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Tranos Nikos

Tranos Nikos

He was born in Zaraki of Evia in 1957. He studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1983-88) and at the Ecole des Beauux-Arts in Paris (1990-91) as a scholar of the IKY. She teaches sculpture at A.S.K.T. Athens since 1995.
His work includes mainly visual installations, with a variety of media and materials.
Diversity is one of the main features of his work. The facilities of various materials and combining practices, sculptures, videos, photography, drawings, ready-made items, organic, candles, perfumes, music boxes, urban waste and others with main accumulating features. Its facilities remodel the space and operate interactively, triggering the senses and reactions of the viewer.
The search for new balances between the familiar and the unexpected, annotation of social situations, the pursuit of communication through the work of art, and the multidimensional interpretation of repeating motifs (home, city images, violence) are some of the elements that define the conceptual content of the his works.
He has conducted solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions.

SoloExhibitions

2017
“White Power” Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens

GroupExhibitions

2021
Gardening, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens. Curated by Georgia Liapi
2020
News from the Studios – A life-affirming show, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
2019
"Games & Toys", Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
2017
"A Glacier at Our Table” Antidoron, Documenta14, Kassel
2015
“Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Οptimism of the Will”, Thessaloniki
2013
“Agora”, 4th Athens Biennial, Athens
2012
“The Magic Circle”, Gazon Rouge
“Public Domain”, Supermarket Art fair with Lo and Behold artist run nonprofit organization, Stockholm
2011
“Greek Art”, Sem-Art Gallery, Monaco
“Microgeographies 1”, Art Athina
“Hommage a Galerie Artion”, Kappatos gallery, Athens
2010
“Battlefield”, TAF cultural space, Athens
2009
“Paganism”, “OPA2” performances at Art Athina 2009
2008
“Open Plan”, Art Athina 2008. / 2007: “Places”, M.M.C.A., Thessaloniki, “Crimen Majestatis” AD Gallery, Athens
2005
“Egnatia”, Saledo, Italy, “Makronissos project”, Makronissos Greece, Savra Art
2004
“Marubi 2004”, National Gallery of Tirana|
2002
“AIDS”, Hellenic- American Union, Athens
“DESTE PRIZE”, DESTE Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens “Spell your name” Artio Gallery, Athens
2000
“Travel Warnings” Artio Gallery, Athens
1998
The Collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
1997
“Attention it’s not light”, International art exhibition, Kassel, “Torball (tapesty for the blind)”, Artio Gallery, Athens
1996
“Greek Realities”, Gallery Marstall, Berlin and Kunsthellen Brandts Klaedetabrik, Odense, Denmark
1995
“Contigura 2. Dialog der Kulturen”, Internalionale Triennale des Kunsthandwerks, Erfurt, Germany
“Building Stones” Kalfayan Gallery, Thessaloniki
1994
“Burning House” Artio Gallery, Athens
1992
“Monument Memory”, Artio Gallery, Athens

1990
“Passage”, Artio Gallery, Athens. “Out of Limits”, Wielka 19 Gallery, Poznan, Poland

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