Spiros Hadjidjanos, born in 1978, in Athens, Greece is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Hadjidjanos studied with a DAAD scholarship at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) where he was awarded the Meisterschülerpreis des Präsidenten. His work spans across different media and is informed by his critical reflection on technological processes and his personal biography. He has created set-design for theaters in Germany and has exhibited his work in galleries and institutions worldwide.

EXHIBITIONS

2023 darktaxa-project: the Regensburg Constellation, Städtischen Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg (DE)
2023 HORT(US CONCL)USUS, curated by Thorsten A. Kasper, Stephan Klee, Dr. Almut Hüfler, Kunstverein Meißen (DE)
2023 Concrete#3: ground works, curated by Stephan Klee, Frontviews, Berlin (DE)
2023 Expect the Unexpected, curated by Dr. Barbara Scheuermann & Michael Reisch, Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE)
2022 JUBILEE X, HAUNT curated by Frontviews, Berlin (DE)
2021 ANALOG TOTAL. Photography Today, curated by Silvia Gaetti, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (DE)
2021 From Seeing to Acting, curated by Radical Reversibility, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam(NL)
2020 The Unruly Apparatus, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2020 Technology Transformation, Photography and Video in the Kunstsammlung, K20 Düsseldorf (DE)
2019 The Technological Hand, curated by Markus Kramer, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (DE)
2019 Suspension, curated by Stephan Klee, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna (AT)
2019 Salon de Normandy, curated by The community & Bill kouligas, Normandy Hôtel, Paris (FR)
2019 Endless Summer, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2019 Negative Space, curated by Peter Weibel, Anett Holzheid & Daria Mille, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
2019 You Are, curated by Juan Varela & Panagiotis Margaritis, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin (DE)
2019 Back to the Future, curated by Claudia Küssel, Hungarian House of Photography, Mai Manó House, Budapest (HU)
2018 Spiros Hadjidjanos, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2018 Back to the Future, curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand, C/O, Berlin (DE)
2018 Various Others, Sperling, Munich (DE)
2018 Mixed Realities. Virtuelle und reale Welten in der Kunst, curated by Eva Froitzheim, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE)
2018 Draped Extension, Future Gallery, Mexico City (MX)
2018 Back to the Future, curated by Kim Knoppers, Foam, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Draped, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2017 When Machines Are Dreaming curated by Anne Lippert, Technische Sammlungen Dresden (DE)
2017 New means to Images curated by Benedikt Seerieder, Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt (DE)
2017 Fotografische Objekte, Städel Museum, Frankfurt (DE)
2017 The Dream of Forms curated by Alain Fleischer & Claire Moulène, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2017 Spiros Hadjidjanos, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw (PL) (solo)
2016 Spiros Hadjidjanos, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2016 Decession (with Bill Kouligas) curated by Jens Balzer & Martin Hossbach, Kammerspiele Munich (DE)
2016 Printage, Projektraum – Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2016 Hybrid Modus, Bredelar Monastery, Bredelar (DE), curated by Ursula Ströbele and Bas Hendrikx
2016 Deeper Minds, Yoko Uhoda, Liège, Belgium (BE)
2016 Decession (with Bill Kouligas) curated by Jens Balzer, Martin Hossbach, Volksbühne, Berlin (DE)
2016 The Cable Guys II, curated by Ory Dessau, Galerie Future, Berlin (DE)
2016 La boîte de Pandore: une histoire de la photographie par Jan Dibbets, curated by Jan Dibbets, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)
2016 Secret Surface, curated by Ellen Blumenstein, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
2015 Spiros Hadjidjanos, Neumeister Bar-am, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2015 Earth Machines, curated by Ceci Moss, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco (US)
2015 Ordering Nature, Marianne Boesky, New York (US)
2015 Three Rooms, curated by Ché Zara Blomfield, Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Pre-digital Space, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2014 Art Berlin Contemporary, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2014 Composition, Integration, System (CIS), Der Würfel, Neumeister Bar-am, Berlin (DE)
2014 The Cable Guys, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2014 The Performativity of Things (with Rubén Grilo), curated by Pablo Martínez, CA2M, Madrid (ESz)
2013 Local Manifestations, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2013 Unstable Media, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 (n)on site, km Temporaer, Berlin (DE)
2013 The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin (DE)
2013 Flow (Re-Edit), Import Projects, Berlin (DE)
2012 Displacement Maps, von cirne, Cologne (DE) (solo)
2012 Surface Tension, Galerie Future, Berlin (DE)
2012 A matter of time, Het Magazijn, The Hague (NL)
2012 Gentle Giants II, Kwadrat, Berlin (DE)
2012 Yes, we’re open, curated by Petra Heck, Nimk, Netherlands Institute for Media Arts, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 dotcom, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (FR)
2012 Flow, Future Gallery / Transmediale, Berlin (DE)
2012 Gute Karten, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (DE)
2012 Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kunst im Bauhof, Winterthur (CH) (solo)
2011 Actual possibility, kwadrat, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2011 Non-Stop Infinity, Peer to space, Munich (DE)
2011 Non-Stop Infinity, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2011 Not to be confused with, Galerie von cirne, Cologne (DE)
2011 Berliner Zimmer Genossen, Funkhaus, Berlin (DE)
2011 BYOB, Bonn University, Bonn (DE)
2011 Destructionconstruction, Tape No.20, Berlin (DE)
2011 Metrospective 1.0, Program, Berlin (DE)
2010 error, Autocenter, Berlin (DE)
2010 BYOB, Kunsthalle Athena, curated by Angelo Plessas, Athens (GR)
2010 gentle giants, kwadrat, Berlin (DE)
2010 volume one,props, events and encounters, the hub, Athen (GR)
2010 query parameters, von cirne, Cologne (DE) (solo)
2010 BYOB, Bureau Friederich Project Studio, Berlin (DE)
2010 Distorted Viewport, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin (DE)
2010 Zwischen Zwei Investoren, Villa Anton von Werners, Berlin (DE)
2010 WYSINWYG, kwadrat, Berlin (DE) (solo)
2009 Grosse Herbstausstellung, kwadrat, Berlin (DE)
2009 Holliday, University of the Arts, Berlin (DE)
2009 Graduates 2007, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens (GR)
2006 Synesthesia , Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden (NL)

SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Residency & Research Fellowship
Kunstfonds Scholarship
Berlin University of the Arts – Meisterschülerpreis des Präsidenten
DAAD Postgraduate Scholarhip
Fulbright Scholarhip

SELECTED PRESS

Refractions of Information Revealed Spiros Hadjidjanos interviewed by Alexandra Athanasiadou, https://kaputarchive.online/, January 2024
Expect the Unexpected, Catalogue, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2023
KW, a history – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Ed. Klaus Biesenbach, Jenny Dirksen, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Gabriele Horn, 512 Pages , ISBN 978-3-95476-372-6, September 2021
Negative Space, Peter Weibel, The MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-04486-8, 2021
ANALOG TOTAL, Silvia Gaetti, GRASSI museum für Angewandte kunst Liepzig,Verlag Kettler, ISBN: 978-3-
86206-950-7, 2021
Disziplinierung der Pflanzen, Bildvorlagen zwischen Ästhetik und Zweck, Dr.Judith Elisabeth Weiss, Deutscher
Kunstverlag, ISBN: 978-3-422-98293-2, November 2020
The Technological Hand, Markus Kramer, Kehrer Verlag, ISBN-13: 9783868289091 December 2018
Mixed Realities. Virtuelle und Reale Welten in der Kunst, Anne-Kathrin segler, Cat. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart,2018
Forms and Collages, Spiros Hadjidjanos & Karl Blossfeldt, foam Magazine issue 48, Kim Knoppers, Jan 2018
The Archeology of new technology, Dwutygodnik, Ausgabe: 3/2017, Jakub Bąk, June 2017
Le Rêve des formes, Magazine PALAIS issue 25, Claire Moulène, June 2017
Art Agenda, Review by Elvia Wilk, Dec 2016
Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, Phaidon Books, 352 Pages, ISBN: 9780714871486, Oct 2016
Cable Guys II, Exhibition catalogue, Text: Ory Dessau, Future Gallery, May 2016
Pandora’s Box : Jan Dibbets on Another Photography – Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris Musées,
Catalog, 260 pages, ISBN: 9782759603343, March 2016
BLDG BLOG , Geoff Manaugh, Nov 2015
Artforum Critics’ Picks , Review by Claire Lehmann, Jan 2015
Network Time, Elvia Wilk, Graham Harman, Adrian Mackenzie, Art Paper Editions, 48 Pages, Aug 2014
Cable Guys, Contemporary Art Daily, Online, June 2014
Cable Guys, Exhibition catalogue, Text: Ory Dessau, Future Gallery, May 2014
Uncube Magazine, Issue 16, Carbon, Nov 2013
Markus Kramer, Photographic Objects, Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kehrer, Heidelberg, Dec 2012, ISBN: 978-3868283785
Melanie Kollbrunner, Kunst im Raum, Der Landbote, Winterthur, 14 Feb 2012
Spiros Hadjidjanos, Catalog, Kunst im Bauhof, Winterthur, Dec 2011
Spiros Hadjidjanos, Catalog, University of the Arts, Berlin, Sept 2011
Volume One, props events & encounters Katalog ISBN:978-960-99562-0-8
Katharina Hamacher, Wenn das internet durchs Kunstwerk fließt, Kölnische Rundschau, Cologne, 01 Oct 2010
Prinz Magazine, Cologne Oct 2010
Marion Ritter, StadtRevue Das Kölnmagazin, Cologne, Sept 2010
Meike Jansen, Zum Begreifen – TAZ, die Tageszeitung , Berlin , 10 March 2010
Graduates 2007 Catalog, Athens School of Fine Arts, 2008
Technology and synesthesia, PC World Magazine, March 2006

EDUCATION

2008 – 2010 Berlin University of the Arts
2004 – 2006 Leiden University
2002 – 2007 Athens School of fine Arts