Stefanos Tsivopoulos, GR/NL
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Athens


Residencies

2011 ISCP, New York, US
2010 IASPIS, Stockholm, SE
2009 Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
2008 Project Studio Berlin, DE
2006 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

 

Fellowships/stipends/awards

2009 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
2009 Kostopoulos Fund for the Arts
2009 Niarchos Foundation
2008 Winner Golden Cube Award, 25th Dokfest, Kasseler Kunstverein
2008 Dutch Film Funds for Research and Development
2008 Dutch Funds for the Visual Arts BKVB
2006 'Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds - "Van Eck-Vollgraff Fonds"'
2006 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
2006 Van Bijneveld Fellowship
2005 Loudon Fellowship
2005 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
2005 Shortlisted, DESTE Foundation Award, Athens
1998 Winner Art Heineken Award, Athens, GR

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2010

Smart Project Space, cur. Hilde de Bruin, Amsterdam
Heidelberg Kunstverein, cur. Inka Christman, Heidelberg
Jette Rudolph Gallery, Berlin

2009

‘Lost Monument’, Art Forum Berlin, Focus, Berlin
‘The Real The Story The Storyteller’, Tribute 5 films, Rodos Film Festival, GR
‘Untitled (In Plato's Cave)’, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens

2008

‘The Real The Story The Storyteller’ Salon Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, cur. Ana Nikitovic

2007

‘Land’, Bytheway Projects, Amsterdam

2005

‘Couple’, Museum Het Domein, cur. by Stijn Huijts, Sittard, NL
‘True Fiction’, Museum Gouda, Gouda, NL
'Safe / Not Safe', SAFE Art Center, Zwolle, NL
‘Between Experience and Experiment’, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens

 

Group exhibitions (selection)

2010

‘And the moral of the story is...’, Apexart, cur. Zoe Gray, New York
‘Hors Pistes-Un Autre Mouvement des images’ , Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘On Morality-Act III’, Witte de With, cur. Zoe Gray, Rotterdam
‘Suspended Spaces’, Museum of Contemporary Art Amiens, Amiens
‘Greek Contemporary Art’, Uqbar project Space, cur. I.T.P, Berlin
‘Indefinite Destinations’, DEPO, cur. O.Ozsoy, V. Nozharova, Istanbul
‘Islands Never Found’ Fondazione Solares, cur.L. Hegyi, K. Koskina, Genova

2009

‘One Giant Leap’, BFI Southbank cur. E. Fabrizi, P. Bonaventura, London
‘Monument To Transformation’, City Gallery, V. Havranek, Z.Baladran, Prague
‘Reading the city’ Open ev+a, Limerick, cur. A. Nollert, Y. Dziewior, Ireland
‘Remap 2’, 2nd Athens Biennial, cur. Mar. Fokides, Athens
‘In Retrospect’, Impakt Festival Panorama, cur. A. Dunnewind, Utrecht
‘Political Iconography II’, Jette Rudolph Gallery, Berlin
‘Expanded Box’, ARCO, cur. Carolina Grau, Madrid
‘Land’, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, cur. A. Kafetsi, Athens
‘The First Image’ Center of Contemporary Art Sete, cur. D.Zacharopoulos, Sete
‘Ataxies’, Beltsios Collection, cur. R. Palanda, Amfilochia
‘Man and woman He made them’, cur. P. Fransman, Maastricht
‘The First Image’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2008

‘Monitoring’, Kasseler Kunstverein Friedericianum, cur. G.Wissner, Kassel
‘Revolution I Love you’, International Project Space, Birmingham
‘Salon of the Revolution’, October Salon, cur. Ant. Majaca & Iv. Bago, Zagreb
‘Spaport’, Museum of Contemporary art Banja Luka, cur. Ana Nikitovic, Bosnia
‘Revolution I love you’, Trafo Gallery, cur. M. and R. Fowkes, Budapest
‘Transexperience Greece’, 798 Space, cur. Anna Kafetsi, Beijing
‘What Does New and Interesting Mean?’ Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens
‘The Archive’, Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, cur. Marco Scotini, Milan
‘Revolution I love you’, cur. M.R. Fowkes, Contemporary Art Center Thessaloniki
‘Mourmouring images', Centre Photographique, cur. S. Carrayrou, Paris

