Rena Papaspyrou
Born in Athens, 1938
EDUCATION
1956-61 Attended the Athens School of Fine Arts
1963-67 Attended Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1993-2005 Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Director of the 3rd Painting Workshop
2006 Emeritus professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Lives and works in Athens.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1966
Galerie des Beaux Arts, Paris
1967
Astor Gallery, Athens
1977
Desmos Gallery, Athens
1979
Stilponos 7, Action/Exhibition, Desmos Gallery & Stilponos 7, Athens
1982
Sample from Urban Landscape – Images through Matter, Desmos Gallery, Athens
1985
Magic Rooms, Dracos Art Centre, Athens
1990
Baalbeks 1986-89, Epikentro Contemporary Art Centre, Patras
Fires in the city-Multi-Images, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens
1991
Galerie X+Plus, Brussels
1992
Images sur la Matière, French Institute, Thessalonica
1994
Images Evoked by Association, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens
1998
Short Self-contained Stories, Gallery 7, Athens
1999
Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessalonica
2001
The Wall, Gallery 7, Athens
2002
Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessalonica
The Wall, Alatza Imaret, Contemporary Art Centre of State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica
2003
Constellations, B.D. Sima, Athens
2006
The ultimate vision makes me blind, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens
2007
The ultimate vision makes me blind, Artis Causa Gallery, Thessalonica
2008
Flashback, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica
2011
Photocopies directly from matter, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2012
ΤΙΜΕ - MATTER, Choros 18, Thessaloniki
2014
Photocopies - Madwalk, Athens
(Collaboration with the fashion designer Apostolos Mitropoulos)
2017
On the occasion of Eleni , Kara Moussa Pasha Mosque, Rethimno, Crete, curated by Maria Maragkou
2021
Shadows 1972 – 1981, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, curated by Christoforos Marinos
Vryaxidos 11 and Aspasias: The unkown side, ONASSIS Stegi, Athens, Greece, curated by Christoforos Marinos and Yorgos Tzitzilakis,
2022
The passage of the Comet: Episodes and images behind the matter, Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece, curated by Christoforos Marinos
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1971
Plastics in art, Hellenic-American Union, Athens
1977
Miranda Gallery, Hydra
1978
Avanguardia e Sperimentazione, Galleria Civica Modena
Avanguardia e Sperimentazione, Magazzini del Sale, Venice
Images of Greek Art I, Zappeion, Athens
1981
Environment, Action., Exhibition organised by the Association of Greek Art Critics
Zappeion, Athens
Images of Greek Art II, Zappeion, Athens
XII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Modern Art and Tradition Symposium, S.Y.S.T. Research Centre, Athens
1982
Emerging Images, Europalia ’82, Hellas ICC, Antwerp, Belgium
1983
Emerging Images, Athenaeum Intercontinental, Athens
XVII Biennale de Sao Paolo, Brazil
7 Greek Artists – One New Journey, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
7 Greek Artists, Rembrandt Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
1985
Memories, Recreations, Quests, National Gallery, Athens
Points of Change ’80 – New Dialogues, Dracos Art Centre, Athens
F.I.A.C. 1985, Grand Palais, Paris
Tribute ΙΙΙ to School of Fine Arts, Apopsi Gallery, Athens
1986
Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia
Dracos Art Centre, Athens
1987
Exploring New Materials and Means, Apopsi Gallery, Athens
The Process of the Image behind the Painted Surface, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens
1988
Hyperproion, Athens
4 Critical Approaches, Ileana Tounda Contemporary Art Centre, Athens
1989
Three Generations of Greek Women Artists, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
1990
Trammel Crow, Dallas, USA
2nd Minos Beach Art Symposium, Crete
1991
Untitled, Mylos, Thessalonica
Untitled, House of Cyprus – DESTE, Athens
1992
The Transformations of the Modern. The Greek Version, National Gallery, Athens
Collection of the Rethymno Contemporary Art Centre
1993
Inventaire No 1,French Institute, Thessalonica
1994
Contemporary Greek Art, Commission Building, Brussels
Ephemera, House of Cyprus, Athens
1995
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
Art Athina, Athens
Ephemera, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica
Ephemera, Contemporary Art Centre, Rethymno
1996
Messaggeri degli Dei, Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Rome
1997
Ad hoc and in situ, Contemporary Art Centre, Rethymno
2000
Desmos Archive, DESTE Foundation, Athens
Desmos Archive, Contemporary Art Centre, Rethymno
Choices 2000, from the collection of the Rethymno Contemporary Art
Centre, Pieridis Gallery, Athens
People-Faces-Forms, Municipal Gallery, Rethymno
2001
Desmos Archive, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica
Art Athina, Athens
2003
Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens
2004
7+7, From the collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2005
Art Athina, Athens
The Years of Defiance: Art of the 70’s in Greece, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2006
Kalfayan Gallery, Thessalonica
2007
Collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Benaki Museum, Athens
2008
From Ancient Olympia to Beijing, International Olympic Truce Centre Beijing, China
2011
Greek Art, Sem-Art Gallery, Monaco
En-thetes yles, Choros 18, Thessalonica
The Symptom of the Place, Tampakika, Amfissa
2012
The magic circle, gallery Gazon Rouge, Athens, curated by Loraini Alimantiri, Christoforos Marinos
2014
Nautilus – Navigating Greece, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
(Coordination and curating by the Ministry of Culture of Greece)
2016
Chez eux: Unseen Collections, ASFA’s space Circuits and Currents, Athens, curated by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulou
2017
After the explosion you hear the light, space 3 137, Athens, curated by Paki Vlassopoulou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Kosmas Nikolaou
2016 – 2017
UrgUrgent Conversations Athens – Antwerp, EMST, Athens, curated by Bart De Baere (M HKA), Katerina Koskina (EMST), assistant curators Jan De Vree (M HKA), Stamatis Schizakis (EMST)
2017
Imaginary Spaces, House of Cyprus, Athens, curated by Stratis Pantazis
2017
Report on Cases, Zoumpoulakis Galleries Athens, curated by Christoforos Marinos
2017
[un]known destinations, Former Zarifi residence Eptanisou 9 + Androu, Kypseli, Athens
(Exhibition / Catalogue curator & Concept Dr. Kostas Prapoglou)
2017
Antidoron, Documenta, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, curated by Katerina Koskina, assistant curators: Tina Pandi, Stamatis Schizakis
2017
The Garden Sees, Megaron – Athens Concert Hall, curated by Anna Kafetsi, catalogue’s set up by Anna Kafetsi
2017 - 2018
9 + 1, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, curated by 9 + 1
2018
Geometries, Agricultural University of Athens, curated by Locus Athens