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Antonis Pittas
1973 Born in Athens
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Education and Residencies
2020 Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
2019 Collective Domain of Cultural Memory, Skopje, North Macedonia
2019 Van Doesburg House, Paris
2016 Q21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2012 SLICA, Johannesburg, ZA
2011 CCS Bard College, USA
2010 Van Abbemuseum, Het Oog Eindhoven, NL
2009 Pompgemaal Den Helder, NL
2005 Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL
2004 Curatorial course, cooperation between the Sandberg Institute and the history of art-department, University
of Amsterdam, NL
2003 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
1999 Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, GR
Solo exhibitions
2020 Refresh, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
2019 All Done Go Home, Significant Other, Vienna, AUT
Monochrome, Van Doesburg studio-house, Paris, FR
2018 Abstand, Annet Gelink gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Road to Victory, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NOR
2015 Antonis Pittas – Hold On, SMBA, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Montage, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Performing Silence, Joint solo with Sarah van Sonsbeeck, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), Amsterdam, NL
2012 Where to go from here, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA
Landart, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
RETROACTIVE, Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Bard Galleries, USA
2011 Utopia of the impossible, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
shame on you, Annet Gelink Gallery (the bakery), Amsterdam, NL
2010 Untitled (this is a historic opportunity for us), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
2009 Untitled ( ), Every time you pass by, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
Untitled ( ) Pompgemaal Den Helder, NL
2007 8,83 x 7,20, Zaal 5, Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
2002 Circle, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Group exhibitions (selection)
2020 The Clown Spirit, Ronny Van de Velde Gallery, Knokke-Zoute & Rossaert, Antwerp,
curated by Joanna De Vos
2020 New Reproductions, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 All That We Have in Common, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki
2019 Undisciplined: A Construction of An Archive #2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje,
North Macedonia
2018 IF WE WANT THINGS TO STAY AS THEY ARE, THINGS WILL HAVE TO CHANGE, 5x5x5 program, Manifesta 12,
Palermo, IT
2 UNLIMITED, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Vice Versa: Our Earth is their Moon, our Moon is their Earth, m3/ Art in Space, Prague, CZ
2017 I am here!, Macro Museum, Rome, IT
Artist/Knight, Castle of Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, NL
Where do we go from here? Nieuw Amsterdam Peil, Amsterdam, NL
Notes on Division part of ‘The Kids Want Communism’, MoBY – Museum of Bat Yam, Bat Yam, ISR
Shadows for Construction, Narrative Projects, London, UK
AJNHAJTCLUB, Q21/MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AI
Theatre Dreams of a Beautiful Afternoon - Part 2, Manifesta Office, Amsterdam, NL
2015 The Shock of Victory, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Throw hands,Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, Thessaloniki Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.
Art Basel, Annet Gelink Gallery
Montage/ we will do as we have decided, Raccontare in luogo (Tales of a place), Galleria Enrico Astuni, IT
Back to the Future, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Pillar Huggers, Or Gallery Berlin, Berlin, DE
2014 Amsterdam drawing extended, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
No country for young men, Bozar, Brussels, BE
Frieze London (with Annet Gelink Gallery), London, UK
ArtBo (with Annet Gelink Gallery), Bogota, CO
Op karakter / Op talent, De Service Garage, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Once upon a time… The Collection until Now, A selection from the Van Abbe
collection, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
Contemporary Treasures (Part II), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, GR
AGORA, 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, GR
Scenographies, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam, NL
THE ARTIST & THE PRACTICE, Vamiali’s Gallery, Athens, GR
Chasing rainbows, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
State of Mind, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, SE
2012 The Emperor’s New Clothes ‘Overlapping Biennial’, the 5th edition Biennial, Bucharest, RO
If A Tree, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA
2011 Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2010 Cabinets of Miracles, Zone D – Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, GR
Residu, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder, NL
