Curriculum Vitae
Full name: ELSA CHARALAMPOUS
Year and place of birth:09/04/74, SYROS
Education: INTEGRADED MASTER,
Athens School of Fine Arts, PATRASKIDES, 1993-98
About my work
My work is dominated mainly by anthropocentric themes and includes
painting, mosaic, constructions, installations, computer art and mixed media.
The human form-figure as storyteller itself inspires me mostly.
“Most of the time, I feel like an Acrobat hovering over the ambiguity of
things. Art for me is a way of travelling in space, either material or
intangible, and in time, observing… As a visual artist, observation is my
second nature and begins with immersing myself in listening and looking more
carefully in the textures and tones of life. The experiences I choose to focus
on, are a way of rationalizing, organizing, understanding and illustrating the
difference between seeing, knowing and telling. I move through these
experiences from the inner self to the outer world, proposing different
perspectives of the art of being”
Main solo exhibitions abroad:
2023 Boudoir, Fellner Contemporary, Luxembourg
2009 D-TALES, Zijdemuseum, Meliskerke, The Netherlands
2008 D–TALES, Galerie Groendal, The Netherlands
Main solo exhibitions in Greece:
2019 Elsa, Syros Residents Association of Athens,
Athens, Greece
2018 Returns, PLASTICO Gallery, Syros, Greece
2018 PASSage, Installation at the building of National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Municipality of Athens, Greece
2016 TEDX“Fightorflight”, University of the Aegean,
Hermoupolis Cultural Center, Greece
2014 ARTWALKS,an installation in Syros Island, Greece
2012 Art Installation at the Kiveli Institute, Syros,
Greece
2011 Erotography, Multicenter Delice, Hermoupolis
2010 Erotography and more, Preveza’s Art Gallery, Erotography and more,
Mykonos Cultural Center, Mykonos,
Erotography,
ARTOWER AGORA, Athens, Greece
2009 Erotography, art gallery at Hermoupolia, Syros
2007 D – TALES, Hermoupolia, Art Gallery at
Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece
2005 NUDE, Stoa of Books and Arts, Livadia, Greece
NUDE,
Ersi’s Gallery, Athens, Greece
NUDE,
Hermoupolia 2005, Greece
2004 Tessera & Pixel, Cultural Center at Ano
Syros, Greece
1999 Moments, Hermoupolia, Art Gallery at Hermoupolis,
Syros, Greece
International group exhibitions
2023 12th Kochi Triennial Exhibition of Prints 2023,
Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Japan
· 11th International Printmaking
Biennial of Douro, Portugal
· Aquareliege, Biennale d’Aquarelle de
Liege, Musee de“La Boverie”, Belgium
· Hidden Gems, Kamellebuttek Art
Gallery, Luxembourg
2022 5th Global Print 2022, Douro Portugal
• The International Contemporary
Miniprint of Kazanlak 2022, Kazanlak Art Gallery, Bulgaria
2021 Perspectives 2021, Cica Museum, Corea
2020 "Our Home—The Belt and Road Nation’s Art
Exhibition", China Artists Association and Shanghai Art Museum, 3rd China
International Import Expo (CIIE), China
• Mask Art - Creativity under Lockdown: UNESCO Beirut & MEADOWS
Artists against Covid-19
2019 5th International Biennale at Graphic Digital Art – GDYNIA 2016,
Gallery of the Gdynia Design Centre, Poland
• The International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Kazanlak Art Gallery,
Bulgaria
• 5th Enter into Art
International Installations,"Touring the World through Art, Museum
Nickolas of Cusa (Cusanus
Geburtshaus), Bernkastel-Kues, Cologne–"Kulturbunker"/Cultural Center
Cologne-Mülheim, Germany
2018 5th Enter into Art International Installations,
“Touring the World through Art", Bad
Breisig-"Kulturbahnhof" - Cultural Centre and Colone /Germany
• Little Island Festival, audiovisual festival Installation Sikinos island,
Greece
