Eleni Bagaki
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Installation view from Eleni Bagaki's show Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase at ΕΜΣΤ Athens (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Man with long hair (the wind had ceased), 2022, Oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm
The essence is real, 2022, Oil on canvas, 140 x 150 cm
The book reader, 2022, Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
Me-You (Massimo), 2021, Colour pencil on paper, 19.5 x 25.5 cm each
Calla (Feeling that way), 2022, Collage, 32.5 x 44 cm
I was falling into something (Maybe), 2020 , Oil and acrylic on canvas , 40 x 50 cm
I nodded, yes, as if I had everything (Matisse), 2021 , Oil on canvas , 60 x 80 cm
See? I had seen it precisely this way (Green face), 2010-21 , Oil on canvas , 36 x 25 cm
Just kidding (Dildo in the woods), 2010, Oil on canvas , 120 x 100 cm
I let myself imagine what I wanted (Sublime succulents), 2010 , Oil on canvas , 130 x 140 cm
In between, 2011-21, Collage, archive material, 28 x 38 cm
Born 1979 in Crete, Greece
Lives and works in Athens
Education
2005–2006 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London – UK
2000–2004 BA Jewelry Design, Middlesex University, London – UK
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2020–21 Artworks Fellowship, Niarchos Foundation, Athens – GR
2018 Exhibition Grant, NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Athens – GR
2018 Artist Grant, Pivô, Sao Paulo – BR
2017 Outset Grant, Outset Contemporary Art Fund – GR
2007 ISIS Arts Awards, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – UK
2007 Celeste Art Prize, London – UK
Art Residencies
2020 Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen – NOR
2019 Fogo Island Arts’ Residency, Fogo Island – CA
2018–19 Iaspis, Stockholm – SE
2018 Pivô, Sao Paulo – BR
2017 Kantor Foundation, Krakow – POL
2014 VITRINE, London – UK
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase, EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Athens - GR
2022
She left, She left again, She left once more, Ag. Rokkos, Chania - GR
2021
Falling into whispers and kisses, CHAUFFER GALLERY, Sydney - AUS
Reclining Artist, the Artist is reclining, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens - GR
2018–19
The importance of reading, writing, and exfoliating, Palette Terre, Paris – FR
2017
A book, a film, and a soundtrack, Radio Athènes, Athens – GR
2016
Economy Class, Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö – SE
2015
Now you see me, oh now you don’t, NEW STUDIO, London– UK
Crack, Crack, Pop, Pop...oh what a relief it is!, Radio Athènes, Athens – GR
2014
Belgium Triptych, two person exhibition, BRDG, Antwerp – BE
2013
My crap is BIGGER than yours!, Remap4, Athens – GR
2012
Sex, Birds and Rocks, LUST, Athens – GR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
This Current Between Us, Steam-Electric Power Station, Athens - GR
Moods & Memories, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens - GR
Sheltered Gardens, PCAI in collaboration with J. & A. N. Diomedes Botanic Garden, Athens - GR
Ιdeas and Solutions for Υour Home / F.A.R. Part III, 3137, Athens - GR
Femme4Femme4ever, Haus N Athens, Athens - GR
Directed by Desire, rongwrong, Amsterdam - NL
Bread and Digestifs, Callirrhoë, Athens - GR
2021
PTSD, AMP, Athens
Off Season, 9th Syros International Film Festival, Syros - GR
Prizing Eccentring Talents, curated by Angelo Plessas and George Bekirakis, P.E.T. projects, Athens - GR
Sisterhood, curated by Angelo Plessas, Koraï, Nicosia – CY
2018
Be water again, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos, Koraï, Nicosia – CY
Walking the dog on the salt, Marpissa Festival, Paros – GR
A imensa preguiça, Sancovsky gallery, Sao Paulo – BR
Seeping upwards, rupturing the surface, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario – CA
2017
Vilniaus kontekstai, invited by Valentinas Klimašauskas, Vilnius – LT
Millennial Feminisms, L’Inconnue gallery, Montreal – CA
2016
The Equilibrists, Benaki Museum, DESTE Foundation and NEW MUSEUM, Athens – GR
2015
Sleaze, Set the Controls for Heart of the Sun, SEIZE project, Leeds – UK
Aeropagus Königin, Parallel Vienna, Vienna – AU
The Office, POP Montreal, Montreal – CA
2014
You Are Here, Kingsgate gallery supported by Camden Arts Center, London – UK
I Meet Together, I agree, VITRINE gallery, London – UK
2013
Lustlands, Family Business, New York – US
Books & Publications
Butter and Cracker, published by miss dialectic & DOLCE, 2022
She left. She left again. She left once more., published as part of the homonymous exhibition, 2022
How I met Murakami’s cat, Pivô Magazine, Issue 01, 77-78, 2019
Look for love and find a log instead, 2017, published by Tadeusz Kantor Foundation and Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Krakow, Poland
No script, 2017, published part of the exhibition A book, a film, and a soundtrack at Radio Athens
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Moods & Memories
Tamina Amadyar, Nel Aerts, Eleni Bagaki, Eirene Efstathiou, Uman
December 9 2022 - February 4 2023![]()
