Artist Bio
Artist’s Statement
My work is a synthesis of several painting metaphors, from conceptual art and expressionism to pop art, all delivered in a sense of mockery and irony and an invitation to critical discourse.
Although they may seem naïve at first sight, I think there is a strong underlying political dimension in my pictures. I use a variety of expressive media, from painting, sculpture, and photography to large scale installations. Art and especially image have their own rules: they go beyond paint, brushes, and paper, over to constitute a narrative. Psychoanalysis is not sufficient by itself to interpret an image. A piece of art provokes aphorisms and coincidences. It may not be in itself a cause for war, but it will always be a mirror. One of the principles in my work is the synthesis of non-matching materials, data, and the completion of an unequivocal picture. Another personal obsession has to do with confusion: sometimes when the narrative is tiring to my viewer, I juxtapose a tangled mess to stop thinking and start seeing!
I would like my work to form a new field of thinking where all contradictions are resolved, and a new type of harmony governs both the visual and the logic!
Konstantinos Patsios was born in Athens, Greece, 1977.
Education
2002 – 2007
- Athens School of Fine Art, Z ‘ Painting Laboratory, Tutors: Y. Psychopaidis, M. Spiliopoulos, Additional Laboratory: Sculpture, Tutor: N. Tranos (graduated with distinction).
1995 – 2000
- University of Piraeus- Economics and Law of the European Union.
1997
- “Erasmus programme” scholarship, Poitiers- France (Grand ecole de commerce).
1990
- Rhode Island School of Design – Scholarship in painting by “Ziridis School” – Providence. USA.
Solo Exhibitions
2020
- Where are the lotus eaters?, Blender Gallery, curated by Yiannis Bolis , Athens – Greece.
2019
- The Scrambled Papers Theory, Alma gallery, curator:Louisa Karapidaki, Athens-Greece.
- Ink and Botox,The Pulse gallery,curator:Louisa Karapidaki ,Astypalea-Greece.
2018
- Art Market Budapest, International Art fair, Alma gallery, Budapest- Hungary.
- Contradictions, Soul Food, Tinos island-Greece.
2016
- The Lost Parthenon,Melkart gallery,curator Leonie Gavrias,Paris-France.
2015
- Positions Berlin art fair,Alma gallery ,Berlin-Germany.
- The Twisted Odyssey,Underdog gallery ,curator :Mikaela Vergotti,London-United Kingdom.
- The Twisted Odyssey,Blender gallery ,curator :Mikaela Vergotti,Athens-Greece.
2013
- Emotional Collective, Cube Gallery, Patra – Greece.
2010
- The Vitrina Project, Solo Presentation, Athens – Greece.
- N. Patsios presents The Divine Comedy, Fizz gallery, curator: Alexios Papazacharias, Athens – Greece.
- The Roller Coaster, installation, ekfrasi – Yianna Grammatopoulou gallery, Athens – Greece.
2009
- Koukou, artis causa gallery, curator: Maria Kenanidou, Thessaloniki – Greece.
- ReMap 2, Sugar Mao, Thermopylon 27, curator: Marina Fokidi, Athens – Greece.
2008
- N. Patsios presents Mr. Cannibal, Fizz gallery, Athens – Greece.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
- Art Market Budapest, International Art fair, Alma gallery, Budapest – Hungary.
- Canone Doppio, Palazzo Risso, curator: Francesco Piazza, Palermo-Italy
- On a Small Scale: A Mosaic of Contemporary Creation , Alma gallery, curator: Katerina Mertzani, Athens-Greece.
- ExStaseis, Cultural Foundation of Tinos, curator: Megakles Rogakos, Tinos-Greece
- Britannia – Pallas: The Twilight of the Idols, Contemporary Art Museum of Chania, curator: Megakles Rogakos, Crete – Greece
- The Mona Lisa project, Skoufa gallery , Mykonos-Greece.
- 1821, οπτική μιας Επανάστασης, War Museum, curator: Eleni Gatsa, Athens -Greece
- Canone Doppio, Project gallery, curator: Francesco Piazza, Athens – Greece
- Cov – Art project, Copelouzos Art museum, Athens – Greece
2020
- Σαλαμίς 480π.Χ. Εικαστική απήχηση 2020 ‘ Hellenic Maritime Museum, curator: Louisa Karapidaki, Piraeus – Greece
- For it is the darkness which bears the light.., Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Alma Gallery, curated by Manos Stefanidis ,Tinos-Greece.
