Dimitris Tzamouranis
| 1967 | Born in Kalamata, Greece |
| 1985–1990 | Studied painting and printed graphics at the Academy of fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| 1991-1994 | Studied painting at the Universität der Künste (UdK)Berlin. Meisterschüler Diplom. |
| 1995 | Spiropoulos Foundation award, Athens |
| 1999 | Residence in Istanbul with a scholarship of the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin |
| Lives and works in Berlin and Kalamata. |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2022 | The wing beat of a butterfly, Skoufa Gallery Athens |
| 2022 | A 49 Gallery, Kalamata |
| 2020 | Decameron, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki |
| 2018 | Garden of Youth, Tumult Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, Torun´ |
| 2017 | Mare Nostrum, Galerie Michael Haas, and Kunstlager Haas, Berlin |
| 2015 | A day for Life, a day for Death, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki |
| 2014 | Melancholia – Altar, Zone Contemporaine, Bern – Niedewagen Tarot, Galerie Haas, Zürich |
| 2013 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Retrospektive, Frissiras Museum, Athens Melancholia, Kunsthalle Osnabrück |
| 2012 | Melancholia, Galerie Miro, Prague |
| 2011 | Videoworks 1999-2001 Dimitris Tzamouranis, Vierter Stock, Projektraum Berlin |
| 2010 | Dimitris Tzamouranis – New Paintings, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin |
| 2009 | Time of the Signs – Jimmie Durham, Kendell Geers, Dimitris Tzamouranis, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich |
| 2008 | Scarscapes, MOMus Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki Dimitris Tzamouranis, Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin |
| 2007 | Supraficciones, Fundació “la Caixa”, Lleida, Spain |
| 2006 | Das Haus, Kunstverein Buchholz, Buchholz Spiegelsaal, Wohnmaschine, Berlin |
| 2005 | Paintings, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki |
| 2004 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Batagianni Gallery, Athens |
| 2003 | Dimitris Tzamouranis – Malerei, Tammen Galerie, Berlin |
| 2001 | 2+2=5, Stigma Gallery, Athens |
| 1999 | Rent a Dream, Bm-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul |
| 1997 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
| 1996 | Museum Spyropoulos, Athens |
| 1995 | Pleiades Gallery, Athens |
| 1991 | Galerie Marsyas, Berlin Silent conversations, Pleiades Gallery, Athens |
| 1990 | Gallery TinT, Thessaloniki |
Group exhibition (selection)
| 2023 | “Times” Beecroft, Tzamouranis, Judisch, Woods Art Institut, Museum of Modern Art, Wentorf bei Hamburg. |
| 2023 | “Homo Ludens” Woods Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art, Wentorf bei Hamburg. |
| 2023 | “The Human Condition” from Modernity to Contemporary, Skoufa Gallery Athens |
| 2022 | Participation at the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki. |
| 2022 | “Fervent Image”, Works from the Anthony and Asia Hadjioannou Collection. Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Crete. |
| 2022 | “Thalassa”, the Sea in Greek Art from Antiquity until today. Shanghai Museum, China, 2022 |
| 2021 | “Creatio ex Nihilo”, Steinzeit Berlin, Galerie, Berlin |
| 2021 | 2004-2014, Kunstverein, Buchholz |
| 2020 | Hellenic Maritime Museum, Piraeus |
| 2020 | Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin |
| 2019 | “Homemade Exotica”, Freiraum in der Box, Berlin
“cdghlmtw”, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Woods Art Institute, Wentorf bei Hamburg “Wundersame Welten”, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin “Feeling Called Love – Collection of an Idiot” Kustmuseum Bochum
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| 2018 | “Painting is still alive”, Contemporary Art Center, Torun´
“New Horizons III”, Museum Frissiras, Athen “The Poetry of Memory”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rethymnon Kreta “Durch die Zeit”, Zone Contemporaine, Bern-Niederwagen |
| 2017 | “Antidoron”, the Collection of EMST, Documenta 14 Kassel
“New Acquisitions”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens |
| 2015 | “Freude Schöner Götter Funken” – Am Anfang War Das Kreuz, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart |
| 2014 | “Existenzielle Bildwelten”, Sammlung Reinking, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
“Painting III” (2000-2015) – Frissiras Museum, Athens “Beyond melancholia”., Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg |
| 2013 | “Landschaft nach 2000”, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
“Real-Real?” – Galerie Haas AG, Zürich “Dream and Reality”, Aliseo Art Projects, Gengenbach “Art:screen”, Vetlanda Museum, Schweden “in case of emergency brake glass” The Nordic Hause, Reykjavik |
| 2012 | “Alte und neue Stilleben aus der SØR-Rusche Sammlung”, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Waldersloh-Liesborn