2008 Bargain prices on elephant gun, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, GR
People, Margaris Foundation, Amfilochia, GR
Into the pill, Parallel plan art-athina 08, Athens, GR
2007 TodaysArt Festival, Zaal 5, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
Emergency Room , Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, GR
People, Parallel plan art-athina 07, Athens, GR
Two velvet years , Bios, Athens, GR
5rooms, Kapatos Gallery, Athens, GR
2006 Kodra 06, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, GR
Engage, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, GR
De wereld een Blokkendoos, Oerol Festival, Terschelling, NL
2005 Monument, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, NL
2004 Interscape, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Now, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL
Parasite Paradise, Beyond, Utrecht, NL
Tremor, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich, DE
2002 De Branderij, Antwerp, BE
TENT Centre of Fine Arts, Rotterdam, NL
Publications and Publications
2013 Monograph, Road to Victory (working title), Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
2012 Trade routes revisited, Catalogue 68, Published by Stevenson, December 2012, SA
2010 Cabinets of Miracles, Catalogue, Zone – D Zouboulakis Galleries, Athens, GR
Residu, Publication, BKVB, Den Helder ,NL
2009 Intothepill Vol.01 / Greek contemporary video art – ISBN 978-960-6654-93-0
Untitled( ), Antonis Pittas, ISBN 978-94-90375-01-0
2008 World one minutes, Video and literature, ISBN 978-90-86901-91-3
This is what it is, Publication, Multimedia art department Xiamen, CH
Restarted, Catalogue Art-Athina 08, GR
2007 Todays Art Festival, Catalogue, NL
Invisible systems, Catalogue, Synch festival 2007, GR
Restart, Catalogue Art-Athina 07, GR
2006 Dutch colony, Catalogue, Synch festival 2006, GR
Action field Kodra, Catalogue, Kodra 06, GR
Articles and Interviews (selection)
2013 De Witte Raaf, Art-Newspaper, article, March-April 2013, nr. 162, Brussels, BE
Het Parool, Newspaper, article, January 30th, issue #20, 946, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Athinorama Magazine, interview, GR
2011 Sculpture Center, Curator’s Notebook, Review, New York, US
2010 YOUR-SPACE Magazine, interview, issue #2, NL
2009 The subject machine, essay by Stephen Riolo, Kaput Magazine, GR
Veldwerk in Den Helder, Article, Nieuwsbrief Fonds BKVB, issue 15, NL
2008 Free Sunday, Newspaper, interview, issue 16, GR
Soul Magazine, interview, issue 26, GR
Lychnari Magazine, interview, issue 3 2008, NL
2007 Filmhuis Magazine, September issue 2007, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
Filmhuis Magazine, Februari issue 2007, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
Velvet Magazine, interview, issue 24, GR
2006 Highlights Magazine, interview, issue 25, GR
2005 Floorplan, Exhibition, Greek art magazine GAP, issue #4, GR
2004 The Full Circle of the Myth, Text in art-newspaper HTV no. 51, NL
This Space – Text in publication/exhibition Interscape, NL
Grants/Prizes
2012 Basisstipendium, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2012 Publicatiesubsidie, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2009 Project subsidy, Fonds Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving & Bouwkunst.
2008 Basisstipendium, Fonds Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving & Bouwkunst.
Pro-subsidy, STROOM, Den Haag NL
2007 Nomination, Workspace 07, Zaal 5, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
2004 Nomination, One Minute Video Awards, NL
2002 Grant, Vassillis & Eliza Goulandri- Foundation, Athens, GR
2000 Grant, Panayiotis & Efis Micheli Foundation, Athens, GR
1999 Nomination, Yannis & Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation, Athens, GR
Further activities
2015 Guest Lecturer, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, NO
2014 THE ROLE OF CREATION IN TIMES OF TURBULENCE
Debate organized by BOZAR and Culture Action Europe, Brussels
Guest Semester Professor, Hildesheim University, Hildesheim
Guest Teacher, DAI, (Dutch Art Institute MFA), Arnhem
Guest Teacher, Academy of Architecture (MFA), Amsterdam
Guest Teacher, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, DK
Guest Teacher, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Guest Teacher, Academy of Architecture (MFA), Amsterdam, NL
2011 Lecture series, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY
2010 Teaching at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Teaching at the Audiovisual Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
Curator, New Media section, Synch Festival, Athens, GR
2007 Curator, New Media section, Synch Festival, Athens, GR
Guest teacher, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Curator, New Media section, Synch Festival, Athens, GR
2004 Assistant editor, Art-newspaper HTV, N2004 Chairman, Workshop This Space, Den Bosch Art Academy, NL
2003 Guest teacher, audiovisual department, Rietveld Academy, NL
Collections
De Nederlandsche Bank, NL
ABN Amro, NL
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
ING, NL