Apostolos Georgiou

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.

Mother Boy

Group show including the work of Apostolos Georgiou
Gio Marconi, Milan
Nov 24, 2023 - Feb 17, 2024

Real Families: Stories of Change

Group show including the work of Apostolos Georgiou and Elina Brotherus
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
October 6, 2023 - January 7, 2024

Apostolos Georgiou

Solo show
Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe
August 20 - October 15, 2023

Soleil et Grotte

Group show including the works of Dove Allouche, Mark Geffriaud, Apostolos Georgiou, Chloé Royer and Elené Shatberashvili
gb agency, Paris
June 30 - July 26, 2023

Art Basel, 2023

Art Fair
Messe Basel, Basel
June 13 - 18, 2023

Between Looking and Seeing

Group show with the works of Ryan Gander, Apostolos Georgiou, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Hassan Sharif
gb agency, Paris
March 25 - April 22, 2023

Apostolos Georgiou: ΧΟΠΛΕΣ

Solo show
Rodeo, Piraeus
March 18 - May 27, 2023

Paris+ by Art Basel

Art Fair with the works of Dove Allouche, Tirdad Hashemi, Apostolos Georgiou, Roman Ondak, Cally Spooner, Majd Abdel Hamid, Paul Heintz and Ryan Gander.
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
October 20-23, 2022

Art Basel 2022

Art Fair
Art Basel, Messe Basel
June 14 - 19, 2022

Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life

Collective show with the works of Mark Geffriaud, Apostolos Georgiou, Tirdad Hashemi, Paul Heintz, David Horvitz, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Roman Ondak, Pak Sheung Chuen, and Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 19, 2022

Dance of Life

Group show with works by Majd Abdel Hamid, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian, Paul Heintz, Apostolos Georgiou, Hassan Sharif, Elené Shatberashvili
gb agency, Paris
January 29 - March 19, 2022

Tremblements

Group show with works by Apostolos Georgiou
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma, Monaco
November 25, 2021 - May 15, 2022

FIAC 2021

Art Fair
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
October 20 - 24, 2021

Art Basel, 2021

Art Fair
Messe Basel, Basel
September 21 - 26, 2021

Portals

Group show with works by Apostolos Georgiou
Portals, Ηellenic Parliament and NEON, Athens
11 June - 31 December 2021

The Day I Saw You: Retratos de la Colección Fundación AMMA

Group show with works by Apostolos Georgiou
Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City
June 3 - July 31, 2021

Apostolos Georgiou, Hello Dog, Hello Sir!

Solo show
Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest
Extended until June First 2021

LULEÅ BIENNIAL 2020: Time on Earth with Apostolos Georgiou

Luleå Biennial 2020, Time on Earth
Kulturens Hus, Skeppsbrogatan 17, 972 31
21 November 2020 – 14 February 2021

Apostolos Georgiou: Hello Dog!, Hello Sir!

Solo show
Passerelle, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest
Until January 16, 2021

Un Dimanche à la Galerie

Sunday September 13, 2020

Apostolos Georgiou

A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency, Paris
From September 5 to October 17, 2020

Fiac 2019

Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
October 17 - 20, 2019

Apostolos Georgiou, Nothing is old because we are too young

A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency, Paris
From September 7 to October 5, 2019

Art Basel 2019

Art Fair
Art Basel
12-16 June 2019

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

Group exhibition
Art Basel Hong Kong
March 29-31, 2019

Apostolos Georgiou, Situations

Retrospective exhibition
Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation, You Space, Extra space, Shenzhen, China
March 10–August 11, 2018

Art Basel Hong Kong

Art Fair
Convention & Exhibition Centre. Wan Chai, Hong Kong
March 29 - 31, 2018

Paper stories

Group Exhibition
Level One, gb agency
From December 3rd, 2016 to January 14th, 2017

Apostolos Georgiou

A solo show by Apostolos Georgiou
gb agency
From September 3rd to October 8th, 2016

CHOICES, Collectors Weekend 2014

Gallery Itinerary
Paris
23 - 25 May 2014

Press articles

2019: Le Monde, Art et Culture, sélection galerie, Apostolos Georgiou chez gb agency, by Philippe Dagen, 20 Sept; Parisart, Apostolos Georgiou, Nothing is Old Because We Are Too Young at gb agency, Sept; Lifo, Apostolos Georgiou, interview, by M. Hulot, 7 Feb
2017: Art, Das Kunstmagazin, Apostolos Georgiou, Glücklic Her Melancholiker, by Sandra Danicke, April
2016: Liberation, Les rescapés du quotidien d’Apostolos Georgiou, by Judicael Lavrador, 3 Oct.; Never miss a show.com, Apostolos Georgiou, Sept.; Time Out, Apostolos Georgiou, The Same Old Fucking Story, by Gabriel Coxhead.
2015: The Nation, Acropolis for Sale, Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis, by Barry Schwabsky, 13 August.; Wall Street International, Lost Dreams, by Pantelis Arapinis, April.
2014: South likes: Apostolos Georgiou at Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, by Klea Charitou, May.; The Magazine for Connoisseurs of Turkey, Apostolos Georgiou, Rodeo, May.; Hyperallergic, Artists Pick Artists: Apostolos Georgiou by Rob Colvin, 10 April.; Frieze Magazine, Issue 160, Apostolos Georgiou, as told to Amy Sherlock and collected by J. Higgie in “8 Painters on Painting,”, January-February.; Art Matters, The Art World Eyes a New Destination: Gwangju, South Korea, Culture BY Kevin McGarry, May 15.; ParisArt, Level one: Apostolos Georgiou, April.; GalleriesNow.net, Level one: Apostolos Georgiou, April.
2013: Hydra for Artists of the Mediterranean, A Thessalonique, une biennale puissance 8, by Pauline Simons.
2011: Contemporarty in Exhibition, Hide and seek, play and obey — Apostolos Georgiou paintings …, 23 Oct.
2005: Artforum, Review, Apostolos Georgiou, Galerie Xippas, by Barry Schwabsky, Sept.; Semaine, N°49, Apostolos Georgiou, le Repoussoir, by Dennis Zacharopoulos, May.
2001: Time Out, Review, Apostolos Gergiou by Katarina Gaxaropyaoy, 4-10 Feb.
1994: Artforum, Athens Gallery, Apostolos Georgiou.

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