2007

‘Heterotopias’ 1st Thessaloniki Biennial, cur. Catherine David, Olaf Lundstrom, M.Tsantsanoglou, Th. Stefanidou, Thessaloniki
‘In Present Tense’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
‘Destroy Athens’, 1st Athens Biennial, cur. Zenakos, Kalpatsoglou, PokYio, Athens
‘Her(His)tory’, Cycladic Museum, cur. Marina Fokidis, Athens
‘Close Connections’ SMBA en de Balie, De Balie, cur. Jelle Bouwhuis, Amsterdam
‘Topoi’ Benaki Museum, cur. Denys Zacharopoulos, Athens
‘Who’s There?’ Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art ,cur.D.Zacharopoulos, Thessaloniki
'Topos Eggonopoulos', Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, cur. D. Zacharopoulos, Thessaloniki

2006

'Open Ateliers', Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
'An Outing’, Beltsios Collection, cur. Sotirios Bachtsetzis, Trikala
‘Spring fever', Montevideo, cur. Dominique Busch, Amsterdam
'Apolis', American Hellenic Union, cur. Kostis Velonis, Athens
‘What Remains is Future’, Arsakio, cur. Nadja Argyropooulou, Patras
'Changing Horizons', De Vishal, cur. Johan Deumens, Haarlem
'Crossing the Borders', State Museum of Thessaloniki
‘In Transition’ Neme/IMCA, Lanitis Art Center, cur. Helen Black, Lemesos

2005

'Open Ateliers', Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
Townhouse gallery, cur. Hala Elkussy, Cairo
'Hotspots', Sammlung Essl, cur. Helen Verhoeven, Vienna
'4th Deste Prize’, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
'e-flux', video rental, Manifesta Office, Amsterdam

2004

‘Coffee Break’, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
‘Decoding Cyprus’, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
'Kunst Vlaai #5', Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
‘World Wide Video’ festival, Amsterdam
'Decoding Europe', Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
Avecom festival, Arnhem

2003

'Parasite Paradise' SKOR Leidsche Rijn, cur. Tom van Gestel, Utrecht
'De Een Minuten Nu', Montevideo, Amsterdam
'React', International Media Festival, Heidelberg
'Pure Nature', Sint Nicolaas Kerk, Amsterdam
'Real' Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Arnhem
'Rubbit', Consortium Galery, Amsterdam

 

Bibliography

Catalogues

2009

‘Reading the city’ Open ev+a, Limerick, edit. A. Nollert, Y. Dziewior
‘Eco Films’, Rodos Film Festival, text Dennys Zacharopoulos
‘One Giant Leap’, BFI Southbank, catalogue program
‘Into the Pill’, Greek Video Art
'Monument to Transformation', Prague City Gallery, edit. Z. Baladran
'The First Image', Center of Contemporary Art Sete, text D. Zacharopoulos
'Impakt Festival', Accelerating Living, edit. Arjon Dunnewind. 

2008

‘The Real The Story and The Storyteller’, Monograph, text by Jennifer Allen, Sotirios Bachtsetzis, Katerina Gregos, Ana Nikitovic, Petar Ramadanovic, 
Marco Scotini,  Hito Steyrel, produced by Mondriaan Foundation, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade.           
‘Reading the City’, Open ev+a, Edited by A. Nollert, Y. Dziewior
‘Monitoring’, 25th Dokfest Kasseler Kunstverein, Editors Gerhard Wisner, Niki Michal,  text by Polina Stroganova
‘Revolution I love You’, Threelingual edition, Editors Maya And Reuben Fowkes, text by Theophilos Tramboulis.    
‘Transexperience Greece’,  798 Space in collaboration with EMST, Editor A.Kafetsi                                                                                  
‘Salon of the Revolution’, October Salon Zagreb, Editors Ant. Majaca & Iv. Bago, text by Theophilos Tramboulis.
‘Spaport’, Museum of Contemporary art Banja Luka, text by Tina Pandi

