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS-GREECE
1990 SUMMER 90 - TITANIUM GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1990 COLOR AND EXPRESSIONISM - MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF CALAMATA - GREECE
1990 TRIBUTE TO BOUZIANIS - MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF ATHENS - GR
1989 6+6 TRIBUTE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - ATHENS-NIMES - PARIS
1989 THE FACE AS A MASK - CASES OF GREEK EXPRESSIONISM PATRAS CULTURAL CENTER - GREECE
1988 CONTEMPORARY GREEK ARTIST - MOSCOW MUSEUM - USSR
1987 PANHELLINIC EXHIBITION OF MODERN ART - OLP - PIREAUS GR
1986 SYNOPSIS 86 ZYGOS GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1983 GREEK ART - MUSIC CONSERVATORY - ATHENS - GREECE
1982 NEPHELI GALLERY - ATHENS - GREECE
1980 KYKLOS GALLERY THESSALONIKI