MEGAKLES ROGAKOS (England, London b. 1972)

Megakles Rogakos is a Critic and Curator of contemporary art. He obtained Masters Degrees from both the City University and from Goldsmiths; his theses were respectively titled Tate Gallery: Metamorphosis of an Arts Institution and HermAphroditism: Culture of Con-Fusion. Since 2000, Megakles has regularly guided at the Tate Gallery in London, giving tours and talks. In 2001 he began his research for Edward Lucie-Smith's book titled Art Tomorrow which was published in 2003.

While carrying out contracted work at Tate, Megakles began curating a series of multi-media exhibitions featuring international contemporary artists. In 2002 he curated his first exhibition titled Chaos: Contemporary Cosmologies at Bishopsgate Goodsyard in London, which featured purely installations. The following year he was commissioned to curate Narcissism: Self-Love to Death at Gozo Contemporary in Malta. In 2003 another commission came to curate Scenes in Perspective at ArTower Agora in Athens. Later in 2003 he curated The Rape of Europe at Luke & A Gallery, an exhibition that made news in The Times as a noteworthy attraction in the London art-scene. In 2004 Megakles dedicated himself exclusively to curating art exhibitions. His first exhibition in 2004 was A Drop of Dust, a Grain of Water at the Berliner Kunstprojekt. He then curated his first monographic exhibitions with roMANse of Brent McTavish at Adonis Art in London, then John Stathatos: Lumen at the Athens Gallery, and Barbara Nahmad: Yesterday Now at Image Contemporary Art in Arezzo and Fondazione Bandera in Milan.

In September 2004 Megakles was appointed Art Curator of The American College of Greece, and ACG Art is the outcome of his work. His first exhibition at this post, entitled ACG Art Highlights, featured works from the collection, and took place in spring 2005. In November 2005 he curated Pelagia Kyriazi: Psychographswith works in various art forms. In January 2006 he curated John Stathatos: The Book of Lost Cities, which brought together photography and literature. In February 2006 he curated Yannis Ziogas: Polyptych, which was a painting installation. In April 2006 he curated the seminal exhibition Reincarnated Painting: Sculpture by Ghika, which commemorated a centenary from the birth of Nico Hadjikyriaco Ghika. In March 2006 P37 Art Gallery of Piraeus commissioned him to curate Susanna Coffey & Suzanne Walters: Relative Diversions. In October 2006 he collaborated with the Hellenic Centre for Photography and IPRN at the Attica Tradition Educational Foundation in Athens to present Changing Faces: Work, which presented six positions of contemporary photography. In October 2006 he curated Electra's Adagio, an exhibition of recent paintings by Electra Tegopoulou. In April 2007 he curated ACG Art Highlights II., featuring recent donations and acquisitions in the ACG Art Collection. In June 2007 the Municipal Gallery of Kalamata commissioned him to curate the seminal group exhibition entitled In-Situations: Artworks in Time and Space by Contemporary Greek Artists. In the winter of 2007 he curated Giannis Stratis: Welcome to My World at Alex Marathianakis Down Town Art Gallery, Athens. In the spring of 2008 the Municipal Gallery of Corinth commissioned him to curate Andreas Golfinopoulos' homage entitled The Artist's 'Lykoporia'. In April 2008 Monohoro Art Gallery invited him to curate Katerina Aslanidou's exhibition Fragments of Nature. In October 2008 Titanium Art Gallery invited him to curate Vassiliki Koskiniotou : Origins and Ladders. Later in the year he curated Sylvia Sarropoulou: Flower Portraits at Ersi's Gallery. In December 2008 he inaugurated the College's ACG Art Gallery with Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits throughout Time, his largest exhibition that covered 266 artworks. In February 2009 he curated Ellie Griva's installation under the peculiar title Yes. The Bound Home at Astrolavos Art Galleries, Athens. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of fraternization between the Municipalities of Lefkada and Shinjuku, the Cultural Center of Lefkada, commissioned him to curate Homage to the Relationship between Greece and Japan: Kostas Glenis, Dionysis Zois Zaverdinos, and Sotiris Therianos in August 2009 at Lefkada Town Hall. In October 2009 he curated Paul Serrada's Et in Arcadia Ego at Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Later in October he curated The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn at the ACG Art Gallery, which subsequently travelled to the Cultural Center of Lefkada Municipality in August 2010, and highlights of which travelled to the namesake exhibition at Matsue Castle in October. To mark, in 2010, the centenary of the artist's birth he curated in December Frances Rich - La Gazelle (1910-2007), the third exhibition at the ACG Art Gallery. In the spring of 2011 Astrolavos Art Galeries engaged him in two consecutive exhibitions - Ellie Griva: 11 +-./... a love story in the intermediate time. / and Stamatina Doutsouli: Figures in Silence. In the summer of 2011 the Cultural Foundation of Tinos - I.TI.P. commissioned him to curate the Cyclades: Lands ~ Forms ~ Symbols exhibition at the Nikolaos Gyzis Gallery. He was commissioned to co-curate along with Eugenia Alexaki Encounters: Eclectic Affinities with the Art of Phaedon Anastasiadis that opened at Melina Mercouri Cultural Center in 2011 and travelled to the Teloglion Foundation of Art of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2012. In November 2011 he materialized the audacious exhibition sExplosion: Penis & Vagina Relationships in the Contemporary Visual Arts at the innovative and avant-garde cultural center Booze Cooperativa, Athens. Finally, the Association of Pensioners of the Bank of Greece commissioned him to curate Yannis Karavas: Travels at the Theatre Exhibition Hall of Psychiko College, Athens.