- SALO VIII, Salon du dessin erotique, curated by Laurent Quenehen and Maria Xypolopoulou, Paris-France .
- Meta-Kinesis, Alma Gallery, curated by Yota Dimitriou and Maria Almpani, Athens – Greece.
2019
- Our inner child, Skoufa gallery, Mykonos – Greece.
- Overview Effect, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), curated by Orestis Andreadakis, Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Come together..right now, Alibi Gallery, curated by Matina Charalambi, Athens – Greece.
- Les fleurs du Mal, Project Gallery, curated by Yiannis Bolis, Athens – Greece.
- 7Ply Project, French Institute, Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Still Allive,The Project gallery, curator:Yannis Bolis-Alexandros Maganiotis, Athens-Greece.
- Amor Vaccui, ID Project art space, curator:Maria Xanthakos, Louisa Karapidaki, Athens-Greece.
- Art Market Budapest, International Art fair, Alma gallery, Budapest- Hungary.
- 100\% Strange,Aabenraa Kunsthandel,Aabenraa -Denmark
- Flash Back ,Alma gallery,Athens -Greece.
- Summer is a state of mind,ΙD Project art space, curator:Maria Xanthakos, Athens-Greece.
- Unfortunately, Zeus was feeling horny…,Skoufa gallery, Mykonos-Greece .
- Treat me mean, I need the reputation…,Skoufa gallery,Mykonos-Greece .
- Man on the moon,The Project Gallery ,curator:Alexandros Maganiotis,Athens-Greece .
- Welcome – The European Hospitality and its Borders,The Project gallery,curator: Megakles Rogkakos-Ioannis Arhontakis,Athens -Greece .
- The Parthenon frieze ,an artistik statement,curator:Yannis Psychopaidis,Teloglion Foundation ,Thessaloniki -Greece .
2018
- “There far away…on the island of salvation” Serbs in Corfu, The Old Fortress-Latin Chapel, curator:Louisa Karapidaki, Corfu-Greece
- The memory of the revolution, contemporary Greek artists , Katsigras museum, curator :Yannis Bolis, Larissa-Greece
- Art Thessaloniki International Art Fair , Artshot gallery, Thessaloniki-Greece
- Democracy, Eptapyrgion-State museum of contemporary art, curator:Yannis Bolis-Catherine Kousoula, Thessaloniki-Greece.
- 7Ply Project, French Institute, Thessaloniki-Greece
- Prossalendi’s Britannia, Ionian Academy, curatοr: Megakles Rogakos, Corfu-Greece.
- Die kunst ist ein ausweg bei sexuellen problemen,Sigmund Freud Dream Museum, curator: Megakles Rogakos and Ioannis Arhontakis, St.Petersburg- Russia.
- Yellow me, The Box, curator: George Oratis, Athens- Greece.
- Imago Mundi the Luciano Benetton collection,Salone degli Incanti, Trieste- Italy.
- The walking dead art, Athens conservatoire, curated by M Art , Athens-Greece.
- Symfony in 20 parts, National Museum of Contemporary Art, curator: Yannis Bolis, Thouli Misirloglou,Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Flashback, Blender gallery , curator: M.Mavroudi, Athens-Greece.
- Contemporary Greek Artists, 100 years of the October Revolution, Athens school of Fine Arts, curator: Yannis Bolis, Athens- Greece.
- New homelands,Museum of Greek Folk Art, curator: L.Karapidaki, Athens- Greece.
- Less is more, Evripides Art Gallery, Athens-Greece.
2017
- Biennale Archipelago Mediterraneo-Mediterranean Routes,Cantieri Culturali Alla Zisa,Palermo-Italy.
- The poligious issues,25/2-2/4/2017,the Crown-Schiedam-the Netherlands (20/5-11/6 EAT-Antwerp-Belgium, 15/7-26/8 Museum Ursulinenconvent-Eijsden-the Netherlands, 7/9-24/9 Mir museum-Gleisdorf-Austria, 3/11-30/11 National art Gallery, Dobrich,Bulgaria)
- Boobs,semiotics of breasts,The Art foundation,Athens-Greece.
- 20 years of the Moschandreou gallery of modern art,Messolonghi-Greece.
- Art Athina,Blender Gallery,contemporary art fair,Athens-Greece
- Art Athina,Veryoung Contemporaryart,Athens Greece.
- MEDinART exhibition,Athens sciense festival 2017,Athens-Greece.
- Ernst und Rosa -Reality Check,The ArtWall,curator:Agnes Tatzber,Athens-Greece.
