Spiros Hadjidjanos (born 1978 in

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) is a contemporary artist living in Berlin. His work includes

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, and

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Education

Hadjidjanos has studied at the

Athens School of Fine Arts The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA; el, Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών, ΑΣΚΤ, literally: Highest School of Fine Arts), is Greece's premier Art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students. ...

(2002–07),

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(2004-06) and the UdK Berlin (2008–10). He has been awarded with the UdK Meisterschülerpreis des Präsidenten, DAAD postgraduate award and

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Work

His work has been exhibited in several venues including

KW Institute for Contemporary Art The KW Institute for Contemporary Art (also known as Kunst-Werke) is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen ...

, Berlin (2016), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2016),

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, Paris (2017),

Städel Museum The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 ...

, Frankfurt (2017), Foam, Amsterdam (2018) and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2019). In 2016, Hadjidjanos collaborated with

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in an audio-visual piece produced to be presented at the

Volksbühne The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital. It has been called Berlin's most iconic theatre. About The Vol ...

in Berlin in the context of ''Decession''. The artwork included a light installation responding to wireless router communication signals.

References

External links

Artist's website
* ''Spiros Hadjidjanos network time''. Ghent: Art Paper Editions. 2014. . . * Kramer, Markus, 1973-. ''Photographic objects : Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Spiros Hadjidjanos''. Cohen, Mitch, 1952-. Heidelberg. . . 21st-century German photographers 21st-century German sculptors 21st-century German male artists German male sculptors German digital artists 1978 births Living people 21st-century Greek artists Photographers from Berlin Artists from Athens {{Germany-sculptor-stub