Parallel to this activity, Megakles has formally interviewed such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Alexander de Cadenet, Anthony Caro, Sumer Erek, Ulyana Gumeniuk, Nikos Kryonidis, Panagiotis Linardakis, Boris Lurie, Mina Luxa, Derek Marks, Yiannis Melanitis, Yiota Skarveli, Takis and Aglaia & Petros Xenakis, e.a. In 2002 Megakles published his first catalog, profiling the painter Anthony Scullion. He takes pride in naming Barbara Nahmad's 2004 exhibition Yesterday Now at Image Contemporary Art in Arezzo, and Fondazione Bandera in Milan.

In his capacity as ACG Art Curator, Megakles has been motivated to contribute to the ACG Art collection works that throw light on the history of art. His donation includes works by the following artists: Abdullah Frères (9); Acropolis Studio; Alban (3); A. Alseen; Nicolas Andriomenos (13); E. Antonatos; Dimitrios Antonitsis; Bayard & Bertall; Jean Antonopoulo (3); Apelles; Angelos Apergis (2); D. Arno; Arnone Studio; Ateliers Apollon; Thomas Avramiades; Aziz & Dorés; A. Bachas (2); Barcroft & Crabtree (2); R.B. Berry & Sons; Joseph Beuys; Nikolaos Birkos; Thierry Boccon-Gibod (18); Carl Böhringer (22); B. Borri & Fils (2); Eustace Boucas (4); Geo Boucas (4); Yannis Bouteas (15); Camille Brion (2); Bullock's; Michel Caliambetsos (6); Jacob Calligeris (5); Cantas Sœurs (2); Étienne Carjat (1); Dimitrios Cavras (9); Charlet & Jacotin (9); Alexandre Charpentier; Chateauneuf; Chryssa; Efi Chryssi; Susanna Coffey; St. Constantinidis (2); P. Contos (4); Costi; G. Dagoreau; Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis; Mr & Mme De Boè; Pierre De Soete; Émile Desmaisons (15); F. Detaille; Takis Diamantopoulos; D. Diamantopoulos (2); N.D. Diamantopoulos; R. Dinant (3); Disdéri (15); Josuë Dupon; Duroni & Murer; Maria Economou; Elite; Hugo Erfurth (5); Evangelos Evangelides (2); Ioannis Evangelides (4); B. Evangelinides; Alekos Fasianos; Feinberg; Fettel & Bernard (2); C. Fios; A.E. & C. Fox (13); Franck (9); Yannis Gaïtis; Anastasios Gaziades (8); M. Georgiladakis; I.P. Giannakopoulos; Emile Gos; Lydia Gravanis (2); George W. Griffith (2); Hellis & Sons; Theo Hios; His Master's Voice (3); Martin Herzfeld (2); Alfred Hirrlinger; A. Hourdier; N. Isaakidou; Leonidas Kaliabetsos (3); S. Kaliabetsos; Raphael Khendamian; D. Karalis; Georges Kardiakides (4); Ioannis Karipis; Panayotis Karipis (2); Vasso Katraki; Heinrich Kautsch; Suzuki Kinsen; Knothe & Heine; König, Friedrich Anton; Ioannis Kokkinos; Koliou Brothers; N. Kolokotronis (3); Yannis Kottis; G. Kyriakides; Gustave Le Gray (1); Lebessopoulos, D.B.; LeBlang, Sedge; Lehnert & Landrock (2); Michael Lekakis; Lemoine & Kaliambetsos; Apostolos Lemonopoulos; Serge Levitsky (1); Vassilis Liaouris; G.S. Loizos; T. Malhomme; Christos Manousakis; George Maragiannis; Dimitrios N. Martimianakis; Pietro Antonio Martini; Mayall (2); Mayer & Pierson (6); Angus McBean; Carl Merlin (16); E. Meslin (2); Ivan D. Mihailov; Antonios S. Milionis; Christos S. Milionis; V. Mitropoulos; Luigi Montabone; Georges I. Moraïtes (2); Petros Moraïtes (3); Ch. Moschini (2); P.K. Moustakis; Nadar (3); Nadir; Barbara Nahmad; Toni Ndikanwu; Nelly's (16); The Nelson Photographic Co.; Neurdein Frères (2); El. Nikolaidi; Lillian O'Neill; Jean Pagonis (3); Alexandros Panagiotou (3); Demosthenes N. Panagiotou (3); P.D. Panagiotou; Nicolas Pantzopoulos (3); E. Papadopoulos; Eleni Papadoyanni-Psarros (3); Sotirios S. Papagiannopoulos; Papamitros & Pagonis (4); Fokion Papamitros (3); Ippocrates Pappadopoulos; Evangelos Pappas; Pappas, Yannis; Lambert Partington; Alexander Pasetti (2); Dimosthenis Patridis (6); Konstantinos Perlianis (2); Pierre Petit (2); Othmar Pferschy; Stephanus Picart Romanus; Pierre-Louis Pierson (3); Platon Pittlinger (2); F.I. Podeorob; Pohle; Georgios Potamitakis; G. Prévot (2); S. Psalidas (2); J. Puissant; Antonis Rafanidis; Rafanidis & Zimeris; Sir John William Ramsden; Marcel Rau; William H., Rau (5); Ferencz Regetzky; Rhomaïdès Frères (3); Kyriakos Rokos; Edward Rooker; U. Rosa; Malda Schönberg; Pascal Sébah (2); Sébah & Joaillier (6); Emile Seraf; Eleni Servanis; Theodore Servanis (8); Simantiras Bros; Edgar Simpson; Nicholas Sokolov; Dimitrios Spigos; Stathis Photo; Giorgos Stathopoulos (4); Pascal Stella (4); Stefanos Stournaras (3); Constantine Tambakopoulos (2); Tambakopoulos & Fountoulis (2); Tassos; Tchortomitch; Pericles Theodorides; Thermojiannis & Jiannopoulos; Hermann Tietz; Michalis Tombros; Underwood & Underwood; Théodore Vafiadis (3); Solon Vathis; Otto van Bosch (2); Vandyke & Brown; Voigt & Döll; Walery; Andy Warhol; Andrew Weber; Richard Caton Woodville; Ioannis Xanthakis (2); Michael Zafiropoulos; Martin H. Zahner; Paul Zepdji; V. Ziller; Yannis Ziogas; Nicos Zographos (30); and many works by Anonymous artists. Megakles has also donated to ACG Art a selection of his personal artwork (20).

