Ilias Sipsas was born in Athens (1981).
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Among causality and randomness, Ilias Sipsas combines objects and footage that are mostly found, as well as kinetic elements, light sources and raw materials, in order to develop interactions and to compose structures according to the potential forms of behaviour between several kinds of materiality.
His work consists a range of expressive mediums such as dark room photography, sculpture and video installations.
He studied Sculpture, Multimedia and Scenography,
in Athens School of Fine Arts(2008-16),
Marble crafting in Tinos Art School(2005-08) and Furniture Design in a Public Vocational Institute in Athens [IEK] (1999-01)
Self tought in the field of photography and darkroom practice since 2003. From 2007 his activity includes group exhibitions, musical performaces and art residencies, in Greece and abroad.
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Lives and works in Athens.
Solo exhibition:
Group exhibitions:
2022 - "Rebetiko", Centre of the Arts, Municipal galery, Athens.
2021 - "Thinking again, what I've realized yesterday, I've dream it earlier", Minu, Athens
2021 - "Syzygy"/Spatial cuts and merging orbits" , Nykyaika gallery, Tampere, Finland
2020 - "Pareidolia", Talc Studio, Athens
2020 - "Overmorrow", Ekfrasi gallery, Athens
2019 - "Selective Affinities", Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens
2019 - "Rarities", Fotagogos, Athens
2018 - "Shadows of Outskirts", Cultural House Laikku, Tampere, Finland
2017 - "Face to Phase", School of Fine Arts, Athens
2017 - "Art Athina", Athens International Art Fair / Ekfrasi gallery
2017 - "Tidal Flow Revisited", municipal gallery of Piraeus, Athens
2017 - "LappasAward-Miners", exhibition in Gazi, Athens
2016 - "Tidal Flow", Aqua Pro marine services, Moschato, Athens.
2016 - "Corpus isola", Elementary school of Pothia, Kalymnos
2015 - “Magic Carpet Ride”, Ekfrasi gallery, Athens
2015 - “The Eye & The Finger”, CartabiancaArles, Arles
2014 - “The Poetics of Chios”, Ottoman baths, Chios
2014 - “10th Athens video art festival”, Athens
2014 - “The City from Acropolis”,Ekfrasi gallery, Athens.
2013 - “Portraits Through the Lens”, cultural space “kleftes”, Athens
2011 - “The Great Candy”, the Greek film archive, Athens
2011 - “Leaders, animals & tools”, Kappatos gallery, Athens
2011 - “Visual Poetry”, Kakogianis foundation, Athens
2010 - “2nd Moving Frames Festival”, Geni Tzami, Mitilene
2010 - “Clean Art”, Former municipal slaughterhouse of Tavros, Athens
2009 - “Why Cinema Now?”, 50th Thessaloniki Film festival/Cultural foundation of NBG
2009 - “1st Moving Frames Festival”, Ermou str, Mitilene, Lesvos
2008 - “Traces”, Cultural foundation of Tinos, Tinos
2007 - “Work-order-zero”, Headquarters of AKTOR Constructive Company, Athens
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Residencies:
2016 - "LappasAwardMiners" Artist in Residency, Fokida, Greece
2017 - "7th International Youth Metal Sculpture Symposium", Taiyuan, China
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Scholarship:
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2012 - "Erasmus exchange program", ArtEZ Academy of the Arts, Zwolle, Netherlands
Musical Performances:
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2017 - “Petra Luna // The Dome" (live), Athens International Art Fair, Faliro/Athens
2017 - “Petra Luna // The Yard" (live), The symptom project, Amfissa
2017 - “Petra Luna // The Tree" (live), Sto Sxoleio, Kolonos/Athens
2022 - “Petra Luna // Hommage to Kornelios Grammenos (1959-2021)", on the closing day of his retrospective exhibition "Prosodies and Rhapsodies" at Alex Mylona Museum, Athens
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