Clay Pressings #8 Index (rope, thick), 2016, plaster and direct cast, 29 x 25,7 cm

Clay Pressings #7 (essex oyster), 2016, plaster, direct cast, 32 x 24 cm

Clay Pressing 1 (swimmer’s arms are oars, your arms are oars, your palms are oval), 2018, copper, 75 x 55 cm

 

 

Ideal Types – Chapter 2 (group show), curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Elsa Barbieri, Marignana Arte, Venice

Ideal Types (group show), curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Elsa Barbieri, HE.RO Gallery, Amsterdam

Athanasios Argianas. Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (solo show), Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, 2015

Athanasios Argianas A Sequencer** (solo show), Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, 2014

Art Night Venezia – 22 giugno 2019, Martina Cappellesso, Nonsolocinema, June 2019
Venezia: Marignana Arte ospita l’utopica ricerca del tipo ideale, Smart Review, June 2019
Catalogare la realtà. Una collettiva a Venezia, Arianna Testino, Artribune, June 2019
Ideal-Types [Chapter 2]. Strumenti di misurazione del reale, Francesca Di Giorgio, Espoarte, Download, June 2019
DA VENEZIA. Ideal-Types, da Marignana Arte la “molteplicità coerente” secondo Alfredo Cramerotti, ArtsLife, May 2019
Notizie dalla Laguna | Reporting from the lagoon, Irene Bagnara, Atp Diary, May 2019
58 Biennale/19. Da Marignana Arte, le realtà frammentate e i tempi sospesi di Ideal-Types, Andrea Penzo and Cristiana Fiore, Exibart, May 2019
“Misurare la realtà”: Marignana Arte presenta la collettiva Ideal Types [Chapter 2], Espoarte, May 2019
15 Documenta Artists with Staying Power, Alexander Forbes, Artsy, June 2017
Athanasios Argianas, Chris Sharp, Flash Art, November 2016
Art or Sound. Il paradosso museale di Germano Celant, Paolo Marella, Artribune, June 2014
Athanasios Argianas, Julian Elias Bronner, Artforum online, October 2013
Athanasios Argianas, National Museum Of Contempotary Art, Athens,  Tom Morton, Frieze Magazine, November-December 2010
Athanasios Argianas. Sound and Form, Sam Thorne, Frieze Magazine, November 2008

 

Athanasios Argianas was born in Athens in 1976. Lives and works in London.

Athanasios Argianas è nato ad Atene nel 1976. Vive e lavora a Londra.

 

AWARDS

Shortlisted for The Deste Prize 2009
Elephant Trust, Artist Production Grant, London 2011
International Artist In Residence, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna 2014.

 

SOLO SHOWS

2019
Camden Arts Centre, London

2018
Songs (with Andreas Ragnar Kassapis), He.Ro Amsterdam

2017
reading machines moving machines On Stellar Rays, New York
Freshly Broken Surfaces galeriepcp Paris (with Rowena Hughes)

2015
Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers +), Aanant & Zoo, Berlin Swimmer’s Arms Are Oars, On Stellar Rays, New York

2014
A Sequencer**, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Silence Breakers Silence Shapers, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam

2013
A Sequencer*, On Stellar Rays, New York

2011
Laid Long, Spun Thin, Max Wigram Gallery, London
The Length Of A Piece Of String Cut At The Width Of Its Circumference The Breeder, Athens
Of The Length Of Your Arms, Unfolded (performance), The Barbican Art Gallery, The Barbican Centre, London

2010
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami (with Pavel Büchler), FL, USA
The Legth Of A Strand Of Your Hair, Of The Width Of Your Arms, Unfolded EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
Manifesto Of Nondurational Time, La chambre, Galerie Xippas, Paris.

2008
We All Turn This Way, (with Nick Laessing) Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Sing Sideways, Sing From The Middle To The Start/End, Galleria Alessandro de March, Milan. Athanasios Argianas Arquebuse, Geneva
Athanasios Argianas & Len Lye, Arcade, London (with Len Lye)

2007
Athanasios Argianas, remap KM, The Breeder, Athens. Mimicking, Falling & Falling, Max wigram Gallery, London.
On Aether, Cell Projects (With Nick Laessing), London Athanasios Argianas, The Breeder, Athens

