Kostas Pagomenos

born in Heraklion 1960
I have lived in Belgium 1962- 1981
Since 1982 I live in Crete and I have my own workshop
I studied painting at the ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS of Charleroi in Belgium,
at the atelier of painter Charles Sczymkowicz (1976-1980).
Since 1992 I am occupied mainly with constructions and sculpture.
Member of the Greek Chamber of Plastic Arts. Web site:
Member of the New Artists' Union Travelling Through Europe. Web site:
Member of the Cretan Artistic Association "DIKTION IKASTIKON". Web site:
Member of the Visual Artists Association of Northern Greece (SKETBE). Web site:

academie des Beaux Art Charleroi Belgique
The work of the sculptor Kostas Pagomenos

The second half of the 20th century, witnessed the emergence of a number of nature-related art works which are today generally found under category of Environmental Art. In their variety Land art, Earth art, Eco art, Green art etc., finding their formal origins in movements such as Art Nouveau or Organic art, draw upon the ideological background, as set between others by the need for a return to Nature, the expressed resentment to the machine, the machine-age, industrialization, urbanization, the culture of consumption or the aesthetics of plastic, etc.
Seeking in its various unities to uncover the vital powers of existence, the resistances of life’s energy and the mechanisms of survival, the recent work of Kostas Pagomenos, belongs in many ways to this ‘family’ of Environmental art.
Thus, a central unity of his work deals with the representation of living beings from the world of plants and the sea world. These beings, are shown in a multiplicity of possible or imaginary transformations, whilst a repeated point of reference in this sculptural microcosm of the biosphere, remains the Seed (unity Germes) in...

1996: Personal Painting - Sculpture Exhibition at Stavrakakis Gallery at Heraklion, entitled "CONSTRUCTIONS-OBJECT".
2001: Personal Sculpture Exhibition at the hotel APOLLONIA entitled "CHALLENGE", Heraklion.
2008: "...And the Time at Zero" Personal Exhibition at the Basilica of St. Mark of Heraklion Crete
2008: "SCULPTURE EXHIBITION" Personal Exhibition at the OUT OF THE BLUE CAPSIS ELITE RESORT, Agia Pelagia, Crete
and 65 differentes group exhibition in greece belgium an france
visit my website for my resume full www.kostaspagomenos-sculpture.com