Born in Athens, Greece

Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Lives and works in Athens, Greece

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2024

Firmament, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens

 

2018

Christiana Soulou, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Christiana Soulou: Hommage aux Méres, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen

 

2016

Christiana Soulou: Sonnet to the Nile, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
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

 

2025

COPYISTS, Centre Pompidou, France
What you wear is what you are, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Greece

 

2023

Neun Neue Räume, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen
11 Women United for Children, Ζoumboulakis Gallery, Athens

 

2022

Neoclassical, Rodeo Piraeus

 

2021

Portals-59 Artists from 27 Countries, organised by the Hellenic Parliament and Neon Foundation, curated by Elina Kountouri & Madeleine Grynsztejn
Anti-Structure, curated by Andreas Melas, Deste Foundation, Athens

 

2020

Works on Paper- 1972-2020, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens

 

2019

Heartbreak, Organised by Ruya Maps, Ca’ De Luca, curated by Paolo Colombo & Tamara Chalaby, Venice

 

2017

EMST at documenta 14, ANTIDORON – The EMST Collection, Fridericianum, Kassel

 

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

 

2013

HELL AS PAVILION, Palais de Tokyo, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Paris
Aristotelous Project, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Giardini, Venice
The System of Objects, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Athens

 

2012

Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London

 

2011

3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
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
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
Correspondences, Alpha Bank Institution and National Gallery, Athens

 

2006

Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial (curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subtonik), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens

 

Selected Publications

 

2016

Christiana Soulou: The Book of Imaginary Beings after Jorge Luis Borges, Sadie Coles HQ, London (essay by Donatien Grau)

 

2013

Vitamin D2. Phaidon Press

 

2012

Christiana Soulou, Selected Writings, Capitain Petzel, Berlin

 

2009

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (series of drawings curated by Dennis Freedman), W Magazine, The Art Issue

 

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

 

2003

Christiana Soulou, Oeuvres 1982-2002, Agra Editions, Athens

 

Artists Talks

 

2022

“Le Fifre” Musée d’Orsay (curated by Donatien Grau)

 

2017

The Athens Dialogues, Hans Ulrich Obrist – Christiana Soulou, Benaki Museum, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 18 June 2017

 

2016

Christiana Soulou- James Cahll: The Book of Imaginary Beings after Borges-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

 

2022

Dior Cruise Collection 2022