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Giannis Cheimonakis  

born 1976, lives and works in Athens


2014- MFA, Athens School of Fine Arts
2007-2012 Athens School of Fine Arts 
Painting, sculpture, engraving, graphic arts
2009-2010 Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Bellas Artes
1994-1997 CBS College, Graphic Arts Department 

since 2011 member of the artist group Campus Novel www.campusnovel.blogspot.gr/ 


residencies

2015  Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, IS
2013  Institut fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin, DE


group exhibitions



2016    
Powerfool, Flat 1, Vienna, AU
4th May | N 36° 72′54″, Ε 24°44′33″, Adamas bomb shelter, Milos, GR
Archiving Topologies, Athens Biennale OMONOIA, Synapse 2, Athens, GR
NICE! -curators Salon de Vortex- Cultural Center Manos Loizos, Athens,GR

2015
(I heard it) through the Grapevine, Athens Biennale OMONOIA, Synapse 1, Athens, GR
Deferred Action: adaptations of artistic radicalism -curator Kostis Stafylakis- ISET, Athens, GR
Calliope - or How a public square can fit into a public urinal, Das KloHäuschen, München, DE
Curious Artefacts -curator Becky Campbell- The ArtWall, Athens, GR
Local/ Focal/ Fluctuant, the Bookshop-projecspace, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, IS
Luminous Flux/ Reflected overlays on locative norms, Kornilakis building (Industrial Museum of Syros), Syros, GR
Invisible governments: “Gnosis” as a state of the self -curator Kostis Stafylakis- Circuits and Currents, Athens, GR  
ANAPLASIS, Art-Athina 2015, Campus Novel participation in Platform Project, Athens, GR 
BLASTED -curator Zara Audiello- BETON 7, Athens, GR
Babel Fragments: Revisited -curator Alexis Fidetzis- matematic: Taf, Athens, GR
Setting -curator Becky Campbell- SNEHTA, Athens, GR*

2014   
Art-Athina 2014, Campus Novel participation in Platform Project, Athens, GR
(the) Heavy Page, metamatic:taf, Athens, GR
Hypnodrones - sleep deviations, Back to Athens, Hotel Pindaros, Athens, GR  
Boundaries, Artscape Athens and Snehta Residency, Athens, GR
Images of the Sea, Athens School of fine Arts- Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Athens, GR

2013   
Agora, 4th Athens Biennale 2013, Campus Novel, Athens, GR

Urbanism in Cavafys Poetry,Gavrielides Publishing House Athens, GR
Spring and Sources, Campus Novel,Primary School of Apoikia, Andros, GR

Dronologyfor Aesthetic – Responsibility – Drones workshop Kunsthalle am Hamburger     Platz, Weissensee Art Academy BerlinDE
Direct Action 2013, performance by Campus Novel during the Month of
Performance Art –Berlin, Abteilung Für Alles Andere, Berlin
Als Ich Kan, solo presentation as part of the project 11+1 emerging artists in Icarus
Publishing House
Ataxia, CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens
Black Maria, Campus Novel solo exhibition, Salon de Vortex @ Cheapart, Athens
Domestic Crisis, Campus Novel solo exhibition, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin
ROOMS2013, Kappatos Gallery of Contemporary Art and St George Lycabetus Hotel,
Athens 

2012  
Paralogi, BRDG, Antwerp
Old Masters, New Partners, Platonos 36, Galatsi, Athens
Flags, Banners, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens
Extra People, as member of Campus Novel group, occupied Empros Theater,Athens

2011  
On Odysseus Elytis poetry, House of Cyprus, Athens
Action Field Kodra 2011, 11thExhibition of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
6th Biennial for Art students in Greece
Symptom Project 2, as a member of Totem group, Amfissa 2010          
Exiles, House of Cyprus, Athens
Α3, Athens School of Fine Arts

2009  
Real Presence 2009, Legacy House, Belgrade
Continuity, ASFA graduates foundation, Athens 

2008  
Fire Diaries, Melina Merkouri foundation, Athens

2006  
St George Gate, Heraklion, Creete


distinctions

2011 award in the 6th Art students Biennial in Greece
2010 IKY student award
       IKY scholarship

workshops
2013  
Aesthetic – Responsibility – Drones, Migrating Art Academies, in collaboration with
Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’Association, Weissensee Art Academy Berlin and
Top association in Berlin, Weissensee Art Academy Berlin
2012  
The Long Now, ASFA Graphic Arts department in collaboration with the Royal 
Academy of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium(Yiannis Papadopoulos,Niko Dockx, Thomas 
Crombez)
2011  

The Drachma Project, ASFA
Workshop of ASFA students in the 13th Athens Fashion Week
2009  
Real Presence, Belgrade


publications
2013  ROOMS2013, text by Tassos Koutsouris
2010  Shoppinghour magazine, issue 6, secular religion