- The Memory of the Revolution,Contemporary Greek Artists-100 years after the October Revolution,State Museum of Contemporary Art,curator:Yannis Bolis,Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Greek Counter Example,Blender Gallery,Diplarios School,curator:Thanasis Moutsopoulos,Athens-Greece.
- Sticky Fingers,Blender Gallery,curator:Leonie Gavrias,Athens Greece.
- MigrArtion,Espace Christiane Peugeot,Paris-France.
- Boobs, semiotics of breasts, The Art foundation, curator:Areti Botsari, Athens-Greece.
- We could be heroes,Blender gallery, curator: M.Mavroudi, Athens-Greece.
- Jouet, Alma gallery, curator: Yannis Bolis, Athens-Greece
2016
- Fake,The Pulse Gallery,curator :Louisa Karapidaki,Athens-Greece.
- Action Field Kodra-Mind the Gap,curator:Maria Kenanidou,Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Atithasa Niata,Evripides Gallery,curator:Louisa Karapidaki,Athens-Greece.
- New Era Eaudesea,House of Cyprus,curator:Irini Bazara,Athens-Greece.
- Art Athina,Blender Gallery,contemporary art fair,Athens-Greece.
- Art Athina,Melkart Gallery,contemporary art fair,Athens-Greece
2015
- 19 Artists for Tsitsanis,Alma Gallery,curator:Eleni Gatsa,Trikala-Greece.
- Kaleidoscope,Alma Gallery,curator:Eleni Gatsa,Trikala-Greece.
- Unrealism,Alma Gallery,Athens-Greece.
- Trace-Elements,Lola Nikolaou gallery,Thessaloniki-Greece.
- 7ply Project,State Museum of Contemporary art,Thessaloniki-Greece.
- Mykonos Biennale,curator:Lydia Andrioti,Mykonos-Greece.
- The labyrinth of kypseli,Athens Greece.
- The Affordable art fair,Blender gallery,London-United Kingdom.
- Filoxenia,Museum of contemporary art,curator:Megaklis Rogkakos,Chania-Kreta.
- Heroica,Art Athina,Platforms,curator:Provo Principles,Athens-Greece.
2014
- Why so serious?curator:Leonie Gavria and Jason Theofanidis,Blender Gallery.
- Dia, Byzantine and Christian Museum, curator: Dora and Elina Theodoropoulou, Athens – Greece.
- Blue stories ,Cube Gallery ,Patra.
- Vanitas, curator: Cube Gallery – John Bollis,Irini Papakonstantinou , Old baths, Patra – Greece.
- On the road, Galleria Arte Saranta, Tirana – Albania.
- ASasperger, curator: Dora Vasilakou – Evaggelia Constantakou, Cheap Art Chalandri, Athens – Greece.
- Stavrose ton (crucified him), Trianon Megaron, curator: John Arxontakis, Chania (Crete) – Greece.
- Images of the sea, Athens School of Fine Arts, Perseas Programme, Athens – Greece.
- Up, metamatic TAF, Thessaloniki – Greece.
- Up, metamatic TAF, curator: Create an accident, Athens – Greece.
- Art Athina, Blender Gallery, Athens – Greece.
- Art Athina, Statement made, curator: Artemis Potamianou, Athens – Greece
- Artist cards, Elika Gallery, Athens – Greece.
- Sxedia Simeioseis Sxedies, Papatzikou Gallery, curator: Christos Theofilis, Veroia – Greece.
2013
- Prokat, curator: Thanassis Moutsopoulos, Ηellenic American Union, Athens – Greece.
- Moments of becoming, Blender Gallery, curator: Leoni Gavrias, Athens – Greece.
- Metavasi, curator: Provo Principles – John Bollis, Municipal Art Gallery, Athens – Greece.
- Kavafis and the city, Gavriilidis editions – Poems and crimes, curator: Yiannis Psychopaidis, Athens – Greece.
- The cabinet, Re Map 4, curator: George Tserionis, Athens – Greece.
- Τhe grey cube show, On studio, curator: Μaria Koumianou, Chania (Crete) – Greece.
- Sharing art, Cube Gallery, Patra – Greece.
- State of mind, Supermarket Art Fair, Lo & Behold, Stockholm – Sweden.
- See 2, Peri Technon Gallery, Patra – Greece.
- Persona Non Grata, Art Athina, Platforms, curator: Provo Principles, Athens – Greece.