“Face to Face, The Artist and the Collector”, Frissiras Museum, Athens |
| 2011 | “Polyglossia”, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athen
“Bulbus oculi”, Kunstruimte deWILLEM3, Vlissingen “Traum und Realität”, Galerie Siegel – Springmann, Freiburg |
| 2010 | “Lebenslust und Totentanz”, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
“Waking the Dead”, Kunsthalle Autocenter, Berlin “Naked truth”, Museum Frissiras, Athens Dream and reality, Galerie Miro, Prag |
| 2009 | Berlin-Istanbul: Die Berliner Istanbul Stipendiaten 1998-2009, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
Paint-id. Contemporary painting in Greece, MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki In Istanbul, Between Arrival and Departure, Bm-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul |
| 2008 | “Call it what you like” – Collection Rik Reinking,
“Kunst Centret” Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg “Auslaender in Berlin”, CITRIC, Brescia |
| 2007 | “Malkunst 2” – Contemporary Painting in Berlin
Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow “Topoi”, Museum Benaki, Athen “Malkunst 2” – Contemporary Painting in Berlin Mudima, Fondazione per l´Arte Contemporanea, Mailand “Activni constelace”, Haus der Kunst der Stadt Brünn, Tschechien |
| 2006 | “Masquerades – Femininity, Masculinity and other Certainties”, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
“Sabotage of Reality”, Batagianni Gallery, Athens “Minimal Illusions”, Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen |
| 2005 | “Drawings”, Batagianni Gallery, Athens
Rigo Schmidt, Gavin Tremlett, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Wohnmaschine, Berlin “Passion des Sammelns”, Stiftung Federkiel, Halle 14, Leipzig “An outing” – Beltsios Collection, Art Center Trikala, Griechenland |
| 2004 | Biennale europea Arte Visive, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia
“Breaktrough”, Arco 2004, Alcala 31, Madrid “In the Gorges of the Balkans”, Personal Cinema Group, Kunsthalle Friidericianum, Kassel |
| 2002 | “Cetinje Biennial”, Cetinje Biennale of Visual Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
“Familistère 1”, Kunst-Werke e.V., Berlin “La creación de la Guerra de los Balcanes: el juego”, MediaLab Prado, Madrid |
| 2001 | “Milestones for peace”, Milton J. Well Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | “Cleaning material store”, Apartment Project, Istanbul |
| 1999 | Contemporary Art Center Ileana Tounta, Athens |
| 1998 | Transmutar – Berlin – Barcelona, Associacion de Cultura Contemporania L`Angelot (ACC), Barcelona
Orient/e, The Jewish Museum and Archives of Hungary, Budapest |
| 1997 | “And Still the Ship is not in Sight”, GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V., Bremen
“And Still the Ship is not in Sight”, Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997, Contemporary Art Center,Thessaloniki “Inhuman essays”, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens |
| 1995 | “Configura 2”, Kunsthalle Erfurt
“Atmosfery”, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Pösen, Polen Museum Artystòw, Lodz Poland “Grezenlos” Obere Galerie im Haus am Lützowplatz und Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin “This Piano Thing”, Podevill; Berlin |
| 1994 | VII Biannale for Mediterranean Countries , Lisbon
Zum Inszinierten Leben , Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend, Berlin |
| 1993 | Galerie Tammen Berlin
Monologue with hand baggage , Pleiades gallery Athens |
| 1991 | Der Sprung durch die Feuerreifen , Lapidarium , Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
| 1989 | Dom Kulture Studenski Grad, Belgrad |
| 1988 | “Five young artist” Vellidio Contemporary Art Center Thessaloniki |
| 1986 | National Gallery, Athens |
Artist Publications
- Tumult Foundation (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Garden of Youth, Torun 2018. Text: Michael Stoeber.
- Galerie Michael Haas (Hrsg.): Mare Nostrum, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Berlin 2017. Text: Michael Stoeber
- Galerie Haas Zürich (Hrsg.): Tarot, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Berlin 2014. Text: Erika Költzsch
- Frissiras Museum (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis – Painting. Athens 2013. Text: Thanassis Moutsopoulos
- Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis Melancholia. Ostfildern 2013, Hatje Cantz Verlag. Text: Sotirios Bachtsetzis, Andre Lindhorst, David Woodard
- Galerie Michael Haas Berlin(Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis – New Paintings, Berlin 2010 Text: Christos Joachimides
- Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Malerei, Berlin 2008
Kunstverein Buchholz (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Altenburg 2006, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Text: Sven Nommensen, Sotirios Bachtsetzis