artist, printmaker

About

As an artist I create a world of distortions, bringing up images from my memory and my imagination, then refining them by adding or subtracting colors and lines. I examine the condition of people, animals, places and events from my own or from common experiences. My pictures tend to disorient, even when they depict recognizable images such as landscapes or forms. Woodcut is a technique that provides me with the numerous tools of expression that allow me to speak in the most concise artistic manner, creating a situation that is beyond words and that fills the void between though and speech

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Nikos Stavrakantonakis

Lives and works in Athens.

Education

2014: Lessons in Richard Steiner’s Kyoto International Mokuhanga School

1999-2006: Printmaking at the School of Fine Arts of Athens

1986 – 92: Painting at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Personal exhibitions

2022: Morphologies, EKTόS Art Space, Athens

2016: Life, Eikastikes Anazitiseis, Athens

2007: City, Technochoros art Gallery, Athens.

2003 Paintings and drawings Galeria Merum v Modra, Modra (Slovakia)

Group exhibitions

2024: Aspects of Greek Printmaking (Krakow Triennial), Międzynarodowe Centrum Sztuk Graficznych, Krakow, Poland

2024:Metamorphosis – Approaches to Kafka, Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czechia,

2023: Reliés ou pas / Histoires de livres, Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Paris, France

2023: Impressions, Olympic Municipal Art Gallery Maroussi, Athens

2023: Contemporary Greek Printmaking, GALLERY13, Drama, North Greece

2022: The Human Dream, Cultural center of Nea Ionia, Volos, Central Greece

2022: Come 2Gether, Alibi Gallery, Psiri, Athens

2022: Playtime, EKTόS Art Space, Athens

2022: Mediterranean: Tradition – Transition – Route, The House of Cyprus, Athens

2021: 62d annual exhibition of Japan Print Society, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan

2021: Selections of Works from the archive of the Greek Printmakers’ Association, Chrysogelos Building, Messolongi, Western Greece

2021: Hanga Forum exhibition, Washi-no-Sato, Saitama, Japan

2021: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan,Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno-Park, Tokyo

2021: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Romania, National Museum Complex of Iași, Iasi, Romania

2019: 6 x 3 + 6, S.G. Art Gallery, Athens

2019: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno-Park, Tokyo

2019: From the bottom of my heart, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens

2019: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan, Washi-no-Sato, Saitama, Japan

2019: Contemporary Greek and Japanese Printmaking, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus,

2018: Kyoto International Woodprint Exhibition, Kyoto City International Exchange Hall (KoKoKa), Japan

2018: Nostos, 4^th International Athens Print Fest, Melina Cultural Center, Athens

2016: Athina Thea / Athens Views Benaki Museum, Athens

2016: Contemporary Print Art from Athens, Herakleidon Museum, Athens

2016: Magical Horizons,Melina Cultural Center, Athens

2016: Illusions and Reality, metamatic:taf, Athens

2015: Print meetings, Telemachos Kanthos Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

2012: Plan B, 2^nd International Athens Print Fest

2012: Supernova, The Art Foundation, Athens

2012: «Incisione greca alle Terme di Dioclesiano», Μuseo Νazionale Romano Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy.

2012: “The printmaking line connects Athens – Florence” School of Specialization in printmaking Il Bisonte, Italy

2011: Contemporary Greek Printmakers, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2011: Contemporary Printmaking Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2010: Greek Printmaking, “Il Bisonte” Printmaking school, Florence,

2010: Greek Printmaking, Μuseo Νazionale Romano Terme di Diocleziano, Rome

2010:«Us & Them», Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2009: Difficult Nights, 1^st International Athens Print Fest,

2009: Printmaking x 6, Kaplanon 5 Art Gallery, Athens

2008: Greek Printmaking Today, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2008: 7th International Print exhibition, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008: «Us & Them», Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2007: Greek Printmaking Today, Averoff Gallery, Metsovo,

2007: “Greek Art 07”, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada

2006: Urban Landscapes, Municipal Gallery, Athens

2005: Monoprints, Skironeio Centre, Kiphissia & Eirmos gallery, Thessaloniki

2004: Contemporary Greek Engraving (touring), Foundation for Thracian Art and Tradition, Xanthi – Municipal Gallery, Corfu – Vafopouleio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki

2003: Oikade, Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre of Athens

2003: Oikade, Contemporary Art Centre, Rethymno

2003: Galeria Merum v Modra, Modra (Slovakia)

2002: Group exhibition Mojmírovce (Slovakia)

2000 – 2002: PRINTEXPO (touring), Bologna – Berlin – Madrid – Barcelona – Bilbao – Birmingham – Bristol – Caen – Brussels – Cuenca – Porto – Strasburg – Athens

1989: Exhibition of drawing, Hirsch Palace, Swentzingen, Germany.

Activities

2018 4th International Athens Print Fest. Supervising andcoordinating the departments responsible for implementing the programme

2017 “From Tradition to Transition: Aspects and Technologies of printmaking from the past to present day”, 1st international printmaking conference (22 – 24 of November 2017), coordinated and co-organized by the Cypriot Printmakers’ Association and the Greek Printmakers’ Association. A. G. Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2016 Chairman of the 3rd International Athens Print Fest

2012 Chairman of the 2^nd International Athens print Fest

2009 Chairman of the 1^st International Athens Print Fest

2008-2016 President of the Greek Printmakers’ Association

2003-2009: Curator at “Technohoros Art Gallery” Athens

Links:

http://www.eikastikon.gr/xaraktiki/stavrakantonakis_en.html

http://www.attikipress.gr/28329/festival-xaraktikhs-plan-b

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