Alexandros Georgiou

Since 2005 I have been working mainly on traveling projects,inspired by my daily baths in the Ganga at Varanasi.I create my works on the road and daily I sent them through the post office to the participants of the project through the several months it lasts, without keeping extra copies for myself. The material I am creating is based on low-tech photographic images. I work with local photocopy places and I create mostly hand made cards, with texts on the back, and black and white Xerox copies of photos I take, which I color over partially to create a focal point. The works I create are gathered in the hands of the participants, and after I complete the project I borrow them back briefly and arrange them into folders and return them. Before returning the material I work further on the best images from the project and print them bigger as the crystallized essence of the project. At the end of each project my aim is to create a small art book that transfers the feeling of the project. I have managed to do this only for the first three journeys.The works are of two kinds, the original material the participants receive and the bigger prints made after the completion of the journey.The whole series of the journeys started in 2005. I hav...

I studied painting and photography at the Athens’ School of Fine Arts under D. Kokkinidis and G. Lappas. Graduated in 1996 and continued my studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York (MFA ΄98). I live between Athens and New York.

Selected solo shows: Without my own vehicle I-V, National Museum of Contemporary Art -EMST, Athens, 2012/ Varanasi, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, 2010/ Without my own vehicle, 2nd part, DODO Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2007/ Without my own vehicle, 1st Part, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, 2006/ Favorite Games, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, 2004/ Cut-outs, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, 2002.

Selected group shows: Fremd bin ich eingezogen…, Kunstverein Heidelberg, 2014/ Staging the domestic, The Hospital Club, London, 2014/ No country for Young Men, BOZAR, Brussels, 2014/ Liquid Assets, Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2013/ The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind, 4. Foto-festival, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, 2011/ In the country of last things, Teverina Fine Arts, Cortona, 2011/ Kunsthalle Athena: The Bar, Kunsthalle Athens, 2010/ Transexperiences Greece 2008, EΜΣΤ, 798 Space, Beijing, 2008/ In present tense, young greek artists, EMST, Athens, 2007/ Turbulence, 3rd Auckland triennial, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007/ give(a)way EV+A Biennale, Limerick, Ireland, 2006/ Self-Aboutness, Canal Isabel II, Madrid, 2004/ Invitational show, Curt Marcus, New York, 2001/ METRO, 1st DESTE Prize, new trends in contemporary ...