7.11.2017
Andreas Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis was born in Athens in 1968. He studied Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and continued his studies at Columbia University (MSAAD) in New York where he graduated in 1995. From the beginning of his career he has been working at the intersection of art and architecture, often expanding onto other disciplines such as curating and writing.
His solo exhibitions include: Soft Ruin, ALT Art Space, Istanbul, 2016 / Every End is a Beginning, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2014 / CrashPad- Preliminary Statement for the 8th Berlin Biennial Kunstwerke, Berlin, 2014 / Group Mounain, The Breeder Athens, 2013 / Domesticated Mountain, GloriaMaria Gallery, Milano, 2012 / The Angelo Foundations Headquarters, with Angelos Plessas, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2009 / Hotel Blue Wave, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, 2006 / Blue Wave, MU center for art and architecture, Eindhoven, 2005/ Neen World, The Breeder, Athens, 2003 / Future Paris, Visionaire Gallery, New York, 2001. He has worked on and participated in a number of large – scale group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as 12th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius, 2015 (exhibition architecture) / Supersuperstudio at PAC, Milano, 2015 (co-curator, exhibition architecture)/Alejandro Jodorowsky, survey exhibiton, CAPC Bordeaux, 2015 (exhibition design) / 1:1 Period Rooms, Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, 2015 (curating and exhibition desing) / Fin de Siecle – Inaugural Edition of Annual Design Series, Swiss Institute, New York, 2014 (curating) / DO-IT Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2014 (exhibition design) / System of Objects– The Dakis Joannou collection reloaded, DESTE Foundation, Athens, 2013 (curating and exhibition design) / A Rock and a Hard Place, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial, 2011 (exhibition design) / Model Kits – Selections from the Latin American collection, MUSAC, Leon, 2010 (exhibition design) / Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, 2009 (exhibition design), Collateral, HangarBicocca, Milano, 2008 (exhibition design).
Selected group exhibitions are:
Liverpool Biennial 2016 / Chicago Architectural Biennial 2015 /
Frieze Foundation commissions, Frieze Art Fair London, 2013 / MADEINATHENS, 13th Venice Biennial of Architecture, Greek Pavilion, 2012 / It’s a wonderful life, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, 2012 / 1st Beijing International Design Triennial, Beijing, 2011 / Concrete Islands, AnalixForever, Paris, 2011 / Somewhere else, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2011 / The Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2010 / The Bar, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, 2010 / The
State of Things, Holon Museum of Design, Israel, 2010 / Expanded Ecologies, National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2009 / Sonho de casa propria , Casa Encendida, Madrid,
2008 / If tomorrow Never Comes, Rodeo Gallery, Instabul, 2008 / Transexperiences, 798 Art Space – Beijing, 2008 / In Present Tense, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2008 / New Trends in architecture, Artfront Gallery, Tokyo, 2007.
Works by Andreas Angelidakis are included in the collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, the Zabludowicz Collection in London.