2007

‘In Present Tense’, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, text by Tina Pandi
‘Destroy Athens’, 1st Athens Biennial, Eiditors Zenakos, Kalpatsoglou, Poka Yio, text by Thephilos Tramboulis
‘Heterotopias’ 1st Thessaloniki Biennial, text by Thalea Stefanidou
‘Her(His)tory’, Cycladic Museum, text Marina Fokidis, Athens
‘Who’s There?’ Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, text Denys Zacharopoulos

2006

'Apolis', American Hellenic Union, Editor Kostis Velonis Athens
‘What Remains is Future’, Editor Nadja Argyropooulou
'Crossing the Borders', State Museum of Thessaloniki, Editor Th. Moutsopoulos
‘In transition’, Neme/IMCA, Lanitis Foundation, Editor Helen Black,Lemesos, CY
'Open Ateliers', Rijksakademie, Editor N.Tordoir, Amsterdam
'An Outing’, Beltsios Collection, Editor, text Sotirios Bachtsetzis

2005

'Open Ateliers', Rijksakademie, Edit. Narcisse Tordoir, Amsterdam
'Hotspots', Sammlung Essl, Editor, text Helen Verhoeven, Vienna
'4th Deste Prize’, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Editor Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Athens

2004

‘KunstVlaai’, Couple, text Bart Rutten, Amsterdam 2004
‘World wide video festival’, Actors, text Esma Mouhktar, Amsterdam 2004


Articles (selection)

Arte e Critica, Elisa del Prete, Rome, n.61, Dec 2009 - Febr 2010
Flash Art, The Real The Story The Storyteller, Ch. Marinos, May-June 2009 
Art Monthly, Revolution I Love You, Matthew Price, Febr/March 2009
Kaput, on line magazine, L.Liambeis, Issue 5, 2009
Kathimerini, The Real The Story The Storyteller, A.Koroxenidis, March 2009
Metropolis M, Zoe Gray, No 4,  August/September, 2008
The End Magazine, Marco Scotini, No 12, August, 2008
Art Forum, Critics Pics, ‘Revolution I love you’, Irene Gerogiannis, March 2008
Art in America, by Lilly Wei, May, 2008
Art Forum, Critics Pics, ‘In Present Tense’, Irene Gerogiannis, January 2008
Flash Art, Focus Greece, Valeria Sansone, October 2007
Frieze Magazine, Her(his)tory, Jen Higgie, September 2007        
Athinorama, Visual Hitory, Despina Zeykili, December 2007
Weekly News, Amsterdam, January, 2006
Ta Nea, A. Zenakos, 2006
Uncover City, A, Gilbert, 2006
Trouw News, Marjoline Spijker, Open Ateliers, December 2005
Tubelight, Echt Kunst, Mebious, November 2005
Highlights magazine, 2005
Marie Claire, Nadja Argyropoulou, 2005
GAP #6, Theophilos Tramboulis, 2005
Boulderlach en pure horror, Marina de Vries, Volkskrant News, February 2005
ArtForum, Jennifer Allen, Critics Pics, Octomber 2005
Safe/ Not Safe, Wim van der Beek, Kunstbeeld Magazine, February 2005
Avgi, George-Vyron Davos, 4 October 2005
Couple, Sacha Bronwasser, VS Magazine, May 2004
Vrij Nederland, De vreemdeling als verlosser, Lucette ter Borg, no.7, 2003
Vrij Nederland, Rubbit!, Lucette ter Borg, no.12, 2003

 

Other Activities

 

Jury member selection commitee Deste Prize Athens 2009
Jury member Kasseler Documentary Festival 2009
Tutor, 'Back to the Present' Workshop, Tuscany, 2009
Founder and Editor of the Spot magazine, ongoing

 

 

Represented by

 

Jette Rudolph Gallery, Berlin, DE
www.jette-rudolph.de

 

Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, It
www.prometeogallery.com

 

Alpha Delta gallery, Athens, Gr
www.adgallery.gr

 

APT Dubai
www.aptglobal.org

 

Collections

 

FRAC
Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
Makedoniko Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum Gouda                                                                                                              
Beltsios Collection                                                                                        
Other private collections
Arte e Critica, Elisa del Prete, Rome, n.61, Dec 2009 - Febr 2010