Paky Vlassopoulou
paki@3137.gr

Paky Vlassopoulou lives and works in Athens, Greece. Her work is informed by the dialectics of traditional sculpture making in relation to spatial issues, object hood, functionality and bodily experiences. She is concerned with thematics that deal with knowledge production, history, ruins, while in recent years her works revolve around the concepts of proximity, care and hospitality.
In 2012, together with artists Chrysanthi Koumianaki and Kosmas Nikolaou, she co-founded 3 137(www.3137.gr), an artist run space operating in Athens, Greece.

Solo projects:

WE NEED TO DO MORE: magical thinking, solo exhibition, curated by Olympia Tzortzi at Callirrhoë, Athens 2024 (ongoing until May 25th 2024)
A day after a day after a day after a day, solo exhibition, curated by Florent Frizet at One Minute Space, Athens, 2023
Bread, curated by locus athens, TAVROS, Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, as part of the project The Table and the Territory, Athens, Greece, 2020
Tonight we are going to do some very gentle whispers (with elements of haircut), Kantharos Gatherings, curated by Eleni Tranouli, Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, Peloponnese, Greece, 2019
A manual to observe the stars on a ceramic plate – Dinners in three acts, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece, 2018
Smoking and waiting. Waiting and smoking. (The Stranger I), BRDG project, Antwerp, Belgium, 2017
If future a dead loss, Werft 5 – Raum für Kunst, Cologne, Germany, 2017
Cause love is such an Old-Fashioned word (Δούρειος Ίππος) @Enterprise projects, Athens, Greece, 2016
Be quiet, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Are | are-events.org, Nevan Contempo gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016

Residencies/ Fellowship Programs:

Onassis Air Fellowship Program 2024-25
Thermia Project, Kythnos Island, Greece, June 2023
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York, supported by ARTWORKS – Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Sept.-Nov. 2019
Phenomenon 3, The Association Phenomenon and the Kerenidis Pepe Collection, Anafi Island, Greece, July 2019
WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2018-June 2019
ARTWORKS – Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program, March-September 2018
AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, May-September 2017
Sterna Residency 2015, Nisyros Island, Greece

Selected group shows:

2023
WOMEN, Together, EMΣΤ’s collection group show, curated by Katerina Gregos and Eleni Koukou, Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣΤ), Athens, Greece
The Word for Museum is Forest, Gallerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, curated by Eleni Michaelidi, Leipzig, Germany
Motores del Clima (Weather Engines), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, curated by Daphne Dragona & Jussi Parikka, Gijón, Spain
igni, We go around and around in the night and are consumed by fire. (After Iris Clert), curated by Florent Frizet, gb Agency, Paris, France
Being as Communion, main exhibition of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras, Thessaloniki, Greece (new commission)

2022
Weather Engines, curated by Daphne Dragona & Jussi Parikka, organised by Onassis Cultural Center, National Observatory of Athens and Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece (new commission)

2021
Missing Homes, curated by Danai Giannoglou, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands (new commission)
Robinson Crusoe stayed home. Adventures of design in times of crisis, curated by Polina Kosmadaki & Kostis Velonis, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
CC, curated by Olympia Tzortzi, Callirrhoë, Athens, Greece

2019
Phenomenon 3, organised by Iordanis Kerenidis and Piergiorgio Pepe, Anafi Island, Greece
Island Hopping, Sterna Art Project, Casa dell’Olivo, Kastelorizo, Greece
STILL HERE TOMORROW, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos Marily Konstantinopoulou Dimitra Nikoloù, organised by Summer Nostos Festival ARTWORKS, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Culture Center, Athens, Greece
Midterm, WHW Akademija, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia

2018
Geometries, curated by locus athens, organised by Onassis Cultural Center, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (new commission)
Slower, Smaller, Weaker, curated by Alexandra Streshna, organised by Apexart, Olympic Village Aharnes, Attiki, Greece (new commission)
I EAT THE WORDS AND THEY TASTE OF HISTORY, a project by Ioanna Gerakidi, Sub Rosa Space, Athens
Theorimata, exhibition of AICA – HELLAS, curated by Klea Charitou, EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2017
Taking Roots, curated by Orestis Andreadakis, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
The Studio of Arousing Tools, Draakplaats, curated by Sam Watson- Drop City, Antwerp, Belgium
The anti-angelic host, The Pink House, Antwerp, Belgium
The Living Room XL, group show curated by Alan Quireyns, AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Paste in place, Supersimetrica, Madrid, Spain

2016 
(IM)MATERIAL GESTURES, PIIGS_An Alternative Geography of Curating, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
The Equilibrists, a project by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation, Athens, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Clumsy Routes, curated by Despina Zefkili, part of the festival ‘Routes in Marpissa’, Paros, Greece

2015
Rims and Frontiers, curated by Evangelia Ledaki, The Symptom Projects, Amfissa, Greece
At the Baths, Nisyros art Residency, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Nisyros, Greece
Fireworks out of season, curated by Galini Notti, open air cinema Riviera, Athens
Kenophobia, curated by Christina Androulidaki, Can Gallery, Athens
Babel Fragments: Revisited, curated by Alexis Fidetzis, Metamatic: Taf, Athens

2014
Reverb: New Art from Greece, curated by Eirene Efstathiou and Evita Tsokanta, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Aware, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos, Syros International Film Festival, Hermoupoli, Syros
A Thousand Doors, curated by Iwona Blazwick, organised by NEON Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery, Gennadius Library/The American School of Classical Studies, Athens (new commision)
Fever of the antique, curated by Evangelia Ledaki, Association of Greek Archaeologists, Athens

2013
A Fresh, A new Generation of Greek Artists, curated by Daphne Vitali, Tina Pandi and Daphne Dragona, EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Ιf Sports is the brother of labour, then art is the cousin of unemployment, curated by Panos Papadopoulos and Nino Stelzl, Pindaros Hotel, CAMP!, Athens
Desk Issues, Sluice Art fair, London
Kypseli fanzine, ReMap 3, Athens

Selected press:

Alexander Strecker, How Paky Vlassopoulou Puts Love, Care, and Community Back into Her Art, @Medium, Sep. 2019

Kostas Stasinopoulos, DRIVE. On Paky Vlassopoulou and the unspoken, EP Journal, Issue 1 (June 2018)
http://enterprise-projects.com/ep-journal/

Despina Zefkili, «Ψάχνω τρόπους στήριξης των αντικειμένων μπας και φανταστώ και τελικά πιστέψω»,  Athinorama.gr, 13/06/2016 http://www.athinorama.gr/events/article/paku_blassopoulou_psaxno_tropous_stiriksis_ton_antikeimenon_mpas_kai_fantasto_kai_telika_pistepso-2514782.html (gr)

Radim Langer, Balanc mezi tělem a myslí (Balance between body and mind), interview for ARTALK.MAGAZINE, 21/4/16  http://artalk.cz/2016/04/21/balanc-mezi-telem-a-mysli/ (cz)

Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah , Athens Calling: Maurizio Cattelan on Art and Survival in Crisis-Era Greece, vulture.com, 28/05/2015
http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/poor-but-sexy-art-survival-in-greece-today.html

Cate McQuaid, Greek artists interpret newsmaking events at Grossman, The Boston Globe, 16/08/14
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/09/16/greek-artists-interpret-newsmaking-events-grossman/RjgMyLJ6s6XLfY9cnfSeSJ/story.html

Chris Paridis, A thousand doors, the exhibition continues in Gennadius Library, an important exhibition that is organized by NEON foundation in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, 11.6.2014 (gr.)
http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/4337

Despina Zefkili, A Fresh, Frieze magazine, 01.05.14
https://frieze.com/article/afresh

Eleni Akila, An artistic cohabitation, Avgi newspaper, 29/03/13 (gr)
http://www.avgi.gr/article/147890/mia-kallitexniki-sugkatoikisi