Eleni Bagaki
Eleni Bagaki, Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, details of Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, details of Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, details of Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, Blossoms Blossoming, commissioned by Anther Restaurant, Perianth Hotel
Eleni Bagaki, What bodies want to do, installation view at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, 2024
Eleni Bagaki, What bodies want to do, installation view at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, 2024
Eleni Bagaki, What bodies want to do, installation view at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, 2024
Eleni Bagaki, What bodies want to do, installation view at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, 2024
The boy is mine, 2023, Oil on canvas, 150 x 140 cm
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), 2021, Oil on canvas , 36 x 25 cm
Just kidding (Dildo in the woods), 2021, Oil on canvas , 120 x 100 cm
I let myself imagine what I wanted (Sublime succulents), 2020 , 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
2024 LUMA Foundation, Arles - FR
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
2024
What bodies want to do, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens - GR
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
2024
GROUP THERAPY, Collections in Dialogue – Art Collection Telekom and Prague City Gallery, Stone Bell House, Prague - CZ
2023
PHENOMENA EVOKING THEOSIS, Galerie Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, AT
ENCORE, Νew Greek Painting, Athens Municipal Art Gallery, Athens - GR
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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Eleni Bagaki
What bodies want to do
May 17 2024 - July 18 2024![]()
Moods & Memories
Tamina Amadyar, Nel Aerts, Eleni Bagaki, Eirene Efstathiou, Uman
December 9 2022 - February 4 2023![]()