• 38th Mini Print International of Cadaqués 2018, Taller Galeria Fort,
Cadaqués, Girona, Spain/ Wingfield Barns, Wingfield Eye, Suffolk, U.K./
Fundacio Tharrats d' Art Grafic, Pineda de Mar, THARRATS 2018 -European year of
cultural heritage, Barcelona, Spain/ L’ Étangd’ Art Gallery in Bages, France
• The International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak 2018, Kazanlak Art
Gallery, Bulgaria (Honorary mention in experimental printmaking for
“Watching paradise”)
2017 The Silk Road and World’s Civilizations, 7th Beijing International Art
Biennale, China
• 37th Mini Print International of Cadaqués 2017, Taller Galeria Fort,
Cadaqués, Girona, Spain/ Wingfield Barns, Wingfield Eye, Suffolk, U.K./
L’ Étangd’ Art Gallery in Bages, France
2016 5th International Biennale at Graphic Digital Art – GDYNIA 2016,
Gallery of the Gdynia Design Centre, Poland
• The International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Kazanlak Art Gallery,
Bulgaria
• The Fascination of Art, Color and Meditation from around the World,
Cultural Center Cologne- Mülheim,Germany/ Cultural Center House Eberhard,
Diez, Germany/ Municipal Museum - Günter Leifheit House,Nassau, Germany
2015 The Fascination of Art, Color and Meditation from around the World,
Cultural Center Cologne-Mülheim, Germany
• 35th Mini Print International οf Cadaqués 2015,
Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain/ Wingfield Barns, Wingfield
Eye, Suffolk, U.K./ Fundacio Tharrats d' Art Grafic, Pineda de Mar, Barcelona,
Spain/ L’Étangd’ Art, Gallery in Bages, France
2014 34th Mini Print International οf Cadaqués 2014,
Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain/ Wingfield Barns, Wingfield Eye, Suffolk, England/ Fundacio Tharrats d'Art Grafic,
Pineda de Mar, Barcelona,Spain/L’Étangd’Art Gallery in Bages, France
2013 Contemporary Greek Art/ Association Of Visual Artists of Shanghai, –
Greek Chamber of Arts, Greek Ministry of Culture, Shanghai, China
• 33rd Mini Print International οf Cadaqués 2013,
Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain/ Fundacio Tharrats d' Art
Grafic, Pineda de Mar, Barcelona, Spain/ L’Étangd’ Art Gallery in Bages,
France/ Wingfield Barns, Wingfield Eye, Suffolk, England
2010 ART-ATHINA 2010: International Contemporary
Art Fair of Athens, Greece 2009 Panorama Artistique,Theorema Art Gallery,
Brussels
2008 ARTOWER ATHINA 2008: International Forum,
ARTOWER AGORA, Athens 2006 Port of Europe, Albeda College, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Industrial Romantic Landscapes, Middlesbrough
College, England
2004 A European look at Velázquez, Centro d’arte de Αlgobendas, Madrid, Spain
Group Exhibitions in Greece
2023 "1922-2022 Exodos-Diexodos ,former Public
Tobacco Factory, Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, Athens
2022 "ENGRAVING - From Prehistory, to Greece
Today", Athens School of Fine Arts, Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, Athens
2019 4th Art-Thessaloniki International Contemporary
Art Fair, Thessaloniki
• The
Journey, a’ Athens International Airport, Athens
The Journey b’ National Bank Of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens
• UNUSUAL
Self Portraits, The Project Gallery, Athens
2018 Ano Meria, Pinacotheque of Cyclades,
Syros
2017 Ano Meria, Pinacotheque of Cyclades,
Syros.
2016 Discovering Greek
Painting"Pinacotheque of Cyclades, Syros.
• Dive
into the Digital Culture, Koronis Festival, Koroni
2015 Dive into the Digital Culture, Museum of
Greek folk art –The Bath house of the Winds, Athens
• Art
and New technologies, Center of ecthing “Sun”, Thessaloniki
• Digital
Culture, Villa Georgiadis, Mytilini
• CITIES
:(IN )VISIBLE - UNGOVERNED – UNFORTIFIED, Cultural Center of Chania, «XANIaRT»
