Christiana Soulou
Born in Athens, Greece
Studied Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Christiana Soulou, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Christiana Soulou: Hommage aux Méres, Fürstenmberg Zeitgenössisch,
Donaueschingen Germany
2016
Christiana Soulou: Sonnet to the Nile, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
The Book of Imaginary Beings after Jorge Luis Borges, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2015
Les Enfant Terribles Jean Cocteau, Galerie de France, Paris
2012
I Accept If You Can Tolerate Me Silently, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2011
Les Enfants Terribles, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2010
Dancers, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (NY)
Tarot, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
2009
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2007
This dust was gentlemen and ladies, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006
Joi, Galerie 3, Athens
2004
Christiana Soulou, Samy Kinge, Paris
2003
Galerie 3, Athens
Selection of Group Exhibitions
2021
Portals-59 Artists from 27 Countries, Organised by the Hellenic Parliament and Neon Foundation, curated by Elina Kountouri & Madeleine Grynsztejn
Anti-Structure, Deste Foundation, Athens, curated by Andreas Melas
2020
Works on Paper- 1972-2020, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens
2019
Heartbreak, Organised by Ruya Maps, Ca’ De Luca, Venice, curators: Paolo. Colombo & Tamara Chalaby
2017
EMST at documenta 14, ANTIDORON – The EMST Collection, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2016
Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London
2014
Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Galerie du Musée et Galerie
d’art graphique, niveau 4.
2013
HELL AS PAVILION, Palais de Tokyo, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou
Aristotelous Project, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art
Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The System of Objects, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Athens
2012
Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London
2011
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ντέρτι Humanism, Faggionato Fine Art, London
2010
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York
ΑΩ, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Athens
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (NY)
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens
Dream and Trauma: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Kunsthalle Wien
2008
In Praise of Shadows, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland (travelling to Istanbul Museum of
Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey and Museum Benaki, Athens)
The Mediterranean Depicted through the Works of 18 Artists, Perna Foundation, Ravello, Italy
Transexperiences Greece 2008; Cultural Year of Greece in China, 798 Art Space, Beijing
2007
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens
Correspendences, Alpha Bank Institution and National Gallery, Athens
2006
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial (curated by Maurizio Catellan, Massimiliano Gioni
and Ali Subtonik), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens
Selected Bibliography
2016
Christiana Soulou: The Book of Imaginary Beings after Jorge Luis
Borges, Sadie Coles HQ, London (essay by Donatien Grau)
2012
Christiana Soulou, Selected Writings, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2008
Christiana Soulou, Water, Sadie Coles HQ, London (essay by Hans Ulrich Obrist)
2007
Christiana Soulou: fractures, DESTE Foundation, Athens
2006
Christiana Soulou, Selected Drawings, Futura Publications, Athens
Maurizio Cattelan, Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
2003
Christiana Soulou, Oeuvres 1982-2002, Agra Editions, Athens
Artists Talks
2017
The Athens Dialogues, Hans Ulrich Obrist – Christiana Soulou, Benaki Museum,
Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 18 June 2017
2016
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 27 January 2016
2010
The Marathon in Athens, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadja Argyropoulou, Christiana Soulou,
Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 19 October 2010
Collaborations
Dior Cruise Collection 2022