GROUP SHOWS

2019
Ideal Types – Chapter II, Marignana Arte, Venice (cur. Alfredo Cramerotti and Elsa Barbieri)

2018
Ideal-types, He.Ro Amsterdam (cur. Alfredo Cramerotti and Elsa Barbieri)

2017
Antidoron : The collection of EMST at Documenta 14, D14, Fridericianum, Kassel.
Every Line Tells Its Own Story Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna
NP Or The Possibilities Of A Life, Tsami Karatasou 5, cur. Locus Athens, Athens

2016
The Promise Of Total Automation,Kunsthalle Wien, Museumquartier, Vienna (cur. Anne Faucheret)
Line, Lisson Gallery, London. curated by The Drawing Room

2015
Terrapolis, French Archaeological School, Athens -Whitechapel Gallery, London & NEON, Athens. Don’t Shoot The Painter, UBS Collection GAM Milano, Villa Reale. (cur. Francesco Bonomi)

2014
Art Or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Ca Corner Della Regina, Venice (cur. Germano Celant)
Art Of Its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts, st Louis (cur. Gretchen Wagner)
Der Kubist Marcel Duchamp Mag Nicht Malen Thomas Schulte, Berlin (cur. Michael Muller)

2013
PERFORMA 13 Biennial, New York
conceptual materialism, Der Trost Der Dinge, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
NEVERMORE, On Stellar Rays, New York
SilentSpaceStandStill, Tzisdaraki Mosque, cur. Locus Athens, Athens.
In The Air Tonight, Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden (cur. Christine Nippe)

2012
The Imminence Of Poetics The 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (cur. Luis Perez Oramas)
Coquilles Mecaniques Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain CRAC Alsace (cur. Joanna Fiduccia)
‘In The Air Tonight’ Gebr. Lehmann Galerie, Berlin
SonicTime / Sound/Speech/Silence EMST Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens (cur. Anna Kafetsi)
Happy People Have No Stories Deweer, Otegem

2011
Odd Time Beat, RODEO, Istanbul. (cur. Adnan Yildiz & Sylvia Kouvali)
Art Now Live, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (cur. Katharine Stout & Lizzie Carrey-Thomas)
A Rock And A Hard Place, The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki (cur. Marina Fokidis, Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta)
Ντερτι Humanism, Faggionato Fine Art, London cur. Nadja Argyropoulou
An Action Event Or Other Thing That Occurs Or Happens Again, One ThoresbyStreet & Bonington Galleries, Nottingham University, Nottingham
TheRiot Act, Mor Charpentier, Paris (cur. Nazli Gurlek)

2010
The Marathon Marathon Project, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, The New Acropolis Museum, Athens (performance)
Recent British Sculpture, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam (cat.)
Actors and Agents, The Hub, Athens
Cometa Rossa, Fluxia, Milan
Arrivals-Departures, Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona

2009
Look! No hands. , Cell Project Space, London (cur. Milika Muritu)
Paint-id Contemporary Painting in Greece, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (cur. Sotirios Bachtsetzis)
Deste Prize, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
For The Straight Way Is Lost, Heaven, Athens Biennial 2, Athens (cur. Diana Baldon)
In Praise of Shadows, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
SCULPTURE SHOW, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (cur. Gavin Wade & Ruth Claxton)

2008
Manifesto Of NonDurational Time, at Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (cur. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Nicola Lees)
L’aprés Moderne, Project Midi, Brussels (cur. Charles Danby)
Fables du Doute, La Galerie – Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France (cur. Simone Menegoi)
The Show Will Be Titled After Its End Formcontent, London (curatorial project)

2007
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol & Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (cur. Martin Clark) Supernova, NIMAC The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia
In Present Tense / Young Greek Artists, EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens (cur. Stamatis Schizakis, Tina Pandi, Dafne Vitali)
Invisible, Max Wigram Gallery, London Not Just, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam

2006
Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva
Artsessions, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna (screening, cur. Emanuel Layr)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Liverpool Biennial 2006), Club Row, Liverpool (touring to Roschelle School, London)
Dialogue II, Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
Social Ocean, Temporary Contemporary, London

2005
All Personal, VTO London
Time Pop 2005, Artprojx, Prince Charles Cinema, London

2003
Prague Biennale 1, selected by the Deste Foundation, National Gallery, Prague  (cat.)

2000
Athanasios Argianas, Ian Kiaer, Nick Laessing, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

1999
New Contemporaries 99, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool / Various Venues London

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens
Collection of Aaron & Barbaba Levine, Washington DC
THE EKARD COLLECTION
Michael Haas, Berlin
Heiner Bastien, Berlin
UBS Collection, London / Zurich