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
01. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES The Existential Painting of Anthony Scullion 2002 Flying Colours Gallery, London
02. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES The Rape of Europe 2003 Luke & A Gallery, London
03. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES roMANse of Brent McTavish 2004 Adonis Art, London
04. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES John Stathatos: Lumen 2004 Athens Art Gallery
05. F. CORREGGIA / M. ROGAKOS / M. SCIACCALUGA Barbara Nahmad: Yesterday Now 2004 Image Contemporary Art, Arezzo & Fondazione Bandera, Milan
06. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Pelagia Kyriazi: Psychographs 2005 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
07. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Yannis Ziogas: Polyptych 2006 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
08. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Reincarnated Painting: Sculpture by Ghika 2006 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
09. DORA ILIOPOULOU-ROGAN / MEGAKLES ROGAKOS / MANOS STEFANIDIS Electra's Adagio 2006 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
10. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES In - Situations: Artworks in Time and Space by Contemporary Greek Artists 2007 Municipal Gallery of Kalamata "A. Tassos", Messinia
11. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Giannis Stratis: Welcome to my World 2007 Alex Marathianakis Down Town Art Gallery, Athens
12. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Katerina Aslanidou: Fragments of Nature 2008 Monohoro, Athens
13. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Andreas Golfinopoulos: The Artist's Lykoporia 2008 Municipal Gallery of Corinth, Corinth
14. ANGHELIKI BASSOUKOU & MEGAKLES ROGAKOS Vassiliki Koskiniotou: Origins and Ladders 2008 Titanium Art Gallery, Athens
15. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Sylvia Sarropoulou: Flower Portraits 2008 Ersi's Gallery, Athens
16. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Ellie Griva: Yes. The Bound Home 2008 Astrolavos Art Galeries, Athens
17. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Helen Tsotsorou: Labyrinth and The Way Out 2008 Art Beat, Brussels
18. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits throughout Time 2008 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
19. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Ellie Griva: Yes. 49 Painted Poems 2009 Nafplion Art Gallery, Nafplio [Greek]
20. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Zenia Dimitrakopoulou: Seasons 2010 Art Space 24, Athens [Greek]
21. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn 2009 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
22. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Frances Rich - La Gazelle (1910-2007) 2010 The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens
23. ELLIE GRIVA & MEGAKLES ROGAKOS Ellie Griva: 11 +-./... a love story in the intermediate time. / 2011 Digma Publications, Thessaloniki [Greek]
24. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES The InSight of the Portraits by Stamatina Doutsouli 2011 Astrolavos Art Galleries, Athens [Greek]
25. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Cyclades: Lands ~ Forms ~ Symbols 2011 Cultural Foundation of Tinos - I.TI.P., Tinos Island
26. E. ALEXAKI & M. ROGAKOS Encounters: Eclectic Affinities with the Art of Phaedon Anastasiadis 2011 Melina Mercouri Cultural Center & Teloglion Foundation of Art
27. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES sExplosion: Penis & Vagina Relationships in the Contemporary Visual Arts 2011 Booze Cooperativa, Athens
28. ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Yannis Karavas: Travels 2011 Association of Pensioners of the Bank of Greece, Athens

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