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    Dimitris Tampakis, Artist Studio Portrait
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    Each piece is the result of a balance between meticulous preparation and spontaneous decision-making, embodying the duality of chaos and order. Frequently, his work reinterprets historical artifacts within contemporary contexts, bridging temporal divides and fostering a dialogue between past and present.

    Dimitris Tampakis is an artist and designer with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2019-2021) and a degree in Product and Systems Design Engineering from the University of the Aegean (2009-2015). Since 2018, he has been a co-founder of the art group un.processed.realities, which engages in art and design in Athens and Tinos. In 2020, he collaborated with Philip Raskovich on the FUGA project at the ETOPIA Center for Art and Technology in Zaragoza, Spain, and in 2022, he participated in the Bajaramovic Unlimited hosting program in Athens.

    His work has been featured in group exhibitions in various institutions and independent spaces in Greece and abroad, including Theocharakis Foundation in Athens, (2024), POLE-SUD in Strasbourg (2024), HAUNT in Berlin (2023), Xeno in Sigri (2023), Foundation of Tinian Culture in Tinos (2023), the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (2023), Galerie Basia Embiricos in Paris (2024 & 2022), Kyan in Athens (2023), One Minute Space in Athens (2023 & 2024)Centrum Gallery in Berlin (2021), Keiv space in Athens (2021), MOMus in Thessaloniki (2018), UCL London (2019), and NBG Cultural Foundation in Athens (2019).

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  • ARTIST STATEMENT

    My work embodies a tension, a deadly and liberating duality that mirrors the complexity of being human today. I often find myself drawn to the space between what feels instinctively alive and what feels numbed by the world we’ve built around us. I create to explore that space, to understand what it means to exist as a hybrid being, moving through an anaesthetised society, yet still yearning for moments of raw, existential clarity. I’m fascinated by those fleeting, unsettling moments that pull us out of complacency, the unexpected, the uncomfortable, the Call of the Void. They remind me that something primal still stirs within us, waiting to be awakened.
     
    My practice is rooted in the physicality of perception. I work with photographic prints on metal using old printmaking etching techniques, where I transfer images onto zinc sheets through a chemical process. This method merges photography with printmaking, but it also introduces an element of unpredictability since the transfer process and exposure time to acids often alter the final image in unexpected ways. The black surface in these works is not a color but the result of burning the material itself through acid. Additionally, light plays an active role in how the work is perceived as it reflects off the metal, the image shifts depending on the viewer’s position and the surrounding environment. In parallel, I create white prints on aluminium sheets using either silkscreen printing or a customized UV print machine.

    In my sculptural work, I primarily use aluminium, either by bending it or casting it through a DIY metal casting process in fireproof plaster molds. The casting technique does not allow for precise control over how the molten metal flows into the mold, often leading to unpredictable accidents that I choose to integrate into the final piece rather than correct. Nothing can be recreated exactly the same way twice, making each piece unique. The way light interacts with the metal further enhances this sense of change, continuously altering the viewer’s perception of the work. I want the viewer to move, to shift their body and perspective, to feel the work rather than simply see it. The positioning of each piece is deliberate; the encounter should be intimate, a quiet exchange between the artwork and the person standing before it.
     
    Accidents play a vital role in my process. I’ve learned to embrace them, to trust in the beauty of what emerges when control is loosened. Working with raw, unembellished materials, I create conditions where chance becomes a collaborator. This unpredictability reflects the fragility and fleeting nature of creation itself, that brief, visceral spark where something true reveals itself. Much of what I do involves recontextualising historical artefacts, placing them within a contemporary lens. I’m interested in the dialogue that forms between past and present, how time collapses when we confront the visceral and the sublime side by side. Ultimately, my aim is to provoke an instinctual response, something that cuts through indifference. I want my work to disrupt the quiet numbness of everyday life, to awaken a sense of aliveness that is at once uncomfortable and profoundly human.
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    EDUCATION

     

    2019-2021       

    Master’s in Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

     

    2009-2015     

    Product and Systems Design Engineering from the University of the  Aegean, Syros, Greece

           

        

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

     

    2025               

    • FERAL NOM, solo show, Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

     

    2024               

    • Vertigo, duo solo show with Natalia Manta, Curated by Faidra Vassiliadou Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, Greece
    • At The Edge Of Comfort, duo solo show with Niki Danai Chania, Curated by UNPR18T Gallery Basia Embiricos, Paris, France

     

    2023               

    • Entropic Garden, duo solo show with Niki Danai Chania in collaboration with Onassis Stegi’s Radio, Curated by Krama festival, PS, Athens, Greece

     

    2022               

    • TWO RIMS, solo show, Curated by Leon Bajaramovic & Marina Leone, BA JARAMOVIC UNLIMITED, Athens, Greece

     

    2021                

    • POST EUROPEAN RAGEROOM TM, duo solo show with Niki Danai Chania in collaboration with Phillipos Rskovic, Curated by Jorgina Stamogianni Centrum Gallery, Berlin, Germany
    • Your ceo is probably a psychopath, solo show, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
    • ECHO CHAMBERS, duo solo show with Phillipos Raskovic FUGA, Exploraciones Sonoras, Zaragoza, Spain
    • KRAMA21, duo solo show with Niki Danai Chania, Curated by UNPR18T Keiv, Athens, Greece

     

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

     

    2025

    • Benzeholz – Space for Contemporary Art, Meggen, CH, “Delayed in frozen desires ”

    • TRAIL [Practice], PROVELEGGIOΣ, Athens, Greece, “The Monsters I Live With”

    • Enari Gallery x DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE, “Jumeler”
    • CAN Art Fair (with Enari Gallery), Ibiza, Spain
    • Art Rotterdam’25 (with Enari Gallery), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

     

    2024               

    • Weaving Future Mythologies on Traces of the Past, Group Show, Curated by Konstantina Soulioti Mpeles21, Athens, Greece
    • SHIFTING, Group show, curated by Florent Frizet One minute space, Athens, Greece

                           

    2023               

    • Xeno, Group show, Curated by Christina Mot Sigri, Lesvos, Greece
    • Beyond Fear, Group show, Curated by UNPR18T Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Greece
    • Garden of Delete, Group show, Curated by curated by Alice Dittmar & Stephan Klee Haunt, Berlin, Germany
    • LOST MEMORABILITIES, Group show, Curated by Amalia Kougia National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Athens, Greece
    • NON VOLATILE, Group show, curated by Faidra Vassiliadou Amphicar studio, Athens, Greece
    • KramaFestival, Group show, Curated by UNPR18T Romantso, Athens, Greece
    • Cornucopia, Group show, Curated by Elli Leventaki Kyan, Athens, Greece
    • VERDANT EDITION, Group show, Curated by Costas Voyatzi Yatzer, Athens, Greece
    • LCxOMS Vol.2, Group show, Curated by Eric Stephany One minute space, Athens, Greece

     

    2022               

    • Candlelight, Group show curated by Basia Embiricos, Galerie Basia Embiricos, Paris

     

    2020              

    • Ruins of an Εxtreme Present, Group show, Curated by UNPR18T Romantso, Athens, Greece

     

    2019               

    • TAXIDI, Group show curated by TheBox NBG Cultural Foundation, MIET, Athens, Greece
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