Alexandros Magkaniotis

Alexandros Maganiotis (Magkaniotis in my passport)
was born in Athens, where he lives and works.

As a visual artist he had five solo exhibitions in private galleries and Museums.
The Alphabet: The Image of Letters was presented in 2015 at the Center of Contemporary Art at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and works from this show were chosen for the 7th Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum of China

Since 2005 he took part in many international group shows in Austria, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Russia, Turkey, UK and USA.

His works are included in the collections of the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece), the Freud’s Dream Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum (Matsue, Japan), the Municipal Art Gallery (Chania, Greece), the American College of Greece (Athens), the Copelouzos Family Art Museum CFAM (Athens, Greece), the Luciano Benetton Collection (Italy) and in private collections.

He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens N.T.U.A.
Completed postgraduate studies and received Master in Architectural Design (M.Arch) from “The Bartlett” Faculty of the Built Environment, U.C.L. L...

U.C.L. '97 M.ARCH (MASTER IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Architect N.T.U.A. in Athens

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Nobody: in pursuit of identity, Skoufa Gallery, curators: Irini Marouli and Yiannis Bolis, Athens
Alphabet: The Image of Letters, State Museum of Contemporary Art-Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, curator: Υiannis Bolis, catalogue, Thessaloniki, Greece
Alphabet Games, Gallery Cube, curator: Υiannis Bolis, Patras, Greece

2014
id: mythologies of unconsciousness, Open C.A.S.E. 303 Gallery, curator: Eva Kekou, Athens, Greece

A disturbance of memory, Bibliotheek Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium

Alphabet Games, with Dimitra Siaterli, European Patent Office (EPO), curator: Υiannis Bolis, catalogue, The Hague, Holland

2013
• “Vanitas” St. Rocco Church, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Curated by Yannis Bolis
•“Home sweet home” Coco-mat, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Curated by I. Archontakis
•“Speaking of the Future”, “Melina” Municipal Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece.
Curated by I. Kritikou. (Catalogue).

2012
•“A shelter for the generation of 1930’s” Katakouzenos House Museum
Athens, Greece. Curated by I. Kritikou.
•“Navigations of a Line” The Art Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Curated by F. Kapiris
•“The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans”
Jones Gallery, Tulane University, New...