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NIKOS GIAVROPOULOS (Greece, Thessaloniki b. 1971 / act: Athens) |
Nikos Giavropoulos was born on 1 April 1971 in Thessaloniki. He studied interior decoration at Euclides Institute of Applied Arts (1986-1988), and earned a distinction in Art Direction at Lycourgos Stavrakos Academy of Film and Television (1993-1996).Giavropoulos has participated in a great number of video productions, such as Red Kiss with Heresis Dance Group (1994); Oedipous-Medea, film by Spiros Charalambous (1995); Three Sisters with Heresis Dance Group (1995) ; Marry Us Please with Thessaloniki Theater group (1996); School of Scandals, film by Popi Legaki (1996); Miss Julia with Prosopa Theater Group (2003); Alone with Heresis Dance Group at the Megaron of Athens and Dandoulaki Theater (2003); Moments with Vis Motrix Dance Group at the Megaron of Athens (2004); Schools Shut Down with Flying Flies Dance Group at Endropia Theater (2004); Nights, film by Vana Pefani at Kelsos Bar Theater (2005). He has received the following awards: 1st Prize of Art Direction for Short Film Medea at Stavrakos Academy (1995); 1st Prize of Short Video for Madonna at Mediaterra-Fournos Mediterranean - Balkan Festival of Art and Technology (1999); and Fournos Annual Award for Nude (2003), Video Portraits (2004), metaOedipous (2005), and Afrodite (2006).
Nikos Giavropoulos has presented the following personal exhibitions: Nude, Fournos Center of Art & Technology, Athens (2003); Video Portraits, Fournos (2004); metaOedipous, Fournos (2005); and Aphrodite, Fournos (2006). He has also taken part in the following group exhibitions : Aphrodite Art Cinema, Athens, Greece (1999); Mediaterra Festival of Art and Technology, Fournos, Athens, Greece (1999); Fournos & Cyprus Cultural Services, Cyprus (1999); Visionaria, Festival of Video Art, Siena, Italy (2000); Extensions of Men, Cheap Art, Athens, Greece (2000); Luminous, Milos Art House, Thessaloniki, Greece (2000); Center of Contemporary Arts, Bucharest, Rumania (2000); Kiss My Art, Milos Art House, Thessaloniki, Greece (2001); International Festival of Video Art, Lima, Peru (2001); Cheap Art, Milos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2001 ); International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2001); Mediaterra, International Festival of Arts & Technology, Lavrion, Greece (2001); Mediaterra, Micro Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria (2001); Mediaterra, The Scene Strike Festival, Micro Museum, Belgrade, Serbia (2001); Mediaterra, Micro Museum, Maribor, Slovenia (2001); Mediaterra, International Book Fair, Micro Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (2001); 19th Festival of Video Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2001); Cheap Art, Antonopoulou Art Gallery, Athens, Greece (2001); Open Art, Athens, Greece (2002); Strange Screen, Lazarus Abbey, Thessaloniki, Greece (2002); Cheap Art, Milos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2002); 35h Non-Stop Art Act, Fournos Center, Athens, Greece (2002); Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2002); Cheap Art Gallery, Athens, Greece (2002); We All People, Fournos Center of Art and Technology, Athens, Greece (2003); Teatrical, Epi Colono Theater, Athens, Greece (2003); War, Fournos Center of Art and Technology, Athens, Greece (2003); Arts Cape Gallery, Mykonos Island, Greece (2003); Artexpo, Ahmedabad - Mumbai - Pune, India (2003); Euroscreen, PAN Forum of Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Emmerich, Duesseldorf, Germany (2003); Bureaucracy, Hellenic Ministry of Interior Affairs, Athens, Greece (2003); Cheap Art, Milos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2003); Euroscreen, BWA Art Center, On Gallery, Charlie Cinema, Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Poland (2003); Art Action, Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece (2003); 5th International Festival of Independent Film & Video Creators, Thessaloniki, Greece (2003); Antibody, ArTower Gallery, Athens, Greece (2003); Euroscreen, Fournos Center of Art & Technology, Athens, Greece (2003); Euroscreen, Medienturm, Europe Cultural Capital, Graz, Austria (2003); Euroscreen, Irida Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2003); Euroscreen, Cantiery Culturali Alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy (2003); Euroscreen ,Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey (2003); Euroscreen, Iiris Film Festival, Jyvaskyla, Finland (2003); Euroscreen, Worm Cinema, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2003); The Old Habits Die Hard, Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany (2003); Euroscreen, Museum Kunst, Duesseldorf, Germany (2003); The Rape of Europe, Luke & A Gallery, London, England (2003); Euroscreen, Short Film Festival, Puesta de Corto, Rubi, Barcelona, Spain (2003); Cheap Art, Antonopoulou Art Gallery, Athens, Greece (2003); The Old Habits Die Hard , Norwich Gallery, Norfolk, England (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Kunstnernes Hus,Olso, Norway (2004); Dance & Theater, Cultural Organization Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Digital Liberation Movement, Maumaunderground, Barcelona, Spain (2004); Athens Metropolis by Mistake?, Bios, Athens, Greece (2004); Cheap Art, Milos Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2004); Athens Metropolis by Mistake?, De Kiriko Center, Volos, Greece (2004); European Alliances, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany (2004); 6th International Festival of Independent Film & Video Creators, Thessaloniki, Greece (2004); Art Expo, Pabellon de la Pipa del Recinto Ferial de Casa de Compo, Madrid, Spain (2004); Video Dance, Bios, Athens, Greece (2004); Video Platform, Ornerakis School, Athens, Greece (2004); Video Screening, Inotheca Bar, Athens, Greece (2004); The Ideal, Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Gallery Box Kungshoid,Goteborg, Sweden (2004); Art Bazaar, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2004); Gallery Cheap Art, Athens, Greece (2004); Unsubstantial World, Club22, Athens, Greece (2004); The Old Habits Die Hard, Signal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden (2004); 3rd International Film & Video Festival, Museum of New Art - MoNA,Detroit, U.S.A. (2005); Art in Public Spaces, Don't Tell Mama Bar, Thessaloniki, Greece (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, City Museum,Wesel, Germany (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Fournos Center of Art and Technology, Athens, Greece (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Galerie Verbands-Sparkasse, Wesel, Germany (2005); Athens Video Art Festival, Thira Tehnis, Athens, Greece (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Art & Culture Project, Noass Gallery, Riga, Latvia (2005); The Old Habits Die Hard, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Loop Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Audiovisual Festival zemos98 with Endanza, Sevilla, Spain (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Galeria e Arteve te Kosoves, Prishtina, Kosovo (2005); Art in Public Spaces, Don't Tell Mama Bar, Thessaloniki, Greece (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, The Luigi Pecci Centro for Contemporary Art,Florence, Italy (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Ex-Manifattura, Contemporary Art Museum, Pescara, Italy (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Chungdam Art Festival, Seoul, Korea (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, 2nd Busan Video Festival, Space Bandee, Busan, Korea (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Insa Art Space,Seoul, Korea (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Schloss Ringenberg,Hamminkeln, Germany (2005); Summer Lovers, Spilioti Projects Gallery, Athens, Greece (2005); Cheap Art, Milos Gallery,Thessaloniki, Greece (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2005); Euroscreen 21 Projects, Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2005); 2nd International Video Art Festival in Public Spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2005); 7th International Festival of Independent Film & Video Creators, Athens, Greece (2005); Strange Screen Video Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (2005); International Festival of Independent Film & Video Creators, Thessaloniki, Greece (2005); Erotika, Spilioti Projects Gallery,Athens, Greece (2005); The Old Habits Die Hard, Trafo, Budapest, Hungary (2005).
Nikos Giavropoulos continues to live and work in Athens.
[Megakles 04/2007]
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