Apostolos Georgiou was born in 1952 in Thessaloniki, he lives and works in Athens and Skopelos. He studied Architecture at Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna and Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence.
The artist’s work explores themes of man’s existence by focusing on the human condition. While making reference to Greece in the 1950s, film, the traditions of Greek painting, and even theatrical scenery, Georgiou highlights profound feelings of alienation, solitude and humor. He paints short stories about the mythology of daily life, exposing existential moments of vulnerability and weakness, failure and emotional collapse.
While human beings are the main subject of the work, they are portrayed as anonymous figures without any individual characteristics. A desolate alter ego is revealed, portrayed with irony and distance yet also with tenderness and empathy. Although Georgiou preserves the principal morphology of his characters, their features are strictly limited and his paintings are unencumbered by any detail that might distract, focusing all attention on the situation, no matter how absurd. The scenarios he’s been painting are ones that he could just as well have conceived five or ten or fifteen years ago, but one couldn’t help seeing many of them as allegories of his country’s current predicament.
Luleå Biennial 2020, Time on Earth
Kulturens Hus, Skeppsbrogatan 17, 972 31
21 November 2020 – 14 February 2021
Solo show
Passerelle, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest
Until January 16, 2021
Sunday September 13, 2020
A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency, Paris
From September 5 to October 17, 2020
Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
October 17 - 20, 2019
A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency, Paris
From September 7 to October 5, 2019
Art Fair
Art Basel
12-16 June 2019
Group exhibition
Art Basel Hong Kong
March 29-31, 2019
Retrospective exhibition
Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation, You Space, Extra space, Shenzhen, China
March 10–August 11, 2018
Art Fair
Convention & Exhibition Centre. Wan Chai, Hong Kong
March 29 - 31, 2018
Group Exhibition
Level One, gb agency
From December 3rd, 2016 to January 14th, 2017
A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency
From September 3rd to October 8th, 2016
Gallery Itinerary
Paris
23 - 25 May 2014
Apostolos Georgiou
Apostolos Georgiou, Painting, 2011
Monographic Publication
Exhibition Apostolos Georgiou, Painting
National Museum of Contemporary Art, EMST, Athens
Texts by Anna Kafetsi, Daphné Vitali, Barry Schwabsky and Denys Zacharopoulos.
Publishing EMST, 2011
Apostolos Georgiou
Apostolos Georgiou, 2008
Exhibition catalogue, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
(15 May –14 June 2008)
Apostolos Georgiou
Apostolos Georgiou, 2003
Monographique Catalogue
Texts by Konstantinos Papageorgiou and by Denys Zacharopoulos
Niki Publishing, Greece