Spiros Hadjidjanos (born 1978 in

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

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

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photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

, and

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

Education

Hadjidjanos has studied at the

Athens School of Fine Arts The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA; , ΑΣΚΤ) is a Greek higher education institution, specializing in the visual arts. History The Athens School of Fine Arts was established on 12 January 1837, known as the ''School for the Arts''. In the ...

(2002–07),

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

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

Fulbright Scholarship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people ...

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 Emma Enderby. KW c ...

, 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 museum is located at the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt ...

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

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 sculptors 21st-century Greek male artists Photographers from Berlin Artists from Athens 21st-century Greek photographers {{Germany-sculptor-stub