Filippos Drosos

My name is Filippos Drosos. I was born in Thessaloniki two months after the official presentation of the first Walkman and about a month and half before the first edition of Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy”.

My childhood memories consist -to a perhaps irrational extent- of paintings, drawings, and objects made of clay, wood, paper etc. Every new material I could lay my hands on, when found not edible, after a necessary testing of course, automatically became food for thought and was turned into a toy or a creative challenge. Because of this need to create, or sometimes to destroy, I got to work so as to improve my artistic abilities.

At the age of twelve and for the next three years, I took painting lessons and was first introduced to water and oil colours. A few years later I got acquainted with sketching and architecture drawing lessons and a year later I attended the School of Graphic art and Design at the Technological Institute in Athens. More particularly I got a BA in Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. A world full of (mostly ) non-edible materials and a variety of techniques was presented to me through me studies, and I was first introduced to the Art history.

Since 2005 I worked as a conserva...

1989-1991 PAINTING LESSONS
1996-1997 FREE HAND DRAWING COURCES
1998-2003 BSc IN CONSERVATION OF ANTIQUITES AND WORKS OF ART, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN, T.E.I. OF ATHENS

2005 EXHIBITION AT WATER MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI.
2008 EXHIBITION AT CULTURAL CENTER OF MUNICIPALITY OF GIANNITSA.
2010 EXHIBITION AT ALAJA IMARET, THESSALONIKI.
2013 EXHIBITION AT PAPAROUNA WINE BAR - RESTAURANT, THESSALONIKI.
2015 EXHIBITION AT PAPAROUNA WINE BAR - RESTAURANT, THESSALONIKI.
2016 EXHIBITION AT PAPAROUNA WINE BAR - RESTAURANT, THESSALONIKI.
2017 EXHIBITION AT GREEK ARCHAEOLOGIST ASSOCIATION BUILDING (S.E.A.), ATHENS.
2017 EXHIBITION AT ART STUDIO, "PLAN B ART".
2022 EXHIBITION AT ADAMANTIA GALLERY, ANDROS ISLAND
2023 EXHIBITION AT BYZANTINE MUSEUM OF VERIA