1961 | Born in Athens, Greece Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris Lives and works in Athens, Greece |
Solo Exhibitions
2018 |
Homage aux meres, Fuerstenberg Zeitgenoessisch, Donaueschingen, Germany |
2016 | Sonnet to the Nile, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK The Book of Imaginary Beings after Jorge Luis Borges, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2015 | les enfants terribles Jean Cocteau, Galerie de France, Paris |
2012 | I Accept If You Can Tolerate Me Silently, Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
2011 | Les Enfants Terribles, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2010 | Dancers, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (NY) Tarot, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens |
2009 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2007 | This dust was gentlemen and ladies, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2006 | Galerie 3, Athens |
2004 | Samy Kinge, Paris |
2003 | Galerie 3, Athens |
Group Exhibitions
2017 | EMST at documenta 14, ANTIDORON- The EMST Collection, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany |
2016 | Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London |
2013 | Aristotelous Project, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
2012 | Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London |
2011 | 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece Ντέρτι Humanism, Faggionato Fine Art, London |
2010 |
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York (NY) |
2009 | The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (NY) Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens |
2008 | In Praise of Shadows, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland (travelling to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey and Museum Benaki, Athens) The Mediterranean Depicted through the Works of 18 Artists, Perna Foundation, Capri, Italy Transexperiences Greece 2008; Cultural Year of Greece in China, 798 Art Space, Beijing |
2007 | Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens Correspendences, Alpha Bank Institution and National Gallery, Athens |
2006 | Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial (curated by Maurizio Catellan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subtonik), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
1996 | Petite Impertinence, Cachan Paris |
1995 | The House of Cyprus, Athens |
Selected Bibliography
Books
2016 | Donatien Grau, Christiana Soulou: The Book of Imaginary Beings after Jorge Luis Borges, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2012 | Christiana Soulou, Selected Writings, Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
2008 | Séan Kissane (ed.), In Praise of Shadows, Charta, Milan, Italy Hans Ulrich Obrist, Water, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
2007 | Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Christina Soulou: fractures, DESTE Foundation, Athens |
2006 | Christiana Soulou, Selected Drawings, Futura Publications, Athens Maurizio Cattelan, Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany |
2003 | Christiana Soulou, Oeuvres 1982-2002, Agra Editions, Athens |
Articles
2016 | Robert Barry, ‘An Imaginary Menagerie: Christiana Soulou’s Drawings after Borges’, The Quietus, 30 January |
2012 | Laura McClean-Ferris, ‘Christiana Soulou’, ArtReview, January |
2008 | ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (series of drawings curated by Dennis Freedman), W Magazine, The Art Issue, November Maurizio Cattelan, ‘Un mondo di silenzio’ (‘A world of silence’) (interview), Work, summer, pp. 70-73 |
2007 | Courtney J Martin, ‘Online Critics’ Picks’, artforum.com Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘Christiana Soulou’, Contemporary, no. 94 |
2006 | Catherine Cafopoulos, ‘Christiana Soulou Galerie 3’, Artforum, November Carla Bianpoen, ‘The Berlin Biennale: An Antidote to the Usual’, The Jakarta Post, 28 May Alexandra Koroxenidis – Kathimerini, ‘Delicate Drawings of our Inner World – a Solo Exhibition on the Works of Christiana Soulou’, Kathimerini – Greece’s International English Newspaper, May Arve Rod, ‘Ghost Town’ Kunstkritikk.no, 07 April Adrian Searle, ‘Memory Lane’, Guardian Unlimited, 28 March Augustine Zenakos, ‘Christiana Soulou’, To Vima tis Kyriakis (The Tribute on Sunday), 12 March |