- Art Athina, We 33, Platforms, curator: Open Hasiakou Gallery, Athens – Greece.
2012
- Tracing Traces, ekfrasi – Yianna Grammatopoulou gallery/ fizz gallery, curators: Artemis Potamianou – Georgia Kotretsos, Athens – Greece.
- back to Athens 2012, CAMP! Contemporary Art Meeting Point, curator: Tzortzina Theou, Athens – Greece.
- Returning from Utopia – New Reality, About, curator: Yiorgos Tserionis, Athens – Greece.
- Postscraps, CAMP! Contemporary Art Meeting Point, curator: Provo Principles, Athens – Greece.
- Reculture 1, Patra – Greece.
2011
- Summertime, Diatopos Gallery, Nicosia – Cyprus.
- Lol, TAF, curator: Provo Principles, Athens – Greece.
- seXarsi, Booze Cooperativa, curator: Megakles Rogakos, Athens – Greece.
- Undisclosed Recipients, TAF, curator: Panos Skouloudis, Athens – Greece.
- 52 Hertz, Melina Mercury, Hydra – Greece.
- Greek Island, Korai 4, Athens – Greece.
- See, Open Hasiakou Gallery, Athens – Greece.
- Michalis Kakoyiannis Foundation, artistic intervention in the theatrical play “Nobody Else” (dir.: Kirki Karali), Athens – Greece.
- Final group show, Vitrina project, Athens – Greece.
2010
- Artists support curators, Kappatos gallery, Athens – Greece.
- Coming Soon, Fizz gallery, Athens – Greece.
- The Vitrina Project, Athens – Greece.
- 3rd Anniversary exhibition, Artis Causa,Thessaloniki – Greece.
- Rooms to let, The Art Foundation, curator: George Georgakopoulos, Athens – Greece.
- Cinephil, Michalis Kakoyiannis Foundation, group show, curator: Yiannis Psychopaidis, Athens – Greece.
- With eyes open, The Container, Thessaloniki – Greece.
2009
- Action Field Kodra, Hinterland, dialogue b, curator: Maria Kenanidou, Thessaloniki – Greece.
- The Artweek – project, curator: Anne Lildholdt Jensen, Aabenra – Denmark.
- Zulu/ require a tag, Perikleous 44, Guru, Athens – Greece.
- Art Athina – Fizz gallery, Contemporary Art Fair, Athens – Greece.
- Miden Festival, Kalamata – Greece.
- Athens Photo Festival – FNAC, glance at the city, Athens – Greece.
- “The Arty-Farty show” – Obi uptown, curator: Alexios Papazacharias, Athens – Greece.
2008
- Art Athina/Open plan – gallery ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou, Contemporary Art Fair, curated by Bettina B, Athens – Greece.
- Art Athina, Athens Ville, curator: Marina Fokidi, Athens – Greece.
- “The portrait of a museum”, Averof Museum, Metsovo – Greece.
- Athens School of fine Arts – Graduation exhibition.
- “The Meeting Point”, group exhibition, P65, Athens – Greece.
2007
- Contemporary Istanbul – Gallery ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou, Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul – Turkey.
- Belle arte Lamia, Modern Art Exhibition, Lamia – Greece [1st award].
- Action Field Kodra, Participation at the 7th Visual Arts Festival, Section Rooms to let, Thessaloniki – Greece.
- Kreation, Varvakios Market – May 2007, Athens School of Fine Art Students exhibition at the meat market, Athens – Greece.
- Goldener Centaur, May 2007, Represented Athens School of Fine Art in painting at a European competition of visual arts, Münchner Künstlerhaus, Munich – Germany.
- Artists beehive, Kipseli Municipal Market, February 2007, 12 young artists exhibiting at the market, curator: Leda Kazantzaki, Athens – Greece.
- 4th Greek Fine Art Students Biennial, December 2006 – February 2007, Maris hotels, Rethimno-Crete & Athens Metro, Exhibition space of Syntagma Station.
2006
- Digital freaks install the noise, Three day festival including video, performances, cinema & dj sets. Curator and participator, Technopolis (Gazi), Athens – Greece.
- FATA MORGANA – Benaki Museum, Visual approaches to the poetry of Nikos Kavvadias, Athens – Greece.
2005
- Video Readings – E.M.S.T. – A.S.K.T. Presented the video art piece “La jalousie des hombres” on body art, Athens – Greece.
- Poésie en images, French Institute, Athens Young artists group show on French poetry, Athens – Greece.
