Artists

Andrea Stappert is a German photographer and curator whose work focuses on portraits of artists and the atmospheres of their studios and everyday lives. Born in Duisburg, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1998. Through long-term collaborations and close friendships, she has built…

Studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yiannis Moralis, and stage design under Vassilis Vassiliadis. In 1978, on a scholarship from the School of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris to continue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the University of Nanterre Paris X. He has worked in…

Born in Alexandroupolis in 1969. Studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1988–1994) under Nikos Kessanlis, Industrial Design at the Academie Royal des Beaux Arts in Brussels (1993), and printmaking and computer graphics at Universitat Hildesheim, Germany (1997–1998). Awards include 1st prize Heineken Art (1993), 1st Bosch Gallery (1996), 2nd Bank of Cyprus…

Born in Kalamata. Studied Fine Arts in England, at Croydon College of Art and Design (London) and Canterbury College of Art (Kent). Solo exhibitions: Archaeological Museum of Messinia (2010), National Library of Sparta (2011), Mystras Bistrot (2015 and 2017), Arcadia University Athens (2018).

David Nicholson (b. 1970, Montreal) is a self-taught painter whose work draws on the techniques and aesthetics of the Old Masters while addressing distinctly contemporary themes. Influenced by artists such as Rubens, Klimt and Schiele, he transposes elements from historical painting into unsettling, psychologically charged scenes that probe ideals of beauty, sexuality and the mediated…

Born on April 23, 1906, in Corinth, where he received his primary and secondary education. In 1928 he was admitted to the Athens School of Fine Arts, deemed advanced enough to begin in the second year of the preliminary class, and joined the Painting Department in the studio of Konstantinos Parthenis. During his studies he…

Born in Kalamata in 1967, Tzamouranis studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued his postgraduate studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), having moved to Berlin in 1990. In 1995 he received the Spyropoulos Prize. His artistic vision was shaped by a deep knowledge…

Wife of banker Spyros Costopoulos and mother of Yannis Costopoulos of Alpha Bank, she studied painting under important Greek artists of her time, including Perikles Vyzantios and Efthymios Papadimitriou, and developed friendships and working relationships with many artists and intellectuals. She painted for the joy of making, typically outdoors, on small panels and without preparatory…

Filippos Tsitsopoulos (b. 1967, Athens) is an artist working between London and Athens whose practice spans painting, digital media, video theatre and installation art. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed his PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1996, where he lived and worked…

Jean-Yves Klein (b. 1960, Montreal) is an artist who lives and works between Berlin and the Peloponnese, developing a practice grounded in European art traditions and transnational experience. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he received the Elsa Neumann Scholarship (NaFöG)…

Jenny Brosinski (b. in Celle) is a Berlin-based painter whose large-format works appear as abstract compositions that deliberately display traces of use and process. Expressive oil on unprimed canvas, sprayed lines, lettering, shoe prints and pasted-over elements foreground the materiality of painting while questioning its conventions and the status of the image. Her visual language…

Joachim Elzmann (b. 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German painter and sculptor whose work spans collages, paintings, objects and glass sculptures. He studied at the art academies in Karlsruhe and Braunschweig, developing a distinctive visual language that often plays with balance, volume and the tension between abstraction and figuration. Elzmann’s works frequently combine fragile…

Johannes Kahrs (b. 1965, Bremen) is a Berlin-based artist known for atmospheric, psychologically charged paintings that often rework found images from film, media and everyday life. Working with blurred contours, fragmented bodies and cinematic cropping, he creates haunting scenes that hover between recognition and estrangement, amplifying tension, violence and desire beneath the surface. His work…

John Isaacs is a British artist whose work probes the emotional and psychological undercurrents of contemporary life through sculpture, installation and mixed media. Emerging in the context of the Young British Artists in the 1990s, he has since developed a distinctive visual language that oscillates between the grotesque and the fragile, often using the human…

Kerstin Grimm is a Berlin-based artist whose practice moves fluidly between drawing, collage and sculpture. Born in Oranienburg in 1956, she first studied German language and literature at Humboldt University in Berlin before turning formally to the visual arts in the early 1980s. She developed her distinctive figurative language in evening classes at the Kunsthochschule…

Born in Kalamata in 1973, Aggelopoulos has been painting and playing music since childhood. He graduated from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1999. Since 2001 he has lived permanently in Kalamata, devoting himself primarily to painting. He studied under Nikitas Christopoulos.

Born in Athens in 1968. Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of West Attica, Department of Antiquities and Works of Art Conservation. Trained in conservation, painting under Nikos Kessanlis at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and holds a Master’s in Architecture–Spatial Design from the National Technical University of Athens. Erasmus scholarship at…

Marianna Ignataki was born in Thessaloniki and studied Architecture at the Technische Universität in Vienna before completing Visual Arts studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Étienne. She has lived and worked in Vienna, Saint-Étienne and Beijing and is now based between Berlin and Athens. Ignataki’s work centres on meticulously crafted drawings, sculptures and installations…

Stefan Rinck (b. 1973, Homburg/Saar) is a sculptor known for his idiosyncratic stone figures that blend humour, myth and a raw, archaic materiality. He studied Art History and Philosophy at Saarland University in Saarbrücken before completing Sculpture studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Carved from sandstone and other stones, his often…

Born in Aitoliko, Aetolia-Acarnania, she studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1936–1940), painting under Konstantinos Parthenis and printmaking under Yannis Kefallinos. During the Nazi Occupation she joined the Resistance and produced woodcuts for clandestine publications. From the mid-1950s she experimented with engraving on stone, transforming her figures into symbols. She won the 1st…